It’s been 40 years since the first “Halloween” movie, starring Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, the shy babysitter who survives serial killer Michael Myers. Now she’s back. Speaking to…
Thanks to all of our listeners who shared stories of the LA Riots. Here are some of them.
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…
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…
Some of California’s best-known chefs are lobbying to repeal a ban on foie gras, produced by force-feeding geese and ducks to enlarge their livers. The ban provided seven years for…
Cafe Vida isn’t a real place; it’s based on Homegirl Cafe in downtown Los Angeles, where former gang members go to get a new start on life. Acclaimed playwright Lisa…
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…
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…
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?…
All week we’ve been talking about the Rodney King riot of 1992, America’s worst civil disturbance in the 20th Century. April 29 marks exactly 20 years since LAPD officers were…
“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…
All week we’ve been airing programs about the Rodney King riot of 1992, America’s worst civil disturbance in the 20th Century. Now, we’re just three days away from April 29,…
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…
KCRW DJ Jason Kramer worked as a medic in Los Angeles during the ’80s and ’90s. The ambulance gave him a unique vantage point as he cruised through the city…
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…
On the 20th anniversary of what has become known as the “Rodney King” riot, Warren sits down with the man who was the victim of police brutality.
We recently posed that question on Facebook, as we prepared this week’s special coverage of the 20th anniversary of the Rodney King riots. Listeners responded with a slew of great…
On today’s anniversary edition of Which Way, LA?, we look at music, movies and literature that reflected – and in some cases predicted – the 1992 Los Angeles riots. We…
Warren talks with Professor Todd Boyd about LA culture around the time of the Rodney King riots.
This the third part of a week of programs on the violence, causes and aftermath of the Rodney King riots that devastated so much of Los Angeles 20 years ago.…
KCRW listener, Ted Brennan had just gotten out of the army when the 1992 riots broke out. He was with the National Guard and was deployed from San Diego to…
