Quarterly Programming Report Apr-June 2011 KPCC / KPCV / KUOR Date Key Synopsis Guest/Reporter Duration The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 2-1 at yesterday’s season opener and it was obviously cause for fans to celebrate. But when a Giants fan was assaulted in the parking lot following the game, the victory was marred by the violence of the attack. Today the man is hospitalized in critical condition and questions about the conduct of Dodgers fans linger. What can be done when the competitive atmosphere of team sports crosses the line between avid fandom and physical attacks on fans of the opposing team? Under what circumstances does revelry turn to violence? What can be done to control 4/1/11 SPOR the behavior of fans, many of whom are inebriated? Bill Plaschke 24:00 California budget talks have broken down and sparked a war of words between Governor Jerry Brown and republican lawmakers. Senate GOP leader, Bob Dutton of Rancho Cucamonga, claims Brown aids yelled at him during negotiations, prompting Brown’s spokesman to call Dutton “erratic” and irrelevant.” In this contentious climate Jerry Brown decided to release a new list of pension reforms, an issue that was a republican sticking point during budget talks. Republican lawmakers had been saying they wouldn’t consider Governor Brown’s proposal to put tax extensions before voters, unless he agreed to considerable pension reforms…but now the Governor has his own and he’s hitting the road to sell them to Californians. We’ll 4/1/11 ECON take a look at the governor’s pension proposals and compare and contrast them with what Republicans wanted. Bob Stern 30:00 KPCC film critics Andy Klein and Claudia Puig join Larry to review the week’s new film releases including Source Code, Hop, Andy Klein, Cynthia 4/1/11 FILM Insidious, Trust, Queen to Play and more. TGI-FilmWeek! Puig 34:00 The 13th annual festival comes to Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre today (FRI), April 1, with three weeks of films about the dark 4/1/11 FILM underbelly of our lives. Off-Ramp’s John Rabe talks with one of the curators, Alan Rode, of the Film Noir Foundation. Alan Rode 10:00 The 1981 film "Quest for Fire," directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, is a landmark film about human life on Earth 80,000 years ago. It was the first film for actors Ron Perlman and Nameer El-Kadi, who told Off-Ramp’s John Rabe, it was the hardest movie shoot they've ever been on. The locations - Kenya, Scotland, Canada - were brutal, makeup consumed hours every day, filming took a year, and acting without dialogue took everything they had. But in this exclusive Off-Ramp interview, Perlman and El-Kadi say Quest for Fire, now thirty years old, was also one of the most rewarding films they've made ... and it's Ron Perlman, 4/1/11 FILM the one their colleagues always ask about. Nameer El-Kadi 10:00 off, the budget cuts, the increased class sizes and the pay scale being stuck at the mid-level make the teaching profession less than ideal. So a change in leadership at UTLA, the 40,000-member-strong teachers union, coming at a time when shared sacrifice has become a necessity in the face of sustained budget cuts, is significant both for L.A.’s teachers and L.A.’s students. Enter Warren Fletcher, the upset winner of UTLA’s presidency who cobbled together a coalition of teachers unhappy with the union’s direction, displaced school nurses and substitute nurses to defeat the hand-picked successor of outgoing president A.J. Duffy. Fletcher promised to defend the rights of teachers while working with LAUSD on school reform. The L.A. Times quotes Fletcher as saying, “"If when I say I'm going to focus on pay and benefits, you think that means UTLA would be opposed to education reform? That's a nonsensical statement. The fact that I like pizza doesn't mean I'm opposed to 4/1/11 EDU spaghetti.” Meet the man who will guide L.A.’s teachers into uncertain times. Warren Fletcher 00:28 Job numbers released this morning show the economy grew 216,000 jobs and reduced the unemployment rate down to 8.8 percent. But even against a backdrop of improving job numbers, many Americans are still underemployed or seeking full-time work, and many low-wage jobs are increasingly seen as failing to meet basic needs. Those trends have sparked questions in Diana Furchtgott- 4/1/11 ECON Sacramento and Washington. Roth 00:28 gg ygj g y y y before your eyes. From the Boyle Hotel built in 1889 to historic synagogues and Mariachi Plaza. The cultural, religious and