This Week on Off-Ramp; Underground Woman; Underground Woman - Part 2; Underground Woman - Part 3; What's Up Doc-san?; New Model for Health Care?; Hand over the money, please...; Fresh 'n' Easy; Crowd Pleaser; Roses and Lemon; The Fields Are Alive with Flowers; Letters
John goes underground into LA's largest sewer. And no, we didn't find this alligator there.
Anna Sklar, the author of "Brown Acres, an Intimate History of the Los Angeles Sewers" takes John Rabe underground into the longest sewer line in the country.
John and Anna Sklar on the early days of LA's sewers.
John and Anna Sklar on the fight for clean beaches in 1985.
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Since 1984, Stan Sakai has been drawing Usagi Yojimbo, a comic book about a rabbit samurai. But Sakai is an independent artist and is faced with medical bills for his wife Sharon's illness.
The Sun Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles became the home of the largest school-based health care clinic in the state. Queena Kim went to the opening.
KPCC's Frank Stoltze bring us this story of a former bank robber and heroin addict Steve Estroza.
Business reporter Mark Lacter gives John Rabe the skinny on the grocery chain Fresh 'n' Easy. The store's niche is to limit choice. Lacter says that the business model isn't very successful.
Commentator Hank Rosenfeld muses on the significance of the record-setting attendance at last Saturday's game at the Coliseum.
John Rabe attends an annual ceremony that rewards and punishes the best and worst of downtown LA.
Artist Lauren Bon tells John Rabe why she planted wildflowers at the Not A Cornfield site in downtown Los Angeles.
Last week Nick Roman told us about the historic Dodger v. Red Sox game at the coliseum. A reader wrote in to say, he got a fact wrong.