KPCC + KUOR Quarterly Programming Report

October - December 2007

Key Program Title Date Time Guest(s) POLI Many GOP Voters in CA in turmoil 10/1/07 3:48 Stoltze Larry Mantle talks with Academy and Tony award- winning actor Joel Grey about his photography exhibit now running at the Frank Pictures Gallery in Santa Monica, “Looking Hard, An Exhibition of Large Format ENT Abstract Photographs.” 10/1/07 20:00 Joel Grey

FDA considering ruling that the product must have ART real cocoa butter in it to be labeled "chocolate" 10/1/07 12:09 Gary Guittard City calls for an hour no unnecessary lights to ENV encourage environmental-consciousness 10/1/07 15:12 Brian Scott, Wendy Greuel A look at the current status of the Supreme Court, its expected conservative trend and what will happen in 2009, when six of the nine justices will be over 70 yrs Lawrence Tribe, Douglas POLI old 10/1/07 25:09 Kmiec How much do you remember from your elementary POLI school civics class? 10/1/07 40:00 Chris Rhatigan Interview with the man who broke the sound barrier 60 yrs ago and with aviation and space exploration General Chuck Yaeger, Mat HIST experts at Edward's Air Force Base 10/1/07 52:30 Kaplan, James Young

According to new findings by the California Coastal Commission, the proposed six-lane Foothill South toll road through San Onofre State Beach would violate state laws designed to regulate development and Lance MacLean, James POLI protect the environment. 10/1/07 30:00 Birkelund The Homeland Security Presidential Directive #12 is one of a series of Executive Orders signed by POLI President Bush in 2004 10/1/07 30:00 Robert Nelson In his latest book, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker looks at language and what it tells us SCI about the way we think 10/1/07 30:00 Steven Pinker It's been said that the Canadian identity is defined by the degree of separation from the influence of the LIT United States. 10/2/07 20:00 David T. Jones Director and writer Wes Anderson is the creative mind behind some of the most critically acclaimed films of ART the last decade. 10/2/07 20:00 Wes Anderson The Wende Museum in Culver City holds a retrospective on the Berlin Wall, complete with photos HIST and actual concrete sections. 10/2/07 10:30 Justinian Jampol Journalist Peter Gwin dares to venture into the dark LIT seas to explore the life of a pirate. 10/2/07 12:15 Peter Gwin

POLI Patt gets the latest from the Blackwater hearings. 10/2/07 13:20 John Broder

50 years ago this week that the Russians shocked the Sergei Kruschev, Blain HIST U.S. by launching the first man-made satellite. 10/2/07 28:40 Baggett, Erik Conway City looking at new programs to make parents responsible for rise of grafitti and to involve more Andrew Blankstein, Eric LAW community-members 10/2/07 40:13 Garcetti, Lee Baca Larry Mantle talks with guests about the affect of the Court Interpreters strike on the Los Angeles County Alex Abella, Alan Parachini, LAB Courts. 10/2/07 30:00 Ramon Quintana John Husing, Peter J. Gatti, Opposition is building to a plan by the ports of Los S. David Freeman, Colleen ENV Angeles and Long Beach to clean up dirty trucks. 10/2/07 30:00 Callahan Federal immigration officials announce largest raid IMM ever 10/3/07 3:03 Guzman Interview profile of Clarence McDonald, famous pop ART keyboardist and producer 10/3/07 3:21 Rabe Larry talks with guests about the latest developments in Myanmar, where thousands have reportedly been detained for participating in protests against the Simon Montlake, Jared FOR Government. 10/3/07 20:00 Genser Mayor Villaraigosa, LAPD Chief William Bratton and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo held a news conference this morning to announce third-quarter crime statistics and efforts to reduce violent crime in HOUS Skid Row. 10/3/07 05:40 Frank Stolze What will it take to change our automotive desires - ENV are we driving the cars, or are the cars driving us? 10/3/07 13:00 Joseph White The Latino Behavioral Health Institute holds a conference in Los Angeles to discuss how best to Luis Zayas, Margarita HEAL reach this population and address its needs. 10/3/07 39:30 Alegria, Luz Chacon In his new book, The Argument Matt Bai, The New York Times Magazine writer examines the Democratic Party's future prospects and current LIT dilemmas. 10/3/07 40:00 Matt Bai

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency held a news conference in LA today to announce Adolfo Guzman Lopez, Jim results of a two-week sweep of immigrants who have Hayes, Lee Baca, Louis IMM criminal records or have ignored deportation orders. 10/3/07 46:50 Desipio, Nicholas Espiritu Larry Mantle talks with Jack Shaw, Capitol Hill reporter for Marketnews International about the proposed war surtax, and President Bush's veto of the POLI state children's health insurance program. 10/3/07 30:00 Jack Shaw Close to 100 gay rights organizations sent a letter to Congress Monday announcing they would not support a bill that protects gays and lesbians from workplace discrimination but does not include transgender Linda Sanchez, Jon LGB people. 10/3/07 30:00 Davidson

COPS Lockdown in Orange County jail approaches 3 weeks 10/4/07 2:12 Watt

COPS Lockdown in Orange County jail approaches 3 weeks 10/4/07 2:15 Watt

Larry Mantle talks with President and CEO of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association about the ART upcoming season at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. 10/4/07 10:00 Deborah Borda Avenue Q, the Tony Award winning musical starring puppets and humans, is playing at the Ahmanson Christian Anderson, Robert ART Theatre. 10/4/07 20:00 McClure Don Barrett of LARadio.com joins Patt Morrison to Don Barrett, R.J. Curtis, OBIT remember the influential L.A. broadcaster. 10/4/07 05:35 Craig Curtis The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is in some trouble for not following the old adage, "Work LAW and play don't mix." 10/4/07 11:25 Merrick Bobb

Christopher Trumbo tells the story of his father Dalton ART Trumbo in the new documentary, Trumbo. 10/4/07 12:05 Christopher Trumbo

After Alberto Gonzales arrived in February of 2005, the department issued a secret memo that explicitly authorized painful physical and psychological tactics POLI to be used against terror suspects. 10/4/07 14:50 Ron Elving

Market for fake high-end audio products, prescription drugs, car brakes and even, gulp, airplane parts, and Caroline Joiner, David LAW they're getting harder and harder to spot. 10/4/07 26:10 Colker Patt talks to the players in the negotiations and finds Richard Verrier, Patric ENT out what's at stake. 10/4/07 34:50 Verrone, Nick Counter Larry discusses the Lynwood City Council Meeting on Tuesday night where recalled City Council members Hector Becerra, Mayor Louis refused to relinquish their seats to the newly elected Byrd, Hector de la Torre, POLI members. 10/4/07 30:00 Anthony Willoughby Close to two dozen Los Angeles hospitals are in bad financial shape and in danger of going bankrupt, Jim Lott, Carol Meyer, Rob HEAL according to a recent L.A. Times story. 10/4/07 30:00 Fuller Larry Mantle talks with the authors of a new book that explores the latest science on the mind/body Sandra Blakeslee, Mark LIT connection. 10/4/07 30:00 Blakeslee LAW Skid Row a year after safer cities 10/5/07 3:36 Stoltze Larry Mantle talks with director Tony Kaye about his new documentary film, Lake of Fire that takes on the ART controversial topic of abortion. 10/5/07 20:00 Tony Kaye Community activists and church leaders are urging Tom Hamilton, Karen LIT people to buy books at the store. 10/5/07 07:50 Grigsby Bates Gov Schwarzenegger and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa have appointed gang czar's on the state and local level to develop strategies to curb SAC gang violence. 10/5/07 30:00 Paul Seave, Jeff Carr Radiohead is charging only a small transaction fee of roughly one dollar, and then asks that customers either make a donation or pay nothing at all to access ENT the album. 10/5/07 32:50 Eric Garland, Tony Sachs Marion Jones, the latest in a string of famous athletes who have been investigated for their use of the Luis Fernando Llosa, Anita SPOR human growth hormone. 10/5/07 33:50 DeFrantz, Dan Migala

Larry and critics Henry Sheehan of henrysheehan.com, and Claudia Puig, of USA Today , discuss the week’s new releases including the feature films Michael Clayton, The Heartbreak Kid, Lust/Caution, The Darjeeling Limited, The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising, In Between Days, Resilience, and the documentaries My Kid Could Paint That, and Kurt Henry Sheehan, Claudia ART Cobain About a Son. 10/5/07 40:00 Puig

Larry is joined by a panel of community leaders for a Myrna Castrejón, A.J. Duffy, conversation on the role of charter schools in the Eric Premack, Dr. Brian EDU future of the Los Angeles Unified School District. 10/5/07 1 hour Stecher

POL Father Greg Boyle on Homeboy Industries' new HQ 10/6/07 2:52 Father Greg Boyle

ART LAX pylon lights, John with artist Paul Tzanetopoulos 10/6/07 2:55 Paul Tzanetopoulos Patt Morrison with UC Riverside spider expert Cheryl UC Riverside spider expert SCI Hayashi, winner of Genius grant 10/6/07 3:26 Cheryl Hayashi Off-Ramp commentators Angela Shelton and Frances Callier say neighborhoods are alive in well in Los Angela Shelton and Frances COM Angeles. 10/6/07 3:30 Callier

HIST Famous Hollywood street named for dead woman 10/6/07 3:50 Felde Kitty Felde on Wes Parker, Dodgers Golden Glove SPORT first baseman. 10/6/07 4:29 Wes Parker Jonathan Haas, tympanist, on his concert with MUS Pasadena Symphony 10/6/07 4:39 Jonathan Haas Doualy Xaykaothao at Natural History Museum's SCI Spider Pavilion w/Brett Karner. 10/6/07 4:39 Brett Karner Spend five minutes with KPCC staffers as they teach you children's rhymes in Spanish, Polish, German, Joe and Heather FOOD Armenian, and Korean. 10/6/07 10:00 D'Augustine Tiny street named for man who did a lot for TRANS Huntington Park 10/7/07 3:21 Felde CONS Water bills to go up 10% or more 10/8/07 2:20 Keith Sandra Tsing Loh has a warning before your next DIS blind date… 10/8/07 2:51 Loh SCI Teachers take microgravity flight 10/8/07 3:37 Julian Teachers conducting experiments in weightless EDU environment 10/8/07 3:54 Julian

POLI Growing number od Californians decline political party 10/8/07 4:27 Felde

Art & Ideas is a Pasadena area based collaborative of arts, science, and cultural organizations that engages the Southern California community by creating ART provocative issue-based arts festivals. 10/8/07 10:00 Terry LeMoncheck

The 11th Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival opened last night (SUNDAY) and continues ENT at the ArcLight through Sunday, Oct. 14th. 10/8/07 10:00 Edward James Olmos The Catholic Diocese of San Diego is asking parishioners and priests to make contributions to help pay for the recent $198.1 million sexual abuse EDU settlement. 10/8/07 20:00 Charles Zech Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are both gearing up for a US-sponsored peace conference scheduled FOR for next month. 10/8/07 20:00 Ilene Prusher In the 1950s, a map was discovered: a drawing by the Vikings of the same terrain, dating back to 1440, HIST some 50 years before Columbus' arrival. 10/8/07 06:30 Kirsten Seaver The Orange County Museum of Art takes a close look at this seminal period with their exhibit Birth of the Cool , which features 150 examples of architecture, photography, paintings, music and design with the Elizabeth Armstrong, ART true spirit of "cool." 10/8/07 18:10 Michael Boyd Los Angeles city government is trying to complete a transfer of $30 million from the DWP to the City's general fund; and Mayor Villaraigosa is trying to put a measure on February's ballot that will authorize the continuation of a $270 million telephone users utility Jeff Jacobberger, Bernard ECON tax. 10/8/07 22:55 Parks, Chris Weinkoph Patt discusses patriotism in the U.S. and the POLI significance of wearing, or not wearing, flag pins. 10/8/07 23:00 Nick Snider Author and columnist David Harsanyi tackles twinkie fascists, bonehead bureaucrats, anti-porn crusaders, LIT and the death of unregulated fun. 10/8/07 34:15 David Harsanyi

The Los Angeles Times reported last week that the Democratic Speaker of the Assembly, Fabian Nunez, has spent tens of thousands of campaign dollars at POLI high-end restaurants, retailers and trips to Europe. 10/8/07 30:00 Nancy Vogel, Bob Stern A new study shows that many young people perceive modern Christianity as too political, anti-homosexual, David Kinnaman,, Gabe LIT and hypocritical. 10/8/07 30:00 Lyons Riverside County ROV test voting equipment for first IE election after e-vote ban 10/9/07 2:47 Cuevas LAW LAPD ISSUE REPORT ON MACARTHUR PARK 10/9/07 3:34 Stoltze Academic finds that more black comics dealing with ENT black-latino relations in routines 10/9/07 3:49 Guzman Movie producers are crying foul at the bloated lists of producer credits on films – everyone from hairstylists to agents to a middleman who simply introduces two ENT people. 10/9/07 06:30 Alex Ben Block California's top lawmakers are unable to reach a compromise on what to do about the state's water ECON system crisis. 10/9/07 06:55 Harrison Sheppard SPOR Nick gets the lowdown on the upcoming season. 10/9/07 07:00 Chris Mannox The debate over illegal immigration has invaded the Orlando J. Rodriguez, normally apolitical 2010 census and the ramifications Rosalind Gold, Steven IMM could be huge. 10/9/07 32:05 Camorota

It's been five months since LAPD officers clashed with protesters and journalists at MacArthur Park during a May 1st immigration rally, and the long awaited police Bill Bratton, Jack Weiss, LAW report released today. 10/9/07 52:30 Gladys Limon, Frank Stoltze If you hate re-runs or reality show, your television- ENT watching days may be numbered. 10/9/07 30:00 Alex Ben Block, Sr. Larry Mantle talks with Sam Watters, author of HIST Houses of Los Angeles 1995-1935 . 10/9/07 30:00 Sam Watters Shizhong Chen, Mayor Bill The Tournament of Roses Parade is a local institution Bogaard, Tseten DIV and an event watched around the world. 10/9/07 30:00 Phanucharas Larry Mantle talks with the author of the new book, Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age about the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik and the rivalry between the U.S and the Soviet Union in the space HIST race. 10/9/07 30:00 Matthew Brzezinski Governor Schwarzenegger unveils proposal for fixing POLI health care system 10/10/07 2:11 Myers Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will consider a resolution that would declare the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in World War HIST I-era Turkey genocide. 10/10/07 12:00 Jack Shaw Superintendent Brewer is proposing a radical idea to overhaul LAUSD's lower-performing schools by creating a separate, targeted district for 44 of the Jaime Regalado, David ECON neediest schools. 10/10/07 11:00 Tokofsky

High numbers were expected, but the actual figures shocked even the researchers, who found an estimated one million young Californians had a Petra Jerman, Dr. Jonathan HEAL sexually transmitted disease in 2005. 10/10/07 34:40 Fielding Halberstam's friends and colleagues, Robert MacNeil and Gay Talese join Patt Morrison to talk about his LIT last book and his illustrious career. 10/10/07 50:25 Robert MacNeil, Gay Talese A few months ago Democratic leaders were very critical of Bush administration and Justice Department decisions to authorize NSA wiretaps of US citizens Xavier Becerra, Marc POLI without a warrant. 10/10/07 30:00 Cooper, Chris Lehane

In his new book, Supercapitalism , Robert Reich argues that while capitalism in the U.S. has grown LIT increasingly efficient, democracy has been suffering. 10/10/07 1 hour Robert B. Reich City of LA will allow homeless people to sleep on HOME street 10/11/07 2:48 Jahad A tiny fish launches a big crisis over water in SACTO California 10/11/07 4:04 Small Larry Mantle talks with William Lobdell, City Editor of the Orange County Edition of the Los Angeles Times , Orange County Register senior editorial writer and columnist, Steven Greenhut, and OC Weekly senior editorial writer and columnist, Gustavo Arellano, about the latest news events and developments in Orange William Lobdell, Gustavo MEDI County. 10/11/07 10:00 Arellano Yesterday, a federal district judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Homeland Security’s plan to use the Social Security Administration’s database to crack down on businesses that may be employing undocumented Steve Camarota, Monica POLI immigrants. 10/11/07 12:00 Guizar

Sometimes language really counts... the use of the word "genocide" can have important implications for Steve Dadaian, Ara POLI foreign policy and the possibility of reparations. 10/11/07 12:00 Khachatourian The highlights of the week will include designers with collections that are organic and ecologically conscious, and the organizers of the event are ART seeking to reduce its impact on the environment. 10/11/07 08:50 Davis Factor

A survey revealed we all aspired to live beyond our means, as risky subprime mortgages were made in nearly every corner of the nation, from small towns to ECON urban neighborhoods and highly affluent suburbs. 10/11/07 18:15 Rick Brooks Senior Marine Corps officers and other Defense Department officials have been discussing the possible re-deployment of U.S. Marine Corps forces MIL from Iraq to Afghanistan. 10/11/07 19:45 Tony Perry The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap (Simon and Schuster), is the best of the worst LIT cartoons submitted to the New Yorker . 10/11/07 46:50 Matthew Diffee Larry Mantle talks with Cheryl Heuton, creator and executive producer of the hit CBS television drama ENT Numbers. 10/11/07 1 hour Cheryl Heuton, Gary Lorden

