Granted, the homeless make it hard to run a business near downtown LA’s Skid Row. But one man’s solution is raising eyebrows: spraying water on the sidewalk overnight. ... One of the local pianists in The Van Cliburn International Piano Competition is already famous as the Video Game Pianist on YouTube. ... We visit the Alf Museum in Claremont where most of the fossils – some of them extremely significant to science -- were dug up by kids. ... Richard Simmons has gone from being the most accessible celebrity in LA to disappeared. A new podcast “Missing Richard Simmons" asks what happened. ... And we visit Beth Goodnight -- self-proclaimed "mad scientist" of set building -- to see the last of her Oscar sets before they’re sent off for this weekend’s show.
Two cool new podcasts: Missing Richard Simmons and The Competition

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