05/22/2005       [ Listen to the whole show]

Deported: Weazel's Diary
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Imagine you grow up in the United States. You spend your whole life here. You feel like an American. And then one day, you commit a crime and without warning, you're sent to a country you barely remember. That's what happened to one former LA resident William, otherwise known as Weazel. He was to El Salvador, where he was born. Weazel tells us his story and what it was like adapting to life in a country that he barely knows and what lessons he's learned from his new life.

Learn more about Homies Unidos the anti-gang organization that Weazel works for.

Song Break: Angeles
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by Elliot Smith from his album Either/Or

Lennie Bluett
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The 86-year-old Jazz musician and Los Angeles resident returns to Pacific Drift. Lennie takes Ben on a tour of the neighborhood he grew up in and pays a visit to Emmanuel Arts, Bluett's old high school.

Vincent Price Art Gallery
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Actor and art collector Vincent Price began donating works of art to East LA College in 1951. Later he founded the Vincent Price Art Gallery, which has one of the premier art collections for in the country. Ayala Ben-Yehuda visits the gallery and talks to gallery director Tom Silliman.

Vincent Price Art Gallery
1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez
Monterey Park, CA
Tel: 323.265.8650
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Thing: New Sculpture Exhibit
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20 young, Los Angeles based artists are featured in this contemporary sculpture exhibit at the Hammer Museum in Westwood.

Ben gets a tour of the exhibit from curator Aimee Chang and learns that God's Eyes - those arts and crafts things he made with popsicle sticks and yarn as a kid in summer camp - were made by Native Americans to symbolize peyote trips.

Thing runs through June 5th at the Hammer.

Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Tel: 310.443.7000
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East LA Days/Fellini Nights by Marisela Norte
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Poet Marisela Norte reads her epic poem East LA Days/Fellini Nights, which she also performed at the 17th Annual New Work Festival presented by the Mark Taper Forum last month.

My Barbarian on Squirrels in Los Angeles
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In the tradition of the Theater of the Oppressed, performance art group My Barbarian take up the cause of squirrels in public spaces all across Los Angeles.

Closing and Credits
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