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KCET 28 Blogger Jeremy Rosenberg
celebrates Rachel Rothenthall, the ever-conceptual artist who famously
retired from the stage a dozen or so years back, but continues to
mentor emerging talent today.
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A grand dame of the Los Angeles performance art and avant theater scene is scheduled to be feted Saturday night, November 7, at "Rachel Rosenthal's Birthday Bash 83."

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Plan your weekend using KCET's events listings! We've sorted
through all of the best events in order to provide you with only the most fun and
unique of them. All you have to do? Reap the benefits.
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Plan your weekend using KCET's events listings! We know there are overwhelming amounts of exciting events in this city, so we've sorted through all of them in order to provide you with only the most fun and unique of them. All you have to do? Reap the benefits.

KCET Local Wondering what KCET's Huell Howser is up to this week? It's looking like hydroelectrics, with a chili cheese dog on the side.
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This week Huell gets "pink", that is he gets one of Pink's famous chili-cheese dogs, visits the oldest hydroelectric plants in America outside Fresno, and heads over to the Sons of Norway Lodge in Van Nuys for a little something called Lutefisk. ...

KCET Local KCET 28 Blogger Brian Doherty reports on the choice of Beck for LA Police Chief. An obvious choice? Far from it.
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Deputy Chief Charlie Beck moves into the top spot at LAPD, unsurprisingly--but the decision to name him wasn't as simple as some expected.

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KCET 28 Blogger Jeremy Rosenberg asks
you to consider the "Ocean Friendly Sushi" guide, a wallet-sized
foldout offering advice on how to consume sushi in an
environmentally-friendly manner.
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Consider, then, the "Ocean Friendly Sushi" guide produced by the Blue Ocean Institute, an advocacy org founded by MacArthur winner Carl Safina and author Mercedes Lee.

KCET Local "What caused San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to run away from the race to lead our troubled state?" KCET 28 Blogger Brian Doherty discusses the bumpy road to the State Capitol.
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No one officially wants to be the Democratic governor for California next year--leaving "exploratory" former Governor and current attorney general Jerry Brown heir apparent to his old throne.

KCET Local Ferrari is putting its California model on the market. KCET Blogger D.J Waldie can't help but wonder why the failed state is getting recognition in the luxury car market. Perhaps it is a Ferrari for the disenchanted?
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The Ferrari California convertible test driven by Jerry Garrett of the New York Times was red – Corsa red, the red of a bad girl’s lipstick or a bankrupt’s bottom line. Based priced at less than $200,000, this Ferrari is the least expensive model from a very expensive maker. ...

KCET Local Jeremy Rosenberg explains a new exhibition at the MAK Center that will get you thinking.
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The exhibition, "Otto Neurath. Gypsy Urbanism," opens this Tuesday, November 3, at the MAK Center in West Hollywood. The show runs through the end of January, 2010.

KCET Local Holly Willis thinks about why the animation "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" has pleased audiences since 1966.
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The 1966 animation It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown had everything a Peanuts cartoon should have: cheery music, kid's humor, philosophy, the angst of Linus, the exploits of Snoopy and the officiousness of Lucy. ...

KCET Local As we grow accustomed to the data-driven, real-time city, what do we lose? KCET 28 Blogger Holly Willis considers how technology can throw us out of sync.
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The city is growing ever more sentient, snapping photos of our misbehavior at intersections and tracking our movement past banks and federal buildings. Our phones let us connect with that sensing data, ...

KCET Local KCET 28 Blogger Ophelia Chong takes readers on a blissful trip to the Great Wall of China in the latest post to her OCD series.
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All this week, Ophelia Chong will be touring China, all the while recording her observations, thoughts, and insights right here for you. To view more of her online diary entries, click here.

KCET Local Dark shadows past and present come alive for KCET 28 Blogger Bohdan Zachary during Halloween.
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Everywhere I turn I'm surrounded by the sign of the times. There are Halloween decorations throughout my neighborhood, in the grocery stores and here at work. Some of my KCET colleagues have gotten very creative with their notions of spooky and funny.

KCET Local OCD - In case you're looking for Ophelia Chong's collected China Diary...
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All this week, Ophelia Chong will be touring China, all the while recording her observations, thoughts, and insights right here for you. To view more of her online diary entries, click here.

KCET Local Ophelia Chong's China Diary continues - this installment: laughing your way down the road.
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You would think by my previous posts that the Chinese (including me) don't have a sense of humor. You have to have one to be a driver or passenger in a car, it's your first line of defense when there's no rule book to go by and if there was one, no one's read it.

KCET Local Talking race at the El Segundo dog walk
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I don't know the man's name, like I don't know the name of so many other people at the El Segundo dog park. My icebreaker question a month ago was what was the name and breed of his dogs; I didn't get around to asking his (name, not breed). ...






















