Former Vice President, Al Gore, along with the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Ambassador Wegder was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize today (FRI) for Strommen, Martin Parry, ENV his efforts in combating global warming. 10/12/07 12:00 Kenneth Green ENV When is it time to replace your old refrigerator? 10/12/07 12:00 Jennifer Thorne Amann We're taking a humorous look back at the week in politics and current events, and a look ahead at the ENT absurdities yet to come. 10/12/07 46:00 Ben Gleib, Wayne Federman

The fifth in a series of novels that began in 1985 with Lake Wobegon Days (Viking), Pontoon tells the story of a simple town where the inhabitants find themselves in complex and comical situations as they confront the absurdities found in marriage, death, ART betrayal and grief. 10/12/07 50:30 Garrison Keillor Larry and critics Andy Klein of CityBeat and Jean Oppenheimer, of Village Voice Media, discuss the week’s new releases including the feature films Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Sleuth, We Own the Night, Lars and the Real Girl, Berkeley, The Final Season, Summer ’04, and the documentaries For the Bible Tells Me So, Lake of Fire, and Terror’s Andy Klein, Jean ENT Advocate. 10/12/07 1 hour Oppenheimer TRANS HIST Town founders missed their hometown 10/13/07 3:42 Felde TRANS Sleepy street great place to rest 10/14/07 4:00 Felde TRANS Patricia Nazario live on I5 Truck crash 10/15/07 2:13 Nazario Commission working to re-vamp campaign spending POLI reports 10/15/07 2:15 O'Mara TRANS I-5 crash aftermath and commuter nightmare 10/15/07 2:20 Nazario Latino voters loom large in upcoming presidential POLI primary 10/15/07 3:41 Felde Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed and vetoed Steve Geissinger, Dan SAC many bills over the weekend. 10/15/07 10:00 Walters What do the nominees say about our current times and culture? Veronique De Turrenne, LA-based writer LIT and book critic, weighs in. 10/15/07 07:40 Veronique De Turenne In a move that could help individuals with a mild cognitive impairment slow or limit neurological damage, a team of international scientists has created a blood test that may detect the onset of Alzheimer's HEAL disease. 10/15/07 18:30 Patrick Lynn Transportation officials give us an update about the status of the road and the economic impact this will Julie Sauls, Jack Kyser, Nick TRAN have on Angelinos. 10/15/07 21:00 Roman, Frank Stoltze The southbound Golden State (5) Freeway, the scene of a horrific truck crash in the Newhall Pass was reopened in time for Monday’s commute. Two men and a boy were killed and 10 people were injured in a pileup of about 30 vehicles Friday night on a rain-slick truck route beneath the freeway connecting the Frank Stoltze, Doualy southbound 5 Freeway with the Antelope Valley (14) Xaykaothao, Douglas TRAN Freeway. 10/15/07 40:00 Failing, Jim Moore

Arguing that the attacks have resurrected old ideas about traditional gender roles, Faludi explores notions of cowboy bravado and feminine frailty in the media, LIT popular culture and political life. 10/15/07 45:30 Suan Faludi

The debate over the separation of church and state in LIT the U.S. has existed as long as the country itself. 10/15/07 1 hour Forrest Church

OC Farmers deal with freeway headache to get to market 10/16/07 2:03 Valot Farmers deal with freeway headache to get to OC markets 10/16/07 2:03 Valot TRANS Caltrans gives update on Newhall tunnel fire 10/16/07 3:16 Felde Larry talks with John Karevoll of DataQuick Information Systems about the decline in home sales HOUS in Southern California. 10/16/07 12:00 John Karevoll California labor unions are set to campaign against Governor Schwarzenegger's healthcare plan, stating that it is too expensive for workers. Daniel Zingali, Anastasia LAB 10/16/07 12:00 Ordonez

FOR Patt speaks with Shakeri about his time in prison. 10/16/07 11:40 Ali Shakeri In an effort to ease traffic congestion, Mayor Villaraigosa, Governor Schwarzenegger and Speaker Nunez announced a plan today to synchronize every TRAN traffic light in Los Angeles. 10/16/07 14:00 Rita Robinson Companies are testing new office layouts designed with the hope of utilizing space more efficiently and improving productivity. Some of the arrangements include lounge-like settings, wireless internet, and open spaces so employees can communicate more Michelle Conlin, Betty Hase, ECON freely. 10/16/07 25:40 Dev Patnaik The ramifications of a Turkish invasion of Iraq and Congressional approval of the genocide resolution are sweeping and inter-connected. Can the U.S. preserve good relationships with all of the involved warring Hakan Tekin, Steven Cook, POLI factions? 10/16/07 26:50 Zenyo Baran

Vicente Fox joins Patt to discuss his term in office, his patria, and his new memoir, Revolution of Hope: The POLI Life, Faith, and Dreams of a Mexican President . 10/16/07 40:50 Vicente Fox

Bestselling author and legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin joins Larry Mantle to talk about his new book entitled POLI The Nine: The Secret World of the Supreme Court. 10/16/07 1 hour Jeffrey Toobin LAW Peace Activist comes home 10/17/07 2:49 C&C ART Stacey Keach plays Galileo in new production 10/17/07 3:25 Rabe The Environmental Working Group released a report Monday stating that more than 21,300 mining claims have been staked within 10 miles of California’s ENV national parks and monuments. 10/17/07 10:00 Dusty Horwitt, Laura Skaer

It now appears a dangerous type of staph infection is Dr. Elizabeth A. Bancroft, Dr. HEAL probably killing more Americans each year than AIDS. 10/17/07 12:00 Gregory Moran The Walt Disney Company announced that it will overhaul its California Adventure theme park to the ART tune of $1.1 billion. 10/17/07 12:00 Michael Lyster

Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey began his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, and immediately sought to reassure his questioners that he would protect Americans' constitutional rights yet still work effectively to prevent POLI future terror attacks. 10/17/07 18:00 Jay Newton-Small

Who knew theater could be so hot? Sir Ian McKellen is set to play Shakespeare's "King Lear" and ART Checkov's "The Seagull" in performances at UCLA. 10/17/07 29:30 Sir Ian McKellen Peter Sagal takes us on a romp through the depravities of society in search of finding out exactly ART what people do to have a naughty good time. 10/17/07 47:15 Peter Sagal

In his latest book, Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker looks at language and what it tells us about the way we think. Language, he argues, reflects LIT the very nature of our brain structure. 10/17/07 1 hour Steven Pinker Alex Roy has been on a mission to break a 23-year- old illegal endurance-driving record by navigating from New York to Los Angeles, something he claimed ART to accomplish last year. 10/18/07 11:50 Alexander Roy

Within the last few days, three show business legends have died: singer Teresa Brewer, comedian Joey OBIT Bishop and actress Deborah Kerr. 10/18/07 17:00 Leonard Maltin Battles over the drug trade between black street gang East Coast Crips and their Latino rival, Florencia 13, in the Florence-Firestone area north of Watts, have turned into what residents in the neighborhood call a LAW “race war.” 10/18/07 19:00 Sam Quinones

A just-leaked study by the Transportation Security Administration reports that security screeners at Los Angeles International Airport failed to detect about 75% of simulated explosives and bomb parts that LAW testers hid under their clothes or in carry-on luggage. 10/18/07 19:30 Nico Malendes, Clark Ervin Finding Grace: The Face of America’s Homeless (Palace Publishing Group), photographer Lynn Blodgett captures the images of the dispossessed in a Lynn Blodgett, Christopher HOUS raw and revealing form. 10/18/07 26:30 Gardner Larry talks with guests about the Mayor’s affordable housing plan for Los Angeles that he unveiled Matt Franklin, Holly HOUS yesterday. 10/18/07 1 hour Schroeder, Lisa Payne

Larry Mantle talks with Robert Vare, editor at large for the Atlantic Monthly , about the new compilation of writings from magazine called The American Idea: The Best of the Atlantic Monthly; 150 Years of Writers LIT and Thinkers Who Shaped Our History. 10/18/07 1 hour Robert Vare Sex offenders who can't comply with law face LAW homelessness 10/19/07 4:00 Campbell Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (BEN'- uh-zeer BOO'-toh) says there were two attackers in the bombing that killed at least 136 people at her homecoming celebration yesterday (THURS) in FOR Karachi. 10/19/07 12:00 Vali Nasr Every day people walk by something that is a direct result of Richard Pimentel's efforts: wheel chair ramps, parking spaces for the disabled, handicapped Richard Pimentel, Steven HIST bathroom stalls, etc. 10/19/07 12:00 Sawalich Author Ken Follett presents a time capsule into the fourteenth century and guides us through the lives of five characters, each trying to make their mark on the LIT world. 10/19/07 11:55 Ken Follett

In a non-binding recommendation, federal health advisors declared that over-the-counter cold and HEAL cough medicines are not effective in young children. 10/19/07 19:00 Dr. Richard Pan Patt brings you the lean and mean version of the presidential debate, stripping away the second tier also-ran contenders, and even doing away with the POLI candidates themselves. 10/19/07 28:05 David Axelrod, Ann Lewis The nation's oldest member of the baby-boom generation signed up for Social Security this week, a portent of the tidal wave that will hit the retirement ECON system in coming years. 10/19/07 34:00 David DeLong, Steve Slon Chris Matthews is one of the most recognizable MEDI personalities in political punditry. 10/19/07 30:00 Chris Matthews Larry and critics Henry Sheehan of henrysheehan.com, and Lael Loewenstein of Variety, discuss the week’s new releases including the feature films Things We Lost in the Fire, Rendition, Reservation Road, Gone Baby Gone, and Broken, and the documentaries The Price of Sugar, and The Henry Sheehan, Lael ART Unknown Soldier. 10/19/07 30:00 Loewenstein The Hammer's Ann Philbin asks LACMA's Michael Govan why the young man came West. 10/20/07 2:24 The Orange County Museum of Art just opened a new exhibit that looks at the flowering of modernism in 1950s California. 10/20/07 3:12 Jeff Girod can bench-press 300 pounds but he never learned to drive a stick. And this has left him feeling like less of a man. 10/20/07 3:15

Bunraku is a form of traditional Japanese puppetry performed with child-size puppets. For the first time in twenty years, the National Puppet Theater of Japan Art puts on a puppet show in Los Angeles. 10/20/07 3:39 Queena Kim Architecture critic Sam Hall Kaplan takes us to Heritage Square, one of the few places you can feel what life was like in turn-of-the-century LA. 10/20/07 3:55

KPCC's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, a co-founder of the Taco Shop Poets, remembers his friend John Partida. 10/20/07 4:17 Adolfo Guzman Lopez LA Times writer Ralph Vartabedian shows John the LA Times writer Ralph POL rampant abuse of disabled parking permits. 10/20/07 4:43 Vartabedian Tyrus Wong has two new exhibits, including one at the Academy that highlights his work in the movies. The groundbreaking Chinese artist did paintings for Art Bambi and The Wild Bunch. 10/20/07 4:53 Queena Kim

Writer Cheryl Klein talks to Queena Kim about her debut collection of short stories called "Commuters." 10/20/07 5:27 Cheryl Klein

Veteran actor Stacy Keach shares insight on Galileo. Keach plays the scientist in the Brecht/Hare play, which is being performed at the Skirball Center. 10/20/07 5:30 actor Stacy Keach Agoura High School becomes evacuation center for DIS Malibu fires 10/22/07 2:05 Watt DIS Frank Stoltze live on Buckweed fire 10/22/07 2:06 Stoltze DIS Frank Stoltze live on Buckweed fire 10/22/07 2:13 Stoltze DIS Brian Watt live on Buckweed Fire 10/22/07 2:14 Watt DIS Frank Stoltze live on Buckweed fire 10/22/07 2:19 Stoltze Sandra Tsing Loh finds the silver lining to the mortgage meltdown and housing crisis… 10/22/07 2:57 Julian POLI What difference does an early primary make? 10/22/07 3:07 Felde Brooke Binkowski live on Witch Fire in San Diego DIS County 10/22/07 4:05 Binkowski Brooke Binkowski live on Witch Fire in San Diego DIS County 10/22/07 4:13 Binkowski DIS Frank Stoltze live on Buckweed fire 10/22/07 6:02 Stoltze Mid-century Los Angeles, with its racial diversity and the surrounding changing social dynamics, has always been one of the complex characters in Walter LIT Mosley's popular Easy Rawlins series. 10/22/07 20:00 Walter Mosley Guest host Jon Beaupre discusses the Latino vote both nationally, and in California, and how it will figure Kenneth Burt, Jaime POLI into the upcoming election. 10/22/07 40:00 Regalado

Steven Cuevas, Mike Dietrich, Brooke Binkowski, Tony Perry, Sharon Dewar, Tens of thousands of acres have burned and Inspector Ron Haralson, thousands of homes are threatened as more than a Frank Stoltze, Adolfo DIS dozen wildfires blaze across Southern California. 10/22/07 52:30 Guzman Lopez, Bill Patzert

San Diego County has been hit hardest where an Jerry Sanders, Richard estimated 250,000 people were forced to evacuate Minnich, Laura Billon, Brian DIS their homes. 10/22/07 52:30 Watt, Doulay Xaykaothao Tony Perry, Sandy Stoltze, Brooke Binkowski, Claudia Pesciutta, Frank Stoltze, Brett Anderson, Dr. Andrew Guest host Jon Beaupre talks with various officials Benton, Rick Dominguez, and other voices around Southern California about Jerry Sanders, Richard ENV the wildfires. 10/22/07 1 hour Minnich DIS Brooke Binkowski live from Qualcomm 10/23/07 3:08 Binkowski DIS Pres Bush declares state of emergency 10/23/07 3:57 Julian POLI Granite State old hand at primary politics 10/23/07 4:03 Felde DIS Steven Cuevas live on Arrowhead Fires 10/23/07 6:41 Cuevas Patricia Nazario, Brooke Binkowski, Julie Small, Ruben Grijalva, Rose Davis, An estimated 500,000 people have been evacuated Cliff Pearlberg, Adolfo from their homes and more than 1,000 residencies Guzman Lopez, Joe DIS have been destroyed. 10/23/07 52:30 Cassmassi Steven Cuevas, Molly Hennessy Fiske, Jan Caldwell, Mike Davis, Each time California suffers catastrophic wildfires Stephanie Donovan, Jon DIS officials debate the best prevention strategies. 10/23/07 52:30 Keeley, Matt McClain

Carrie Kahn, Tony Perry, Captain Ian MacDonald, Steven Cuevas, Brooke Binkowski, Scott McCartney, Judy Gish, Eric Boldt, Jonathan Fielding, Inspector Rick Dominguez, Maryanne Larry talks with reporters and experts about the latest Aldrich, Dr. Merritt Schreiber, ENV on the Southern California wildfires. 10/23/07 2 hours Steve Conroy DIS Brooke Binkowski live in Poway on Witch Fire 10/24/07 2:01 Binkowski DIS Steven Cuevas live on Slide Fire 10/24/07 2:13 Watt DIS Steven Cuevas live on Slide Fire 10/24/07 2:36 Cuevas DIS Steven Cuevas live on Slide Fire 10/24/07 2:41 Cuevas

DIS Residents of Julian speak about being evacuated 10/24/07 3:04 Schmitz DIS Julie Small and Patricia Nazario live on wildfires 10/24/07 3:50 Small/Nazario DIS San Bernardino Mountain fires still raging 10/24/07 4:20 Cuevas POLI Advice for Californians from New Hampshire 10/24/07 4:29 Felde

ENV Long Beach announces mandatory water restrictions 10/24/07 4:53 Baer Patt hears from an insurance agency representative and speaks to an expert on building codes about what is being done to prevent such destruction in the Pete DeMarco, Holly DIS future. 10/24/07 19:00 Scroeder Police Chief William Bratton gave a vigorous condemnation of his officers' conduct at a May 1st LAW immigration rally in MacArthur Park. 10/24/07 33:25 Chief William Bratton Tony Perry, Susan Valot, David Paulison, Brooke An estimated 800,000 people have been evacuated, Binkowski, State Sen. more than 1,100 homes lost, and over 420,000 acres Christine Kehoe, Kevin Nida, DIS have burned down. 10/24/07 52:30 Nick Roman Julie Small, Tony Perry, Larry Mantle provides and update on the Southern Adolfo Guzman Lopez, California wildfires with guests including several of our Colonel Dave Baldwin, KPCC reporters stationed throughout Southern Patricia Nazario, Doualy California, Tony Perry, San Diego Bureau Chief for Xaykaothao, Susan Valot, the L.A. Times , California Insurance Commissioner Col. Baldwin, Steve Poizner, Steve Poizner, John Keeley, fire ecologist for the U.S. Tom York, Edward Geological Survey, and Rochelle Jenkins of the Cartagena, Jenny Redmond, California Office of Emergency Services, among John Keeley, Rochelle ENV others. 10/24/07 2 hours Jenkins Evacuees in San Bernardino reflect on stay in Red ENV Cross Shelter 10/25/07 2:46 Xaykaothao DIS Steven Cuevas, Brian Watt live on wildfires 10/25/07 2:58 Cuevas/Watt

DIS Brooke Binkowski live from San Diego on Witch Fire 10/25/07 3:09 Binkowski

DIS Head of FEMA visits So Cal to see wildfires firsthand 10/25/07 3:45 Stoltze The Sex Pistols re-form in LA and Jonesy talks about ARTS it 10/25/07 4:29 Cuevas

