Lenny Waronker

The Federal Reserve announced a half-a-percentage point cut in interest rates on Wednesday. Mortgage rates had already been falling, but the median home price in LA is $1 million.

Alex Gibney talks “Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos,” director India Donaldson breaks down her debut feature “Good One,” and Alan Poul has The Treat.

The Line Fire has scorched The Keller Peak Fire Lookout Tower, which has been around for nearly 100 years, making it the oldest observatory in the Angeles National Forest.

Maria Bamford stops by ahead of a stand-up show at the Broad, film critic Chris Nashawaty breaks down his new book “The Future Was Now,” and Richard Linklater has The Treat.

An audio folk story examining the tradition of Black watermelon long-haulers, who drive to farms in the South for watermelon and sell them in Black neighborhoods around the US.

Fanatic! I’d like to lodge a complaint. It’s now well into September but the weather in my area is still peaking into the 90s every day.

Fanatic. I hope the weather is stable where you are. Helene has impacted millions of lives. It’s going to be months before some parts of the country are back up and running again.

The latest film releases include 1992, Reagan, You Gotta Believe and The Deliverance.

Fanatic! Here we are, perfectly placed for the last day of summer as far as my Fanatic calendar is concerned.