The Jive 95: An Oral History of America’s Greatest Underground Rock Radio Station, KSAN San Francisco 

http://backbeatbooks.com/books/9781493070862   

https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=usbk_surl_books/?node=283155

https://bookshop.org/contributors/hank-rosenfeld   

 

Fall Bay Area events included book party at the Beat Museum (above, below) in North Beach, interviews with Kris Welch on KPFA in Berkeley and stations in Petaluma and Santa Rosa, with other readings held at the San Francisco Public Library’s North Beach and Haight-Ashbury (Park) branches.

 

 

 

As a folk journalist, I’ve helped folks with their memoirs. Amazing humans like Benjamin Mandil, who left a legacy called Memorie to his grandchildren (whose bar mitzvahs I was lucky to get to attend!) about escaping Belgrade in 1942 and staying one step ahead of the Nazis in Yugoslavia and Italy.  And this one, after spending six years with the master craftsman of comedy, Irving Brecher:

The Wicked Wit of the West: The Last Great Golden-Age Screenwriter Shares the Hilarity and Heartaches of Working with Groucho, Garland, Gleason, Burns, Berle, Benny, & Many More

 

Above is Irv Brecher on the 2007 Writers Strike (which worked for the 2023 strike):

“As Chester A. Riley said, `What a revoltin´ development this is.´ But he only said it because I wrote it.”

Relevant to 2023 strike, too!

Book published in Italy as A Pesca Con Groucho!

(Fishing With Groucho)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txA3iBobUAI&t=1s

https://www.libridivertenti.it/store/search?keywords=Irv%20Brecher

Click on LINKS to find stories from The Los Angeles Times and other journals, as well as stories to hear from NPR/APM syndicated public radio shows, All Things Considered, Marketplace, Weekend America, Savvy Traveler, Off Ramp, and The Story.  Some aired locally on KPCC (now laist.com) in Pasadena. At KCRW in Santa Monica, I was an Announcer and ran the board. At the Museum of Tolerance in LA, I hosted/produced their weekly radio show, “Chronicles.” I held the same positions on Migizi Production’s “First Person Radio” show in Minneapolis. 

You may also not remember comedies I wrote/performed with the Bond Street Theatre Coalition,  and DaK &  HEAP theater troupes in New York which toured Germany, Holland, Minneapolis, and Monmouth, New Jersey.  The Bond Street players continue to roam Afghanistan, the Middle East, and other parts of the planet where people appreciate learning the funny; their aim is healing through theater. More amazing humans!