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Author of The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
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Nocturne
Finding the Void What makes a place home? Is it a place that feels like a refuge? Is it somewhere you sleep really, really well? What if the place that feels like home is a secret apartment in the bowels of a giant mall?
The Business
Kristoffer Polaha on Hallmark movies; Netflix's Lisa Nishimura In 2015, actor Kristoffer Polaha booked what he thought would be a one-off gig in a Hallmark TV movie. Now, he’s got 5 Hallmark films under his belt. He tells us how he and the Hallmark Channel fell in love. Then, KCRW's Matt Holzman sits down with Netflix's Lisa Nishimura. The head of original documentaries and comedy programming for the streamer tells us how she decides what will become a Netflix original.
Art Talk
Jesse Mockrin at Night Gallery and Taylor Mac at UCLA Hunter Drohojowska-Philp praises realist paintings based on Greek mythology
Design and Architecture
Cher, fashion icon; Designing RBG’s early career; a Culver City mystery “The Cher Show” is a celebration of the rocky but triumphant life of Cher -- and 600 of her spectacular outfits created by the legendary designer Bob Mackie. Also, a production designer shares the decorating tastes of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And a mid-century concert hall gets restored, and with it a design mystery is solved.