Meet the East Side Moto Babes, a motorcycle club by women, for women; and the LAPD's class of 1966, men sworn-in the year after the Watts riots. John calls up the LA Craft Beer Hotline, with operators standing by to answer any of your questions about beer … including “Why I-P-A?” Two new animated movies – The Little Prince and Kubo and the Two Strings – highlight the resurgence in stop-motion animation. With the Rams returning to town, and their first game this weekend at the Coliseum, we go to Tom Bergen’s, the venerable Irish pub on Fairfax and home of the original LA Rams. The vault at the Petersen Auto Museum is filled with rare and expensive cars but the Petersen’s archive -- filled with papers, photos, magazines, manuals, and more -- may be just as important to automotive history.
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When the LAPD's graduating class of 1966 came on the force, there was no S.W.A.T. team, no handheld radios, and no bullet proof vests. These veteran cops share their stories.
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If you’re not going to the Coliseum Saturday to watch the Rams play an exhibition game against the Cowboys, the next best thing – to celebrate the team’s return and their place in LA history – would be to raise a glass and watch the game at Tom Bergin’s.
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Founded in 2010, the East Side Moto Babes is "a club of female motorcycle riders who ride and race in Los Angeles," according to the group's Facebook page.
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The popularity of stop-motion is also a reaction to the perfection of CG, which tends to produce geometrical precision. But stop-motion, like drawn animation, relies more on the artists’ instincts and less on math.
To date, Krgovich has recorded three albums focused on Los Angeles and its hazy, glamorous, sun-drenched mystique. "Sunset Tower" is a single from his latest.
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Acclaimed graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang - who just won a Genius Grant - tells us how he drew from the earliest Superman stories to create a Superman with a chip on his shoulder.
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Petersen's vault gets all the visitors, but the genuine knowledge of the entire automotive era resides in the museum's huge archives.