Nicholson Baker

Japanese Breakfast hits KCRW live between Coachella 2025 gigs with cuts from the new LP “For Melancholy Brunettes & Sad Women.”

As the Trump administration moves to slash NPR’s federal funding, the network and three Colorado stations have fired back with a First Amendment lawsuit.

CBS News president Wendy McMahon has stepped down from her post as tensions escalate over ongoing Paramount Global-Trump settlement talks.

A shareholder revolt is underway at Warner Bros. Discovery… meaning, a 60% vote against CEO David Zaslav’s $52 million pay package for 2024. What drove the investor backlash?

MSNBC host Chris Hayes discusses his book The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource, and reckons with his own culpability in the corruption and…

David Mamet talks adapting his own play “Henry Johnson,” David Cronenberg discusses his latest unnerving piece “The Shrouds,” and Melanie Lynskey has The Treat.

Critics review the latest film releases: “Mission Impossible - The Final Reckoning,” “Sister Midnight,” “Fountain of Youth,” and “Jane Austin Wrecked My Life.”

The Black, artistic legacy of Altadena is on display at the California African American Museum. It includes established and up-and-coming artists.

The winds that whipped the Eaton Fire into infernos spared precious things: old family photos, postcards, and kids’ art. One Altadena resident tracks down the lost ephemera.