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Kieran Wright has been spending his pandemic creating small scale replicas of LA’s most historic and quintessential businesses.

Kieran Wright has been spending his pandemic creating small scale replicas of LA’s most historic and quintessential businesses.

from Greater LA

LA’s cemetery workers, with backlog of bodies, try to honor each COVID death

LA County reached 20,000 COVID-19 deaths this week.

Science proves Zoom meetings are awful. Here are tips to make them better

Videoconferencing can make you feel socially, emotionally, and physically fatigued. That’s according to Jeremy Bailenson of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab.

Fry’s Electronics permanently closes due to pandemic plus competition from Amazon and new tech

The reaction to Fry’s going under has been sentimental. Many customers have fond memories of the chain’s oddball stores, with themes like Alice in Wonderland or outer space.

Wasted: These plants are genetically modified to remove more carbon emissions from the air

At a greenhouse in La Jolla, California, scientists are trying to harness the carbon-sucking power of plants to clean up the atmosphere.

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Morning Becomes Eclectic

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 Los Angeles is having an identity crisis. City officials tout new development and shiny commuter trains, while longtime residents are doing all they can to hang on to home.

There Goes the Neighborhood

Los Angeles is having an identity crisis. City officials tout new development and shiny commuter trains, while longtime residents are doing all they can to hang on to home.

 Los Angeles County is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to combat homelessness. Yet the problem is getting worse. Why?

Samaritans

Los Angeles County is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to combat homelessness. Yet the problem is getting worse. Why?

 Henry Rollins hosts a mix of all kinds, from all over and all time.

Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins hosts a mix of all kinds, from all over and all time.

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Whitney Houston sang backup at 14. Jimi Hendrix performed as the hired guitarist for Little Richard and The Isley Brothers.

from Morning Becomes Eclectic

Ken White and Josh Barro talk about the Supreme Court’s decision on the Manhattan DA’s subpoena for Trump’s records and Stormy Daniels’ appeal of her loss in her defamation case…

from All the Presidents' Lawyers

The Ballona Wetlands are juxtaposed against busy streets and tech companies. The area is a small, serene stretch of marsh, mud flats and birds.

from Greater LA

There’s no doubt 2021 is off to a great start in regards to music. There's been so many releases to help us get through these most interesting times.

from Morning Becomes Eclectic

Los Angeles

 Artist Kieran Wright creates palm-sized pieces of LA history

Artist Kieran Wright creates palm-sized pieces of LA history

 Greater LA

LA’s cemetery workers, with backlog of bodies, try to honor each COVID death

 Greater LA

Wasted: These plants are genetically modified to remove more carbon emissions from the air

 Greater LA

Food & Drink

 The health risks of eating chicken eggs

The health risks of eating chicken eggs

 Second Opinion

Introducing the world to Nigerian food by way of jollof rice

 Good Food

Mastering barbecue with a doctorate in mechanical engineering

 Good Food

Politics

 SCOTUS and the subpoena

SCOTUS and the subpoena

 All the Presidents' Lawyers

California passes $7 billion COVID relief package to help residents, small businesses and college students

 Press Play with Madeleine Brand

If Merrick Garland is confirmed as attorney general, how will he run the Justice Department?

 Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Best New Music

 Amythyst Kiah: ‘Black Myself’

Amythyst Kiah: ‘Black Myself’

 Today's Top Tune

Travis Holcombe's playlist, February 25, 2021

 Travis Holcombe

Kick off your Thursday with some new music from José González and more!

 Morning Becomes Eclectic

Live Performances

 How Arlo Parks followed her musical instincts into ‘Sunbeams’

How Arlo Parks followed her musical instincts into ‘Sunbeams’

 Morning Becomes Eclectic

Hollywood

 Garrett Bradley: ‘Time’

Garrett Bradley: ‘Time’

 The Treatment

Asian reality TV: What do ‘Bling Empire’ and ‘House of Ho’ mean for representation?

 Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Director Lee Daniels on ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ and why ‘Strange Fruit’ is a protest anthem

 Press Play with Madeleine Brand

This Week on KCRW

For the first time in the school’s history, Ulysses S. Grant High School in Valley Glen won the Academic Decathlon for the Los Angeles Unified School District.

LA’s top academic decathletes prepare for state championship — from their bedrooms

For the first time in the school’s history, Ulysses S. Grant High School in Valley Glen won the Academic Decathlon for the Los Angeles Unified School District.

from Greater LA

Innova Medical Group, based in Pasadena, has developed a test people can buy over the counter and use at home. It costs $5 and produces results in about 30 minutes.

At-home COVID tests by Innova Medical Group: How they work, why they’re still awaiting FDA approval

Innova Medical Group, based in Pasadena, has developed a test people can buy over the counter and use at home. It costs $5 and produces results in about 30 minutes.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Even as in-person school instruction remains on hold, high school and other youth sports have the green light to resume in much of the state.

