September 2 - 6, 2002

Architecture Of Our Lady Of Angels Cathedral
Larry Mantle discusses the design of the new downtown L.A. Cathedral, how to create sacred space, and looks at the structural challenges involved in building a church designated to last for hundreds of years. Joining Larry are Nicolai Ourousoff, LA Times architecture critic, Nick Roberts, Project Manager of the Cathedral, and Lita Albuquerque, artist and creator of the fountain/installation located at the entry to the plaza area in front of the new Cathedral.

Barbara Boxer (Listen)
The U.S. Senate is back in session after a month long recess. Larry Mantle talks with Senator Barbara Boxer about Homeland Security, Iraq, the economy, and what’s headed to the Senate floor this fall.

9/11 Curriculum (Listen)
Larry Mantle speaks with Kerry Mazzoni, Secretary for Education for the state of California, and then opens the phones to talk about the National Educational Association’s new guidelines for primary school teachers on how to incorporate the events of 9/11 into curriculum.

Failure (Listen)
Larry Mantle talks with writer Steve Young about his new book, Great Failures of the Extremely Successful: Mistakes, Adversity, Failure and Other Steppingstones to Success (Tallfellow Press). Young believes that success and failure are not mutually exclusive, but rather that failure has been the avenue to many great success stories.

Loss Of Faith In Drug Companies: Are They Really The Bad Guys? (Listen)
Investor confidence in drug manufacturers is down, with companies creating fewer new drugs. Larry takes a look at the loss in confidence in America's major drug companies and asks if they deserve the bad rap that many people give them. Joining Larry are Jeff Trewhitt, spokesperson for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America www.phrma.org, Bill Comanor, professor of Economics at UCSB and Director of the UCLA Research Program in Pharmaceutical Economics, and Jamie Court, Executive Director of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights www.consumerwatchdog.org

Hollywood Club Scene (Listen)
The Hollywood club scene is booming, with new venues popping up all over town. Larry speaks with Chris Breed, restaurateur and owner of The Sunset Room and The Pig and Whistle, and Kevin Wilkerson, roving columnist for www.pubclub.com

Citybeat With Jill Stewart of New Times LA (Listen)
Larry Mantle speaks with Jill Stewart about what she views as the cult of victimhood surrounding September 11th, candidates or the next chief of the LAPD, Frank Gehry's decision not to open his offices at Playa Vista, and the new Cathedral in LA.

Orange County Edition (Listen)
Larry speaks with Orange County Register staff reporter Chris Reed about the county grand jury probe against District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, the 91-Freeway's possible toll-road sale, the feud between Sheriff Carona and Police Chief Walters, and the Capistrano Unified School District's ban on junk food and soda.

The History of Striptease (Listen)
Larry Mantle talks with author and dancer Toni Bentley about her new book Sisters of Salome (Yale University Press). It tells the provocative story of Salome, and details the “Salomania” craze of the nineteenth century. www.tonibentley.com During this period, four women brought the story of Salome to life, each escaping convention and creating her own freedom and notoriety. These performances became the forerunners of modern-day burlesque and the striptease. Local Exotic Dancer Emma Kiss also joins the discussion. www.emmakiss.com

Financial Privacy (Listen)
State Senator Jackie Speier’s “Financial Information Privacy Bill” died in the Assembly this week. If it had passed, the legislation would have imposed strict standards on businesses and would have required them to obtain consumers’ signatures before sharing or selling financial data. Polls have shown that California voters widely support greater financial privacy, yet, a surprising number of Assembly democrats voted against Speier’s bill, or chose not to vote altogether. Larry Mantle talks with State Senator Jackie Speier and State Assemblyman John Dutra.

“Portrait of Hedab” (Listen)
This half-hour documentary, produced by KPCC's Aimee Machado, is an "audio diary" of Hedab El Tarifi, a Palestinian woman living in Los Angeles. As Hedab tries to sort out the role she and her fellow Muslims play in US society in the wake of 9/11, listeners get a sense of what it's like to be an Arab in America.

FilmWeek (Listen)
Larry Mantle with critics Jean Oppenheimer of New Times L.A. and Henry Sheehan of HenrySheehan.com discuss this week's new film releases, including City by the Sea, swimf@n, In Praise of Love (Eloge dol'Amour), Elling, and Umberto D.

Be sure to visit Henry's new website, HenrySheehan.com, for a selection of his past reviews and commentaries.