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    Gathering with unvaxxed family for holiday? How to maintain safety and peace

    If you’re skeptical about gathering with unvaccinated family members over the holidays, a clinical psychologist offers suggestions to help avoid uncomfortable confrontations.

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    Person smiling broadly wearing glasses and plaid shirt against ivy-covered wall background.By Steve Chiotakis • Dec 16, 2021 • 25m Listen

    If you’re skeptical about gathering with unvaccinated family members over the holidays, a clinical psychologist offers suggestions to help avoid uncomfortable confrontations.

    The Pasadena Model Railroad Museum in El Sereno features hand-made miniature mountains, lakes, train stations and towns. Its next open house is December 18-19, 2021.

    Kevin Goetz’s new book, “Audience-ology: How Moviegoers Shape the Films We Love,” explains how focus groups watch a rough cut of a new film and give their honest opinions so directors and studios can not just salvage their blunders, but possibly turn them into hits.

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      Pasadena Model Railroad Museum holds open house just in time for Christmas

      Tucked away in a low-slung, cream-colored building in the Eastside neighborhood of El Sereno, a group of train enthusiasts has created an enormous wonderland of tiny trains.

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      8 min
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      How to handle unvaccinated family at holiday gatherings

      If you’re gathering with family for the holidays, and you’re fully vaccinated against COVID-19 but some loved ones are not, what should you do?

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      9 min
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      How test audiences shaped the movies we love

      There’s a part of the filmmaking process that rarely gets discussed yet often determines if a movie is a flop of a hit: the audience focus group.

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      9 min
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    In this episode

    3 stories
    1. 0:008 min

      Pasadena Model Railroad Museum holds open house just in time for Christmas

    2. 8:219 min

      How to handle unvaccinated family at holiday gatherings

    3. 17:019 min

      How test audiences shaped the movies we love

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