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All presidents have legal issues. Some have more than others. A weekly conversation about the law, executive power, and all the presidents' lawyers, good and bad.
Left, Right & Center is KCRW’s weekly civilized yet provocative confrontation over politics, policy and pop culture.
Scheer Intelligence features thoughtful and provocative conversations with "American Originals" -- people who, through a lifetime of engagement with political issues, offer unique and often surprising perspectives on the day's most important issues.
Intellectual, accessible, and provocative literary conversations.
An examination of medical ethics and the practioners who define them.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of The Wall Street Journal, Joe Morgenstern reviews films weekly in the paper and on KCRW.
Henry Rollins hosts a great mix of all kinds from all over from all time.
This season on UnFictional: Stories of fantasy: a childhood dream that becomes a life, impossible goals, underground worlds, adapting to new realities, memories of old friends and relations that become more real than the truth. It’s UnFictional,...
“What’s wrong with me?” Each episode of this documentary series begins as a medical mystery. But once you peel back the layers, more questions emerge.
The Business is a weekly podcast featuring lively banter about entertainment industry news and in-depth interviews with directors, producers, writers and actors. The show is hosted by award-winning journalist Kim Masters of The Hollywood Reporter...
A collection of the greatest music stories never told. This season the poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib explores a single year: 1980 - the brilliant, awkward and sometimes heartbreaking opening to a monumental decade in popular music.
Every week, host Elvis Mitchell conducts in-depth interviews with the most innovative and influential people working in entertainment, art, and pop culture.
Evan Kleiman's taste of life, culture and the human species.
Art reviews from art critics Edward Goldman and Hunter Drohojowska-Philp.
A recording from KCRW's showcase at Riot, LA's newest comedy festival.
A weekday download of standout songs, including advance releases, exclusive live tracks recorded at KCRW, remixes, and an introduction to new artists on our radar.
Kim Masters, host of KCRW’s The Business, breaks down Hollywood's top stories.
When Carly Parker’s friend Yumiko goes missing under very mysterious circumstances, Carly’s search for her friend leads her headfirst into a ancient mysterious game known only as Rabbits. Soon Carly begins to suspect that Rabbits is much more than just a game, and that the key to understanding Rabbits, might be the key to the survival of our species, and the Universe as we know it.
The stories shaping California's Central Coast, hosted by Jonathan Bastian.
Host Steve Chiotakis connects you to the people and places of Southern California.
A monthly reality-check on the issues Americans care about most. Host Warren Olney draws on his decades of experience to explore the people and issues shaping – and disrupting - our world. How did everything change so fast? Where are we headed?...
KCRW's Guest DJ Project invites an array of cultural luminaries to share and discuss songs that have inspired and moved them with a KCRW DJ.
Celestial Blood is a bilingual radionovela about love and secrets in the family of twins Sol and Mundo Lucero. It’s narrated by Mexican actress Kate del Castillo.
Welcome to Backstage with Dan Digs! In this podcast we go behind the scenes at the world's best live music venues and have a chat with my favorite artists before they go on stage. If you like the sounds of Gilles Peterson, Benji B, Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC Radio 6 Music, KCRW, Lefto, Soulection, Pitchfork, The Fader, Pigeons & Planes, Noisey, Okayplayer, Complex, Stones Throw, and Ninja Tune, you'll feel right at home. Find more music, DJ sets, interviews, and radio shows at http://dandigs.com.
Host Frances Anderton looks at design and architecture from a Los Angeles perspective.
Host Madeleine Brand looks at news, culture and emerging trends through the lens of Los Angeles.
Fanatic! I hope your week was great. No, really! I know. Things have been kind of mind-blowing and draining as of late. This is one of the reasons we gather a bunch of music together every week to neutralize what came at us days before. Don’t look at the list just yet. We have, as you were warned last week about, a tremendous second hour with Joy D…
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The Business
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KCRW Exclusive: George Clooney says that Trump’s ‘name will now forever be associated with insurrection’
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George Clooney exclusively told KCRW that President Donald Trump and his family will be put “into the dustbin of history” after a Trump-supporting mob besieged the Capitol building Wednesday. Kim Masters, host of KCRW’s The Business, spoke Thursday afternoon with Clooney, who directed and stars in the Netflix movie “The Midnight Sky,” to discuss th…
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Hiss Golden Messenger: ‘Sanctuary’ (Radio Edit)
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Shortlisted for Best Americana album at the Grammys this year, Hiss Golden Messenger has been thinking about how we care for ourselves and others. Writing “Sanctuary” was a way to make sense of a tangled world as he looked for shelter within.By KCRW
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Backstage with Dan Digs - Ep5: Natalie Slade
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Backstage with Dan Digs is back! We’re remixing it up for 2021 with new and very special “at home” editions!For episode 5 I had a chat “backstage” (meaning over Zoom from my back yard in Nashville) with Natalie Slade in Sydney, who released one of my favorite albums of 2020, Control, on Eglo Records.We talked about the Sydney warehouse scene, livin…
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The Business
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Director Alexander Nanau on the Romanian documentary ‘Collective’
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The Romanian movie “Collective” is in Oscar contention for both Best International Film and Best Documentary. Directed by Alexander Nanau, “Collective” follows a group of sports reporters in Bucharest who uncovered a massive scandal in Romanian hospitals that led to dozens of needless deaths.By KCRW
Lou Amdur recommends which wines to drink with purpose this year. Alexis Nikole Nelson (aka Black Forager) connects to nature by exploring her surroundings, which has made her a TikTok star.By KCRW
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Left, Right & Center
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President Biden calls for unity. Will he get it?
