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January 01, 1990 - January 24, 2013 + LA Observed
Times Are Tough 
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo080509times_are_tough
Just because gas prices have dipped back down below four dollars a
gallon in most parts of LA doesn't mean that you can call off the
recession...
Special Order 40
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo080502special_order_40
Well, May 1 came and went without incident in Los Angeles. It's always a good thing when we get past May Day without a half-million...
Bookish LA
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo080425bookish_la
I suspect that, by now, just about everyone has heard the claim that
Los Angeles is the biggest and most vibrant book selling market in the
country...
Writing Noir LA
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo080418writing_noir_la
If Los Angeles has a native literary genre, it would have to be noir fiction. Think of all the hard-boiled, cynical detectives, private eyes and...
Mirthala Speaks
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo080411mirthala_speaks
We finally heard this week from Mirthala Salinas. Her side of last year's messy affair with the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa...
They're Killing Us
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo080404theyre_killing_us
f you aren't one of the four million or so people who live within the
formal limits of Los Angeles, you probably don't pay much attention...
Coliseum Party
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo080328coliseum_party
Now that I've written books about Los Angeles history, I sometimes get labeled a historian. I'm still not used to it. You mean me, I...
Emergency Room Doctor
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo080321emergency_room_docto
You've probably been hearing that, after several years of improving
numbers, the murder rate in Los Angeles has jumped. By 27 percent. Gangs are slaughtering each...
Her Ex
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo080314her_ex
It's probably hard for many of you to imagine this. But Los Angeles used to be a real newspaper town. Before television and the Internet,...
I See Dead People
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo080307i_see_dead_people
This doesn't happen to me very often. But this morning I was thinking about, of all people, Lindsay Lohan. It wasn't her nude spread in...
LA North
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo080229la_north
I took a nice trip the other day to the farthest edge of Los Angeles. The outer limits of the LA empire are a four...
Sam Was Here
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo080222sam_was_here
I finally got to meet LA's newest media mogul last night. Face to face. We even shook hands...
The Rock
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo080215the_rock
At 11 o’clock this morning, the Los Angeles TV stations that do news switched live to the funeral of a cop...
One Woman, One Vote
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo080208one_woman_one_vote
Reporters who spend a lot of time covering election campaigns can turn
cynical about the system. Listening to the same carefully crafted
talking points and messages over...
Election Day
www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/lo/lo080205election_day
Can you feel it? That unfamiliar energy in the air is good old election buzz. How strange, and how welcome.
