Los Angeles

Commentary: Grand Design in La-La Land

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Kurt takes a look at new architecture projects in LA. (Originally aired: September 8, 2001)

Art Cops

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Garden of Earthly Delights

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Stew

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Garden of Earthly Delights

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The Adventurer

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Photographer Zoe Crosher grew up around planes and airports — her mother was a flight attendant, and her father was a diplomat. So it isn’t surprising that when Crosher moved to Los Angeles, she gravitated towards the neighborhoods surrounding Los Angeles International Airport. She found what she considered the real spirit of LA in little […]

Svetlana Explains it All

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Playwright and performer Iris Bahr is a shape-shifter. Her recent one-woman show “Dai (Enough)“ cast her as everyone from a Palestinian mother to a retired Israeli soldier, all sitting in a Tel Aviv caf where tragedy is about to strike. She takes the stage at The Getty as Svetlana, a Russian immigrant and world-traveled prostitute. […]

Quetzal

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East L.A. fusion rockers Quetzal show how they’re pushing the boundaries of Chicano music to a new level of cool. Bandleader Quetzal Flores and his wife, vocalist Martha Gonzalez, tell Kurt why politics is something they can’t help but sing about. They perform two incendiary, hip-shaking songs.

Bonus Track: “You Must Die”

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Quetzal performs the song live at the Getty Center.

Palm trees and power lines

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Gaze up above any low slung building in LA and this is the view. Greetings from the other side of the Pacific Rim– Los Angeles! This winter/spring Kurt Andersen has a special residency at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, and we’ve got some LA-based stories and interviews in the works. I finally […]

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