In our show for today, we'll pay tributes to M'Hammed Issiakhem a well known painter, Mouloud Feraoun a writer assassinated in 1962, Marie Louise Taos Amrouche an opera singer,we'll talk about the Berber American Community, and also have some news and information about recent berber publications translated into english language, and the new album of Yasmina released in March 2013.

Tonight, the Academy Awards (and Golden Raspberry Awards) are recapped in a LIVE broadcast.

Oscar Winners:
Best Picture - Argo
Best Director - Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Best Actress - Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Supporting Actor - Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Best Supporting Actress - Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Best Adapted Screenplay - Chris Terrio, Argo
Best Original Screenplay - Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Best Foreign Language Film - Amour (Austria)
Best Animated Feature - Brave
Best Documentary Feature - Searching for Sugarman
Best Original Song - "Skyfall", Skyfall, Music & Lyrics by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
Best Original Score - Mychael Danna, Life of Pi
Best Editing - Argo
Best Cinematography - Life of Pi
Best Production Design - Lincoln
Best Makeup & Hairstyling - Les Miserables
Best Costume Design - Anna Karenina
Best Sound Mixing - Les Miserables
Best Sound Editing (TIE) - Skyfall AND Zero Dark Thirty
Best Visual Effects - Life of Pi
Best Animated Short - Paperman
Best Documentary Short - Inocente
Best Live Action Short - Curfew

Golden Raspberry Award Winners:
Worst Picture: Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn (Part 2)
Worst Director: Bill Condon, Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn (Part 2)
Worst Actress: Kristen Stewart for BOTH Snow White and the Huntsman AND Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn (Part 2)
Worst Actor: Adam Sandler, That's My Boy
Worst Supporting Actress: Rihanna, Battleship
Worst Supporting Actor: Taylor Lautner, Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn (Part 2)
Worst Screenplay: That's My Boy
Worst Ensemble: Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn (Part 2)
Worst Remake or Sequel: Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn (Part 2)
Worst Screen Couple: Mackenzie Foy & Taylor Lautner, Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn (Part 2)

Real-Time Updating of the Oscars: http://bryansilvergarbageawards.blogspot.com/2013/02/live-blogging-of-85...

Bob Fitrakis and Gerry Bello discuss how Judge Laurel Beatty has not acted upon an attempt to call attention to the Dean of Psychology at Wright State University and his background in torture at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.

New Order, Iceage, Cramps, Iggy, Wreckless Eric, The Monks, and MORE!!!

Algerian-born French guitarist Pierre Bensusan has been playing and recording his special brand of acoustic music since he was 17. It blends elements of Celtic and French traditional music with the rhythms and inflections of jazz and the Near East, and you'll get to sample some of it on this program. Also included are richly layered sounds from the ambient music group Grain Space, and the pure country sounds of Emmylou Harris and the forever-iconic Hank Williams.