Larry Mantle talks with William Lobdell, City Editor of the Orange County Edition of the Los Angeles Times , Orange County Register senior editorial writer and columnist, Steven Greenhut, and OC Weekly senior editorial writer and columnist, Gustavo Arellano, about the latest news events and developments in Orange Steve Greenhut. William MEDI County. 10/25/07 10:00 Lobdell, Gustavo Arellano Patt gets an update on the Lake Arrowhead and San ENV Diego fires. 10/25/07 11:00 Mike Dietrich, Tony Perry The English punk rock band the Sex Pistols is back and playing in their first ever club show in L.A. tonight ENT at the Roxy. 10/25/07 14:25 Tom DeSavia Police in San Bernardino reported shooting and killing Matt Mathes, Brooke LAW one arson suspect. 10/25/07 15:05 Binkowski We talk with the Department of Homeland Security's Michael Chertoff about what kinds of federal SEC resources will be available for California's fire victims. 10/25/07 16:45 Michael Chertoff Slam details the life of sixteen-year-old Sam, who LIT loves art and skateboarding. 10/25/07 23:00 Nick Hornby The richest Americans' share of national income has hit a postwar record and the gap between the rich and Alan Blinder, Arthur C. ECON the poor continues to grow. 10/25/07 24:40 Brooks

Larry talks about the latest on the Southern California wildfires with KPCC reporters Brian Watt and Julie Small, James Shebl of FEMA, L.A. County Supervisor Brian Watt, James Shebl, Zev Yaroslavsky, Mark Ghilarducci of James Lee Witt Zev Yaroslavsky, Mark Associates, a crisis consulting firm, and State Ghilarducci, Todd Spitzer, ENV Assemblyman Todd Spitzer. 10/25/07 50:00 Julie Small David Levy, Patricia Hurley, Why is college tuition rising faster than the rate of Ed. D., Robert Daly, Mike ECON inflation? 10/25/07 1 hour Groener DIS Julie Small live in El Cajon on wildfire deaths 10/26/07 2:15 Binkowski DIS Brooke Binkowski live in San Diego 10/26/07 2:16 Binkowski DIS Official death toll now stands at seven 10/26/07 2:35 Small DIS Brooke Binkowski live in San Diego 10/26/07 2:38 Binkowski

IE Firefighters remember fire crew killed this day in 2006 10/26/07 2:39 Cuevas DIS Visit to one of the state's fire command center 10/26/07 4:06 Small

ECON MacArthur Park gentrification drives out old business 10/26/07 4:52 Nazario Larry talks with FilmWeek and Christian Science Monitor critic, Peter Rainer about the Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) which was held earlier this month (Oct. 14 – 19) in Abu Dhabi, capital ENT of the United Arab Emirates. 10/26/07 10:00 Peter Rainer Larry discusses updates on the Southern California wildfires with KPCC reporter Julie Small, Public Information Officer for the fires in San Bernardino County, Adrienne Freeman, and Public Information Julie Small, Adrienne Officer for the Orange County Fire, Captain Steve Freeman, Captain Steve ENV Miller. 10/26/07 12:00 Miller The 21st AFI FEST will be held in Los Angeles from ENT November 1 through 11th. 10/26/07 12:00 Rose Kuo, Shaz Bennett The Writers Guild of America voted 90% in favor of LAB granting a strike authorization last Friday. 10/26/07 20:00 Alex Ben Block Trash haulers for Waste Management Inc. went on strike last Friday, affecting many Los Angeles area LAB residents and businesses. 10/26/07 20:00 Jay Phillips, Kit Cole A.J. Jacobs chronicles a year in his life on a hunt for ART spirituality, ritual and faith. 10/26/07 18:35 A.J. Jacobs

DIS Julie Small and Nick Roman give updates on wildfires. 10/26/07 33:55 Julie Small, Nick Roman Frank Stoltze makes the decision: with Comedy Congress, we're taking a humorous look back at the week in politics and current events, and a look ahead Alex Reymundo, Ahmed POLI at the absurdities yet to come. 10/26/07 52:30 Ahmed, Maysoon Zayid

Larry and critics Henry Sheehan, of henrysheehan.com, and Andy Klein, of City Beat, discuss the week’s new releases including the feature films Dan in Real Life, Music Within, Slipstream, If I Didn’t Care, Wristcutters: A Love Story, Finishing the Game, Black Irish, 56 Drops of Blood, and the documentaries Jimmy Carter Man From Plains, and ENT Mr. Untouchable. 10/26/07 30:00 Henry Sheehan, Andy Klein Sandra Tsing Loh tries to find a house in her Van Nuys neighborhood for a pair of friends… 10/29/07 2:55 Julian ART LA Phil starting youth orchestras 10/29/07 2:58 Kim EDU San Diego schools reopened yesterday 10/29/07 3:11 Toh California Wildfires, California Initiative; Armenian POLI Genocide 10/29/07 3:24 Shaw What's the proper response for presidential POLI candidates to CA fire disaster? 10/29/07 4:32 Felde What’s the proper response for presidential POLI candidates to CA fire disaster 10/29/07 4:32 Felde OC Hockey fans check out SoCal teams in London 10/29/07 4:50 Valot Tanya Hoover, Ian DIS Updates on the Southern California wildfires. 10/29/07 20:00 McDonald, James Shebyl Iran continues to move forward with its nuclear program, and now Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has announced new sanctions against the FOR country. 10/29/07 40:00 Abbas Milani, Max Boot

Carl CiOrio, John Bowman, Jack Kyser, Siusie DeSanto, Panelists discuss threat of a writers strike which Chris McNellis, Salvatore ART would affect everyone in the moivie and TV industry 10/29/07 52:30 Totino, Mark Pollack This semester Cal State LA opened the Hertzberg- Davis Forensic Science Center: Patt discusses this Elizabeth Devine, Barry and the history of and developments in the field of Fisher, Don Johnson, SCI forensics 10/29/07 52:31 Heather Simpson In his new book The Conscience of a Liberal , New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argues that the current political and economic climate is ripe for radical reform, just as the country was ready for FDR's New Deal agenda during the Great ECON Depression. 10/29/07 30:00 Paul Krugman Larry Mantle talks with neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks about his new book, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and SCI the Brain (Knopf). 10/29/07 30:00 Dr. Oliver Sacks LAW More indictments against big south la gang 10/30/07 3:05 Stoltze Fire information officers compile statistics and DIS updates on fires 10/30/07 4:03 Small Former Dodger has a few last words of wisdom to SPOR share 10/30/07 4:34 Felde Law enforcement officials revealed today that Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona has been indicted on POLI charges of corruption. 10/30/07 20:00 Peggy Lowe

Owner Milt Larsen is selling Hollywood icon the Magic ENT Castle and neighborhing Yamashiro Restaurant 10/30/07 06:38 Milt Larsen Magician and skeptic explains the science behind James "The Amazing" ENT magic and illusion 10/30/07 18:27 Randi, Mac King

Orange County Sheriff charged with felony along with Peggy Lowe, Susan POLI his wife and "longtime misstress" 10/30/07 21:14 Valot,Jean Pasco, Bill Hunt DWP consider lowering pwer rates for Valley Robert Rozanski, Eric ENER residents, where it's hotter 10/30/07 27:25 Gercetti, Richard Close, Former CIA agent Valerie Plame was outed by white house officials in 2003: she tells the story of her rise in the CIA and her betrayal by the people meant to LIT protect her 10/30/07 31:16 Valerie Plame Wilson Jesse Unruh was one of the most powerful and POLI influential politicians of the 20th century. 10/30/07 40:00 Bill Boyarsky Dinesh D'Souza, Michael RELI Is Christianity in danger of becoming obsolete? 10/30/07 30:00 Shermer Larry talks with Thomas Lynch, writer, poet and funeral director, whose family has cared for both the living and the dead in a small Michigan town, for three Thomas Lynch, Karen ART generations. 10/30/07 30:00 O’Connor California's governor visits county officials for updates ENV on fires 10/31/07 2:27 Xaykaothao LABOR Writers strike looms 10/31/07 2:40 Jahad OC Sheriff Mike Carona defends himself against OC corruption allegations 10/31/07 2:48 Valot LABOR Contract expires at midnight 10/31/07 3:40 Julian San Francisco has decided in the words of Gavin Newsom to “cancel Halloween” in the Castro district due to the unruly behavior and violence by those who Jeffrey Prang, Joe LGB attend the event. 10/31/07 10:00 D’Alessandro Another 18 arrests were made in the second wave of a crackdown on the Florencia 13 (F13), a South L.A. gang accused of drug trafficking and shootings of African-Americans in neighborhoods the gang sought Peter Hernandez, Sam RACE to control. 10/31/07 20:00 Quinones Patt talks with Dr. Francine Kaufman about the pitfalls of candy and ideas for helping your kids have a YOUT healthier and happier dose of fun tonight. 10/31/07 05:50 Dr. Francine Kaufman The Supreme Court stayed the execution of Earl Berry, who is on death row for killing a woman 20 POLI years ago. 10/31/07 10:31 Erwin Chemerinsky Will the departure of Kobe and the arrival of Torre inject a little passion into L.A.'s sports scene? SPOR 10/31/07 14:35 Peter Abraham, Bill Dwyre OC Sheriff Mike Carona has announced he will Christine Hanley, Mario remain at his post, despite his indictment on bribery Mainero, Supervisor Chris LAW and corruption charges. 10/31/07 27:24 Norby The Alternative Minimum Tax threatens to ensnare 25 million taxpayers this coming year, the majority of Rep. Charlie Rangel, Rep. those from the middle class, dusting off old tax John Campbell, David ECON reforms is a welcome sign. 10/31/07 46:40 Leonhardt, Pete du Pont

Larry Mantle talks with Trish Ploehn "Plone", Director of the LA County Dept. of Child and Family Services about recent foster care measures that were signed YOUT into law by Gov. Schwarzenegger. 10/31/07 30:00 Trish Ploehn, Karen Bass In the wake of a recently thwarted train bombing, Germany is seeking authority to plant secret “Trojan” viruses into the computers of suspected terrorists, which would provide remote access to all files and a Marc Rotenberg, James SEC record of every keystroke typed. 10/31/07 30:00 Lewis Ira Flatow, host and executive producer of NPR's Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, joins Larry Mantle to talk about what he's learned from his thousands of conversations with the pioneers that have made SCI science possible. 10/31/07 30:00 Ira Flatow After 20 years federal prosecutors drop charges LAW against last two defendants 11/1/07 2:21 C&C

IE Mountain residents get first look at wildfire damage 11/1/07 4:48 Cuevas

Larry Mantle checks in with Los Angeles Times staff writer Richard Verrier (VERR-ee-ay) for an update on contract negotiations between the Hollywood's TV and ENT movie writers and the producers who employ them. 11/1/07 20:00 Richard Verrier, Craig Mazin

Larry Mantle takes listener calls about whether or not Mike Carona should resign his position as Orange County Sheriff due to his recent indictment and LAW yesterday’s surrender to authorities. 11/1/07 20:00

Larry talks about the new film Quantum Hoops that highlights the Caltech basketball team’s final week of the 2006 season as they attempt to win one game in SPOR the midst of their 21-year losing streak. 11/1/07 20:00 Rick Greenwald, Roy Dow OBIT Patt eulogizes the war veteran. 11/1/07 02:04

To Die in Jerusalem portrays the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the experience of these families who RELI each lost daughters to the violence. 11/1/07 13:48 Hilla Medalia

Patt talks to Kenny Mitchell about his organization and Kenny Mitchell, Ricky SGV the struggle to escape the gangster lifestyle 11/1/07 15:59 Pickens A pioneer in the modernist architectural movement, the prolific photographer has worked with greats Oscar Niemayer, Mies Van de Rohe and Frank Lloyd ART Wright. 11/1/07 15:59 Julius Shulman David Brewer is backing away from a plan to put Howard Blume, A.J. Duffy, poorly performing schools into a "transformation Yvonne Chan, Jaime EDU district." 11/1/07 21:18 Regalado

California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is proposing to change that scenario with a possible ballot initiative that would severely increase the Jennifer Kerns, Douglas SAC punishments for driving without insurance. 11/1/07 36:38 Heller, David Snyder Three years after the 2004 presidential election when evangelical Christians looked like they had one of the most powerful and cohesive voting blocs in America, their leadership is split along generational and RELI theological lines. 11/1/07 30:00 David Kirkpatrick

In his new book, MONGRELS, BASTARDS, ORPHANS & VAGABONDS , Gregory Rodriguez provides an in depth account of the long-term cultural and political influences that Mexican Americans will IMM have on the collective character of the United States. 11/1/07 30:00 Gregory Rodriguez SPOR Torre signs contract to manage the Dodgers 11/2/07 2:56 Myrow Permitted graffiti murals white washed, artist suspect ART LA politician ordered it 11/2/07 3:03 Guzman ENT Update on the ongoing writers strike. 11/2/07 20:00 Frank Stoltze The Los Angeles Harbor Commission has approved a phased-in ban of diesel-producing older trucks at the S. David Freeman, Julie ENV Port of Los Angeles. 11/2/07 20:00 Sauls Most of the Southern California wildfires are out or Capt. Fernando Herrera, under control, but the Santa Ana winds are expected Capt. Steve Miller, Joe DIS to return this weekend. 11/2/07 20:00 Cassmassi Hundreds of thousands of people fled the Mexican state of Tabasco, which was hit by severe flooding as a week of heavy rains caused rivers to overflow, DIS submerging at least 70 percent of the region. 11/2/07 05:09 Sam Enriquez Daylight savings time wrapped later this year in an Jim Owen, Martin Moore- ENER effort to reduce electricity consumption. 11/2/07 10:53 Ede The redesign is partly due to today's riders being much larger than the designers ever imagined- occasionally causing the boats to bottom out, causing ENT no small traffic jam. 11/2/07 13:49 Al Lutz, Kenneth Stanton Patt talks with experts on this latest development in the subprime debacle that has rocked the mortgage and housing industries. ECON 11/2/07 16:50 Amir Efrati, Thomas Davidoff Patt Morrison speaks with a health inspector and a member of the restaurant industry to learn what it Peter Kashishian, Andrew HEAL takes to earn the A. 11/2/07 21:51 Casana TV journalism is no exception-the explosion of news sources and the evolution of the internet are slowly but surely eating into the once reliable TV news MEDI audience. 11/2/07 36:28 Robert Long

This documentary, Darfur Now, is a call to action for Ted Braun, Adam Sterling, ART people to end the crisis in Darfur. 11/2/07 30:00 Rabbi Gary Greenebaum

Larry and critics Jean Oppenheimer, of Village Voice Media, Claudia Puig, of USAToday, and Charles Solomon, animation critic, historian, and author for amazon.com, discuss many of the week’s new releases including the feature films American Gangster, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Bee Movie, and Martian Child, and the documentaries, Jean Oppenheimer, Claudia ENT Darfur Now and Primo Levy’s Journey. 11/2/07 30:00 Puig, Charles Solomon

John sits in on a masters class in conducting, which was led Jorma Panula of the Sibelius Youth Orchestra. Panula is Esa-Pekka Salonen's mentor. Youth 11/3/07 3:43 John Rabe Kevin Roderick starts a new Off-Ramp series that takes listeners to historical spots in the San Fernando Hist Valley. The first stop? Encino. 11/3/07 3:51 Kevin Roderick John talks to KPCC's News Editor Nick Roman about Sports the newest Dodger, Joe Torre. 11/3/07 4:01 Nick Roman Hidden away in a basement office at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall is a piano that inspires young musicians: the actor Edward G. Robinson's Steinway. Open up the piano and you'll see signatures of some of music's greats like Serge Prokofieff and Rosemary Art Clooney. 11/3/07 4:15 Garry Gray

There's a uniform for powerful women on TV: well-cut dark suits with designer labels. But there is one notable exception: LAPD Deputy Chief Brenda Lee Johnson on TNT's The Closer. KPCC's Kitty Felde takes us inside Brenda's closet. Ent 11/3/07 4:15 Kitty Felde Natividad Cano, better known as Nati, closed his restaurant La Fonda on Wilshire Boulevard last weekend. They'd been at the same location for nearly four decades. KPCC's Patricia Nazario caught their Ent final moment 11/3/07 4:19 Patricia Nazario As the Clippers' start their NBA season, we meet Ralph Lawler, the broadcast voice of the team for 29 seasons. Sports 11/3/07 4:21 Ralph Lawler/Rabe The New Yorker's Alex Ross talks about his new book, The Rest is Noise, in which classical music revolutionary and So. Cal Dude Arnold Schoenberg is featured. Lit 11/3/07 5:06 Alex Ross

To kick-off the International Youth Orchestra Festival, the LA Phil unveiled an ambitious plan to start youth orchestras in several low-income neighborhoods in Youth LA County. Queena Kim reports. 11/3/07 7:47 John Rabe LABOR Writers strike begins 11/5/07 2:08 Watt SCI LA Philharmonic has new conductor 11/5/07 3:01 Loh POLI Lonely black republican looks for company 11/5/07 3:22 Stoltze SPOR Torre arrives in LA 11/5/07 3:37 Stoltze Bill would overhaul farm programs; Boxer touts greenhouse gas bill; Waxman and White House POL square off 11/5/07 3:46 Julian

