FOR FOUR days they took it to the man. From July 24 to July 28, 1987, they cracked the microphones of their very own pirate radio station, which blasted rock music from a dingy ship anchored 41/2 ...

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's ...

Update, 2/22/13: So this story of the Smiths fan who held a station here hostage in the ’80s? It’s true…well, sort of. We caught up with former station employees and found the news coverage. Everyone ...

Talk Radio. Eric Bogosian's 1987 play about an angry talk-radio host. MET Theatre, 1089 N. Oxford Ave., Hollywood. 8 p.m. Through July 27. $15–$20. (323) 960-4429. www.themettheatre.com. I Thought We ...