Posts Tagged ‘KCRW’

The Newest LA Award Show

West | December 9th, 2009 | Sam Lubell

The proposed Hollywood Freeway Park won a SPARC award

The proposed Hollywood Freeway Park won a SPARC award

The Urban Land Institute LA’s inaugural LARC (Los Angeles Real Creativity) Awards was not your average design show. Mistress of ceremonies Frances Anderton, the host of KCRW’s “Design and Architecture,” set a light tone that discouraged back slapping and the stodgy speeches that often accompany such congratulatory musings.  As dinner was served by Wolfgang Puck, guests seated at tables in the lobby of Wayne Ratkovich’s recently renovated William Pereira building at 5900 Wilshire were treated to a crash course in some of LA’s most innovative projects.  And the winners were: (more…)

DJ Thommy Mayne and the Pritzker-Making Hits

Other | December 3rd, 2008 | Alissa Walker

KCRW DJ Tom Schnabel and the Mayne Event

KCRW DJ Tom Schnabel and the Mayne Event

Widely accepted as the greatest public radio station on the planet, KCRW is famous for its groundbreaking music played by DJs who are smarter, cooler and infinitely better dressers than you. But last week was a bitter one for LA as the station’s great Nic Harcourt hung up his headphones as music director. For those of you who are already missing Harcourt’s esoteric taste (sometimes a bit difficult to take at 9:03am even after a visit to Intelligensia), never fear: Thom Mayne has stepped into the booth.

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