A very small percentage of Americans have heard of Alaska’s Attu (AA-too) Island. Fewer still know that on HIST June 7, 1942 the island was invaded by Japan. 11/5/07 20:00 Tom Putnam, Bill Jones

Torre attempts to bring the winning ways he established in the Bronx to the notoriously laid-back (re: apathetic) confines of Chavez Ravine, where the SPOR Dodgers haven't won a playoff series in 19 years. 11/5/07 11:34 Frank Stoltze As negotiations continue, TV personalities like Jay Leno have come out to show support and Jon Stewart of The Daily Show says he will even pay his writers ENT out-of-pocket the first two weeks. 11/5/07 14:14 James Ray, Brian Watt

Auslander seeks to open a dialogue about the damage religious fundamentalism can cause and to explain to his son why he is not passing on the Biblical LIT horror stories fed to him as a child. 11/5/07 16:33 Shalom Auslander According to a new AP-Ipsos poll, 67% of respondents support giving birth control to students, but those polled also expressed various misgivings that divide them along generational, income and racial Michael Gross, Susan HEAL lines. 11/5/07 26:42 Wood, Valerie Huber

Patt talks with econ experts on what all the glum news will mean long term for California and the nation. Eric Dash, Chris Thornberg, ECON 11/5/07 35:57 James Mehring, HD Palmer The Looming Tower , Lawrence Wright’s gripping narrative spanning five decades, explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of Al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on LIT the World Trade Center. 11/5/07 40:00 Lawrence Wright Writers and producers gathered for negotiations Sunday, at the request of a federal mediator, in a final Brian Watt, Marc Lacter, ENT attempt to settle their differences. 11/5/07 30:00 Jack Amiel The Pakistani government reports that than 1,800 people have been taken into custody over the past two days, although opposition officials claim the actual Laura King, Philip J. (P.J.) FOR figure is twice that high. 11/5/07 30:00 Crowley, Don Belt SACTO Democrats unveil a new healthcare reform plan 11/6/07 2:10 Small Democratic lawmakers are laying down a plan that they hope will find middle ground with Gov. Schwarzenegger's intentions to make health care SAC mandatory for all Californians. 11/6/07 05:12 Julie Small Producers say writers will lose more money in a one- week strike than they could ever hope to gain from a ENT wage increase. 11/6/07 06:20 Brian Watt

The worst flooding in that country's history slammed DIS the state of Tabasco, leaving thousands stranded. 11/6/07 08:10 Franc Contreras OC Sheriff Michael S. Carona declared he will go on a 60-day leave of absence beginning Friday in order to fight the federal corruption charges brought against OC him and his wife. 11/6/07 14:21 Susan Valot, Bill Hunt Labor supporters and growers are questioning the validity of the report, as both groups have petitioned ECON for a change in US immigration policy. 11/6/07 18:27 Phil Martin, Jack King

If USA Track & Field, the national governing body for running, has its way runners will no longer be able to use music as a motivating tool as they are banning the use of headphones and portable audio players like Jill Geer, David Willey, Dean SPOR iPods at its official races. 11/6/07 19:01 Karnazes

In The Second Civil War , Brownstein analysis the demographic, electoral, and institutional forces that have changed our political landscape. LIT 11/6/07 33:29 Ron Brownstein In an effort to balance California's budget, Governor Schwarzenegger proposed a 10% budget cut Evan Halper, H.D. Palmer, POLI Monday. 11/6/07 30:00 Fabian Nunez Governor Schwarzenegger is expected to sue the Environmental Protection Agency this week in order to allow California to regulate tailpipe emissions from David D. Doniger, Kenneth ENV passenger vehicles sold here. 11/6/07 30:00 Green, Mary Nichols A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday shows that Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani continue to be the leading candidates of their POLI respective parties. 11/6/07 30:00 Chris Lehane, Dan Schnur California is home to a vast array of residential LIT architecture. 11/6/07 30:00 Diane Keaton, D.J. Waldie OC Supervisors vote down measure to get sheriff out OC of office 11/7/07 2:55 Valot New theory as to why disease develops - exposure to HEAL pesticides 11/7/07 3:44 Sun Orange County Museum of Art's curator Elizabeth Armstrong says that 1950s California cool is reaching into the 21st Century. Elizabeth Armstrong/John 11/7/07 3:49 Rabe Incoming conductor for the LA philharmonic finishes ART first series of con 11/7/07 4:35 Guzman Patt and her guests discuss this unfortunate side FOR effect of the war. 11/7/07 06:54 Michael Kocher Patt gets the political low-down from political junkie Ken Rudin. POLI 11/7/07 10:32 Ken Rudin Patt and her guests discuss this unfortunate side FOR effect of the war. 11/7/07 18:38 Paul Rosenzweig Is there relief in sight, or will high oil prices slowly cripple the international economy? ECON 11/7/07 23:19 Philip Verleger, Tom Wallin

Tina Susman was held captive for 20 days while reporting in Mogadishu, Somalia, and she talks with FOR Patt about experiences throughout her career. 11/7/07 45:36 Tina Susman

City Councilman and former police chief Bernard Parks has introduced a symbolic resolution calling on RACE Los Angeles residents to stop using the "N" word. 11/7/07 30:00 Earl Ofari Hutchinson In a recent column LA Times Staff Writer, Leslie Brenner, laments over the poor service of many high- ART end Los Angeles restaurants. 11/7/07 30:00 Leslie Brenner SPOR There’s no instant replay in baseball! 11/7/07 30:00 Mike DiGiavanna

The new book, I Live for This! takes a look at the life Bill Plaschke, Tommy SPOR of legendary baseball manager Tommy Lasorda. 11/7/07 30:00 Lasorda

ENV California is suing EPA over "greenhouse gasses" 11/8/07 2:04 Small

OC Bodyboarders take advantage of big waves in the OC 11/8/07 2:21 Valot Orange County starts to see transit-oriented PC development 11/8/07 4:23 Valot

As the writers’ strike enters its fourth day, we’re likely LAB to see TV reruns much sooner than initially expected. 11/8/07 20:00 John Horn, Marti Noxon Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said today that business growth will slow noticeably in coming Felix Salmon, Chris ECON months. 11/8/07 20:00 Thornberg

Larry Mantle talks with William Lobdell, City Editor of the Orange County Edition of the Los Angeles Times , Orange County Register senior editorial writer and columnist, Steven Greenhut, and OC Weekly senior editorial writer about the latest news events and Steve Greenhut, William SAC developments in Orange County. 11/8/07 20:00 Lobdell, Scott Moxley

In his new book Independents Day , Lou Dobbs examines the public policy choices that have, in his opinion, eroded individual liberties, disenfranchised the middle class, reduced worker rights and pay, and led our nation into social and political division at home LIT and around the world. 11/8/07 20:00 Lou Dobbs

Tesco, the world’s third largest retailer, opened six Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets in the Southland Phil Lempert, David ECON in cities including West Covina and Arcadia. 11/8/07 08:25 Livingston The five states that scheduled early primaries are POLI being punished by the Republican Party. 11/8/07 08:29 Ron Nehring President General Pervez Musharraf yielded to pressure to hold elections, although he’s proposing to hold them in mid-February, a month later than FOR planned. 11/8/07 14:00 Habid Ullah Khan Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has sued the federal government in an effort to force a decision on whether or not the state can regulate greenhouse gas SAC emission standards from automobiles. 11/8/07 18:28 Jerry Brown, Jennifer Wood

Pressure from pricey oil and news that a Chinese official has called for his country to shift more of its foreign-exchange reserves out of the greenback has Beth Ann Bovino, Jane ECON pushed the US dollar to new lows. 11/8/07 20:02 D’Arista In his book, A Life Decoded (Viking), Venter talks about this major scientific achievement and his life in SCI science. 11/8/07 35:34 J. Craig Venter

In 1974, award-winning journalist and author Thomas DeFrank, then a young correspondent for Newsweek , was interviewing Vice President Gerald R. Ford when Ford blurted out something astonishingly indiscreet related to the White House but immediately told the reporter he could not leave the room until he promised LIT not to publish it. 11/8/07 40:00 Thomas DeFrank POLI Anti-war group banned from parade 11/9/07 2:34 Nazario Californians helping one million displaced people in DIS Mexico 11/9/07 2:41 Schmitz Residents of transit-oriented development say it OC fosters community 11/9/07 4:44 Valot On Thursday, the Los Angeles Zoo opened its Campo Gorilla Reserve, a brand new habitat which introduces Western lowland gorillas back into the zoo after a 4 ½- DIV year absence. 11/9/07 20:00 John Lewis Patt talks with Mayor Villaraigosa about his concerns L.A. Mayor Antonio over the strike action and gets an update from Villaraigosa, Brooke ENT reporters covering the story. 11/9/07 16:20 Binkowski, Carl DiOrio

LAPD Deputy Chief Michael The anti-terrorism bureau of the Los Angeles Police P. Downing, Salam Al- Department is planning an extensive program to map Maryati, Ramona Ripston, LAW Muslim enclaves throughout the city. 11/9/07 31:00 Joe Domanick This Filthy World is a filmed version of Waters’ one- man monologue in which he relays his thoughts on everything from his childhood and artistic censorship, to why he prefers the Wicked Witch of the West over ENT Dorothy. 11/9/07 31:30 John Waters Fight back the urge to scream in frustration or bury your head in shame as Hillary Clinton can’t make up her mind about playing the gender card or Dennis Michael Marino, Andy POLI Kucinich talks about his UFO sighting. 11/9/07 36:05 Kindler Anti-war vets have been banned from marching in the POLI 11th Veterans Day Parade in Long Beach. 11/9/07 40:00 Pat Alviso, Robert Shannon

ART Eric Lax has been talking with Woody Allen for years. 11/9/07 30:00 Eric Lax

Larry and critics Peter Rainer, of the Christian Science Monitor , and Henry Sheehan, of henrysheehan.com, discuss many of the week’s new releases including the feature films Fred Claus, Lions for Lambs, No Country for Old Men, Choking Man, Strange Culture, and the documentaries Steal a Peter Rainer, Henry ENT Pencil for Me, and War/Dance. 11/9/07 30:00 Sheehan The birth of the cool is all about the flowering of modernism that happened in Southern California fifty years ago. The cool modern houses and art and attitudes. But commentator Dale Hoppert asks what happened?

Ent 11/10/07 2:44 Dale Hoppert

Author Donnell Alexander admits the question might be offensive. But you know what he's talking about - you see it in music and fashion. Alexander says it's what keeps blacks in the American cultural mix. 11/10/07 3:07 Donnell Alexander

Part of the "Hard Edge" school of painters, Benjamin is finally getting his due in the pantheon of Modern Art. "Hard edge" sounds harsher than it is. It just means there's a clean line between the different colored shapes on his canvases. Art 11/10/07 3:44 Karl Benjamin/ Rabe In the gallery featuring "Hard Edge" painters, you can also see the works of Helen Lundeberg and Lorser Feitelson. Their paintings are right next to each other, which is fitting because they were married. Queena Kim brings us this report. Art 11/10/07 3:54 Queena Kim

For a California Endowment exhibit, John visits Gin Herb, Chinatown's oldest traditional pharmacy. Curators Sabrina Motley and 11/10/07 5:43 Sojin Kim/Rabe Photographer William Claxton took many of the century's most memorable jazz photos. He shot Sonny Rollins, Jack Sheldon and the icon of California cool Chet Baker. Art 11/10/07 5:47 William Claxton/Rabe ART Sandra Tsing Loh watches The Simon Bolivar 11/11/07 2:52 C&C OBIT Designer of AK-47 dies 11/12/07 4:20 Roman POLI New way of choosing GOP delegates in CA 11/12/07 4:20 Felde A Vietnam veteran struggling with PTSD helps other IE vets 11/12/07 4:42 Cuevas

Larry Mantle talks with Jazz bassist Nedra Wheeler and Yvette Devereaux, professional conductor, violinist, composer, arranger and music educator Nedra Wheeler, Yvette ART about their upcoming “Clazzical Notes” performance. 11/12/07 10:00 Devereaux It’s a major point of contention with civil rights and prisoner advocates: penalties for using crack cocaine, favored by minority drug users, are much stiffer than those for powder cocaine, which is more popular with LAW whites. 11/12/07 20:00 Julie Stewart

Larry talks with NPR’s StoryCorps project founder Dave Isay about the project and how it began with the Dave Isay, George LIT idea that “everyone has an important story to tell.” 11/12/07 20:00 Caywood, Connie Alvarez Delbert Mann, who directed Paddy Chayefsky's classic teleplays "Marty" and "The Bachelor Party" and then transformed them into big-screen triumphs, OBIT has died. 11/12/07 03:56 Leonard Maltin The team spent close to two years working on their bioengineering research on breast cancer, which was described by a competition judge as "publishable, Shelina Kurwa, Sarah SCI graduate level work." 11/12/07 06:51 Waliany Teams of DWP employees will travel L.A. educating ENV people about water conservation 11/12/07 08:25 Lance Brown

Criticism of the delayed response to the oil spill is growing, and today a criminal investigation has been Debra Hersman, Linda ENV opened against the ship's crew and its owners. 11/12/07 20:32 Sheehan, Amy Standen Elliott joins guest host Oscar Garza to talk about his career in comedy and his latest work. LIT 11/12/07 21:10 Chris Elliott Larry Mantle talks with esteemed journalist Tom Brokaw about his new book that provides a first hand perspective of a tumultuous time in our country’s MEDI history, the 1960s. 11/12/07 40:00 Tom Brokaw Patt and her guests will discuss the law's successes and the unintended consequences of its Diana Nyad, Sue Enquist, implementation. Eric Pearson, Peter Vidmar, SPOR 11/12/07 52:29 Anita Ortega

The Pakistani Government says it will not permit opposition leader Benazir Bhutto (BEN'-uh-zeer BOO'- toh) to hold a protest procession across the country Gretchen Peters, POLI because it violates a ban on political rallies. 11/12/07 30:00 Ambassador Akbar Ahmed State Superintendent convenes summit to close EDU achievement gap 11/13/07 2:32 Guzman IE Riverside council race still undecided 11/13/07 2:45 Cuevas Spanish language DJ climbs to number two spot with ENT make-believe persona 11/13/07 4:55 Guzman Former California Congressman Augustus Hawkins POLI has died. 11/13/07 10:00 Yvonne Burke, Merv Dymally

The Achievement Summit will examine reasons for and solutions to the continuing disparity between Adolfo Guzman Lopez, EDU white and Latino and African-American students. 11/13/07 07:46 Howard Blume FCC hoping to help newspaper industry by dismantling ban on allowing one corporation to own a newspaper, radio station and television station all at MEDI once 11/13/07 10:23 Corey Boles It's being called the worst oil spill in the San Francisco Bret Burkhart, Lt. Andrew ENV Bay in some 20 years. 11/13/07 14:00 Munoz

Peterson Automotive Museum paying tribut to the Ry Cooder, Denise ART souped-up vehicles bron from Los Angeles culture 11/13/07 17:11 Sandoval

numbers say the surge is working, other sources say MIL this is the deadliest year yet for U.S. troops 11/13/07 23:48 Fred Kagan, GI Wilson

Elizabeth Hill, Evan Halper, CA Gov asks state agencies to cut spending by 10% Senator Denise Sucheny, ECON in face of looming recession 11/13/07 24:56 Chris Thornberg L.A. Times photojournalist follows the subject he ART made iconic, through his struggle with PTSD 11/13/07 28:42 Luis Sinco Examining how, why and should Californians continue Mike Davis, Richard ENV to build in fire-prone areas. 11/13/07 36:18 Lambros Update with LAUSD superintendent as the district ask employees to give back excess money and tries to divide off the district's lowest-achieving schools for EDU special attention 11/13/07 41:34 David L. Brewer III

Larry is joined by KPCC Program Director, Craig Curtis, and Morning Edition host, Steve Julian, for a discussion on whether we should refer to Southern TRAN California’s freeways by name or by number. 11/13/07 30:00 Steve Julian, Craig Curtis A recent study at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience revealed that so-called “swing voters” have conflicting emotions about the 2008 presidential candidates, regardless of which candidate they claim POLI to support. 11/13/07 30:00 Marco Iacoboni In his new book, ABRAHAM’S CHILDREN: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People , Jon Entine delves into the controversial world of genetics and race, exploring what it means to be “genetically RACE Jewish.” 11/13/07 30:00 Jon Entine Newest staff writer for "The Office" also worked for LABOR Countrywide 11/14/07 2:24 Watt EDU Poetry at this weeks educational summit 11/14/07 3:17 Small

Research shows that though large percentages of all children fall short of state education standards, the EDU academic achievement gap is wider for some groups. 11/14/07 5:00 Jack O’Connell

