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Month: September 2013

 
Education

Clock ticks down for stalled Grand Avenue remake

Education

An ambitious and long-delayed plan to remake downtown’s Grand Ave. with luxury condo towers, high-end shops and a tony hotel faces a critical deadline at midnight tonight. That’s when an…

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Sep 30, 2013 By Darrell Satzman
 
Interviews

Mixer: iPads and union contracts – can’t we have nice things?

Interviews

Jack Dolan reports for the LA Times. Hillel Aron for LA Weekly. They both joined us for this week’s Friday Mixer. LAUSD is spending hundreds of millions of dollars for…

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Sep 27, 2013 By Steve Chiotakis
 
Arts & Culture

Wilshire Boulevard Temple gets a facelift

Arts & Culture

After several years of heavy duty restoration, the historic Wilshire Boulevard Temple in LA’s Koreatown neighborhood is once again open. Earlier this month it offered services during the High Holy…

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Sep 27, 2013 By Avishay Artsy
 
Economy

California braces for possible government shutdown

Economy

According to Mapquest, it’s roughly 2,670 miles from L.A. to Washington, D.C. And 2,730 from Sacramento to D.C. You’d think that kind of distance would help buffer California from the…

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Sep 27, 2013 By Darrell Satzman
 
Arts & Culture

Meet LA’s new film czar, Tom Sherak

Arts & Culture

Los Angeles has a new film czar. Today L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the appointment of Tom Sherak as head of the city’s Entertainment Industry and Production Office. He’s a…

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Sep 26, 2013 By Avishay Artsy
 
Arts & Culture

Wild Records brings modern-day rockabilly to LA

Arts & Culture

There’s a tiny little record label in Los Angeles. You probably haven’t heard of it. That is, unless you’re really into 1950s-style rockabilly music. It’s called Wild Records. Omar Romero…

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Sep 26, 2013 By Avishay Artsy
 
Arts & Culture

‘Station to Station’: Riding the art train from Barstow to Los Angeles

Arts & Culture

For the last twenty days, a group of writers, singers, artists and photographers have been making their way across the country in an old Amtrak train — staging rock concerts…

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Sep 26, 2013 By Carolina Miranda
 
Arts & Culture

What happened to the grand vision for Grand Avenue?

Arts & Culture

For decades, local leaders have dreamed of transforming downtown L.A.’s Grand Avenue into a cultural mecca. Plans for the street have included a park, fancy condos, hotels and a shopping…

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Sep 26, 2013 By Anna Scott
 
Arts & Culture

Selling whiskey with Charles Bukowski

Arts & Culture

The whiskey company Dewar’s has released a new TV ad featuring an actor reading a poem by the late writer Charles Bukowski. The poem, “So, You Want to Be a…

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Sep 25, 2013 By Avishay Artsy
 
News

Are you still wondering what Obamacare means for you?

News

The Affordable Care Act –AKA Obamacare — takes effect on October 1st. For many, it is still unclear how they will be affected. On KCRW next week, we’ll be trying…

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Sep 25, 2013 By Caitlin Shamberg
 
News

‘Breaking Bad’ won at the Emmys but Netflix still scored

News

One of the big stories going into last night’s Primetime Emmy Awards was that Netflix had crashed the party. It was the first year a a series produced and distributed by an…

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Sep 23, 2013 By Darby Maloney
 
News

Photos: LA’s ‘garbage land’

News

For more than 50 years, the communities of Los Angeles County have sent their household and commercial refuse to the Puente Hills Landfill in Whittier, one of the largest public dumps…

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Sep 23, 2013 By Saul Gonzalez
 
Economy

Where does your trash go?

Economy

View Where your trash gets dumped in a larger map Some fun facts on your trash: The average American generates seven pounds of trash per day. Depending on where you…

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Sep 23, 2013 By Kerry Cavanaugh
 
Arts & Culture

McCartney and Timberlake play gigs in Hollywood

Arts & Culture

A stretch of Hollywood Boulevard is going to be shut down for the next couple of days to make way for a pair of concerts planned for “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”…

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Sep 23, 2013 By Chery Glaser
 
News

What’s the most iconic building in Los Angeles

News

As part of our LA Grows Up series, we asked KCRW listeners to tell us what building they thought was the most iconic in LA. Here’s what they said.

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Sep 22, 2013 By Caitlin Shamberg
 
Arts & Culture

Mixer: Sheriff’s parachute, rideshare apps, and the mayor of Portlandia

Arts & Culture

The end of the week means we have analysis of LA stories and politics. Welcome to the Mixer. Gene Maddaus reports for LA Weekly, Seema Mehta reports for the Los Angeles…

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Sep 20, 2013 By Steve Chiotakis
 
Arts & Culture

To re-envision Pershing Square, look to the past

Arts & Culture

If you’ve only spent a little time in downtown Los Angeles, you could be forgiven for missing Pershing Square entirely. Even though it’s right in the heart of LA, it’s…

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Sep 20, 2013 By Avishay Artsy
 
Arts & Culture

Ninety years of The Hollywood Sign

Arts & Culture

Ninety years ago this year, the Hollywood Sign, those venerable boxy letters that designate an area of LA, were placed near the summit of Mt. Lee. And later this evening,…

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Sep 19, 2013 By Avishay Artsy
 
Arts & Culture

Go behind the scenes at the L.A. Opera

Arts & Culture

  This week, the Los Angeles Opera opens its 27th season with an epic, big budget production of “Carmen,” that bold and bawdy 19th Century tale of love and temptation…

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Sep 19, 2013 By Saul Gonzalez
 
News

Do e-cigarettes hook us or help us?

News

This week I inhaled Unicorn Blood for the first time. That’s not some Satanic drug ritual or a Harry Potter-themed beverage — it’s one flavor of nicotine liquid, or “e-juice”…

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Sep 19, 2013 By Evan George

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