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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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Nick Brandestini “Darwin”

August 23, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

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. 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 Darwin is a documentary film about an isolated community at the end of a weathered road in Death Valley, California. Propelled from society by tragic turns, the people of Darwin (population [...]

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Demian Lichtenstein “Discover the Gift”

July 29, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Demian Lichtenstein talks about his film “Discover the Gift” Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com “Discover the Gift” is the feature-length documentary that celebrates the basic but vital reality that there are gifts in each person, and in all circumstances, that are simply awaiting discovery. “Discover the Gift” offers powerful lessons from authors, educators, activists, artists, and icons including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, [...]

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Joseph Dorman “Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness”

July 29, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Joseph Dorman talks about his film “Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness” Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness tells the tale of the rebellious genius who created an entirely new literature. Plumbing the depths of a Jewish world [...]

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Simon Kilmurry “Biblioburro: The Donkey Library”

July 19, 2011 / Documentary, Featured

Simon Kilmurry, Executive Producer of POV, talks about the film “Biblioburro: The Donkey Library” Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 7PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Carlos Rendón Zipagauta’s new documentary, “Biblioburro: The Donkey Library,” tells the story of 39-year-old Soriano and his traveling library from the point of view of the man himself and, one might say, his two hardworking burros. The film rides along with Soriano on one of [...]

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Joe Walker “Life in a Day”

July 19, 2011 / Documentary, Featured

Joe Walker talks about editing the film “Life in a Day” Tuesday July 19, 2011 at 7PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com What happens when you send a request out to the world to chronicle, via video, a single day on Earth? You get 80,000 submissions and 4,500 hours of footage from 192 countries. Oscar®-winning film director Kevin Macdonald’s LIFE IN A DAY is an idea borne out of a [...]

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Rick Minnich “Forgetting Dad”

June 11, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Rick Minnich talks about his film “Forgetting Dad” on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Tuesday June 14, 2011 at 7PM (PST). Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com “Forgetting Dad” is a feature documentary (84 min.) written, directed and edited by German-based US filmmakers Rick Minnich and Matt Sweetwood. It tells the bizarre story of Rick’s father’s sudden and incomprehensible amnesia, which began one week after a seemingly harmless car accident in 1990. After the onset of his amnesia, [...]

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Bill Haney “The Last Mountain”

June 8, 2011 / Documentary, Featured

Bill Haney talks about his film “The Last Mountain” Tuesday June 14, 2011 at 7PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Filmed in the valleys of Appalachia, a battle is being fought over a mountain. It is a battle with severe consequences that affect every American, regardless of their social status, economic background or where they live. It is a battle that has taken many lives and continues to do so [...]

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Sue Bourne “Jig”

June 8, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Sue Bourne talks about her film “Jig” Tuesday June 14, 2011 at 7PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com “Jig” is the remarkable story of the 40th Irish Dancing World Championships, held in March 2010 in Glasgow. Three thousand dancers, their families and teachers from around the globe descend upon Glasgow for one drama filled week. Clad in wigs, make up, fake tan, diamantes and dresses costing thousands of pounds they [...]

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Brian Wendel “Forks Over Knives”

June 5, 2011 / Documentary, Producers

Brian Wendel talks about his film “Forks Over Knives” Tuesday June 7, 2011 at 7PM (PST) on Center Stage with Mark Gordon. Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Is your diet killing you? Two out of three Americans are overweight. Heart disease, cancer and stroke are the country’s three leading causes of death and millions suffer from a host of other degenerative diseases. According to data from the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet (released Jan. 26, 2011) an [...]

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Mark Wexler “How to Live Forever”

May 15, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Coming Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 7PM (PST) KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Mark Wexler the director of “How to Live Forever.” Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. But whose advice should he take? Does 94-year-old exercise guru Jack LaLanne have all the answers, [...]

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Lindsay and Mark Goffman “Dumbstruck”

May 15, 2011 / Documentary, Featured

Coming Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 7PM (PST) KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guests Lindsay and Mark Goffman the creative people behind the film “Dumbstruck” Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com At the annual Vent Haven Convention in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, ventriloquism capital of the world, director Mark Goffman discovers five extraordinary characters straight out of a Christopher Guest movie. But in this case the characters are real and their stories [...]

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Mary McDonagh Murphy “Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’”

May 7, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Coming Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 7PM (PST) KXLU Los Angeles proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Mary McDonagh Murphy the director of “Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird.” Listen “live” on 88.9 FM and at www.kxlu.com Fifty years after winning the Pulitzer Prize, “To Kill a Mockingbird” remains a beloved bestseller and quite possibly the most influential American novel of the 20th Century. “Hey, Boo” explores the “To Kill a Mockingbird” phenomenon [...]

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Jan Nickma “Echoes of Creation”

May 1, 2011 / Directors, Documentary

Tune in Tuesday, May 3rd at 7PM (PST) as KXLU Los Angeles presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Jan Nickman. He will be talking about his film “Echoes of Creation.” “Echoes of Creation” is a revolutionary new program by Emmy Award winning director Jan Nickman, that goes beyond the discussion about the natural world and into an experience with it. Immerse yourself into nature like never before. Feel the mystery of an aurora borealis, hear the wisdom [...]

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Joe Cross “Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead”

April 12, 2011 / Documentary

Tune in Tuesday, April 19th, as KXLU Los Angeles presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Joe Cross. He will be talking about his film “Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead.” “Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead” chronicles the story of two men who struggle to lose weight, overcome the same rare disease and change their lives for good. The uplifting story follows Joe Cross on a cross country road trip where he vows to do a juice fast for 60 days [...]

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Michel Negroponte “I’m Dangerous With Love”

April 11, 2011 / Directors, Documentary

Tune in Tuesday April 12th as KXLU Los Angeles presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring special guest Michel Negroponte. He will be talking about the film “I’m Dangerous With Love.” “I’m Dangerous With Love” is about addiction and rehabilitation, activism and shamanism. Dimitri Mugianis who starts out as the heavily addicted front man for the band Leisure Class ends his long drug and alcohol addiction with an experimental treatment that uses the hallucinogen ibogaine. African shamans have used ibogaine [...]

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Michael Sládek “Con Artist”

March 28, 2011 / Directors, Documentary, Featured

Coming Tuesday March 29, 2011, KXLU Los Angeles, 88.9 FM proudly presents Center Stage with Mark Gordon featuring Michael Sládek. He will be talking about his film “Con Artist.” CON ARTIST, a stylishly dark docu-comedy excavating America’s craving for fame and fortune via one of its most outrageous addicts. Once a legitimate art star in the 1980′s New York scene, millionaire “business artist” Mark Kostabi hires others to conceive and create paintings which he openly signs and sells as his [...]

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Michael Webber “The Elephant in the Living Room”

March 25, 2011 / Directors, Documentary

Michael Webber came Center Stage with Mark Gordon to talk about his film “The Elephant in the Living Room.” “The Elephant in the Living Room” is an award winning documentary about the controversial subculture of raising the deadliest animals on earth as common household pets. Director Michael Webber follows the journey of two men at the heart of the issue. One, Tim Harrison, an Ohio police officer whose friend was killed by his exotic pet, and the other, Terry Brumfield, [...]

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