Special Labor Day Programming: KCRWMusic.com On-Air, Online
Monday, September 4, 9am to 5pm; and 7pm to 3am
KCRW showcases its Internet Radio Station, KCRWMusic.com on air. This 6-month old service brings together the station's top DJ's back to back, 24/7, with web-exclusive music shows. Hear the web-only editions of Morning Becomes Eclectic, New Ground, Metropolis and The A Track as we celebrate half a year.

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9/11 Five Year Anniversary Special: “Sonic Memorial”
Monday, September 11, 6:30 to 7:30pm
For the fifth anniversary of 9/11, American RadioWorks rebroadcasts the beautifully haunting documentary from the Sonic Memorial Project. In the weeks and months after 9/11, NPR's Lost and Found Sound and the public broadcasting community collected audio traces of the World Trade center, its neighborhood and the events of September 11, 2001. Listen to this surprisingly intimate portrait produced from voicemails, archival tape, on-site recordings, oral histories, remembrances and stories.

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Ted Koppel Town Hall Meeting, "The Price of Security"
Wednesday, September 13, 6:30 to 7:30pm
Recently named National Public Radio's newest senior analyst, Ted Koppel convenes a Town Meeting at National War College at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., for the Discovery Channel and NPR. In "The Price of Security," Koppel asks how the United States can effectively protect the homeland, while at the same time protecting the privacy and civil liberties of Americans.

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September Is Style Month on Te Treatment, Hosted by Elvis Mitchell: Wednesdays at 2:30pm
*Schedule subject to change
September 6: Ozwald Boateng

Givenchy Creative Director and one of the UK's most innovative tailors on Savile Row, Boateng is the subject of the recent Sundance Channel series, House of Boateng.

Former CAA agent and current founder and designer of the Los Angeles' based Band of Outsiders menswear label.

Portrait photographer whose subjects include Orson Welles, George W. Bush and the infamous XXX: 30 Portraits of Porn-Stars. His new book is Look: Portraits Backstage at Olympus Fashion Week.

Vice President Jeep/Truck & component Design at Chrysler Group. The creative design force behind the Chrysler 300 C, awarded Car of the Year by Motor Trends magazine in 2005, Gilles is recognized as a progressive and exciting force in the automotive industry.

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September 2006 Bookworm Schedule

September 7 * Stacey Levine, Frances Johnson

Using the model of the "nurse romances" of the 1950's, Stacey Levine has concocted a small-town romance--with a difference. The undercurrents of sexuality, repression and gender uncertainty rise to create flood tides. We discuss the nightmarish emissions from the unconscious that rock this seemingly placid novel.

September 14 * John Updike, Part 1, Terrorist

The subject of John Updike's recent bestseller required that he contrast his own reliance on faith with the more violent faith of a young Islamic terrorist. This conversation explores the dark side of empathy and identification.

September 21 * John Updike, Part 2, Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels

A New York Times poll indicated that Updike's quartet of Rabbit novels is one of the five most important achievements in fiction in the past quarter century. Here, Updike agrees that the books represent the peak of his attainment, and he reminisces about his creation of Rabbit Angstrom and his decision to kill him off at the end of the 20th century.

September 28 * Wole Soyinka, You Must Set Forth at Dawn

The Nobel prize-winning African playwright explores the myths of exile and return that underlie his most recent memoir. He contrasts European and African cosmologies, and describes his passionate activism as a quest influence by the gods.

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