The Special Literary Operation of the Church of the Infinite into Persia continues! Next week, we will obliterate the Tales of a Thousand Nights and a Night in a single night! No matter that we already did so in 2024, 2025 and the last 3 weeks! This time for sure! kpfthouston.bsky.social!

We hope you'll help make KPFT's annual blood drive a success! Sign up and then roll 'em up Thursday, May 28th right outside our studios at 4504 Caroline Street along with Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center. Free beach towel and A1C testing for everyone who comes by. 1:30-5pm. See you there!

For a $150 donation to KPFT you'll meet Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman at our exclusive pre-movie Meet & Greet 5.16.26 at the Mucky Duck. Free buffet, signed movie poster, and ticket to the 3:45pm screening of Steal This Story Please! included. Donate today to reserve your spot at kpft.org

The April Fool recovers today, by finally airing on kpfthouston.bsky.social the service posted about last week. In addition to music and sermons promised then, Elvis goes Crawling to the USA to hear the new U.S. national anthem, Onward Christian Soldiers. Girl Crazy, Tonight, Tubthumping and more.

During this idiot-inflicted war crisis, our sermons come from Mohandas K Gandhi. We'll meditate to Vladimir Ashkenazy playing Mozart, and go on a musical date with Tommy Tutone, Eddie Cantor, NRBQ, a Nat King Cole remix, Louis Jordan and The Horton Brothers, this Mar 25-26 on kpfthouston.bsky.social

Time to celebrate KPFTHouston.bsky.social's reach with a song set titled All Around the World, and time to pledge support at kpft.org to "World" music by Armstrong, Matumbi, Nakai, Elvis, Yes, Taj Mahal and more, plus variations on Jabberwocky. And Monty Python goes insect hunting in Australia.

Feb 18-19 on the Church of the Infinite, kpfthouston.bsky.social, Mark Twain resumes his Tramp Abroad, and we learn about Bismarck's talent with a sword; meditation from near the top of the world; and music by Bartok, Ella, Miles, Dire Straits, Renacer, Warren Wolf and others. Donate at kpft.org.

Mark Twain puts his heavy American foot on the chest of Europe with A Tramp Abroad in our Feb 11-12 service. We meditate with Mily Balakirev and Marlene Dietrich, plus a half-dozen other genres. Your support of KPFT Radio for Peace (kpfthouston.bsky.social) makes the Church of the Infinite possible.

An O. Henry short story and pieces by Kafka, Hammett, Hall, and Dunsany provide literary stimulation on the Feb 4-5 service of the Church of the Infinite. Our meditations are recent music offerings doubtless new to you. AND there's THAT piece you can name in three notes (kpfthouston.bsky.social).

Tumbleweeds bounce across the chapel 'cause our sermon for Jan 28-9 on kpft.org profiles lamented desert rat Edward Abbey accompanied by music inspired by the American Southwest. Plenty more: the Dead, the Cars, the Bobs, Sinatra; new music by Daggerboard, Lera Lynn and more. kpfthouston.bsky.social

On the Jan 21-22 service, The Joint is Jumpin' as Fats Waller and Ludwig van Beethoven boogie (the rock solo in his 32nd piano sonata). Also Fables in Slang and music by Dvorak, Clifton Chenier, Kenny Rankin, Elvis, the Stones, Yves Montand and more, on kpft.org, (kpfthouston.bsky.social).

Jan. 18+19+21, 2026. Airs Sun. at 1 pm, and re-airs Mon. at 2 pm, and Weds 11 am (CT). [AUDIO/VIDEO] KPFT Houston, at 90.1 FM-HD2, Galveston 89.5-HD2 and Huntsville 91.9-HD2. TOPICS: There are run-off elections; Houston homeowners blown away by discovery in new home; Texas hands over complete list…

Today in 1971, Arlo Guthrie performs at a KPFT fundraiser following their second bombing. @kpfthouston.bsky.social

Organizers planned this protest today on the anniversary of Trump’s inauguration.

If you have not yet adequately mourned Prophet of the Infinite Bob Weir, rest assured that kpft.org's Deadbeat, 1300 UTC-6 Saturday on kpfthouston.bsky.social, will have a memorial with style. The Church's own tribute is available at archive.kpft.org.

