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Smart Old Broad

Dec. 19, 2014

A collection of KCRW's best original programming from 2014.

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Best of 2014

Donut Man of East LA

Carolina Miranda is an arts reporter who wrote a feature on Abel Nabor Campos in the winter edition of Lucky Peach magazine. Her story details how Abel Nabor Campos,...

8 min

Saying Goodbye to Hollywood Park

The decline of horse racing as a favorite American sport means the decline, and now the fall, of Hollywood Park . It started in 1938. Walt Disney was an original...

10 min

Transgender Kids, Tough Choices

What would you say if your three-year-old boy told you that he’s not a boy, he’s a girl: not just once, but over and over again? More and more people are identifying as...

15 min

'Real Rob'

Rob Schneider; Credit: Stephen Downes There’s a basic tenet in Hollywood that business is done with OPM: Other People’s Money. Rob Schneider is breaking this rule in a...

11 min

Finishing Daniel Pearl's Last Story

Twelve years ago yesterday, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl drove off for an interview in Karachi, Pakistan and never came back . A month later, the FBI received...

6 min

Use Big Words

Yago Cura; Credit: Eric Pearse Chávez Professor Yago Cura is helping inmates in LA County jails earn their high school diploma. His advice for when they leave jail, "Use...

2 min

Inside the 'Straight Outta Compton' Casting Call

It's been more than 25 years since NWA released Straight Outta Compton , and band members Ice Cube and Dr. Dre are now making a film about the city and their rise to fame....

7 min

Smart Old Broad

This is the story of Maureen "Mo" O'Neill. She spent her days mainly alone. She didn't have many friends, she was getting older, she didn't know who she was. After work she...

12 min

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