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Keeping hope and the puppets alive: Bob Baker and his marionettes

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The Bob Baker Marionette Theater is just west of downtown where I live. I had driven by the theater for years before I finally had the chance to go inside…

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May 03, 2012 By Lisa Napoli
 
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Radio amidst the riots: 20 years of ‘Which Way, LA?’

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Twenty years ago this week, Warren Olney first sat down in the cramped studios of KCRW to host a town forum that would become Which Way, LA?. Riots and unrest…

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May 03, 2012 By Avishay Artsy
 
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May Day protests in downtown LA

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Protesters in downtown Los Angeles converged on Pershing Square tonight as part of the May Day rallies that have been going on all day. Thousands of workers, students, immigration reform…

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May 01, 2012 By Avishay Artsy
 
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A new era for the Dodgers

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A new chapter in Los Angeles Dodgers history begins today. Frank McCourt surrendered ownership of the team, and Guggenheim Baseball, led by Magic Johnson and incoming Dodgers President Stan Kasten,…

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May 01, 2012 By Avishay Artsy
 
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Surveillance, Big Brother and Rodney King

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Last week we talked extensively about the LA Riots that followed the acquittal of four police officers who had beaten Rodney King. We revisited the infamous intersection of Florence and…

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May 01, 2012 By Caitlin Shamberg
 
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‘People’s Guide to Los Angeles’ goes beyond Rodeo Drive

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Hollywood Boulevard. Venice Beach. Disney Hall. The La Brea Tar Pits. Universal Studios. Rodeo Drive. What do they all have in common? They’re, of course, all popular local tourist destinations…

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May 01, 2012 By Saul Gonzalez
 
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LA Bloom: Gardens and mindfulness

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Hirokazu Kosaka is a Buddhist priest and an artist, but when I visited him last week at the Japanese American Cultural Cultural and Community Center in Little Tokyo, he sounded…

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Apr 30, 2012 By Lisa Napoli
 
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Will you ride LA’s new Expo Line?

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There was a grand opening over the weekend for the Expo Line, the new light rail line route connecting downtown L.A. with Culver City. There was music, dance performances, lots…

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Apr 30, 2012 By Saul Gonzalez
 
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All Aboard the Expo Line

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Westside commuters are getting their first chance to take rapid transit all the way downtown, but what about getting from home to the station and back and paying for parking?…

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Apr 30, 2012 By Caitlin Shamberg
 
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Father and son photographers remember the LA riots

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“We followed the smoke.” That’s what famed L.A. photographer Gary Leonard told me when I asked him how he and his photographer son, David, covered the 1992 L.A. riots. I…

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Apr 27, 2012 By Saul Gonzalez
 
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Politics Friday: 5 stories you may have missed this week

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As you’ve likely noticed, we’ve been busy reflecting on the 20th anniversary of the LA Riots, but the presidential campaign has kicked into high gear. Here are some of the…

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Apr 27, 2012 By Katie Cooper
 
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Listeners Remember: ‘It was a really scary and confusing time’

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Listener Loanie Huynh Fulton remembers being eleven-years-old when the LA Riots broke out. She says, “It was  a particularly tense time in terms of social interactions and in some sense…

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Apr 27, 2012 By Caitlin Shamberg
 
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Todd Boyd on the LA Riots, Hip Hop and Cinema

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Warren talks with Professor Todd Boyd about LA culture around the time of the Rodney King riots.

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Apr 26, 2012 By Caitlin Shamberg
 
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The LAPD then and now

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What was it like to be a Los Angeles cop back in 1992, right before the riots? What did the LAPD learn from those days of violence and fire? And…

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Apr 24, 2012 By Saul Gonzalez
 
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KoreAm maps the riot damage to Korean-owned businesses

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KoreAm has mapped the Korean-owned liquor stores in South Central L.A. that were targeted during the 1992 riots. While all kinds of other Korean-owned businesses around the city also suffered,…

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Apr 24, 2012 By Sonya Geis
 
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A Southern California congressman barred from Afghanistan

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A Southern California Congressman critical of U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan has now been barred from visiting that country. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)  from Huntington Beach found out last week, when…

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Apr 23, 2012 By Avishay Artsy
 
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20 years of ‘Which Way, LA?’

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On April 29, 1992, a Simi Valley jury acquitted four police officers charged with beating motorist Rodney King, and a tense city erupted. Some called it civil unrest, others a…

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Apr 23, 2012 By Gary Scott
 
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Excessive force at the border?

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Over the years, I’ve reported many different stories on the U.S.-Mexico border. Not surprisingly they were often about drug trafficking and narco-violence, economics and trade, and illegal and legal immigration.…

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Apr 20, 2012 By Saul Gonzalez
 
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Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day with a personal film

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Gail Becker didn’t plan to make a film for public release about her 2007 family visit to Auschwitz.  Her 83-year old father had been imprisoned there as a boy, and…

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Apr 18, 2012 By Lisa Napoli
 
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More damaging photos of US troops in Afghanistan

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Today’s Los Angeles Times made news from LA to Washington to Kabul with pictures of American soldiers posing with the body parts of dead Afghans who apparently blew themselves up.…

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Apr 18, 2012 By Caitlin Shamberg

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