Great day at the Laura's House Blender Bike event at Whole Foods in Laguna Niguel!

 

Great day today at Whole Foods with the Laura’s House Blender Bike Event! We all rode the blender bike and blended purple smoothies in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Proceeds benefitted women and children who are escaping violent homes and receiving therapy and legal services from Laura’s House while living at the Emergency Shelter.

Come support a great event this Sunday at Whole Foods for the Laura’s House Blender Bike Event!

Come support a great event this Sunday at Whole Foods for the Laura’s House Blender Bike Event! I will be there at 12noon riding the Blender Bike for a great cause! Ride the blender bike and blend purple smoothies in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Smoothies will be $3 and proceeds benefit women and children who are escaping violent homes and receiving therapy and legal services from Laura’s House while living at the Emergency Shelter. Blend your own smoothie or have a local VIP blend for you! Join us at the Whole Foods, Laguna Niguel: 23932 Aliso Creek Road, Laguna Niguel.

TV personality, game show host, host of the hugely successful NYC kids show Wonderama, world traveler, and author Sonny Fox!

Monday 9am pst on October 8, 2012 TV personality, game show host, host of the hugely successful NYC kids show Wonderama, world traveler, and author Sonny Fox joined me to talk about his latest book, You Made the Front Page! Wonderama, Wars, and a Whole Bunch of Life and how he has battled his own funks and went on to bigger and better endeavors. We aired live on KUCI 88.9fm and streamed on www.kuci.org

If you missed Sonny on today's show, you can listen to entire interview here.

In his more than eight decades of his life, he has been a prisoner of war in Germany and a war correspondent in Korea. He has taped TV shows in Portugal, Denmark, Finland, Bolivia and Israel. Played the part of Papa Noel in Guayaquil, Ecuador and watched Jawaharlal Nehru in the nascent Indian parliament. He has ascended the heights of the television industry as a Vice President of NBCTV and Chairman of the Board of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and was fired as host of the number one show in the country, “The $64,000 Challenge.”...but throughout all this he got the funk out and went on to bigger and better things!

In Sonny’s words:
The experience of writing this book has taken me on the most complex and unexpected journey of my life—a journey into a time warp of memories, encounters, convergences, and interventions that finally brought me to the realization that my entire professional life seems to have been lived at the intersection of the impossible and the inevitable. I was born when Calvin Coolidge was president, grew up during the great depression, careened through WWII, started in radio and participated in the growth of the television industry from its earliest days, and today I am involved with the production of a digital soap opera.

Here’s what people are saying!

“Sunday mornings as a kid meant two things: I had to go to church (I went to Catholic School) and I HAD to watch Sonny Fox and ‘Wonderama’…. many of us were given so much by ‘Wonderama.’” —Whoopi Goldberg

I have gotten to know Senator Robert Kennedy, done a program with Harry Truman, and been
hit with a pie in the face by Bob Hope. —Sonny Fox

“For New York kids in the ’60s, ‘Wonderama’ was like ‘The Maltese Falcon’: ‘The stuff that dreams are made of.’ And while he doesn’t drink as much as Dashiell Hammett, Sonny Fox has still written a hell of a book.” —Lee Aronsohn Co-creator, “Two and a Half Men”

We will be talking about his forthcoming book, BUT YOU MADE THE FRONT PAGE!

As of September 15th, it will be available on Amazon, Google, B&N and other sources.

Learn more about Sonny Fox by visiting: sonnyfoxtv.com

Donna Rawlins -animal-lover, writer, voice actor, singer, and songwriter joins me Monday on Get the FUNK Out!

Monday on Get the FUNK Out - special guest Donna Rawlins joined me on the show!  If you missed Donna, you can listen to the interview here.

Donna Rawlins, author of Skinny The Cat and the Magic of Kindness, is an animal-lover, writer, voice actor, singer, and songwriter whose songs have appeared in network television shows and major feature films including Mr. Woodcock, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Unit, The Shield and Dawson’s Creek.

Donna’s abundant national television commercial credits include Sears, United Airlines, Macy’s, Suzuki, PetSmart, Hillshire Farms, Birds Eye, Tilex, American Century Investments, and the American Clean Skies campaign. She is the voice of numerous audiobooks such as Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities (50th Anniversary Edition), Sidney Sheldon’s Tell Me Your Dreams, Tami Hoag’s, Taken by Storm, Margaret George’s Memoirs of Cleopatra, Laura Zigman’s Animal Husbandry, and Jane Heller’s Female Intelligence.

Donna was also featured as the character BT in the premier season of the Japanese anime series .hack//Sign.
Originally from the small town of Lancaster, Ohio, the Los Angeles–based writer comes from a family of five musicians and currently resides in Venice Beach, California with her husband, Robert Feist, owner of Ravenswork Studios.

Special guest Jimmy Steinfeldt joins me on Get the FUNK Out!

On Get the FUNK Out September 24th at 9am, special guest Jimmy Steinfeldt joined me to talk about life as a self-taught photographer and his experiences shooting rock and rock royalty! During his 30 years in the photography business, Jimmy Steinfeldt has worked with everyone from Miles Davis to the Ramones. Born in Minneapolis, Jimmy first focused and clicked at age 14. Cars (not the band), were among his first photographic subjects.

If you missed the show, you can listen to it here.

Jimmy moved to California to study at San Diego State University where he graduated with a Bachelor's in Business Management. After college he shot his way through many long road-trips and rock concerts armed with his first real camera. A one-hundred dollar Minolta!

Jimmy is a self-taught photographer who has only to squint through the lens for inspiration. Jimmy cites photographer Richard Avedon and cinematographer Karl Freund among his strongest influences. Jimmy's unique photographic style conveys the personality of his artist-musician subjects while conveying the story of their music.

As a live action photographer, Jimmy was first published in 1985 in SPIN magazine. In that same year Rolling Stone published one of his photographs of Madonna, which he credits as a major boost to his career. In 1986 his dreams as a music fan and photographer came true when Rolling Stone published his photo of Bob Dylan. CD covers followed from this exposure: Miles Davis, Willie Nelson, John Denver, Dee Dee Ramone and many others.

Jimmy's Elusive Studios, in the canyons of Hollywood, is his base of operations and has become a haven for music, film and television artists. In 1998 and again in 2007, industry players recognized his work and named him Photographer of the Year at the Los Angeles Music Awards.

Jimmy's advice to aspiring photographers? "Try something new on every shoot - experiment with lighting, film, filters and gels. As for your camera, never leave home without it!"

NEW Show Promo for Get the FUNK Out!

Very excited to share my NEW Show Promo for Get the FUNK Out!

Enjoy and please spread the word about  the show!

Listen HERE.

Michelle J. Patterson Executive Producer of this year's California Women's Conference joined me today on Get the FUNK Out!

On today's Get the FUNK Out Show...Michelle J. Patterson Executive Producer of this year's California Women's Conference (HUGE event coming up - not to be missed!) - we'll be talking about the up-coming conference, Michelle's fascinating background and interests, and how she has faced challenges head on and continues to come out on top of her game. Tomorrow on KUCI 88.9fm streaming live on www.kuci.org.

If you missed Michelle, you can hear the entire show here.

Learn more about the California Women's Conference, an incredibly empowering two day event in Long Beach, California!