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KCRW KCRW, a community service of Santa Monica College, is Southern California's leading NPR affiliate.

KCRW, a community service of Santa Monica College, is Southern California's leading NPR affiliate, featuring an eclectic mix of music, news and arts programming. Broadcasting from Santa Monica, CA at 89.9 FM and online at KCRW.com, the station boasts one of the nation's largest arrays of locally-produced and nationally-distributed content, including Morning Becomes Eclectic, Left, Right & Center, Bookworm, Unfictional and Good Food.

Join us Saturday, 9/6 at Gloria Molina Grand Park’s Block Party for a Summer Nights celebration you won’t want to miss. ...
09/02/2025

Join us Saturday, 9/6 at Gloria Molina Grand Park’s Block Party for a Summer Nights celebration you won’t want to miss. Bring your family, friends — even the furry ones on a leash — and enjoy music, food trucks, art, and community activities throughout the park. The night closes with a spectacular drone show.

🎶 On the KCRW Summer Nights Stage:





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📅 Saturday at 3 PM
RSVP → link in bio or kcrw.com/summer-nights-2025

✨ Your weekday soundtrack is here! ✨Novena Carmel is live with Morning Becomes Eclectic — hand-picked music + a communit...
09/02/2025

✨ Your weekday soundtrack is here! ✨

Novena Carmel is live with Morning Becomes Eclectic — hand-picked music + a community that loves it as much as you do.

🔴 Live weekdays 10–11am PT
💬 Tune in + join the chat on YouTube!

08/31/2025

The real story behind how Shrinking got made 😉

This week on a special episode of The Business, Kim Masters talks with Shrinking co-creator and star Jason Segel, recorded live at KCRW’s Annenberg Performance Studio. Segel looks back on highlights from Freaks and Geeks, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and The Muppets, and discusses how Shrinking, now nominated for five Emmys, came together with co-creators Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein.

Check out the full episode now wherever you get your podcasts, or at link in bio 🔗

Join us Saturday, 9/6 at Gloria Molina Grand Park’s Block Party for a Summer Nights celebration you won’t want to miss. ...
08/30/2025

Join us Saturday, 9/6 at Gloria Molina Grand Park’s Block Party for a Summer Nights celebration you won’t want to miss. Bring your family, friends — even the furry ones on a leash — and enjoy music, food trucks, art, and community activities throughout the park. The night closes with a spectacular drone show.

🎶 On the KCRW Summer Nights Stage:

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Hosted by

📅 Saturday at 3 PM

RSVP → link in bio or kcrw.com/summer-nights-2025

Hey music fiends!Donate to KCRW here ➡️ join.kcrw.com/ by midnight 8/31, and you’ll be automatically entered to win the ...
08/29/2025

Hey music fiends!

Donate to KCRW here ➡️ join.kcrw.com/ by midnight 8/31, and you’ll be automatically entered to win the Get in at The Greek Sweepstakes.

This is your chance to experience FIVE unforgettable performances at the iconic Greek Theatre. One winner will receive premium tickets, VIP lounge access, and parking to The Flaming Lips & Modest Mouse, Cuco, Durand Jones & The Indications, TV on the Radio, and Wet Leg.

Current KCRW monthly members are automatically entered!

KCRW, Film Independent, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and MUBI invite you to an advance screening of...
08/28/2025

KCRW, Film Independent, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and MUBI invite you to an advance screening of The History of Sound, followed by a discussion with director Oliver Hermanus.✨
RSVP HERE➡️ https://www.kcrw.com/sponsored/kcrw-partner-screening-the-history-of-sound
📅 Monday, September 8
⏰ 7:30PM
📍 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County - Commons Theater

Bruce Embrey’s mother was one of more than 120,000 innocent Japanese and Japanese Americans imprisoned by the federal go...
08/28/2025

Bruce Embrey’s mother was one of more than 120,000 innocent Japanese and Japanese Americans imprisoned by the federal government during World War II, and Embrey spent decades fighting to preserve the site of the camp, now designated the Manzanar National Historic Site.
So the Trump administration’s budget cuts to national parks, and growing demands to avoid negative depictions of American history have alarmed him.
At a protest last weekend at Manzanar, where his mother was once incarcerated, Embrey and about 100 others decried censorship attempts and voiced support for the site’s mission to tell an unvarnished version of this chapter of American history.

Original reporting by Saul Gonzalez

Full story at

KCRW, Vidiots, and Roadside Attractions invite you to a members-first advance screening of ✨Twinless✨, followed by a con...
08/25/2025

KCRW, Vidiots, and Roadside Attractions invite you to a members-first advance screening of ✨Twinless✨, followed by a conversation with writer/director/actor James Sweeney and actors Dylan O'Brien and Aisling Franciosi, moderated by KCRW's Jason Bentley.✨
RSVP HERE➡️ kcrw.com/sponsored/kcrw-members-only-partner-screening-twinless
📅 Wednesday, September 3rd
⏰ 7:30PM
📍 Vidiots - 4884 Eagle Rock Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90041

08/25/2025

This week on a special episode of The Business, Kim Masters talks with Shrinking co-creator and star Jason Segel, recorded live at KCRW’s Annenberg Performance Studio. Segel looks back on highlights from Freaks and Geeks, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and The Muppets, and discusses how Shrinking, now nominated for five Emmys, came together with co-creators Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein.

Check out the full episode now wherever you get your podcasts!

He was born Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt at the turn of the century, but by his death, all knew him as Donn Beach. He e...
08/21/2025

He was born Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt at the turn of the century, but by his death, all knew him as Donn Beach. He even legally changed his name to reflect the moniker.

Today, he’s best known as the grandfather of tiki — the romanticized, often escapist take on the South Pacific. It’s defined by its lively aesthetics like colorful Hawaiian shirts and fruity, rum-forward drinks like the zombie and mai tai. Beach is the subject of The Donn of Tiki, a documentary from Max Well and Alex Lamb, which serves to demystify the life behind the showman.

Original reporting by Danielle Chiriguayo

Full story at kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/donn-beachcomber-tiki-doc

Happy California Public Radio Day! 📻🎙️🪩Today stations across the Golden State unite to celebrate the power of public rad...
08/21/2025

Happy California Public Radio Day!
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Today stations across the Golden State unite to celebrate the power of public radio.

Join in by supporting KCRW — and your gift will go even further thanks to a $15,000 challenge grant from Adam Isaacs.

As a thank-you, you’ll have access to exclusive California Public Radio Day gifts created by KCRW designer Magnolia Casey.

Pick up the custom window cling with any donation, snag the limited-edition tote with a $10 monthly donation($120 one-time), and join us as we celebrate public radio in California!

Give NOW ➡️ join.kcrw.com/?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhstories&utm_content=cprd-2025

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