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Latin flavors lie at the heart of Casa de Chocolates
Two Latinas originally from L.A, with a shared passion for chocolate, Mexico, and social justice, are combining forces to open Casa de Chocolates in The Elmwood today. Amelia Gonzalez, 50, who worked...
View ArticleDavid Gans keeps on truckin’ with the Grateful Dead
On Saturday, Feb 23, David Gans will walk into the studio at the Berkeley-based KPFA and put on a song by the Grateful Dead, thereby launching a 16-hour Dead marathon popular around the world. It will...
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Mary Berg, host of KPFA’s ‘A Musical Offering’
On Jan. 31, Bay Area music-lovers will pay their respects to Mary Berg, whose Sunday morning reveries on Berkeley’s KPFA radio, the first public radio station in the United States, lulled generations...
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Live Oak Park Fair is leaving Berkeley after 44 years
One of Berkeley’s most treasured outdoor celebrations, the Live Oak Park Fair, is leaving the city after 44 years. Jan Etre, the producer of the fair since 1988, is moving it to the Craneway Pavilion...
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Remembering social activist, KPFA producer Frances Emley
Frances Emley (Aug. 26, 1931 – Dec. 1, 2015) Social activist and KPFA radio producer Frances Emley, whose clear voice reported for many years on the struggles of the powerless and disenfranchised, died...
View ArticleBill Mandel, longtime KPFA broadcaster and Soviet expert, dies at 99
William Marx “Bill” Mandel (born June 4, 1917 in New York City), a former Bay Area broadcast journalist, left-wing political activist and author, best known as a Soviet expert, died Nov. 24 at 1:15...
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KPFA honors Phil Elwood, jazz critic, pioneering disc jockey
FM radio was an obscure broadcasting technology when Phil Elwood started sending out jazz over the airwaves on KPFA, a station that was just three years old when he came on board in 1952. On Saturday...
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KPFA cancels Richard Dawkins’ speech because of his tweets about Islam
The Berkeley radio station interpreted the tweets as offensive to Muslims, but the British scientist insists they are not.
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KPFA could be forced off air, with Pacifica in stalemate over damaging lawsuit
Its parent company lost a nearly $2 million lawsuit, placing the longstanding Berkeley radio station in immediate danger.
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Update: KPFA owner Pacifica reaches settlement with real estate company
The agreement relieves the radio network of nearly $2 million owed in back rent and fees.
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KPFA’s building in Berkeley set to be auctioned off for non-payment of taxes
The progressive radio station has not paid property taxes since December 2013 and owes $486,751. The Pacifica Foundation, which owns the station, is not revealing whether it has a rescue plan.
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KPFA’s Berkeley building will not be sold at auction
The radio station's owner, Pacifica Foundation, is negotiating with Alameda County's tax assessor to lower the amount of taxes owed.
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