KCRW

My acquaintance with Ruth Seymour over the years had been fleeting. But inevitably when I saw the KCRW radio general manager, it would provoke reminiscences about the days long ago when I worked with her daughter, Celia, on the...

In this article: Morning Becomes Eclectic, Santa Monica College, Harry Shearer, and World War II

Ruth Seymour, the longtime general manager of public radio station KCRW-FM (89.9), announced today she is retiring after more than three decades on the job. Familiar to listeners who hear her distinctive voice during pledge drives and on...

In this article: Santa Monica College

...tenure, the station grew to become the Southland's NPR flagship. Ruth Seymour, the longtime general manager of public radio station KCRW-FM (89.9), announced today she is retiring after more than three decades on the job. Familiar to...

In this article: National Public Radio, Southland, Morning Becomes Eclectic, Santa Monica College, Palm Springs, Orange, and Los Angeles

...Mountain Goats here.) Nectar) Gothenburg, Sweden's Little Dragon have garnered plaudits from TV on the Radio's David Sitek and influential KCRW program Morning Becomes Eclectic, while placing a track ("Twice") on Grey's Anatomy. All of which...

In this article: Little Dragon, Puscifer, Maynard James Keenan, Jay Reatard, Mountain Goats, John Darnielle, Tool, and God

...on her blog, and now a contest that has Southern California rolling in dough. Host Scott Simon talks with Kleiman, host of member station KCRW's award-winning program, Good Food, about her summer experiment baking a pie a day, and the...

In this article: NPR and Scott Simon

...itself. In fact, to make your life funnier, quicker, and more reflective of what's whirling around you, simply subscribe to KCRW's "The Treatment" on iTunes or whatever else irrigates your iPod and laptop, along with Marc Maron's WTF...

In this article: Matthew Weiner, Elvis Mitchell, Mad Men, Don Draper, Itunes, IPod, Robert Pattinson, Melvyn Bragg, and Marc Maron

...Universal, which is likely to be sold in a multi-billion dollar deal to the cable company Comcast. Kim Masters is host of member station KCRW's show, "The Business." Please note that all comments must adhere to the NPR.org discussion rules...

In this article: NPR, Google, Jay Leno Show, Comcast, NBC Universal, and The Tonight Show

...small'. We were treated as the cultural ambassadors of India. You are the first Indian artiste to have presented a brilliant live set on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic, which is arguably America's most important radio show... It's a...

In this article: Bill Clinton, Morning Becomes Eclectic, AR Rahman, Kailasa, Kolkata, US, DVD, Coldplay, and Frank Sinatra

To sample Grizzly Bear's live sound, check out its February 2008 performance on "Morning Becomes Eclectic," a program on Santa Monica's KCRW-FM. More spare in timbre than the headphone treats the CDs offer, the band's concert sound has an...

In this article: Grizzly Bear, Seattle, Brooklyn, Veckatimest, Crystals, Ed Droste, Kcrw-fm, He Hit Me, and Yellow House

Michael Silverblatt has spent 20 of his 56 years as host of KCRW's "Bookworm," but his fascination with musical theater -- and particularly the work of composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim -- goes back to when he was 7. At that tender age,...

In this article: Stephen Sondheim, Michael Silverblatt, Bounce, John Weidman, The Sound of Music, Manhattan, Chicago Tribune, and South Coast Repertory