Larry Mantle talks with jazz guitarist, band leader and ukulele player, Bill Tapia (“tuh-PEE-uh”) about his 100th birthday celebration and show this weekend at the Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro, and about ART his long and distinguished music career. 11/14/07 5:00 Bill Tapia Blacks in America continue to have problems rising up Paul Taylor, Joe Hicks, Blair RACE the economic ladder. 11/14/07 50:00 Taylor When Americans first saw the disturbing images of torture at Abu Ghraib, the Bush Administration said it was as an isolated incident. However, in their new book, Administration of Torture, ACLU litigators Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh make the case that beatings, burnings, dog attacks, and other forms of inhumane treatment are commonplace in American detention centers in Iraq, Afghanistan and POLI Guantanamo Bay. 11/14/07 30:00 Jameel Jaffer A new survey by the Zogby/Lear Center reveals striking differences between the entertainment preferences of liberals, conservatives, and ENT moderates. 11/14/07 30:00 Johanna Blakley American scientists cloned embryos from a 9-year-old male monkey and were able to extract stem cells from SCI them. 11/15/07 10:00 Shoukhrat Mitalipov California's deficit has grown dramatically since the ECON housing market began to slow last Summer. 11/15/07 13:00 Elizabeth Hill, H.D. Palmer In Europe and on the East Coast, Muslim enclaves were targeted by terrorist groups as a place to recruit Bill Bratton, Salam S. Al- SEC members. 11/15/07 19:00 Maryati

Larry Mantle talks with Steven Cuevas, KPCC’s Inland Empire Reporter, and Cassie MacDuff, columnist with The Press Enterprise, about the latest Steven Cuevas, Cassie IE news, events, and developments in the Inland Empire. 11/15/07 20:00 MacDuff Unclean water is the biggest public health crisis in the world and the second biggest killer of children under FOR five. 11/15/07 20:00 Gil Garcetti A report released Wednesday says government investigators have exposed a dangerous hole in the h Henry Waxman, Michael SEC nation's airport security. 11/15/07 30:00 Boyd Herb Alpert makes big donation to UCLA for music ART school 11/16/07 2:33 C&C Silverlake café serves world's t expensive coffee for ENT free 11/16/07 3:50 Kim DIS Burn victims have a long difficult recovery 11/16/07 4:01 Goldberg San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds is back in LAW the hot seat. 11/16/07 13:00 Bill Shaikin, Elliott Almond

Disney’s latest film, Enchanted, gives a new meaning to “cross-cultural” when characters from the animated ENT fairy tale world arrive in present day New York City. 11/16/07 20:00 Kevin Lima One thousand of the latest model cars, trucks, and SUVs will be on display at this year’s Los Angeles Auto Show, including forty World and North American Ron Cogan, Chuck Pelly, TRAN debuts. 11/16/07 40:00 Charlie Vogelheim

Larry and critics Jean Oppenheimer, of Village Voice Media, Andy Klein of CityBeat , and Charles Solomon, of amazon.com, discuss many of the week’s new releases including the feature films Beowulf, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, Redacted, and Love in the Time of Cholera, and the documentaries How Jean Oppenheimer, Andy ENT to Cook Your Life and Salvador Allende. 11/16/07 40:00 Klein, Charles Solomon John remembers Norman Mailer, who died last Saturday at the age of 84. 11/17/07 2:31 Rabe Kevin Roderick continues his tour of the San Fernando Valley with a story about the Basque shepherds who settled around Encino. 11/17/07 3:12 Kevin Roderick John, Queena and KPCC GM Mark Crowley see if this stuff will cure their colds.

John Rabe, Queena Kim and Health 11/17/07 3:20 Mark Crowley

Hank Rosenfeld remembers Thomas Dawes, founder of the band "The Cyrkle" and commercial jingle writer. 11/17/07 3:38 Hank Rosenfeld The LA Times' Ralph Vartabedian clears up the rules about crosswalks, pedestrians, and cars. 11/17/07 4:09 Ralph Vartabedian/Rabe Former KPCC reporter Rachael Myrow visits the LA Times test kitchen to discover the best way to cook a turkey.

11/17/07 4:27 Rachael Myrow

Jim Hawthorne was ubiquitous in LA broadcasting but he made TV pioneer Kovacs look conservative. 11/17/07 4:59 Kovans/Hawthorne Like Latinos and Blacks, Asian-Americans are under- and misrepresented in Hollywood. KPCC's Doualy Xaykaothao went the opening of a new documentary called Hollywood Chinese. 11/17/07 5:47 Doualy Xaykaothao Retro-historian Charles Phoenix lays out a holiday spread with a Tiki twist. 11/17/07 6:28 Charles Phoenix/Rabe

Lawmakers question existing national standards for ENV preventing and responding to oil spills 11/19/07 2:04 Small LAW Effort to recall Long Beach judge fails 11/19/07 3:07 Baer LAW Effort to recall Long Beach judge fails 11/19/07 3:08 Baer POLI Study looks at ways to inc voter participation 11/19/07 4:34 Stoltze

Larry Mantle discusses the lawsuit being brought by the California Attorney General’s office and the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office against the Toy LAW Companies as a result of lead tainted toys. 11/19/07 9:00 Rocky Delgadillo

Port of Los Angeles Commission President, S. David Freeman, joins Larry Mantle to talk about his new ENER book Winning Our Energy Independence. 11/19/07 45:00 S. David Freeman Larry and his guests discuss the defeat of the Iraq funding bill and what the decrease in violence points POLI to. 11/19/07 30:00 Marina Ottoway, Fred Kagan Larry Mantle talks with Judith Freeman, author of the book The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved (Pantheon) about Raymond Chandler and his life with his mysterious, much older LIT wife Cissy Pascal. 11/19/07 30:00 Judith Freeman LAW Cal Judge wants to amend state's constitution 11/20/07 3:57 Julian ENV Can LA live up to its green ambitions? 11/20/07 4:48 Setziol Thanksgiving retail sales; Writers Guild not ready to ECON fold; too many lawyers in California 11/20/07 5:06 Lacter Judge Arthur Alarcon, Justice Roger Boren, Gerald LAW State officials trying to ease long waits on Death Row 11/20/07 18:42 Uelman Scientists from two labs, one in Kyoto and one in Wisconsin, have succeeded in turning human skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells without using or destroying human embryos and thus avoiding the ethical pitfalls inherent in stem cell research that results in the destruction of human Dr. Bruce Conklin, Tadeusz SCI embryos. 11/20/07 24:00 Pacholczyk Al Lundeen, Roger Salazar, Tribal casinos generate millions for California, but a Jeffrey Cummins, Tony ECON new initiative is reconsidering their future 11/20/07 24:15 Quinn Paul Over 6,000 veteran suicides reported in 2005 and the Rieckhoff,Congressman Bob highest rate is among 20-24 yr.-olds. And examination Filner, Mark Kaplan, Jerry MIL of what is being done to address this. 11/20/07 33:48 Reed Last week many of LA’s 18 elected officials received a POLI pay raise; their fourth since 2005. 11/20/07 30:00 Kerry Cavanaugh

Global health officials says there are 6 million fewer Dr. Kevin De Cock, Dr. FOR AIDS cases reported this year, compared to last year. 11/20/07 30:00 Roger Detels Larry Mantle talks with Taylor Clark, the author of the LIT new book Starbucked . 11/20/07 30:00 Taylor Clark New battle begins over consensus on eminent HOME domain 11/21/07 2:30 Myers LA Unified begins human relation program at campus EDU rocked by brawls 11/21/07 2:39 Guzman ECON South Bay caterer/take-out outfit smokes turkey 11/21/07 2:48 Valot ECON Bumper crop of acorns in Contra Costa 11/21/07 4:15 Keith

YOUT Examining naming trends 11/21/07 08:16 Alleen Nielson, Don Nielson Astronomer Geoff Marcy has discovered more planets than anyone else and says we're three years away SCI from finding one that can support life 11/21/07 15:13 Geoffrey Marcy Review of The Concise Guide to Sounding Smart at Chris Woolsey, David LIT Parties 11/21/07 17:26 Matalan Projections for the first Mideast peace talk of the Bush Tom Casey, Ghaith Al- FOR administration 11/21/07 29:00 Omari, Jacob Dayan The day after Thanksgiving helps retailers predict sales for the rest of the holiday season. Experts share Ellen Davis, Burt Flickinger ECON predictions for this year 11/21/07 35:04 III, Paul Cooper Larry talks with retired four Star Army General, and former Presidential candidate, Wesley Clark, about the current situation in Iraq as well as his new LIT autobiography, A Time to Lead. 11/21/07 30:00 Wesley Clark Larry Mantle talks with neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks about his new book, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and ART the Brain (Knopf). 11/21/07 30:00 Dr. Oliver Sacks The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will decide whether the District of Columbia can ban handguns, a case that could produce the most in-depth Eugene Volokh, Erwin examination of the Second Amendment in nearly 70 Chemerinsky, Denis POLI years. 11/21/07 1 hour Henigan Chefs experiment with combinations of food and the Chef Matthew Zboray, Lynne ENT chemical reactins that occur when cooking 11/22/07 19:50 Rossetto Kaspar Larry Sabato talks about his new book proposing an LIT update to the Constitution 11/22/07 32:40 Larry Sabato

In his new book, Boone: A Biography , Robert Morgan offers a new perspective of a man who has been an LIT American icon for more than two hundred years. 11/22/07 30:00 Robert Morgan Marco Polo was the most celebrated European to explore Asia and the earliest bridge between East and LIT West. 11/22/07 30:00 Laurence Bergreen Lynne Rosetto Kaspar of The Splendid Table hosts ART this annual Thanksgiving special. 11/22/07 1 hour Lynne Rosetto Kaspar TRANS Westside wants mass trans 11/23/07 2:23 Felde Cal finance department begins sprint to balance ECON budget 11/23/07 3:06 Small Author had unprecidented access to the Clintons and the White House and discusses their marriage and LIT sustaining love of politics 11/23/07 13:00 Sally Bedell Smith Film historian Jeanine Basinger analyzes the machinery and the formula that went into establishing LIT a face on the silver screen. 11/23/07 13:00 Jeanine Basinger

The son of the original author discusses last book in LIT the most famous science-fiction series in history 11/23/07 17:30 Brian Herbert Biographer Ed Sikov focuses on her tumultuous personal life and her career on the set and behind the LIT scenes. 11/23/07 17:30 Ed Sikov

last quarter of the eighteenth century remains the LIT most politically creative era in American history. 11/23/07 30:00 Joseph Ellis

his new book, God And Gold, Walter Russell Mead delves into the global political and economic systems LIT of Britain and America that created the modern world. 11/23/07 30:00 Walter Russell Mead

Larry Mantle and critics Charles Solomon of amazon.com, Henry Sheehan of henrysheehan.com, and Wade Major of boxoffice.com and CityBeat join Larry to discuss this week’s new releases including Enchanted, August Rush, I’m Not There, Margot At The Wedding, The Mist, Starting Out In The Evening, Holly, What Would Jesus Buy?, Everything’s Cool: A Toxic Comedy About Global Warming , and the re- release of two short films, The Red Balloon and Charles Solomon, Henry ART White Mane . 11/23/07 1 hour Sheehan, Wade Major Dodgers and Red Sox will play one game in the LA SPORT Coliseum 11/26/07 2:03 Watt Supreme Court rules victims family to seek restitution LAW from convicted diller 11/26/07 2:30 Jahad SCI Being thankful for a digital camera 11/26/07 2:53 Loh

TRANS LA Mayor V proposes moving cross-town traffic faster 11/26/07 3:04 Roman Foreign students have opinions about American POLIO elections 11/26/07 4:14 Felde

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Beverly Hills Mayor Jimmy Delshad unveil the "Olympic-West Pico-East” Bill Rosendahl, Antonio TRAN initiative at news conference this morning (MON). 11/26/07 10:00 Villaraigosa

Inspector Frank Garrido, Zev DIS Update on the current Malibu fire. 11/26/07 13:00 Yaroslavsky, Susan Abrams

Lewis Chappelear will be named California Teacher of the Year this evening for developing an engineering EDU program at LAUSD's James Monroe High School. 11/26/07 05:00 Lewis Chappelear

A program with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation allows inmates to work Frank Garrido, Terry ENV as firefighters after fulfilling strict qualifications. 11/26/07 13:00 Thornton

Sites like BarbieGirls.com, Nicktropolis, and WebKinz are allowing young web-surfers to create their own virtual worlds online and connect with other Anastasia Goodstein, Terry YOUT adolescents who share their interests. 11/26/07 13:00 Dry Patt meets the theater's artistic director and one of its frequent performers. ENT 11/26/07 16:30 Amit Itelman, Craig Anton

James W. Loewen joins Patt Morrison to dispel popular myths and misconceptions about our past, and to reveal the genuine facts, including why Native Americans have nothing to do with Thanksgiving. LIT 11/26/07 17:30 James Loewen Patt talks with politicians and planners about the traffic jam that is the Westside and what, if anything, Jack Weiss, Brian Taylor, TRAN can be done about it. 11/26/07 18:00 David Meiger Larry Mantle discusses this week’s Mideast Peace FOR Conference hosted by the White House. 11/26/07 30:00 Paul Richter, Steven Cook Larry Mantle talks with former NRA insider Richard Feldman, author of Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist (Wiley), about the inner-workings of the NRA LIT and its rise to feared political entity. 11/26/07 30:00 Richard Feldman

According to a 2007 Vault survey, nearly half of all LIT workers report having dated a coworker at least once. 11/26/07 30:00 Helaine Olen

Verizon will become the first phone company to allow TECH subscribers to use any cell phone they please. 11/27/07 10:00 Kent German

This year's round of bonuses for investment bankers and traders are not only unusually large, but also especially controversial in light of what was a dismal year for the securities industry after the collapse of the Christine Harper, Marek ECON subprime mortgage market. 11/27/07 12:00 Fuchs, Nell Minow With the Iowa Caucuses on January 3rd and the New Hampshire primary on January 8th, the seemingly endless presidential campaign finally gets down to POLI business with a little voting action. 11/27/07 12:00 Chris Cillizza, Roger Simon A new study from UCLA's School of Public Health indicates that the undocumented are actually 50 percent less likely to use an emergency room than a Alexander Ortega, Steven IMM legal immigrant. 11/27/07 13:00 Camorota Patt talks with the twins about their separation at birth and the issues of nature verses nurture. Paula Bernstein and Elyse LIT 11/27/07 13:00 Schein, Nancy Segal Proposition 83, also known as Jessica's Law, would place global tracking devices on sex-offenders even Michael Rothfeld, Sharon POLI after they finished parole. 11/27/07 30:00 Runner, Bill Sessa Trent Lott announced yesterday (MON) that he will retire from the U.S. Senate, just over year after he POLI was re-elected to his fourth term. 11/27/07 30:00 Sherry Bebitch Jeffe Larry talks with Matthew Holt, of The Health Care Blog, and E. Richard Brown, of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, about the republican presidential candidates' various health care plans and how these proposals differ from those of the Matthew Holt, E. Richard POLI democratic candidates. 11/27/07 30:00 Brown

The six term Democratic congressman from Ohio, known for his opposition to the war in Iraq, is making POLI his second bid at a Presidential nomination. 11/27/07 30:00 Dennis Kucinich SACTO Water worries in So cal as cutbacks loom close 11/28/07 3:33 Small If all goes according to plan, Qantas will begin service TRAN on the behemoth out of LAX next fall. 11/28/07 06:00 Brian Watt

Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton joins Patt to answer these questions, discuss his thoughts on crime fighting proposals from presidential candidates LAPD Police Chief William LAW and more and take listener calls. 11/28/07 13:00 Bratton Two film scholars join Patt to discuss the impact that war and movies have on each other. Leonard Maltin, Frank ENT 11/28/07 14:30 McAdams

Judith Thurman's most memorable ruminations on topics ranging from human vanity, femininity, fashion and literature are featured in the new compilation, LIT Cleopatra's Nose (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). 11/28/07 17:30 Judith Thurman Patt brings LAUSD officials in for some in-studio Howard Blume, Tamar EDU detention. 11/28/07 18:00 Galatzan, A.J. Duffy Larry discusses the issue of USC Football possibly moving their home games to the Rose Bowl due to stalled lease negotiations with the Coliseum SPOR Commission. 11/28/07 30:00 Todd Dickey, Bill Thompson

Following yesterday's (TUES) Mideast summit in Annapolis, President Bush will meet with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders today to ceremonially inaugurate their agreement on the first, formal direct Howard LaFranchi, Michael FOR peace negotiations in seven years. 11/28/07 30:00 O’Hanlon

In her new book, Day of Empire , author Amy Chua takes a look at the so-called “hyperpowers” of history, defined as the few empires which have achieved LIT technological, military and economic dominance. 11/28/07 30:00 Amy Chua Larry talks with Harvard University Memorial Church’s Peter Gomes about his new book, The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What’s So Good About the Good LIT News? 11/28/07 30:00 Peter J. Gomes LAW 9th Circuit to get new chief judge 11/29/07 2:22 C&C HEAL Open enrollment time for Medicare recipients 11/29/07 4:17 Sun ART Nancy Regan cleans out her closet 11/29/07 4:33 Felde

Larry Mantle talks with Mike Wehner, of the Orange County Water District about Friday’s official launch of ENV their Groundwater Replenishment System. 11/29/07 10:00 Mike Wehner

Impotence covers two and a half millennium of male sexual failure in the Western world, including the social stigma, the Freudian analysts, feminism, and the magic blue pill, Viagra. LIT 11/29/07 18:30 Angus McLaren

After President Bush's veto of the Democratic S-CHIP expansion bill, Congressional negotiations on a scaled back children's insurance program have gone Lesley Cummings, Dennis HEAL nowhere and states are quickly running out of money. 11/29/07 21:30 Smith, Kristen Golden Testa Alfred Balitzer, Kevin Patt talks about ballot initiatives and the money trails Spillane, Kathay Feng, Jon POLI the fund them. 11/29/07 27:00 Coupal Patt talks to political analysts and officials about Dan Weintraub, David private capital and its roll in government projects. Crane, Pedro Nava, Bruce POLI 11/29/07 30:00 Blanning

