Neville Wakefield

KCRW’s DJs and music staff tuned in all week to SXSW. Here are our favorite new acts to pay attention to in the year ahead.

With the world starting to open up after a year-long pandemic shutdown, six workers in Hollywood share how they made it through, and explain how the entertainment industry may have…

Actress Ciara Bravo on discovering her characters’ secrets.

Josh Barro talks with panelists Jamelle Bouie and Lanhee Chen about the decision to halt distribution of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the tug of war over corporate tax rate, Russia…

In a major shift from #OscarsSoWhite of 2015, the acting nominations saw much more diversity this year, with performers of color making up the majority of nominations in both the Best…

Leimert Park is such an important community for me, as it has become a virtual connection to another era of Black excellence, The Harlem Renaissance.

Four European countries, including France and Germany, announced a pause in the usage of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine this week.

A retrospective of Kazuo Ishiguro, the 2017 Nobel laureate in literature.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is worried about the Oscars telecast, and they have every right to be.