Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

Fanatic! I hope you had a great and music-filled week. Here’s a brief list records you might find of interest.

Beloved 99 Cents Only stores are closing permanently, so customers are grabbing their final bargains.

A proposed half-cent sales tax would replace Measure H’s quarter-cent tax for homeless services in LA County, approved by voters in 2017.

The San Gabriel Mountains National Monument expansion will protect wildlife and a crucial water source, while offering more green space to underserved Anglenos.

Writer and director Tim Robbins explores comedy, drama, and modern woes in a new stage play, “Topsy Turvy,” from The Actors’ Gang.

Southern California’s Kareem Maddox, a former radio host and Princeton alum, will compete in 3x3 basketball for Team USA at the Paris Summer Olympics.

Lost Notes introduces a pair of brothers - one from NASA, the other from Motown - who launched an entire musical universe from their Hollywood Hills hideout.

Rising Scottish producer Barry Can’t Swim brings stage show of cuts from his 2023 LP “When Will We Land?” (and beyond) to KCRW HQ.

Manchester indie-dance quartet Porij brings cuts from their debut EP “Teething,” including “Unpredictable” to KCRW HQ.