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November 4 - 8, 2002
Monday, Nov. 4
A California State of Mind
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On the eve of the Nov 5th election, Mark Baldassare from the Institute for Public Policy joins Kitty to discuss election-related issues like the wary voter, the rising Latino vote, and how the state of the economy can affect the outcome of an election. His new book is A California State of Mind (University of California Press).
Gary Copeland
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Kitty talks with Gary Copeland, candidate for Governor of California about the Libertarian party.
Maxine Hong Kingston
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At the age of sixty, writer Maxine Hong Kingston has decided what she wants to do with her life, she wants to be a poet. And her latest book, To Be the Poet (Harvard University Press), is her declaration of this goal as well as an exploration of what it takes to write poetry and what it means to be a poet, all interspersed with some of her own works of poetry.
Tuesday, Nov. 5
A Judge Looks at the Rise of State Power
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Ninth District U.S. Court of Appeals Judge John T. Noonan takes a critical look at the Supreme Court and its rulings in the last six years. Judge Noonan argues that the Supreme Court has dangerously weakened the nation’s power by enhancing autonomy of the states. He joins Kitty in studio to speak about his book Narrowing the Nation’s Power (University of California Press).
Crime Scene Tour
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This weekend, AP Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch will narrate a bus tour of some of the city's more notorious crimes, crime scenes and celebrity scandals. Former CBS news reporter David Dow joins Kitty for a preview. For more information, visit the LA Society of Professional Journalists website.
John Raitt
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Actor, singer and father of Bonnie Raitt joins Kitty in studio where she hopes to get him to sing to her a cappella. Raitt is promoting a concert called Something Wonderful to benefit the Actors’ Fund of America.
Something Wonderful, a concert benefiting the Actors' Fund of America and a tribute to the centennial of composer Richard Rodgers' and honoring Gordon Davidson, will be at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles 90032. Showings are at 8:00PM on Saturday, November 9th and 3:00PM matinee on Sunday, Nov. 10th.
For tickets to the event, call (323) 933-9266 ext. 54 or e-mail
dmichael@actorsfund.org.
Wednesday, Nov. 6
Post-Election Roundtable
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Kitty hosts an all star roundtable on "Election: The Day After" and shares highlights from last night's California Democratic Party election headquarters at the Century Plaza Hotel where she was stationed as a reporter for KPCC. Guests include: Mayor Jim Hahn; Daily News Reporter Beth Barrett; former Chief of Police Bernard Parks; Los Angeles Sentinel Reporter James Bolden; Capitol Hill Reporter Jack Shaw; Congressman Antonio Villaraigosa; La Opinion Political Editor Pilar Moreno; Orange County Register editorial writer Steven Greenhut; CA Democratic Party Chair Art Torres; Sacramento Bee Political Columnist Dan Walters; Neighborhood Empowerment Web LA Publisher Jon Shaughnessy; KPCC Reporter Robin Urevich; Los Angeles Business Journal Editor Marc Lacter; and Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke.
Thursday, Nov. 7
Whither LA County Healthcare Funding?
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With the success of Measure B and yesterday’s visit by President Bush’s head of health services Tom Scully, we discuss the future for our crumbling health system with Director of LA County Department of Health Dr. Tom Garthwaite and LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky. Is it looking any brighter?
The Past and Future of NATO
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What future is there for the 53-year old NATO alliance in the realities of 21st century security? Ronald Asmus, one of the first advocates of NATO expansion in the early 1990s and later top aide to Secretary of State Madeline Albright and Deputy Secretary Strobe Talbott, talks with Kitty about the history of NATO and addresses concerns about its future.
The Struggle for Civil Rights
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Using the African American experience as narrative, and a collection of rare historical photographs as illustration, two of the leading scholars on African American history, Manning Marable and Leigh Mullings, have collaborated on the definitive history of the pursuit of freedom. Their book is Freedom: A Photographic History of the African American Struggle (Phaidon). For more information on the book, visit www.phaidon.com/freedom.
Friday, Nov. 8
The Changing Face of OC Politics
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Once considered a bastion of monolithic conservatism, the today's political landscape of Orange County is much more diverse. Kitty speaks with OC Weekly editor Will Swaim, Chapman University professor of journalism Pete Weitzner, and Orange County Register editor Ron Gonzales.
Cultivating the Next Generation of American Playwrights
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What does it take to find and nurture the next generation of American playwrights? South Coast Repertory co-founders David Eames and Martin Benson, Theater Communications Group executive director Ben Cameron, and playwright Richard Greenberg speak with Kitty from the South Coast Repertory Theater.
The world premiere of Richard Greenberg’s play The Violet Hour opens tonight and runs through November 24. Evan Yionoulis directs performances on the Julianne Argyros Stage on Tuesdays through Sunday at 7:45PM and Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2PM. For more information, call 714-708-5555 or visit www.scr.org.
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