ethnic melting pot that is Los Angeles starts in Boyle Heights and emanates outward. The challenges facing the residents of Elizabeth Blaney Boyle Heights are familiar: access to affordable housing and high-quality health care, but some are unique. Boyle Heights has Maria Cabildo a disproportionate share of public housing developments, some of which were at one time the largest west of the Mississippi. Jose Huizar The conversion of those units to private ownership threatens the low-income residents who inhabit the decades-old buildings Faisal Roble adorned with vibrant murals. Boyle Heights is faced with mitigating the environmental health impacts of its Faisal Roble surroundings—freeways and rail lines that run next to children’s playgrounds, housing and schools and diminishing the Jose Huizar influence of gangs and helping to heal the psychological wounds of violence. But the promise of Boyle Heights is Cynthia Sanchez unmistakable and hopes are high as crime is down, education reform comes into focus, middle class families work to gain promMaria Brenes 4/1/11 ART 00:58 After failing to get Republican support for his budget plan in the legislature, Governor Jerry Brown told the LA Times he'll be taking his show on the road. Beginning next week, Brown says he'll barnstorm the state, warning citizens that if they don't rally behind his plan to extend some temporary taxes, they'll face cuts in education, public safety and other government services. He plans to target Republican strongholds. He also unveiled a new plan for pension reform Thursday, which had been one of 4/1/11 POLI the key bargaining chips with Republican legislators. Dan Walters 7:00 The breakdown in budget negotiations in Sacramento could spell big changes for California's community colleges. In order to cut 10 percent from its budget, the system may need to slash enrollment for as many as 400,000 students. Far fewer courses will be offered and fees will increase to $36 per unit. Meanwhile, the demand for community colleges is rising, as students who 4/1/11 EDU once might have attended a Cal State University or the UC system enroll, and more people seek job training. Jane Patton 7:00 n Guatemala, one of the deadliest places on earth, the truth is rarely straight-forward. In this week's New Yorker, journalist David Grann writes about a prominent Guatemelan lawyer who predicted his own murder and the shocking truth revealed by 4/1/11 LIT the ensuing investigation. David Grann 17:30 Ready or not, it's income tax season. Time to call up your accountant or load the latest edition of Turbo Tax. But for same sex married couples in California, tax time isn't that easy. KPCC's Sanden Totten says new federal rulings place this group in a 4/1/11 LAW legal grey zone, with complicated returns and lots of unanswered questions. Sanden Totten 4:00 Trump calls on Obama to produce a birth certificate, after producing his own... which turns out to be the wrong document. The escaped Bronx Zoo cobra is found safe and sound, but according to its twitter feed, it's planning another escape. And Luke 4/1/11 MEDI finds himself exiled to the other side of the New York Times paywall after an on-air stunt. Luke Burbank 11:00 "Tommy Crow" is Sam Slovick's contribution to the second edition of Slake, LA's new literary quarterly. It's about two outsider teenage Midwestern boys who turn to each other, and it contains a sex/love scene that led to the magazine being published in John Rabe, Sam 4/2/2011 ART Korea instead of the Bible Belt. Listen here to Off-Ramp's John Rabe asking Slovick highly personal questions about the story. Slovick 4:47 Ron Perlman and Nameer El-Kadi tell Off-Ramp's John Rabe about their first movie: 1981's "Quest for Fire," a landmark film about human life on Earth 80,000 years ago. Jean-Jacques Annaud's "Quest for Fire" is an actor's film. Ron Perlman and Nameer El-Kadi say their first movie was also the hardest movie shoot they've ever been on. The locations - Kenya, Scotland, Jon Rabe, Nameer Canada - were brutal, makeup consumed hours every day, filming took a year, and acting without dialogue took everything El-Kadi, Ron 4/2/2011 ART they had. Perlman 6:03 Eat-LA looks at the fee hike for sidewalk cafes in Santa Monica, and talks with a food writer who ate thirty burgers in thirty days at thirty different places. Plus: what local eateries are most like the annoying sustainable restaurants in the sketch series John Rabe, Colleen 4/2/2011 ART Portlandia? Bates 8:28 Major league baseball's 2011 season started this week.