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As heard on April 22 - April 26, 2002 on Talk of the City
Monday, April 22
Navy Decision on El Toro
Tomorrow the Navy has promised to respond to the City of Irvines request to develop the El Toro Marine Base as a park. In the March
5 election, OC voters rezoned the airport as a park, a nature preserve and for limited development, but the decision on what will be done with
El Toro is ultimately the Navys. KPCC reporter Adolfo Guzman Lopez joins Kitty to speculate on the Navys decision and its potential repercussions.
God Optional Judaism
Many people classify themselves as cultural Jews versus religious Jews - what is the difference? Can one be Jewish
without being religious? Judith Seid, author of God Optional Judaism: Alternatives for Cultural Jews who Love their History, Heritage, and
Community, joins Kitty for a discussion of practicing Judaism without God.
Rodeo at the Inland Pacific Ballet
Having set the Ballet Rodeo 34 times for various companies around the world, Paul Sutherland, one of Ballets leading men,
will set it again for the upcoming Inland Pacific Ballets production, a double bill with
Swan Lake, act II. Kitty speaks with the former principle dancer of the Joffrey Ballet and American Ballet Theatre on
the 60th anniversary of the groundbreaking Ballet. Also joining the discussion is the Artistic Director of the
Inland Pacific Ballet, Victoria Koenig.
Swan Lake, act II and Rodeo will be performed at the Bridges Auditorium at the Claremont Colleges (450 North College
Way in Claremont) on:
Sunday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 28 at 1 p.m.
Saturday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 12 at 1 p.m.
For tickets and more information, call 909-607-1139
Tuesday, April 23
The LAPD
Talk of the City takes a look at the Los Angeles Police Department from the era before the riots a decade ago up through today.
Host Kitty Felde talks with Daryl Gates, former LAPD chief; David Dortort, former LAPD Assistant Chief; Mark Epstein, Deputy General
Council with the Christopher Commission; and Joe Domanick, journalist and author of, To Protect and Serve: The LAPDs Century of
War in the City of Dreams.
Wednesday, April 24
Supreme Court Ruling - Land Use
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled against development plans by Lake Tahoe property owners based on concerns about pollution and over-building.
Kitty talks with Jonathan Zasloff, professor or law at UCLA specializing in land use, environmental law, and urban policy about the repercussions
from the ruling to projects here in Southern California like Newhall Ranch.
Influence of Music After the Riots
How did musicians respond creatively to the events that brought LA to a stand still ten years ago? Kitty Felde takes a look at the state
of music in Los Angeles after the 92 riots with Josh Levine from Urb Magazine and John Lee of Vibe.
The State of Science Fiction
What is the state of the science fiction genre today? How popular are science fiction novels? Are there still cult
followers? To find out, Kitty talks with renowned science fiction author David Brin whose latest novel is
Kiln People (Tor) and Ed Green, the President of LASFS, the worlds oldest living science
fiction club based right here in Los Angeles.
Thursday, April 25
Rebuilding LA Ten Years After the Riots: A Special Broadcast from George Washington Preparatory High School
To mark the tenth anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, KPCC 89.3 FMs Talk of the City travels to south-central LAs George
Washington Preparatory High School on Thursday April 25 to examine efforts to rebuild the inner-city economy in the decade since the unrest.
The show will be broadcast live from 1-2:30 pm from the school auditorium in front of an audience of George Washington Prep students.
It will be re-broadcast at 9 pm.
Talk of the City host Kitty Felde visited the school in the fall of 1992 as a reporter covering the after-effects of the riots. ²I wanted to come
back to George Washington Prep to do this show ten years later,Ó she said, ²not only because it was one of the areas hardest hit by the violence, but
because I thought it would be valuable for the students-who were so young when the riots happened-to hear first-hand about whats being
done to turn things around.Ó
George Washington Prep students will also participate in the program. As part of an oral history project, students in a combined 11th and 12th grade
social studies class were assigned to survey one block in their neighborhood to find out what was there ten years ago, what happened during the unrest,
and what's happened since. Several of them will present their findings during the show.
The program will also feature: Denise Fairchild, founder and president of the Community Development Technologies Center (the successor to
Rebuild LA); Chris Hammond, Chesterfield Square developer and Chairman and CEO of Capitol Vision Equities; two local store owners -
Francisco Pinedo of Cisco Brothers Furniture and William Clardy of Mid City Records; and Dennis Fomond, one of the founding
members of Food from the Hood.
Friday, April 26
Dogtown and Z-Boys
The story of a group of local kids who invented the vertical style of skateboarding by borrowing surfing moves and
surfer style is documented in the new film, Dogtown and Z-boys: ‰Dogtown being the area between Santa Monica
and Venice where the kids grew up and ‰Z-boys the name of their team, the Zephyr skater team. With an aggressive
style all their own, the Z-boys rocked the conventional thinking about skateboarding in the 1970s.
Are You Addicted to TV?
On average we devote 3 hours a day to watching TV, the worlds most popular leisure pastime. This
being TV-Turnoff Week, host Kitty Felde looks at whether that pastime is becoming an addiction.
According to a recent article in Scientific American, Robert Kubey, Director of the Center for
Media Studies at Rutgers Univeristy, argues that much of the criteria of substance development can
be applied to people who watch a lot of TV. Are we addicted?
Jim Bellows-The Last Great Editor?
Veteran journalist Jim Bellows will go down in journalism history for his Don Quixote-like fights against
mainstream publications and his penchant for working for underdog news outlets to challenge entrenched
leaders. He joins Kitty in studio on the eve of a new documentary airing on KCET about his own life and times.
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