After a year on the sidelines, young athletes can trickle back to the playing fields

Even as in-person school instruction remains on hold, high school and other youth sports have the green light to resume in much of the state.

from KCRW Features

For KCRW’s “Private Playlist,” The Koreatown Oddity digs into the crates for deep cuts from Madlib, The Stranglers, Horace Silver, and more.

Private Playlist: The Koreatown Oddity is raising his daughter on a colorful musical diet

For KCRW’s “Private Playlist,” The Koreatown Oddity digs into the crates for deep cuts from Madlib, The Stranglers, Horace Silver, and more.

from Music Special Programming

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for February 26, 2021.

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for February 26, 2021

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for February 26, 2021.

from David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report

Amythyst Kiah is tapped as an up-and-coming secret that we need to get to know better with a new version of Kiah’s radically reimagined song “Black Myself” a powerful track originally…

Amythyst Kiah: ‘Black Myself’

Amythyst Kiah is tapped as an up-and-coming secret that we need to get to know better with a new version of Kiah’s radically reimagined song “Black Myself” a powerful track originally…

from Today's Top Tune

In a special Scheer Intelligence from a March 2019 conversation, Robert Scheer talks with his lifelong friend and legendary poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who passed recently in San…

In conversation with Lawrence Ferlinghetti

In a special Scheer Intelligence from a March 2019 conversation, Robert Scheer talks with his lifelong friend and legendary poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who passed recently in San…

from Scheer Intelligence

Future beats and a mind-melting mix of fuzz, bass, and funk. Served fresh nightly.

Travis Holcombe's playlist, February 25, 2021

Future beats and a mind-melting mix of fuzz, bass, and funk. Served fresh nightly.

from Travis Holcombe

On the heels of devastating storms and collapse of the power grid in Texas, the question for Californians is: Are there key takeaways from that debacle that can be applied in the…

Key lesson for California utilities from Texas: Be proactive

On the heels of devastating storms and collapse of the power grid in Texas, the question for Californians is: Are there key takeaways from that debacle that can be applied in the…

from Greater LA

Most people who come down with COVID-19 usually recover fully. But for about 10% of people, symptoms linger (sometimes for months).

Hospitals now offer special treatment centers for treat COVID long haulers

Most people who come down with COVID-19 usually recover fully. But for about 10% of people, symptoms linger (sometimes for months).

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Actress and author Annabelle Gurwitch thought after she sent her kid to college, she’d be coasting into her golden years, taking Zumba classes and enjoying the extra “me time.”

Annabelle Gurwitch: Being human means ‘Calamity R Us,’ and it’s important to laugh about it

Actress and author Annabelle Gurwitch thought after she sent her kid to college, she’d be coasting into her golden years, taking Zumba classes and enjoying the extra “me time.”

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Among a certain set, Joan Didion stands as California’s purest homegrown literary voice. But Didion left the state long ago and her most seminal works are decades old.

“Didion reminds me of when I’m really dark and the way that I think about the world.”

Among a certain set, Joan Didion stands as California’s purest homegrown literary voice. But Didion left the state long ago and her most seminal works are decades old.

from Zócalo's Connecting California

Democrats want to include a federal minimum wage hike in the latest COVID-19 relief bill. They want it to go up to $15 per hour over the next four years.

How LA's 'hero pay' ties to federal fight over minimum wage

Democrats want to include a federal minimum wage hike in the latest COVID-19 relief bill. They want it to go up to $15 per hour over the next four years.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

There’s no doubt 2021 is off to a great start in regards to music. There's been so many releases to help us get through these most interesting times.

Kick off your Thursday with some new music from José González and more!

There’s no doubt 2021 is off to a great start in regards to music. There's been so many releases to help us get through these most interesting times.

from Morning Becomes Eclectic

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for February 25, 2021.

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for February 25, 2021

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for February 25, 2021.

from David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report

Ben’s life falls down around him, and he’s the protagonist, in A Wonderful Stroke of Luck , by master writer Ann Beattie.

Ann Beattie: A Wonderful Stroke of Luck

Ben’s life falls down around him, and he’s the protagonist, in A Wonderful Stroke of Luck , by master writer Ann Beattie.

from Bookworm

“There's now more cannabis workers than there are aircraft pilots and engineers, dentists, painters or EMTs and electrical engineers,” says David Downs, Senior Editor at Leafly.com.

This Week in Weed: Cannabis workers now outnumber pilots and engineers

“There's now more cannabis workers than there are aircraft pilots and engineers, dentists, painters or EMTs and electrical engineers,” says David Downs, Senior Editor at Leafly.com.

from KCRW Features

This pandemic has intensified the work of prolific artist Sunny War, known for her inventive guitar style and as half of the LA-based duo War & Pierce.

Sunny War: ‘Lucid Lucy’

This pandemic has intensified the work of prolific artist Sunny War, known for her inventive guitar style and as half of the LA-based duo War & Pierce.

from Today's Top Tune