They are terrified for the midterm.

Listen on Friday morning at 9:30am/CT for the program "Alerta de Inmigrantes/Immigrant Alert" on KPFT. This live, bilingual program will take callers at 713-526-5738/Option2.

Listen as lewd and lascivious Lysistrata concludes in the Jan 7-8 church services (kpfthouston.bsky.social). The Grateful Dead provide both our meditations this week. As well, Polish rock, the Fugs, the Sex Pistols, Mozart, three flavors of jazz, and the London Symphony plays Genesis on kpft.org.

Stealth vote disqualification. youtube.com/shorts/uI2Dx...

In our New Year's service (kpfthouston.bsky.social), Gershwin's Concerto in F and the piano Rhapsody written later by Rachmaninov, an attendee at the concerto's premier. Also Lysistrata with rude words but not the rude ideas removed, and music from Mr. Zoob, Mitchell-Ruff, Lionel and more. kpft.org!

Dec. 28+29+31, 2025. Airs Sun. at 1 pm, and re-airs Mon. at 2 pm, and Weds 11 am (CT). [AUDIO/VIDEO] KPFT Houston, at 90.1 FM-HD2, Galveston 89.5-HD2 and Huntsville 91.9-HD2. TOPICS: There are run-off elections; Live-aboards in League City will be required to comply with new permits, inspections;…

This is a cleaner version of the yanked CBS 60 minutes piece. looks like a direct recording. We are being governed by monsters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jieh...

Throw open the sash on 25th Eve! Amid the rooftop clatter rings out the Church of the Infinite holiday service on kpfthouston.bsky.social Radio for Peace! The Nutcracker!Umphrey's McGee, Randy Newman, broadway tunes! Seasonal music: Pogues, Miles, Guaraldi, Lehrer, Southpark, and Marcia Ball! More!

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[[LIVE]] David Cobb explains how capitalism fuels fascism and why solidarity is the antidote, as new polling shows AOC leading JD Vance and reclaiming voters drifting away from MAGA politics. #PDRI

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In this service, December 17-18 on kpfthouston.bsky.social, artists you may have never heard include Claudia Gibson, Joanie and Chachi, Eric Jacobson, the International Sweethearts Of Rhythm, and rapper Tei Ro. Also a tribute to Joe Ely, now in his final resting place in the infinite.

Our sermon for Thanksgiving speaks of Russian machismo. Our meditations are Charles Ives's Thanksgiving and a jam by the Allman Brothers. Among other artists, The Ramones, Philip Chevron, Hot Rize, Lyle, Sly, The Pogues, Khachaturian and Copland. And we'll be ready eat: When Father Carves the Duck.

Boo! The sermon for Nov 12-13 is a Charles Dickens ghost story, as an inoculation against the inevitable Christmas season repeat of that other one. Also, meditations accompanied by J. Sibelius and J. Strauss, with Faure and Funkadelic, Bach and the Blues, Miles and the Dead, all in attendance.

In the Nov 5-6 service on KPFTHouston.bsky.social, we learn the ultimate galactic question as Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide concludes. Meditations by the Mitchell-Ruff Duo and the Cincinnati Pops. Also the Mary Lou Williams Girl Stars and guitars from Terry Ware, Harper, and Django Reinhardt.

If you missed this episode, it will be available to listen to for FREE for two weeks in the archive.kpft.org.

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The Heart of Gold reaches Magrathea on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy this week, Oct 8-9, on kpft.org (kpfthouston.bsky.social). We'll meditate to music of Hildegard von Bingen, Metamorfos, and Jaco Pastorius. Jimmy Buffett and Cheech and Chong will stick out of the service like sore thumbs.

This week, Oct 1-2, our service on kpft.org (kpfthouston.bdky.social) is rich in classic B's: Bach, Bruckner, Boulez, and Barenboim, with Braff for jazz. Our galactic sermon comes from the Hitchhiker's Guide, and our meditations are by Robert Schumann and Phil Lesh. Plenty of Latin music as well.

Dictators silence our freedoms. In America, the people will be heard. Oct 18: #NoKings. RSVP: nokings.org?utm_source=5...

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