California

"Judging California’s climate change policies by greenhouse gas emissions is backwards.

from Zócalo's Connecting California

This year kicked off with an alarming rise in shootings in Los Angeles, according to the LAPD’s public stats. Homicides are up, robberies are down, rapes are down, car thefts are up.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

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Post-traumatic growth: How COVID helps us change for the better and refocus priorities

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from KCRW Features

For Oakland resident Jenni Bregman, getting vaccinated meant she could rehearse with her dance troupe again.

For this dancer, getting vaccinated means a return to her troupe

For Oakland resident Jenni Bregman, getting vaccinated meant she could rehearse with her dance troupe again.

from Greater LA

“A story of struggle and perseverance” is how Chef Brandon Jew describes the immigrant experience of San Francisco’s Chinatown.

Empowered by Chinatown’s history, Brandon Jew celebrates the neighborhood of his youth

“A story of struggle and perseverance” is how Chef Brandon Jew describes the immigrant experience of San Francisco’s Chinatown.

from Good Food

Market correspondent Gillian Ferguson discovers how Chef Angie Lee of Caravan Swim Club at the Hotel June is using squash blossoms.

Who says LA doesn’t have seasons? The farmer’s market defies assumptions

Market correspondent Gillian Ferguson discovers how Chef Angie Lee of Caravan Swim Club at the Hotel June is using squash blossoms.

from Good Food

Food, like people, adapt. Open the website of Lasita and see a phrase that might as well be the mantra for 2021: New chapter, New beginning.

New chapter, new beginning: Lasita is this week’s ‘In the Weeds’

Food, like people, adapt. Open the website of Lasita and see a phrase that might as well be the mantra for 2021: New chapter, New beginning.

from Good Food

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 16, 2021.

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 16, 2021

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 16, 2021.

from David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report

California’s regulations surrounding cannabis billboards are hazy, to put it bluntly. Proposition 64, which made cannabis legal, banned billboards on interstate freeways like the 10.

Competing bills seek to clarify California’s hazy cannabis billboard rules

California’s regulations surrounding cannabis billboards are hazy, to put it bluntly. Proposition 64, which made cannabis legal, banned billboards on interstate freeways like the 10.

from Greater LA

Whether crispy or crunchy, hot with chile or sweet with honey, fried chicken is found all over the world. And luckily we have a world of choices right here in Southern California.

Evan Kleiman’s top fried chicken spots in SoCal: Pikunico, Honey’s Kettle, Golden Bird, and more

Whether crispy or crunchy, hot with chile or sweet with honey, fried chicken is found all over the world. And luckily we have a world of choices right here in Southern California.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 15, 2021.

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 15, 2021

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 15, 2021.

from David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 14, 2021.

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 14, 2021

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 14, 2021.

from David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 13, 2021.

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 13, 2021

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 13, 2021.

from David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 12, 2021.

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 12, 2021

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 12, 2021.

from David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report

Roxana Jullapat talks about her long-awaited cookbook, “Mother Grains," and the pilgrimages she made to discover barley, buckwheat, corn, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, and wheat.

Baker Roxana Jullapat brings mother grains to modern times — and makes chocolate chip cookies

Roxana Jullapat talks about her long-awaited cookbook, “Mother Grains," and the pilgrimages she made to discover barley, buckwheat, corn, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, and wheat.

from Good Food

Legions of restaurants pivoted last March as the city shut down. Many Michelin restaurants found it difficult to switch gears as chefs swapped their tweezers for takeout boxes.

Swapping tweezers for a rolling pin: Curtis Stone opens The Pie Room

Legions of restaurants pivoted last March as the city shut down. Many Michelin restaurants found it difficult to switch gears as chefs swapped their tweezers for takeout boxes.

from Good Food

The corner of 7th and Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles has seen its fair share of lumpia. If restaurant spaces have lineages, Petite Peso is a third generation Filipino concept.

‘In the Weeds’: Ria Dolly Barbosa’s Petite Peso is a corner spot for opportunity

The corner of 7th and Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles has seen its fair share of lumpia. If restaurant spaces have lineages, Petite Peso is a third generation Filipino concept.

from Good Food

Gather For Good started in 2017 with a community bake sale.

‘Gather For Good’ AAPI bake sale: Buying ingredients with Steph Chen

Gather For Good started in 2017 with a community bake sale.

from Good Food

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 9, 2021.

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 9, 2021

David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report for April 9, 2021.

from David Lynch Theater Presents: Weather Report

In California, more than 44,000 people are in jail without having been convicted. Some have been there for years, waiting to go to trial.

Why some California inmates are waiting up to 12 years for their day in court: CalMatters investigation

In California, more than 44,000 people are in jail without having been convicted. Some have been there for years, waiting to go to trial.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand