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An Evening with Ben Fong-Torres

June 28 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Join us for an evening with Ben Fong-Torres.

About Ben:

Ben Fong-Torres was a writer and editor of Rolling Stone Magazine. He conducted interviews for Rolling Stone of entertainment figures including Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, comedian Steve Martin and Linda Ronstadt‘s first cover story in 1975. He also profiled Marvin Gaye, Sly and the Family Stone, Bonnie Raitt, Paul McCartney and Rodney Dangerfield. A Fong-Torres interview with Ray Charles was awarded the Deems Taylor Award for Magazine Writing in 1974.

Fong-Torres was also a rock DJ for San Francisco radio station KSAN-FM in the 1970s. He later hosted a live, weekly entertainment and talk show, Fog City Radio, on NPR affiliate KQED-FM. On television, he is the five-time Emmy Award-winning co-anchor of the Chinese New Year Parade broadcast on KTVU (Fox) in San Francisco.

Ben Fong-Torres. (2024, January 17 ). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Fong-Torres

 

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Details

Date:
June 28
Time:
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Venue

CHRS Radio Central
2152 Central Avenue
Alameda, 94501 United States
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Phone
510 522 1974
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