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America has a new president. Joe Biden called for unity in his inaugural address, but he enters office with the country facing huge challenges and with the slimmest of majorities in Congress, making it harder for him to move the agenda he wants. Can he get unity in Congress to support his agenda, or will the fate of the filibuster make or break his…
Next time you are being prescribed a drug or offered a procedure, ask the doctor, “what does research suggest is the likely benefit I can expect from this intervention”?By KCRW
Flawlessly acted by Dakota Johnson, Casey Affleck and Jason Segel, and beautifully directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, this movie about friendship and cancer--in that order--is funny and affecting in equal measure.By KCRW
COVID-19 mutations have emerged in the UK, South Africa, Brazil and California. Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center say a variant that originated in this state accounted for half of all virus samples collected in LA labs last week.By KCRW
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Netflix celebrates 200 million subscribers, moving closer to global streaming domination
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Netflix officially has 200 million subscribers as it exponentially grows during the pandemic. The streamer, which holds more than $15 billion of debt, also says it no longer needs to borrow money. However, all streaming services share the fear of churn, where customers sign up for a service to watch one or two things and then unsubscribe.…
Jenny Kern lures you in with a whisper and an appeal. “Coming Back For Me” is a brand new song from this Canadian-born singer.By KCRW
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Scheer Intelligence
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Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy Record Reveals Both Hope and Cynicism (Part 2)
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In the second part of the “Scheer Intelligence” interview with Jonathan Alter, the author of “His Very Best” examines the former president’s mixed foreign policy record.By KCRW
On President Joe Biden’s first day in office, he sent a comprehensive immigration bill to Congress that would put the U.S.’ estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants on a path to citizenship.By KCRW
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Greater LA
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Wasted: Foam toilets convert human waste into fertilizer for plants
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Santa Monica’s new City Hall East structure uses solar energy and captures rainwater. But the showstopper? It uses “foam-flush” toilets that turn human waste into nutrient-rich compost for the garden on site. But that makes some employees a little uncomfortable.By KCRW
Those who read to write will want to hear Eileen Myles talk about “For Now,” which is part of the "Why I Write" series from Yale University Press.By KCRW
Check out the raw energy and sound of Montreal’s seven piece East-Asian psych-punk band TEKE::TEKE. Led by visual artist and singer Maya Kuroki, this outfit plays traditional Japanese instruments up against raging guitars.By KCRW
California is about 2,300 miles from Washington D.C., and despite recent violence and insurrection, some Angelenos still wanted to see the pomp and circumstance of the inauguration in person. Others, however, are staying put. KCRW talks with two LA residents on the swearing-in of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.…
As President Trump was about to walk out of the White House for the last time, he made some final pardons. Ken White and Josh Barro talk about who got one in the final days of the Trump presidency, who didn’t (the Capitol rioters, Donald Trump Jr. and the other Trump children, Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump himself), and whether that was bad legal adv…
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
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Joe Biden becomes 46th US president: inauguration recap and lookahead
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In his inaugural address today, President Joe Biden emphasized unifying this country and ending what he called an uncivil war: “We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, rural versus urban, conservative versus…By KCRW
Dream-rock trio Oracle Sisters chase their muse while sipping cocktails and contemplating “Honest Man.”By KCRW
With calls to stay home during the pandemic and threats of more violence in Washington, D.C., most Joe Biden supporters from Southern California will watch the inauguration virtually. But some are willing to take the risk. KCRW speaks with a Riverside resident from Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ sorority who canceled her trip to D.C. after the…
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The Treatment
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Aaron Sorkin: ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
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Writer-director Aaron Sorkin on writing up to the edge of melodrama.By KCRW
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
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Fact-checking COVID vaccine myths and fears
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Five new mass vaccination sites are opening today in LA County, and Angelenos ages 65 and up can start getting vaccinated this Thursday. But was the vaccine developed too quickly to be safe? Should pregnant women get it?By KCRW
We’ve got some good news to share! “Rabbit Hole”is the first new music from SoCal band Cherry Glazerr and hints at a new album to be recorded soon.By KCRW
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Traveling nurse on COVID in South LA, vaccine skepticism among physicians
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LA County became the first in the nation to hit 1 million coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic. Traveling UC nurse Cherie Perry-Smith is stationed at Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in South LA.By KCRW
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What it’s like getting vaccinated at Dodger Stadium
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Dodger Stadium went from the world’s largest COVID-19 testing site to the country’s largest vaccination site. By the end of the week, the goal is to be able to give 12,000 shots to patients per day. One disaster relief worker calls this the most important project in her 15 years of work. And one patient reports that the process is surprisingly effi…
