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KCET Local KCET Blogger Jeremy Rosenberg has a conversation with Dalia Dassa Kaye.
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More than a year ago, TTLA spent time in the office of RAND's Dalia Dassa Kaye. At the time, a book she'd co-authored, "More Freedom, Less Terror? Liberalization and Political Violence in the Arab World," had recently been published. ...
KCET Local What the heck is "raumlichtkunst"? KCET Blogger Holly Willis explains how space, light and art are joining forces in LA's cinema scene.
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What the heck is "raumlichtkunst"? Literally, the word means "space light art," but Cindy Keefer, director of LA's Center for Visual Music, knows its origins and implications, and she'll share her ideas ...
KCET Local Dec. 3-6: Plan your weekend using KCET's events listings. Top of the list? The Alternative Holiday Book Bazaar .
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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 Jeremy Rosenberg knows that the L.A. Auto Show is "back." But isn't there a certain redundancy to our fair city hosting it?
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Hundred plus two years they been doing it, ice rinks and fires all leading to grown men and women drinking "zoom zoom" tall cans from a Mazda vending machine.
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KCET's Brian Doherty reports that
crime is down in downtown L.A., with credit going to downtown
businesses and the police's emphasis on "quality of life" enforcement.
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Crime in downtown L.A. continues to drop--a little--from its 2006 highs, and greater cooperation with downtown business improvement districts and greater police emphasis on minor "quality of life" enforcement are credited with helping.
KCET Local See how World AIDS Day is being recognized around Los Angeles.
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Today, December 1, is World AIDS Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness for the still-present AIDS and HIV pandemic. In the last fourteen years, U.S. Presidents have made it an annual tradition to give an official proclamation on World AIDS Day, with other governments since then following suit.
KCET Local KCET's Erin Kaplan submits thestories of the uninsured, who "try and take care of themselves but whoget caught up in the terror of not having insurance when catastrophehits."
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In the wake of Thanksgiving, something to be thankful for: health insurance. I got it. Not through any hard work of my own. I got it through my husband's teaching job, or retained it when I left my own job for the wilds of freelance writing in '05. ...
KCET Local What's your internet main dish? Ophelia Chong considers how the leftovers of her Thanksgiving feast compare to the internet cornucopia.
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As I stand at my open fridge, I peer in to see Tupperware containers full of stuffing, turkey, gravy and other jetsam and flotsam from the Thanksgiving table.
KCET Local Why kill the Christmas tree? KCET's Jeremy Rosenberg features a commentary questioning the migration of the evergreen from public places to private spaces.
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Former Los Angeles Times staffer Jocelyn Y. Stewart writes this commentary in Monday's newspaper, about a near-centenarian's opposition to Christmas trees in private homes.
KCET Local Check out KCET's featured blogger D.J. Waldie!
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Welcome back to 'Better Know a SoCal Blogger' on KCET.org, where we feature our city's plethora of fascinating and first-rate blogs. This week we are speaking with our very own D.J., Waldie, a blogger ...
KCET Local KCET blogger Brian Doherty says candidates for the open District 2 City Council seat are pointing fingers but might have something to hide themselves.
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Both candidates for the open District 2 City Council seat runoff are trying to portray their opponent as an "insider" for forces not in tune with the district's needs and identity--and thus an "outsider" for the district's voters.
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KCET's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez reports on
Chicano muralists making their presence felt in L.A. schools. "The idea
of placing images partly generated by the students and area neighbors,"
he says, "fascinated me. But it's nothing new, of course."
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KCET's D.J. Waldie makes it out to
Guadalajara for the International Book Fair, along with the rest of Los
Angeles. "This crowd bears the conflicted image of Los Angeles into the
world like a banner displaying a past and a future that are both uncertain"
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KCET Local This week looks like it will see the Los Angeles City Council issue a new set of regulations for medical pot dispensaries. So, how many will they allow?
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This week looks like it will finally be the moment that Los Angeles's City Council issues a new set of regulations for medical pot dispensaries. A big question they are facing is, how many will they allow?
KCET Local KCET's Brian Doherty reports on how the recent decision to hike UC and CSU tuition fees has subsequently led to protests and reports of police brutality.
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The Board of Regents have officially approved a 32 percent rate hike in undergraduate tuition, and generated protests at UCLA campus that resulted in 12 student arrests.
