Posts tagged "January"

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine January 2005 It’s long been known that terrible times engender exciting art. And it was a less than stellar year for America – war abroad, extreme divisiveness at home, fear -mongering right and left, topped off by an incredibly contentious election. We won’t even talk about the terrors of local politics – indictments, fiscal crises, Read More →

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine January 2004 2003 was a fiery year. It began with a bang, and ended in a blaze. It was a year of conflagration, pre-emption, deception, recession and recall. It burned a lot of us up -- and locally, burned a lot up. And when it was all over, still Missing in Action were: Osama, Saddam, WMD and a Read More →

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine January 2003 2002 was a pretty dramatic year… On the world stage, everyone's performance was directed by terrorists, against a backdrop of anxiety, played to the thrum of fear and the rattle of sabers, with war-cries as the grand finale. In this climate, local theater offerings seemed a bit more somber and sober than usual. Many productions had Read More →

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine January 2003 Up on the 18th floor, overlooking the city, he locks himself in his inner sanctum. And Ian Campbell is On the Air. Well, not technically, but he's got his own recording studio in the tower suite of the Civic Center Plaza. And it's there that he dons a headset and deftly records "At the Opera with Ian Campbell," the informational/entertainment show Read More →

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine January 2003 You could say Ian Campbell got his start in radio. As a boy soprano in Australia, he loved to sing, act, debate and he often performed live on the wireless. But he didn't see his first opera until he was 18. "La Boheme" would change his life. He was about to enter law school at 21, Read More →

Published in KPBS On Air Magazine January 2002 2001. Maybe it will be remembered as the Year of Fear. A year when the earth shifted beneath our feet and shook our confidence. A year that brought the swaggering, soulless, over-indulgent '90s to its knees. A year when we tightened our grips on our wallets and were afraid to open our mail.   The dot-coms toppled and Read More →