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  Charles Evans Jr. & Victor DeNoble “Addiction Incorporated”

  December 30, 2011 / Documentary

  Tune in Tuesday, January 10, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guests Charles Evans Jr. & Victor DeNoble.  The will be talking about the new documentary ADDICTION INCORPORATED. SYNOPSIS: In 1994, scientist Victor DeNoble became the first whistleblower to reveal the tobacco industry’s efforts to manufacture “a maximally addictive” product.  Tasked in the 1980s by a major tobacco company to invent a safer form of nicotine — one that would [...]

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  David Pomes “Cook County”

  December 12, 2011 / Directors, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, December 13, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest David Pomes.  He will be talking about making COOK COUNTY.  The film follows three generations of meth addicts living in the piney woods of East Texas. Xander Berkeley, Anson Mount, and Ryan Donowho explode on the screen in this visceral tale about three generations of meth addicts living in the piney woods of East Texas. Living in a [...]

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  Alex Stapleton “Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel”

  December 12, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, December 13, at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Alex Stapleton the director of CORMAN’S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL.  The film is a tantalizing and star-studded tribute to Roger Corman, Hollywood’s most prolific writer-director producer, and seminal influencing force in modern movie making over the last 60 years. CORMAN’S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL is a tantalizing and star-studded tribute to Roger Corman, Hollywood’s [...]

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  Mark Gordon

  October 28, 2011 / In the mind of...

  The experience working on Center Stage gives Gordon valuable insight in the processes and success strategies people use to achieve their goals, whether it be writing a screenplay, composing a film score, directing an award-winning film or landing the dream role that propels an actor to stardom. After years of interviewing top professionals and discovering their keys to success, Gordon became a certified master practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), a time tested and proven method for creating positive change, building [...]

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  Andrea Nevins “The Other F Word”

  October 6, 2011 / Directors, Featured, Musicians

  Tune in Tuesday, November 1st at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Andrea Nevins the director of “The Other F Word.” This revealing and touching film asks what happens when a generation’s ultimate anti-authoritarians — punk rockers — become society’s ultimate authorities — dads. With a large chorus of punk rock’s leading men – Blink-182′s Mark Hoppus, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, Rise Against’s Tim McIlrath – THE OTHER F WORD [...]

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  Constance Marks “Being Elmo”

  October 6, 2011 / Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, October 25th at 7PM (PST), as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Constance Marks the director of “Being Elmo” Beloved by children of all ages around the world, Elmo is an international icon. Few people know his creator, Kevin Clash, who dreamed of working with his idol, master puppeteer Jim Henson. Displaying his creativity and talent at a young age, Kevin ultimately found a home on Sesame Street. Narrated by Whoopi [...]

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  Lavinia Currier “OKA!”

  October 6, 2011 / Directors, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, October 25th as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Lavinia Currier the director of OKA! Based on the memoir by Louis Sarno (“Last Thoughts Before Vanishing from the Face of the Earth”), OKA! is a fish-out-of-water tale of a ethnomusicologist from New Jersey who finds himself immersed in the colorful lives ofthe Bayake pygmies.Based on the memoir by ethnomusicologist Louis Sarno, who has lived with the pygmies for over 20 years, OKA! [...]

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  Jennifer Fox “My Reincarnation”

  October 6, 2011 / Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, October 11th as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Jennifer Fox the director of “My Reincarnation.” Filmed over twenty years by acclaimed documentarian Jennifer Fox (FLYING: CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN), MY REINCARNATION chronicles the epic story of the high Tibetan Buddhist Master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, and his western-born son, Yeshi. The film follows Namkhai Norbu’s rise to greatness as a Buddhist teacher in the West, while his son, Yeshi, recognized [...]

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  Alma Har’el “Bombay Beach”

  October 6, 2011 / Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, October 18th as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Alma Har’el the director of “Bombay Beach.” ABOUT THE FILM The desolate and surreal Salton Sea in California stands as a formidable metaphor for the broken American dream. The largest lake in California, it was created when the Colorado River flooded the windswept desert, carrying the river’s entire volume into the Salton Sink over a period of approximately two years. A dam [...]

