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Today's show celebrates grade school teachers: Bob Mauger at Corona High School was recently honored in Sacramento as the best in the state and Carla Hernandez of Golden Valley Middle School was honored by San Bernardino County this year.

California Indian Nations College is in the process of becoming the first accredited tribal college in California. President and CEO Celeste Townsend shares more.

A school culture war is happening in California, but professors from USC are offering realistic solutions and understanding. Lacey Kendall speaks with one of USC’s experts, Dr. Jon Fullerton of USC’s Education Policy Hub.

Inland Southern California student athletes are making touchdowns and home runs like never before... with their academics, that is. Mike West, the Commissioner of Athletics for the California Interscholastic Federation, discusses more about this growing trend.

David Fleming speaks with Lee Ritenour... about his time with Steve Lukather... about a tune many associate with Jeff Beck... which originally came from Stevie Wonder. Also, a quick story about helping David Gilmour of all people out of a musical jam - he was stuck on where to go with the solo on one of Pink Floyd's MOST well-known tunes! Also - addressing the Ritenour release, Six-String Theory... which involves Lukather yet again!Also, Peter Curtis joins us once again to talk about SEVERAL outstanding concerts coming up through the RCC Department of Music guitar program... Triada Guitar Trio, jazz guitarist Mimi Fox, and several RCC ensembles. More at rccguitar.com, and more still at rcccoilschoolforthearts.comSO much in the world of guitar once again on the next KVC-Arts!

David Fleming speaks with Benjiphonik about his newest single, "15 Minutes Ahead of Insanity," as well as the video release FOR it. The release was another in the series of videos being launched in tandem with KVC-Arts. The song and video speak of being at the point of boiling over, but with a look at lessons we could have and should have learned from. Lessons we perhaps still CAN learn.

This edition of KVC-Arts is STEEPED in guitar. David Fleming speaks with Peter Curtis about the 2026 RCC Guitar Festival and Competition, which kicks off Friday April 3rd with a concert by The LA Guitar Quartet. Saturday the 4th from 9 to 5-ish pm, there will be guitarists playing in a variety of genres competing for scholarships, as well as master classes and concerts by jazz guitarist Larry Koonse, and classical guitarist and composer Benjamin Verdery - the latter of which will perform on his own, and then will be joined by Peter and the RCC Guitar Ensemble to play a piece Verdery wrote for the ensemble and the 2026 festival.

On this edition of KVC-Arts, we are once again joined by Reddcoats frontman Matt Bissonette. Reddcoats music has elements of rock, funk, and fusion. We'll talk about their first two releases Reddcoats I and Reddcoats II.

This edition of KVC-Arts has David Fleming in conversation with Tracy Wise, author of Madame Sorel’s Lodger, a fictionalized look at a period in the life of someone MUCH like Vincent Van Gough… more at twisewriter.com

Matt Bissonette. You've run across his name next to folks like Joe Satriani, Brian Wilson, Don Henley, Steve Vai, David Lee Roth, Elton John... SO many more actually. Also - Matt, along with his brother Greg and Andy Timmons make up the core of The Reddcoats, with elements of rock, funk and fusion. An INCREDIBLE mix of folks who are always playing with other bands, but enjoy getting together to play what they really want. We'll hear about and from their first two releases, fittingly, Reddcoats I and Reddcoats II.