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For the broadcast of September 15, 2007
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listenSentimental Kendt

Singer and songwriter Rob Kendt is back in LA for a gig on Saturday night at Tangier in Los Feliz.



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listenJerry Stahl on "Love Without"

LA author Jerry Stahl reads from his new collection of short stories. The New Yorker says he's better than William Burroughs, and is just as skanky and stylish as James Ellroy.



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listenAll You Can't Eat

Jeff Girod (a.k.a the Fast Food Dude) says that the Dodger's Stadium All-You-Can-Eat Pavilion is somewhere between a contest and a cry for help.



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listenAnime Bento

Fans of Japanese animation get a smorgasbord next week, when theaters run Anime Bento (AH-nuh-may BEN-toh), a four-day national anime festival.



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listenAirport Beautification

LA Times reporter Steve Hymon takes on the regional airport stalemate and endorses John's idea of putting up pretty murals at the airports to distract disgruntled passengers.


listenYogathon Habitat

A yoga marathon raises enough money to build half a house through Habitat for Humanity.
listenMix Tapes

Andrea Domanick scours thrift stores to find an ancient artifact: audio tapes.
listenFirehouse Cooks

Firemen reveal who cooks in the firehouse.




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listenCulture Clash's Zorro in Hell

The Chicano provocateurs Culture Clash take on Zorro.


listenBike On

John stops to talk to a group of bikers congregating on Santa Monica Blvd.
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On September 22: Next week, Garrison Keillor stands up for LA.

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