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A lot's been said about the politics behind the Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA. Off-Ramp architecture critic Sam Hall Kaplan tells us whether it works as a public space and renowned architect Renzo Piano weighs in.
With all the books, movies, CD collections about Bob Dylan, why bother going to the Skirball's new exhibit on the folk-rock icon? Curator Jasen Emmons says because there's never been one!
Two Daily Show alums take on bigots in a new book called "A Practical Guide to Racism." As Jon Stewart says, "Read it with someone you hate." John speaks to one of the authors Dan Bakkedahl, who plays the book's author Professor C.H. Dalton.
The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is getting a new homein the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles. KPCC's Brooke Binkowski went to the ground breaking ceremony and spoke to child-holocaust survivor Miriam Bell.
Listeners share their own heartbreaks with Trader Joes, and their fond remembrances of Maila Nuri.
On February 16: How Sweet It Is! Sit at the piano with Clarence McDonald, who played on dozens of hits in the 1970s and 1980s, and toured with Ray Charles.
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