Larry Mantle talks with William Lobdell, City Editor of the Orange County Edition of the Los Angeles Times , Orange County Register senior editorial writer and columnist, Steven Greenhut, and Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly staff writer about the latest news events Steve Greenhut, William POLI and developments in Orange County. 11/29/07 30:00 Lobdell, Gustavo Arellano Republican Presidential candidates gathered in St. Petersburg, Florida last night (WED) for their 8th major confrontation of the campaign. This debate was POLI sponsored by CNN and YouTube. 11/29/07 30:00 Ken Rudin, Dan Schnur

For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy LIT weight is eating less and exercising more. 11/29/07 30:00 Gary Taubes LA kicks off campaign to test 1 million Angelinos for HEAL HIV 11/30/07 2:12 Watt OC Canyons evacuated because of flooding, DIS mudslide concerns 11/30/07 2:31 Valot State says not enough money to conduct DNA tests Greg Matheson, Steve LAW that could solve sexual assault cases 11/30/07 13:00 Cooley Strange things are happening at SymbioticA, which describes itself as an "Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratory" that allows biologists to do art, ART and artists to do biology. 11/30/07 13:30 Ionat Zurr After an extensive process of filtering, chemical treatment, and ultraviolet light exposure, the purified sewer water will be pumped into the ground, replenishing aquifers and forming a barrier against Mike Marcus, Jeff HEAL seawater intrusion. 11/30/07 22:00 Kightlinger, Robert Glennon Patt Morrison makes the decision: with Comedy Congress, we're taking a humorous look back at the week in politics and current events, and a look ahead Michael Loftus, Morgan POLI at the absurdities yet to come. 11/30/07 48:30 Murphy, Ben Gleib Chris Thornberg, Peter The mortgage meltdown is affecting the broader Ogilvie, Ted Lieu, Sabrina ECON economy, both locally and nationally. 11/30/07 30:00 Lockhart Larry Mantle talks with AIDS experts about how local public and private AIDS agencies are responding to the changing nature of the epidemic on the day before Craig Thompson, Jane HEAL World AIDS Day. 11/30/07 30:00 Rohde

From 1934 to 1954 a former journalist and public relations agent ran the Hollywood office that censored LIT the films shown in movie theatres across America. 11/30/07 30:00 Thomas Doherty Larry and critics Lael Loewenstein, of Variety, and Claudia Puig, of USAToday , discuss many of the week’s new releases including the feature films The Savages, Sex and Breakfast, Badland, He Was a Quiet Man, The Sasquatch Gang, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and the documentary Yiddish Lael Loewenstein, Claudia ART Theater: A Love Story. 11/30/07 30:00 Puig

The Play's The Thing airs The Life of Galileo this weekend. It looks at the astronomer's clash with the Catholic Church. John Rabe met with Stacy Keach, to Art talk about one of science's most famous mavericks. 12/1/07 2:24 John Rabe

Kentucky Fried Chicken, sushi, tomatoes with cute button eyes... These are just a few of the stuffed toys Art on exhibit at Munkey King in Hollywood. 12/1/07 2:39 Christina Huh LA Magazine's J.R. Moehringer tells John about USC's head-coach Pete Carroll's unannounced visits Sports into the bad parts of LA. 12/1/07 4:03 J. R. Moehringer The Downtown Women's Center was founded in 1978 by a woman who realized that there was no shelter Housing spaces for women. 12/1/2007 4:28 John Rabe The Skirball Cultural Center is presenting "Of all the People in the World." The show, put on by the British theater company Stan's Cafe, uses rice to bring Art statistics to life. 12/1/07 4:43 Queena Kim Intelligentsia Coffee Shop in Silverlake recently served up the world's most expensive coffee, known as "the Geisha" for free. It sold at auction for $130 a Enter. pound. 12/1/07 5:24 Queena Kim

HEAL Board member volunteered for decades at hospital 12/3/07 2:04 Felde SPOR Late Dodger owner inducted into Hall of Fame 12/3/07 2:18 Felde Housing crisis: limiting greenhouse POLI emissions;ideoligically based violence 12/3/07 2:46 Julian LAW Union Rescue Mission robbed and burned 12/3/07 2:46 Rabe EDU Sandra Tsing Loh on magnet schools 12/3/07 2:46 Loh

POLI Newt says presidential politics don't produce change 12/3/07 3:13 Stoltze Romney will speak on Thursday at the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library, addressing his faith and how it would inform his tenure in the highest office in RELI the land. 12/3/07 06:00 Ken Rudin In "Of All the People in All the World," members of the British theater company Stan's Cafe weigh and pile the grains in order to make concrete visuals out of ENT abstract ideas. 12/3/07 11:30 James Yarker Patt talks with experts about American intelligence SEC and the Iranian bomb. 12/3/07 19:00 Jim Walsh, Ray Takeyh This week a major deal will be announced between the Treasury Department and the nation's leading mortgage companies that would temporarily freeze interest rates on certain troubled subprime home Roy Bernardi, Fred L. Smith, POLI loans. 12/3/07 29:30 Jr., Thomas Davidoff Jessop provides a first-person account of life in one of the most secretive religious groups and of her LIT extraordinary journey to freedom. 12/3/07 31:00 Carolyn Jessop Larry talks with H. David Nahai on his first day as General Manager of the Los Angeles Department of ENER Water and Power. 12/3/07 30:00 H. David Nahai

Larry Mantle talks with L.A. Times staff writer, Chris Kraul and Jennifer McCoy, Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University and Director of the Americas Program at the Carter Center about the vote in Venezuela over the weekend that defeated a package of constitutional reforms that would have given President Hugo Chavez new and Peter Hakim, Jennifer FOR unprecedented powers in office. 12/3/07 30:00 McCoy

A poll that came out in September from the Pew Research Center found that 45 percent of respondents said they would be less likely to vote for RELI a candidate for any office who is a Muslim. 12/3/07 30:00 Greg Smith

Larry Mantle talks with Wired Magazine products editor Mark MacClusky who reviews the latest, cutting- TECH edge gadgets available this holiday season. 12/3/07 30:00 Mark MacClusky YOUT Foster kid learns joy of volunteering 12/4/07 2:03 Felde Downtown Women's Center serves growing number HOME of women on Skid Row 12/4/07 2:12 Rabe LAW Wave of Copper wiring thefts from streetlights 12/4/07 2:14 Watt Assemblyman Lloyd Levine re-launches a bill to HEAL require pet owners to spay/newter pets 12/4/07 2:34 Xaykaothao Immigrants suing gov over backlog of citizenship IMM applications 12/4/07 3:32 Schmitz HEAL Health Inspections of restaurants successful 12/4/07 3:59 Pickman

The Fair Political Practices Commission proposed new rules Monday to require politicians to provide POLI greater detail on how they spend campaign funds. 12/4/07 10:00 Bob Stern

Patients suffering from Body Dysmorphic Disorder Dr. Jamie Feusner, Aron SCI (BDD) perceive themselves as ugly and deformed. 12/4/07 20:00 Cowen A storm brewing 700 miles northwest of California has generated celebration among surfers and terror ENV among coastal residents. 12/4/07 04:30 Chad Nelson Cardinal Roger Mahoney recently revealed that he was attacked in July by a man who was enraged because of the sexual-abuse scandal facing the Rick Coca, Commander RELI Church. 12/4/07 08:00 Andy Smith

In The Dead Travel Fast , Nuzum details his travels to Transylvania, drinking his own blood, watching every vampire movie made, and even attending a topless vampire review in Las Vegas, all in the name of LIT investigative pop culture research. 12/4/07 13:30 Eric Nuzum Patt talks to some leading surfboard makers about Rusty Preisendorfer, Gary ECON Blank Monday's unexpected fallout. 12/4/07 17:00 Linden

Democratic hopefuls faced off this morning in a POLI debate co-produced by NPR and Iowa Public Radio. 12/4/07 27:00 Ron Elving With so little rainfall, water demands rising, environmental damage caused by San Joaquin water pumps, and concerns that an earthquake could destroy existing levees and create a Katrina-style Mike Taugher, Phil Isenberg, cataclysm in the delta, interest is resurfacing in the Jim Metropulos, Jeff ENV project. 12/4/07 27:00 Kightlinger Andrew J. Grotto, Bruce FOR The future of nuclear weapons in Iran. 12/4/07 30:00 Riedel The Democratic presidential candidates discuss the POLI issues. 12/4/07 1 hour The latest LA Times/Bloomberg Poll of Republican- leaning voters shows that Gov. Mike Huckabee has pulled into second place, close behind former NY POLI Mayor, Rudy Giuliani. 12/5/07 20:00 Susan Pinkus Hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have satisfied the requirements to become U.S. citizens are left in limbo for months or years due to the slow Ranjana Natarajan, Abbas IMM processing of FBI name checks. 12/5/07 20:00 Amirichimeh Larry talks with author Paula Kamen about her new book, Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of An Extraordinary Mind that discusses the events that lead to the suicide of journalist and author, LIT Iris Chang. 12/5/07 20:00 Paula Kamen The court's resolution isn't expected until spring and could determine the fate of more than 300 captives LAW detained on the island prison. 12/5/07 13:00 David Savage In an agreement that is set to be publically announced by the Bush Administration on Thursday, a five-year freeze will be put on interest rates for certain HOUS subprime mortgages. 12/5/07 13:00 Ellen Seidman Sand and Sorrow explores the history behind the genocide in Darfur, the plight of the millions of displaced, and the inaction of the international LIT community. 12/5/07 13:30 Paul Freedman Patt Morrison hears from the department's chief POLI deputy about the overtime dilemma. 12/5/07 14:00 Dean Logan

Genentech has taken steps to curb the availability of the cheaper drug, upsetting many ophthalmologists and their patients who fear that they can't pay for Hal Barron, Dr. Charles HEAL treatment with its replacement. 12/5/07 21:30 Wilkinson, Dr. Leon Bynoe A number of health advocacy groups are lobbying the FDA to change its official classification of salt as a generally recognized as safe food to a regulated food Richard Bonnette, Dr. HEAL additive. 12/5/07 22:00 Stephen Havas The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday on whether the more than 300 foreigners detained at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba can go to U.S. courts to challenge their John Eastman, Jonathan SEC confinement. 12/5/07 30:00 Hafetz A delegation of teachers and UTLA union officers have drafted a reform plan that would give instructors more latitude to formulate curricula and also calls for EDU local control over schools. 12/5/07 30:00 A. J. Duffy, William Ouchi 12/6/07 2:05 Nazario ENV Global Warming Solutions Act 12/6/07 2:18 Keith Rose Bowl Operating Company meets on possible SPOR USC lease 12/6/07 2:29 Watt Patt talks to KPCC Senior News Editor Nick Roman about the latest football news. SPOR 12/6/07 08:00 Nick Roman

Academy Award-nominated costume designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis explores one hundred years of Hollywood's most unforgettable costumes and the characters they helped bring to life. LIT 12/6/07 13:30 Deborah Nadoolman Landis We explore the singular and visceral relationship between humans and dogs, the first species that Patricia McConnell, Norine SCI humans ever domesticated. 12/6/07 17:30 Dresser When you buy toys for your kids, do you consider ECON where they're made? 12/6/07 21:00 Rick Locker, David Lazrus The film has raised questions about the role of God and religion in children's literature and the author Phillip Pullman's own views on theology. ENT 12/6/07 27:00 Donna Freitas, Adam Holz The Bush administration has developed a plan to freeze interest rates for five years for thousands of Paul Leonard, Brad ECON strapped 12/6/07 30:00 Sherman Larry talks with local library assistant Don Borchert, about his new book, Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library that chronicles his day-to-day experiences working in the public library LIT system. 12/6/07 30:00 Don Borchert Larry talks with two distinguished doctors in the field of infertility about the recent rise in the number of Ingrid Rodi, Richard J. HEAL women giving birth over the age of 40. 12/6/07 30:00 Paulson

TerraChoice, an environmental marketing firm, tested over 1,000 products that made environmental claims, ENV ranging from toothpaste to office paper. 12/6/07 30:00 Scot Case Volunteers put on dinner for homeless with donated HOME goods 12/7/07 2:04 C&C The Southern California Ass. of Governments ECON releases it's report card on the region 12/7/07 2:07 Xaykaothao Officials broke ground on a new Armed Forces MIL Reserve Center in Bell 12/7/07 2:20 Xaykaothao

In a much anticipated speech on Thursday, White House hopeful, Mitt Romney outlined his position on the role of religion in America, but avoided revealing RELI details about his personal faith. 12/7/07 10:00 Craig Detweiler SCI 12/7/07 14:00 Karen Kaplan Connecticut’s senior United States Senator Chris Dodd joins Larry Mantle to talk about his campaign to win Democratic nomination for the 2008 presidential POLI election. 12/7/07 20:00 Chris Dodd This new documentary tells the little-known story of how hundreds of thousands of Estonians sang forbidden patriotic songs in public to rally for ART independence. 12/7/07 20:00 Jim Tusty, Mart Laar

Patt talks with travel experts about the advent of this Charles Ogilvie, Jennifer TECH new perk--or pain--of airplane travel. 12/7/07 21:30 Urbaniak, Henry Harteveld Can the Inland Empire sustain its growth, sort out its traffic woes and become a viable urban alternative to Juliann Allison, Rick Bishop, TRAV L.A. and Orange Counties? 12/7/07 27:00 Anne Mayer Larry and critics Jean Oppenheimer, of Village Voice Media, Peter Rainer, of the Christian Science Monitor, and Charles Solomon, animation critic, historian, and author for amazon.com, discuss many of the week’s new releases including the feature films Atonement, Juno, The Walker, The Amateurs, Grace is Gone, and The Golden Compass and the documentaries, Jean Oppenheimer, Peter ART The Singing Revolution, and Oswald’s Ghost. 12/7/07 40:00 Rainer, Charles Solomon Patt moderates a discussion among U.C. Riverside Susan Allen Ortega, Ana students and faculty members about student life in the Ruhl, Caitlin Smith, Sal DIV 21st Century. 12/7/07 48:30 Becerra, Mandy Banet Los Angeles City Hall made a place for a special menorah this week in celebration of Hanukkah. The Pol menorah survived the Holocaust in Poland. 12/8/07 2:15 John Rabe KPCC's Brian Watt reports that thieves are stealing the copper wiring in the street lights, walking away Crime with tens-of-thousands of dollars. 12/8/07 2:29 Brian Watt

KPCC's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez talks about his trip to Hist Mexico City. 12/8/07 2:56 Adolfo Guzman-Lopez John talks to sometime Messiah singer Jean Art Severson. 12/8/07 3:28 John Rabe, Jean Severson John talks to surfer Billy O'Connor, who rode the large waves at Sunset Beach in Pacific Palisades on Health Wednesday. 12/8/07 3:31 John Rabe, Billy O'Connor LA Times writer Betty Hallock says a few cocktail bars are trying to impose order on chaos by enforcing a few rules... Like no cell phones, no shouting, and no Food big parties. 12/8/07 3:32 John Rabe

The small Baltic country of Estonia has a long history of subjugation and song. John talks to James and Maureen Castle Tusty, who produced a new John Rabe, James and Ent documentary called The Singing Revolution. 12/8/07 3:36 Maureen Castle Tusty John visits the site of the Duke's home in the valley Movie with Kevin Roderick. 12/8/07 3:41 Kevin Roderick/Rabe Music director Grant Gershon tells John Rabe about the LA Master Chorale's annual Messiah Sing-a-Long. It's just like the Sound of Music sing-along, only not as Art campy. 12/8/07 3:59 John Rabe

The Union Rescue Mission on LA's Skid Row was hit this week by robbery and arson. The thief stole tens of Housing thousands of dollars from homeless men. 12/8/07 5:20 John Rabe

The Hotel Cecil was once the temporary home of Jack Unterweger, who murdered prostitutes in Los Angeles and Austria in the early 1990s. Queena Kim talks to author John Leake, who wrote Entering Hades: The Lit Double Life of a Serial Killer. 12/8/07 5:42 Queena Kim State lawmakers may have found a way to help ECON homeowners 12/10/07 2:06 Small

HIST Volunteers gather oral history of Nixon administration 12/10/07 2:21 Felde Messiah Sing-A-Long at Disney Hall with LA Master ART Chorale 12/10/07 3:29 Rabe POLI Many Cal voters move to absentee 12/10/07 3:50 Felde

Michael Krasny, the host of KQED’s Forum, one of public radio's most popular and intellectually compelling programs, joins Larry Mantle to talk about how his strong desire to become a novelist was eclipsed by his talent as a communicator and his deft LIT ability to draw others out as an interlocutor. 12/10/07 20:00 Michael Krasny In its fifth week, the Writers Guild of America strike is taking a toll on everyone involved including the negotiators, as rancor between the sides continues to Jim Kennedy, Alex Ben ENT grow. 12/10/07 19:00 Block

