Anthony Portantino

Writer Kelefa Sanneh on music’s relentless boundary blurring.

"Cmon C'mon" is all over the place, like the 9-year-old at the center of Mike Mills's unusual road movie, but it's a special pleasure that manages to be simultaneously serious and…

The smell of freshly-grown cannabis surrounds specific parts of Carpinteria along California’s Central Coast.

Director and actor Rebecca Hall on finding the language to understand her family’s complex history

KCRW’s Bob Carlson talks to some of Deirdre O’Donoghue’s friends and gets further inside her world away from the microphone.

For his exhaustive new book on HBO, James Andrew Miller talked to 600 people about the network that brought us “The Sopranos,” “The Wire” and “Veep.”

One woman says she spent approximately $19,000 to travel from Colorado with her teenage daughter to watch BTS live.

Mary Gaitskill’s "The Devil’s Treasure” features sections from her previous novels and an unfinished novel, commentary, illustrations, and a story inspired by a dream her younger self…

On November 13, hundreds of producers from around the world — from India to Ireland, London to Las Vegas, Sydney to Santa Monica — revved up their recorders to make an audio story…