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  Aaron Schock “Circo”

  September 18, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Tune in Tuesday, September 20th as KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Aaron Schock the director of “Circo.” Aaron Schock’s acclaimed film, which has appeared at many world festivals and is the most recent winner of the Jury Award at the Hampton’s International Film Festival, is one of the most compelling documentaries seen in years. Set in the cinematically rich milieu of a century-old traveling circus in rural Mexico, CIRCO follows the family-run “Circo [...]

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  Deborah Koons Garcia “The Future of Food”

  September 13, 2011 / Directors, Documentary

  Deborah Koons Garcia will be talking about her documentary THE FUTURE OF FOOD. The film offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade. Tune in Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Genetic engineering of food crops is as controversial today as ever, as many of [...]

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  Robert Martin of the Pew Environment Group

  September 13, 2011 / Special Guests

  Robert Martin of the Pew Environment Group will be discussing how big business is threatening independent farmers and the impact it could have. Tune in Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Over the past 50 years, large corporations have consolidated and now control virtually all animal agriculture-and independent farmers and ranchers are struggling to compete in the marketplace. The broiler industry has changed drastically [...]

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  Katie Galloway & Kelly Duane de la Vega “Better This World”

  September 5, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Katie Galloway and Kelly Duane de la Vega’s BETTER THIS WORLD tells a provocative and cautionary story about the shifting fault lines of civil liberties, protest and government vigilance. Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Better This World tells a provocative and cautionary story about the shifting fault lines of civil liberties, protest and government vigilance. Two boyhood friends from the heart of Texas, [...]

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  Doug Pray “Art & Copy

  September 5, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Doug Pray will be talking about his film ART & COPY, which looks at the world advertising and inspiration. Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com ART & COPY is a powerful film about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time — people who’ve profoundly [...]

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  The Polish Brothers “For Lovers Only”

  August 24, 2011 / Directors, Featured

  The Polish Brothers came Center Stage with Mark Gordon to discuss their latest film “For Lovers Only.” The film is a beautiful and intimate love story about a couple who meets up in Paris and lives “in” the moment. Will the romance last or will reality set in and leave the lovers to pine over love lost. Beautifully shot in and around Paris. The interview was originally aired on Tuesday, August 2, 2011. Listen to the interview. The rest of [...]

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  Nick Brandestini, Mike Galinsky & Suki Hawley, Vivi Friedman

  August 23, 2011 / Radio Interviews

  Listen to the August, 23, 2011Broadcast Originally broadcast Tuesday, August 23, at 7PM (PST), on KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM. The program featured special guests: Nick Brandestini talks about his new documentary DARWIN which follows the residents of an isolated community at the end of a weathered road in Death Valley, California. Mike Galinsky and Suki Hawley discuss their film BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN, which looks at eminent domain and the impact it can have on a community. Vivi Friedman shares [...]

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  Mike Galinsky & Suki Hawley “Battle for Brooklyn”

  August 23, 2011 / Architecture, Directors, Documentary, Featured

  Mike Galinsky and Suki Hawley discuss their film BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN, which looks at eminent domain and the impact it can have on a community. Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com In the 1950′s the Dodgers left Brooklyn for Los Angeles where they’d eventually play in their new stadium built on the remains of Chavez Ravine, a community destroyed by eminent domain after it [...]

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  Vivi Friedman “The Family Tree”

  August 23, 2011 / Directors, Featured

  Vivi Friedman shares her thoughts on making the film THE FAMILY TREE, a comedy about guns, God and a dysfunctional family in suburban Ohio. Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Life in suburban Serenity, Ohio is never quite as serene as it appears. The dysfunctional Burnett family – Bunnie (Hope Davis), Jack (Dermot Mulroney) and their twin 17 year olds Eric (Max Thieriot) and [...]

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