Boeings novel outsourcing idea has come back to bite it: language problems, cultural differences and assembly difficulties have delayed the 787 by at least six months and cost Boeing millions of dollars. Is Mark Blondin, Claude TRAV outsourcing still a manufacturer's panacea? 12/10/07 21:30 Barfield The Nuclear Jihadist details the life of the man who played a key role in Pakistan's successful quest for a nuclear weapon and who is considered a hero in that Douglas Frantz and LIT nation. 12/10/07 27:00 Catherine Collins Busy Americans are famed for their ability to multi- task. But research shows that the constant barrage is Russell Poldrack, Jason HEAL taking a toll on productivity and health. 12/10/07 28:30 Hoffman In his new book The Merchant of Death , co-author and journalist Douglas Farah tells the incredible story of Viktor Bout, the Russian weapons supplier whose global network has changed the way modern warfare LIT is fought. 12/10/07 40:00 Douglas Farah

POLI 12/10/07 30:00 Mary Price, Robert Pugsley The CIA says it destroyed videotapes in 2005 of Loch "Lock" Johnson, John POLI interrogations of terrorism suspects. 12/10/07 30:00 Eastman

HEAL Board members volunteered for decades at hospital 12/11/07 2:04 Felde

EDU UCLA a class analyses rise of anti-immigrant humor 12/11/07 4:28 Guzman

A new state audit shows that over the last decade California's State Compensation Insurance Fund wasted millions of dollars on marketing companies POLI that apparently provided "minimal services." 12/11/07 10:00 Marc Lifsher A majority of California’s hospitals are at high risk of HEAL collapsing during a major earthquake. 12/11/07 20:00 Jim Lott, Chuck Idelson

Is a celebrity endorsement is just a headline grabber, ENT or can it change the course of world events. 12/11/07 06:30 Ken Rudin, Ann Lewis Many involved are skeptical but some are so fed up with the current system — that they're willing to give it Adolfo Guzman Lopez, EDU a try. 12/11/07 09:00 Ramon Cortines Wall Street plunged some 300 points today after the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by a mere 0.25 percent. A disappointed Wall Street was hoping ECON for a larger cut. 12/11/07 12:00 Chris Farrell

Patt talks with John Hawks, an anthropologist and SCI lead author of the study, about human evolution. 12/11/07 15:00 John Hawks Patt talks with experts about the controversial sex- offenders list. Diane Webb, Susan Brown LAW 12/11/07 15:00 McBride Patt talks with David Weisman of the Dax Foundation, the Oscar's current owners, about the failure of the Sotheby's auction to unload Orson Welles's little gold- ENT plated guy. 12/11/07 17:30 David Weisman Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani set to meet voters in Santa Monica and attend a fundraiser POLI in San Juan Capistrano. 12/11/07 22:00 Carla Marinucci

Addressing complaints from Los Angeles residents who fear that the spread of large, boxy houses across the city is spoiling the architectural flavor of small single-family neighborhoods, L.A. officials are discussing an “anti-mansionization” measure that would drastically limit the square-footage of new or HOUS remodeled homes. 12/11/07 24:00 Jane Usher

Despite recent speculation that the writers and studios were on the verge of reaching an agreement, it now Richard Verrier, Jim ENT appears as if the writers strike will extend indefinitely. 12/11/07 30:00 Kennedy, Craig Mazin Did you know that the Romans scraped their skin to HEAL clean it? 12/11/07 30:00 Katherine Ashenburg ECON Antique dealer volunteers to run thrift store sales 12/12/07 2:05 Felde Hinkley tries to rebound after the Brockovich case as ENV a new threat looms 12/12/07 4:05 Cuevas The Los Angeles City Council sent the Department of Water and Power's proposed rate increases back to the utility, giving newly installed General Manager David Nahai 60 days to address a number of ENER concerns. 12/12/07 10:00 Eric Garcetti, David Nahai

Handing a major defeat to the auto industry, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that California can regulate ENV greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles. 12/12/07 10:00 Fran Pavley That name is just on the tip of my tongue…how many SCI times have we heard or said that? 12/12/07 20:00 Deborah Burke

The Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary are less than a month away and most of the major Republican Presidential candidates are going head to Arnold Steinberg, Dan POLI head in today’s debate in Johnston, Iowa. 12/12/07 20:00 Schnur Guest-host Jon Beaupre asks: now that the judge has thrown out the suit, what's the next move for LAW automakers? 12/12/07 13:00 Kenneth Green, Sean Hecht Major League Baseball's own internal investigation into widespread steroid use is sure to be a bombshell, but will it actually change the steroid culture among SPOR major league players? 12/12/07 17:30 Ron Rappaport

Teachers and parents at seven low-performing LAUSD middle and high schools cast ballots Tuesday, Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, voting whether to join Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s Marshall Tuck, Marlene EDU plan to reshape instruction in their schools. 12/12/07 24:00 Canter Boudreaux joins guest-host Jon Beaupre to talk about FOR life reporting from a holy city and beyond. 12/12/07 31:00 Richard Boudreaux

More than 10 years ago, the chemical chromium 6 was discovered in the water in Hinkley. A decade later PG&E is still struggling to clean up the contamination, Steven Cuevas, Norman HEAL and Hinkley is struggling to bounce back. 12/12/07 35:30 Diaz, Jeff Meberg

Anita de Frantz, one of three American members of the International Olympic Committee is one of the SPOR most prominent women sports leaders in the U.S. 12/12/07 30:00 Anita de Frantz Hinkley tries to rebound after the Brockovich case as ENV a new threat looms 12/13/07 4:33 Cuevas

He's currently acting as Celebrity Ambassador for Star Trek The Tour, which promises to be the largest Star Trek exhibit ever, and he has a new book out, Star ENT Trek: The Academy — Collision Course. 12/13/07 23:30 William Shatner

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa claimed victory yesterday as election results confirmed that teachers and parents at three high schools and four middle schools Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, Bill POLI voted to join the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools. 12/13/07 24:00 Ring, Jose Lara Patt discusses the film and the aftermath of its production. LIT 12/13/07 25:00 Khalid Abdalla, Ali Jaafar Peter Abraham, JC Even if the Mitchell Report is a tell-all bombshell, will Bradbury, William Carroll, SPOR the fans care? 12/13/07 48:30 Nick Roman

Larry Mantle talks with William Lobdell, City Editor of the Orange County Edition of the Los Angeles Times , Orange County Register senior editorial writer and columnist, Steven Greenhut, and Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly staff writer about the latest news events Steve Greenhut, William POLI and developments in Orange County. 12/13/07 30:00 Lobdell, Gustavo Arellano The long awaited report on drug use in MLB is being Elliott Almond, David Carter, SPOR released today (THURS). 12/13/07 1 hour Jason Sosa Hinkley tries to rebound after the Brockovich case as ENV a new threat looms 12/14/07 4:28 Cuevas

OC OC to open largest water treatment plant of its kind 12/14/07 4:32 Valot

Members of the California state legislature expressed concern over filling the state’s projected $14-billion budget gap next year, stating that it may be necessary ECON to raise a number of taxes. 12/14/07 10:00 John Myers The Senate passed a trimmed-back energy bill Thursday that may bring higher-gas mileage cars and SUVs into showrooms in the coming decade and fill John Campbell, Daniel POLI their tanks with ethanol. 12/14/07 20:00 Lashof On a trip to France this year, he bought over five thousand dollars worth of wine and recently sold over three thousand dollars of that wine to the state's POLI Democratic Party. 12/14/07 09:30 Dennis Overstreet Patt talks with a sports doc about the danger of HEAL steroids. 12/14/07 13:00 Dr. Donald Catlin Patt discusses the options for alleviating the state's POLI money woes. 12/14/07 15:00 H.D. Palmer, Dan Walters

Researchers are trying to find a haven for Spirit as it approaches its third Martian winter with more dust on SCI its solar panels than in previous years. 12/14/07 15:30 Steven Squyres

Long Beach, meanwhile, is having more success with mandatory restrictions. Patt talks with Long Beach ENV Mayor Bob Foster about how that's working. 12/14/07 18:00 Bob Foster In an effort to ease traffic congestion, the MTA have proposed a new plan to convert the carpool lanes on POLI three L.A. County freeways into toll roads. 12/14/07 24:00 open phones

As the Writer's Guild strike drags on and production slows, are unemployed writers, grips and other crew ECON members finding opportunities in porn? 12/14/07 26:00 Mark Kernes, Steve Hirsch Five time Academy Award winner, Francis Ford ART Coppola joins Larry to talk about his career. 12/14/07 30:00 Francis Ford Coppola

Larry and critics Claudia Puig, of USAToday, Wade Major, of boxoffice.com and L.A. CityBeat , and Charles Solomon, animation critic, historian, and author for amazon.com, discuss many of the week’s new releases including the feature films The Kite Runner, I Am Legend, Youth Without Youth, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Look and the documentaries Claudia Puig, Wade Major, ART Protagonist, and Lagerfeld Confidential. 12/14/07 30:00 Charles Solomon The tree lighting in Atwater Village has become one of the largest neighborhood celebrations in Los Angeles. Relig. Queena Kim reports. 12/15/07 2:10 Queena Kim John goes to one of the Southland's most charming seasonal rituals: the 53rd annual Christmas Tree Youth Lane Parade in Long Beach. 12/15/07 2:22 John Rabe New Yorker's Hugh Eakin on Marion True, former Getty curator accused of trafficking in looted ART antiquities 12/15/07 2:44 Rabe The Craft and Folk Art Museum is showing the works of Eva Zeisel, a mother of modern design. Off-Ramp correspondent Julian Bermudez says don't forget to check-out the museum's gift shop, which is selling Art rare items by Zeisel. 12/15/07 2:45 Julian Bermudez

Stanley talks about the historic Led Zeppelin concert, Mus which he missed. 12/15/07 3:28 John Rabe, Paul Stanley LA DWP plans to drain the Silverlake reservoir of all ENV its water 12/15/07 3:35 Jahad This month, KPCC has been highlighting places that need volunteers. Queena Kim visits My Friend's Place, the only full-time resource center for homeless Housing youth in Los Angeles. 12/15/07 3:59 Queena Kim Father Greg Boyle runs Homeboy Industries. Off- Ramp producer Queena Kim asked him to tell a Father Greg Boyle, Queena Housing parable for the holidays. 12/15/07 4:27 Kim

We talk with The New Yorker contributor Hugh Eakin, the only reporter to interview Marion True, the former Crime Getty curator caught in the antiquities looting scandal. 12/15/07 4:50 John Rabe, Hugh Eakin Five years ago, KPCC's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez marked punk's first quarter century by interviewing some of the key players. Here's an updated version of Mus that story. 12/15/07 4:59 Adolpho Guzman- Lopez KISS front man Paul Stanley talks to John at his Beverly Hills home about his latest passion: painting. Stanley says painting is better than music for working Mus out emotions. 12/15/07 5:39 John Rabe, Paul Stanley ENV Volunteers tend gardens in Rolling Hills 12/17/07 2:00 Felde SCIE Sandra's daughters are addicted to stories 12/17/07 2:44 Loh Watts high school students have opinions about POLI Presieential campaign 12/17/07 3:59 Felde ART Getty Center celebrates 10 year anniversary 12/17/07 4:53 Guzman City officials announced on Friday that an unexpected chemical reaction in the Silver Lake and Elysian reservoirs will necessitate dumping 600 million gallons of water from the two reservoirs that supply a HEAL large part of the city. 12/17/07 10:00 David Nahai Striking film and television writers are in negotiations with venture capitalists to establish businesses that would bypass the Hollywood studio system and reach ENT audiences via the Web. 12/17/07 20:00 Larry talks with Tony Award-winning Broadway Producer and author of How Does the Show Go On?: An Introduction to the Theater (Disney Editions), Thomas Schumacher about the inner-workings of Broadway, and about current issues facing the ART musical industry. 12/17/07 20:00 Thomas Schumacher A new bill aims aims to lower costs to all users by making everyone pay, though opponents of the bill say the plan will only make matters worse by placing an even greater financial burden on those already HEAL unable to afford California's cost of living. 12/17/07 07:00 Dan Weintraub As other charitable organizations around the world consider their fundraising efforts this time of year, Patt Morrison asks what it takes for donors to start writing checks. FOR 12/17/07 07:00 Kevin Moran The new year may bring an end to late night reruns as talk show heavyweights Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien have announced that their programs will return to television on January 2, even if writers remain on MEDI strike. 12/17/07 08:00 Alex Ben Block This year's word is W00t (rhymes with hoot), an LIT expression of glee used by online gamers. 12/17/07 08:30 Geoffrey Nunberg A new dictionary offers more than 60,000 entries from beats, hipsters, Teddy Boys, mods and rockers, surfers, Valley Girls, dudes, pill-popping truck drivers, LIT hackers, rappers and more. 12/17/07 13:00 Tom Dalzell Assuming there are no injunctions issued by the courts, on January 1st Arizona will enact the nation's Judith Gans, Glen Hamer, IMM toughest law against illegal immigrants. 12/17/07 26:30 Rep. Dana Rohrabacher A new poll from the San Francisco-based New America Media shows an undercurrent of racial tension and bigotry remains among blacks, Hispanics RACE and Asians. 12/17/07 27:00 Sandip Roy Delegates from 190 countries met at the U.N. climate conference in Bali last week, with the goal of negotiating how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions ENV over time. 12/17/07 40:00 C. Boyden Gray

After almost a year of negotiations, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez have agreed upon an ambitious health care plan that would extend health insurance to the HEAL estimated 3.6 million Californians who do not have it. 12/17/07 30:00 Daniel Zingale, Andy Stern State assembly approves first phase of medical HEAL insurance for Cal 12/18/07 2:36 Myers Officials worry about residents not following OC evacuation orders 12/18/07 3:06 Valot New exhibit at Pitzer College showcases artist's IE photos from Antartica 12/18/07 4:31 Cuevas The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles provide POLI imported goods to the entire nation. 12/18/07 9:00 Mario Cordero Late yesterday the state Assembly approved the first part of a $14.4 billion plan to extend medical insurance to most residents, marking the first real victory in the Governor's campaign to overhaul the HEAL state healthcare system. 12/18/07 13:00 John Myers

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom wants to do something about it by taxing the big-box retailers and HEAL chain drugstores for sales of high-fructose soft drinks. 12/18/07 06:30 Gavin Newsom Commissioners voted to impose a limit that would prevent the nation's largest cable company, Comcast, from controlling more than 30% of the national cable MEDI market. 12/18/07 09:00 Corey Boles Maguire has put in a bid for the company, discussing possible financial collaboration with investors from the Persian Gulf and one of the largest investment firms ECON in Los Angeles. 12/18/07 09:00 Mark Lacter As more homes come onto the market because of defaults in subprime mortgages, could there be an increasing glut of unsold homes, further depressing the average home price? Or have we finally hit the Andrew LePage, Leslie HOUS real estate rock bottom? 12/18/07 13:00 Appleton-Young

One sentence from the document, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" has divided legal scholars over an Adam Freedman, Nelson LIT individual's right to carry a gun. 12/18/07 15:00 Lund

How are the Feds fudging the books, and with a weak dollar, a troubled economy and astronomical oil POLI prices, how has the deficit managed to decrease? 12/18/07 17:30 Allan Sloan According to a new survey by Prince and Associates, a wealth-research firm, currently men and women ask for an average of $1.5 million when marrying for LIT money. 12/18/07 27:00 Robert Frank In 1975, the Federal Communications Commission approved a ban on media "cross-ownership," when one outlet owns the newspapers and broadcasting MEDI stations in a city. 12/18/07 30:00 Josh Silver, Steven Titch

Despite the early success of toppling the Taliban in 2001, insurgent attacks are up to their highest levels Carlotta Gall, Lisa Curtis, Dr. FOR since the beginning of the US involvement. 12/18/07 30:00 Larry Goodson Award winning author and scholar Shelby Steele examines the complex racial issues surrounding Barack Obama in his quest to become President of RACE the United States. 12/18/07 30:00 Shelby Steele EDU Your local school always needs colunteers 12/19/07 2:01 Felde State agencies try to dig up the "underground ECON economy" 12/19/07 3:05 Small POLI Justice Thomas speaks at Regan Library 12/19/07 3:27 Felde Southern California home sales in November fell by 43% from the year before, while median prices fell 10%, according to a DataQuick Information Systems’ ECON survey released yesterday. 12/19/07 9:00 John Karevoll

Responding to the sub-prime lending debacle, the Federal Reserve on Tuesday proposed new lending ECON rules to protect borrowers from fraud and deception. 12/19/07 15:00 Kurt Eggert The California primaries are only seven weeks away and Senator Clinton's lead has shrunk in half since POLI October. 12/19/07 09:00 Shery Bebitch-Jeffe The Los Angeles Police Commission will vote Thursday on whether or not LAPD officers who handle drugs and cash should disclose detailed information LAW about their personal finances. 12/19/07 13:00 "Patrick", Celeste Fremon

The new film, There Will Be Blood , loosely based on the Upton Sinclair novel, Oil, explores California's ENT petroleum boom at the turn of the last century. 12/19/07 17:30 Kenneth Turan, Kevin Starr Patt talks with Lindsey about LAX, the neighboring communities, runway reconstruction, and a number of other complex issues facing Los Angeles World Airports. TRAV 12/19/07 22:00 Gina Marie Lindsey KPCC looks at the underground economy in southern California, we ask listeners to call in and fess up about their cash-only contractor or off-the-books ECON nanny. 12/19/07 35:30 Nick Roman, Dan Flaming As part of KPCC’s two days of special coverage on Southern California’s informal economy, Larry Mantle and guests examine the economic pros and cons of the region’s underground economy and analyzes to impact of the informal economy on the Southland’s ECON formal economy. 12/19/07 30:00 Dan Flaming, Ruth Milkman

