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A conversation between host Yvette Walker and Silvia Paz, Founder and Executive Director of Alianza Coachella Valley. This story originally aired on May 10th, 2023.

Former Press-Enterprise Columnist and longtime KVCR news contributor, Cassie MacDuff joins KVCR to review a few of the Inland Empire’s major news stories of the past week.

Actor & Comedian Jon Lovitz talks about his roles and his stand up comedy.

The core of Cracker has always been Johnny A. Hickman and David Lowery. Before moving to Virginia, Cracker was VERY much steeped in The Inland Empire region of Southern California (The Dangers, Camper Van Beethoven & more). So, in early November when they were getting ready to wrap up their 2023 tour in Highland (a literal 10 miles from where I sit), I happily grabbed a chance for an interview. It was very much at the 11th hour, and David was teaching that day, but I was quite happy to speak with Johnny. Either one would have been wonderful. LOTS of GREAT material with both these guys!

Even though there wasn't room in a KVC-Arts prior to their performance, we still spoke for just under an hour, so I could grab a snippet of the conversation to be used as a feature during Morning Edition and All Things Considered to promote their appearance and use the rest of the conversation for a KVC-Arts in the relative near future.

So — taking us into the new year, it's Cracker for the next TWO KVC-Arts. Some of the items for the first show ... The songs "Low," "San Bernardino Boy," "Eurotrash Girl," "March of the Billionaires" and more ... and of course Cracker as a name for the band. These days it sometimes gets a person dinged on Facebook.

Last year I thought I'd just pad the KVC-Arts falling on Christmas with music from someone who'd been a guest on KVC-Arts in the past... to just kind of round out the show. Then I decided there were more than enough past guests to fill and entire program. So that's what I did. And this year we're getting it again. Not a repeat of last year's program, but again it's music for the season… all from folks who’ve been guests on KVC-Arts in the past, and some who live in this region!

Quite fun... and at times quite beautiful. Music from (in order): Benjiphonik, Chris Thayer, Jonathan Karrant, Kenny Vance, Peter Curtis, and Apryle Dalmacio.

A conversation between host Yvette Walker and Ninfa Delgado, President of Unidos for La Causa. This episode originally aired May 5th, 2023.

Former Press-Enterprise Columnist and longtime KVCR news contributor, Cassie MacDuff joins KVCR to review a few of the Inland Empire’s major news stories of the past week.

Stories highlighted for Dec 28, 2023.

Lillian speaks with author, producer, director, writer, and actor Mike Farrell, best known for his role as Captain B.J. Hunnicutt on the television series M*A*S*H.

Stories highlighted for Dec 27, 2023.