From the city that gave us the Twinkie defense comes the sugar tax--San Francisco's mayor announced his city will start taxing sodas which have high-fructose corn syrup, the ubiquitous sweetener that's linked to HEAL America's obesity problem. 12/19/07 30:00 John Diaz

In 2007, the FDA approved a record number of Bob Temple, Joe Graedon, HEAL generic drug products. 12/19/07 30:00 Gordon Johnson

Have you ever met a person who left you wondering, LIT "How could someone be so twisted? So evil?" 12/19/07 30:00 Barbara Oakley

Larry Mantle talks with David Livingstone Smith, author of The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War (St. Martin’s Press), about his new book that delves into the evolutionary, anthropological and psychological reasons why war LIT has continued to exist as a human compulsion. 12/19/07 30:00 David Livingstone Smith ECON Underground economy series 12/20/07 2:22 Nazario Gov Schwarzenegger praises thecompromise health POLI care reform plan 12/20/07 3:23 Myers Underground drug economy in the billions in Los ECON Angeles 12/20/07 4:42 Stoltze As production slows, gaffers, caterers and teamsters Howard Rodman, Jack ENT are also taking an economic hit. 12/20/07 10:00 Kyser, Steve McDonald

Larry Mantle talks with Steven Cuevas, KPCC’s Inland Empire Reporter, and Cassie MacDuff, columnist with The Press Enterprise, about the latest Steven Cuevas, Cassie IE news, events, and developments in the Inland Empire. 12/20/07 20:00 MacDuff Is this bill a true path toward energy independence for the United States? Daniel Kammen, Bob ENV 12/20/07 12:00 Dinneen

A bill signed by the President raises fuel economy standards for all cars and trucks to 35 miles per gallon by 2020 which - according to the EPA - makes the ENV state law unnecessary. California disagrees. 12/20/07 13:00 Mark Melnick By the year 2012 the incandescent bulb will be phased out of the U.S. market with hopes of a Marianne Lavelle, Richard ENV complete changeover by 2014. 12/20/07 13:30 Glickman The distinction was given to Russian President, LIT Vladimir Putin. 12/20/07 17:30 Nathan Thornburgh

The State of California, along with 16 other states, was denied a waiver yesterday that would allow it to Barbara Boxer, Tom ENV regulate CO2 emissions for automobiles. 12/20/07 24:00 Cackette, Ann Carlson KPCC's tour of the underground economy continues, this time examining the massive black market for the whacky tabaccy. ECON 12/20/07 31:00 Jeffrey Miron

By one estimate, there are 90,000 undocumented Xiomara Corpeno, IMM immigrants working as nannies in LA County. 12/20/07 1 hour Christopher Cameron

HEAL North Long Beach group help to run therapeutic pools 12/21/07 2:27 Guzman Cal. to do battle over enforcing tougher-than-federal ENV air quality standards 12/21/07 3:00 Standen San Diego Christmas tree farm adding color to a ENV dreary holiday season 12/21/07 3:40 Carroll

A company is selling medical gift cards that can be used for doctors' visits or deductibles, prescription co- DIV pays, contact lenses and even elective surgery. 12/21/07 09:00 Kim Bellard Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is considering the early release of more than 20,000 low-risk prison inmates as a way to save money amid a worsening budget SAC crisis. 12/21/07 13:00 Matthew Yi, Franklin Zimring

The site Facebook.com originally started out as a way for college students to contact and keep in touch with each other, and has now become a window for social TECH science researchers to study human behavior. 12/21/07 15:30 Jason Kaufman Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory say there is a 1 in 75 chance that an asteroid may hit Mars on SCI January 30, 2008. 12/21/07 17:30 Steve Chesley

Traditional ticket distributors like Ticketmaster aren't happy to have the competition and teams themselves are considering becoming their own scalpers. Who Gregg Easterbrook, Greg ECON will take up the mantle of the scalper? 12/21/07 20:00 Bettinelli

The Archbishop of Canterbury, England made international headlines this week after attempting to RELI debunk several popular myths about Christmas. 12/21/07 22:00 Jonathan Kirsch

Chicago real-estate magnate Sam Zell officially took the reigns of Tribune Co. yesterday, announcing board appointments and beginning a new chapter in Michael Hiltzik, James ECON the ownership of the Los Angeles Times . 12/21/07 24:00 Rainey, Brian Greenspun

Larry and critics Lael Loewenstein, of Variety, Jean Oppenheimer, of Village Voice Media, Henry Sheehan, of henrysheehan.com, and Charles Solomon, animation critic, historian, and author for amazon.com, discuss many of the week’s new releases including Charlie Wilson’s War, Sweeney Lael Loewenstein, Jean Todd, Walk Hard, There Will Be Blood, The Bucket Oppenheimer, Henry ART List, The Great Debaters, and Persepolis. 12/21/07 1 hour 30 Sheehan, Charles Solomon Burbank Chorale is one of many groups to perform ART Christmas Eve at Music Center 12/24/07 2:17 Guzman Davie Allan the king of fuss guitar releases Xmas IE record 12/24/07 4:29 Cuevas One of the world's best known jazz pianists, Oscar ART Peterson, died today from kidney failure at age 82. 12/24/07 5:00 Don Heckman

Larry discusses how the race is shaping up between Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, Mark Ridley Thomas and Bernard Parks to replace Raphael (Raphe) POLI outgoing L.A. County Supervisor Yvonne Burke. 12/24/07 10:00 Sonenshein

John Garamendi joins Larry Mantle to discuss his first year as Lieutenant Governor, then looks forward to Lieutenant Governor John POLI 2008 and the repercussions of the budget shortfall. 12/24/07 20:00 Garamendi So far this year, the city has experienced only one- Lieutenant Ruben Delatorre, LAW third the number of homicides it did in 1992. 12/24/07 12:00 Richard Winton The idea's proponents, who like to call it "the fair tax", argue that it would eliminate the IRS, spur economic growth, and turn April 15th into just another day on the ECON calendar. 12/24/07 15:00 Len Burman Ted Chen untangles the mystery with a scientist who came up with the answer. TECH 12/24/07 17:30 Dorian Raymer Flickipedia is a guide for film lovers who want their Michael Atkinson and Laurel ENT movie to match their mood. 12/24/07 21:30 Shifrin Lipton's new memoir, Inside Inside , details his LIT experiences in the world of showbiz and beyond. 12/24/07 31:00 James Lipton

and Founder of the International Skeptics Society Michael Shermer joins Larry Mantle to provide a wrap- SCI up of the most interesting science stories of 2007. 12/24/07 55:00 Michael Shermer San Francisco District Attorney Kamala D. Harris is the first elected official in California to endorse Obama POLI for president. 12/24/07 30:00 Kamala Harris HIST Artists have different view of Miracle Mile 12/25/07 3:18 Felde Valley volunteers put together care packages for US MIL Soldiers serving overseas 12/25/07 4:05 Xaykaothao Phoenix is also famous on Youtube for his instructional video on how to create a festive Astro Weenie Christmas Tree. He joins Patt to talk about ART how to be the bell of any holiday ball. 12/25/07 13:00 Charles Phoenix One woman made this her personal quest when she found herself swimming with a lost baby gray whale ENV along the California coast. 12/25/07 13:30 Lynne Cox Humor writer Bob Eckstein tells the story of the jolly snowman -- pure as the snow he's made of -- with a dark past filled with political intrigue, sex, and violence. LIT 12/25/07 22:00 Bob Eckstein David Sedaris, Bailey White, John Henry Faulk - these and other NPR voices, past and present, tell ART stories of the season. 12/25/07 53:00 NPR's Tinsel Tales According to NPR correspondent, Eric Weiner, it isn’t LIT Disneyland. 12/25/07 30:00 Eric Weiner The English language is chock full of idioms. In her new book, I Didn’t Know That, Karlen Evins uncovers the history and unusual origins of hundreds of English LIT words and phrases. 12/25/07 30:00 Karlen Evins In the sixties, as the nation anticipated the conquest of space, the defeat of poverty, and an end to injustice at home and abroad, no goal seemed beyond America’s LIT reach. 12/25/07 30:00 Thomas Hine Larry Mantle talks with Michael Elliott, author of the new book, Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer (University of Chicago Press) that chronicles the life of George Armstrong Custer and attempts to explain why he is such an enduring figure of the American LIT West. 12/25/07 30:00 Michael Elliott Renaissance books point to big difference between ART speaking of art then and now 12/26/07 2:55 Guzman OC Roofing going "green" in Orange County 12/26/07 4:24 Valot As Oscar ballots are mailed out today, guest host Ted Chen discusses how the writers strike may affect this ART year’s awards season. 12/26/07 10:00 Alex Ben Block California's prison population has increased by approximately 8% since 2003, but budget spending ECON has exploded by 79% to $8.5 billion. 12/26/07 20:00 Dan Walters FOR 12/26/07 20:00 Blake Hounshell In Food: The History of Taste , editor Paul Freedman collects a cornucopia of photos and essays about the LIT origins of recipes, flavorings, and cuisines. 12/26/07 07:30 Paul Freedman Lately, big retail chains started cracking down on returns abuse...but are innocent people getting stuck with stuff they can't return as a result? What are your rights when it comes to returns? ECON 12/26/07 10:00 Edgar Dworsky

Now that the big pre-Christmas push is over, Guest- host Jon Beaupre checks in with economists and ECON retail experts for a retailing debrief. 12/26/07 14:00 Michael McNamara

Companies are trying to cash in on the popularity of genetics by selling gene tests of their own to Gautam Naik, Dr. Harry SCI consumers, with about 1,400 on the market. 12/26/07 19:30 Ostrer

A study from the Department of Finance shows that, despite intense immigration, people are also fleeing the state at an ever increasing rate. So if they're better H.D. Palmer, Mary Heim, SAC off, why are they running away? 12/26/07 31:00 Dan Weintraub ECON 12/26/07 40:00 Alex Viecco, Kathy Kristof

Guest host Ted Chen is joined by Jack Kyser of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation and Chris Thornberg of Beacon Economics to discuss Edward Martinez, Chris ECON both the local and national economic outlook for 2008. 12/26/07 30:00 Thornberg Area professor advocates a revisit of 18th century EDU "peace" text 12/27/07 2:40 Guzman South Bay reacts to assassination of Pakistani LAW opposition leader 12/27/07 3:30 Valot/Binkowski We ask what will keep Iowans focused on January 3rd, and what might backfire. POLI 12/27/07 07:30 Ron Elving For the first time in the 119 year history of the Rose POLI Parade, China will have its own float. 12/27/07 17:30 Bill Bogaard, Shizhong Chen Benazir Bhutto was a deeply polarizing figure in FOR Pakistan's turbulent recent political history. 12/27/07 19:00 Greg Myre Scholar Michael Genovese tackles presidential character and personality, political institutions and opportunities, power versus leadership, and sources LIT of and limits to presidential power. 12/27/07 22:00 Michael Genovese A suicide bomber riding a motorbike shot and killed former Pakistani Prime Minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto today, before blowing himself up, James Astill, Brian Michael FOR killing 20 others. 12/27/07 31:00 Jenkins Volunteers weed out non-native plants at Madrona ENV Marsh in Torrance 12/28/07 2:35 Valot UCLA professor proposes overhaul of study of EDU Chicano literature 12/28/07 3:26 Guzman ENT Capsule reviews of the week's new movies 12/28/07 3:52 Mantle Pakistani and Muslim leaders will hold a special prayer service for former Pakistani Prime Minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto at the Islamic Center OBIT of Southern California. 12/28/07 05:00 Brian Watt Longtime Los Angeles sportscaster Stu Nahan died OBIT yesterday at the age of 81. 12/28/07 07:30 Ron Rappaport More than 3 million people will have to wait until February to get their tax refunds because of ECON Congress' late fix to the AMT. 12/28/07 10:00 Robert Goldstein The New England Patriots, already a NFL dynasty team with three Superbowl victories since 2002, are looking to top a record that many football experts SPOR thought would never be beat. 12/28/07 10:00 Ron Rappaport

Why do we feel so darned good when we give gifts? Evolutionary biologists have long pondered this question and it turns out it comes down to the survival SCI not of the fittest individuals, but of the fittest genes. 12/28/07 15:30 Jay Phelan Investigators try to find out if Tatiana, the 300-pound Siberian tiger that killed a visitor, escaped from her high-walled pen on her own or got help from ENV someone, inadvertent or otherwise. 12/28/07 16:00 Kevin Fagan, Louis Dorfman Guest host Ted Chen and guests discuss the future of Pakistan/ U.S. relations in the wake of the Bhutto assassination and also look at Al Qaeda’s possible involvement in the suicide bombing that took the life of Ms. Bhutto and 22 other people in Rawalpindi, Vali Nasr, Ambassador FOR Pakistan on Thursday. 12/28/07 24:00 Azmat Hassan Travelers are choosing their destinations based on what they fear will disappear or change significantly Kenneth Shapiro, Eric ART within the next generation. 12/28/07 31:00 Maryanov, Sara Benson Guest host Ted Chen talks with William Lobdell, City Editor of the Orange County Edition of the Los Angeles Times , Orange County Register senior editorial writer and columnist, Steven Greenhut, and Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly staff writer about the latest news events and developments in Orange County, as well as some of the biggest O.C. stories Steve Greenhut, William OC from 2007. 12/28/07 30:00 Lobdell, Gustavo Arellano

NPR’s Justice Correspondent, Ari Shapiro, joins Ted Chen to talk about the latest news regarding the ongoing investigation into the destruction of the CIA interrogation tapes and the alleged existence of POLI additional tapes that have not yet been destroyed. 12/28/07 30:00 Ari Shapiro

Guest host Ted Chen takes listener calls about what ENT were the best and worst of film and television in 2007. 12/28/07 30:00 Sam Rubin

There's nothing fast about making wine. From sunup to sundown, Joe and Heather D'Augustine pick Food grapes, sort 'em, crush 'em, and start all over again. 12/29/07 2:12 Queena Kim

Off-Ramp commentators Angela Shelton and Frances Callier say neighborhoods are alive in well in Los Angela Shelton, Frances Ent Angeles. 12/29/07 3:30 Collier

John hangs out with the owners of Silverlake Wine Food while they choose what to buy. 12/29/07 3:53 John Rabe Joe and Heather D'Augustine always dreamed of having a vineyard. And so they grew one in their backyard in Echo Park. Queena Kim took a trip to the D'Augustine vineyard, which is just steps from their Food home. 12/29/07 4:02 Queena Kim Hidden away in a basement office at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall is a piano that inspires young musicians: the actor Edward G. Robinson's Steinway. Open up the piano and you'll see signatures of some of music's greats, including Serge Prokofieff and Mus Rosemary Clooney. 12/29/07 4:16 John Rabe L.A. Times writer Ralph Vartabedian shows John the rampant abuse of disabled parking permits. Ten percent of California drivers have them. Do they all Trans really need them, or is it a scam? 12/29/07 4:28 Ralph Vartabedian/Rabe

After a week of fermenting the grape juice, Joe and Food Heather bottle and taste the wine. 12/29/07 4:36 Queena Kim The New Yorker's Alex Ross talks about his new book, "The Rest is Noise", in which classical music revolutionary and SoCal Dude Arnold Schoenberg is Mus featured. 12/29/07 5:08 Alex Ross/Rabe

In the 1970s, actor and writer Taylor Negron took a class from the First Lady of Comedy. Negron shares a Ent side of the Funny Lady that few have seen. 12/29/07 6:40 Taylor Negron Volunteers share why they care for exotic animals at ENV Wildlife Waystation 12/31/07 2:12 Xaykaothao Sandra Tsing Loh talks about the rules and regs of EDU PTA activities 12/31/07 2:37 Loh Park managers battle growing population to create ENV new open spaces 12/31/07 3:27 Peterson HEA Year in review emergency rooms in LA County 12/31/07 3:44 Nazario In new album, Southland band blends Cambodian and ART psychedelic sounds 12/31/07 3:48 Guzman Seniors at So Pas High School give reax to POLI Democratic debate 12/31/07 3:51 Felde Anti-China demonstrators focus on human rights POLI abuses at Rose Parade 12/31/07 4:14 Xaykaothao Now in California if you light up while driving with young children in the car you are susceptible to a State Sen. Jenny Oropeza, LAW $100 fine. 12/31/07 09:00 Jacob Sullem Patt talks with soldiers and a reporter about New MIL Year's in Iraq. 12/31/07 13:00 Major Anton Alston Just when we were becoming accustomed to paying a little over $3/gallon for gasoline we can now expect a bitter New Year present: $4/gallon gasoline, at least, ECON for the foreseeable future. 12/31/07 13:00 Tom Dalzell, Philip Verleger Prop 91 would change the California Constitution to ensure that funds earmarked for state and local transportation systems are used only for those James Earp, Kymberleigh TRAN systems. 12/31/07 17:30 Richards

Despite the writer's strike, shows such as The Colbert Larry Gelbart, Alex Ben ENT Report and The Tonight Show will return to television. 12/31/07 17:30 Block

A controversial and highly contested law that will crackdown on employers in Arizona who hire illegal LAB immigrants is about to go into effect on January 1st. 12/31/07 18:00 Dennis Burke