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Why eat 300+ gyoza? Why did Rabe put on hip waders? Why does Baby Dee sing?
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Dan Carino
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Episode 14139
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Why eat 300+ gyoza? Why did Rabe put on hip waders? Why does Baby Dee sing?

You shouldn't modify the word “unique,” but if you could, you could say that singer Baby Dee is one of the most unique performers you’ll ever encounter ... The Day-Lee Foods World Gyoza Eating Championship ... Rabe wades into the LA County Arboretum's Baldwin Lake, which is in big trouble ... Film historian R-H Greene takes a new look at a long neglected late film by Orson Wellles, “Chimes at Midnight,” now in the Criterion DVD collection.

KPCC's John Rabe and Baldwin descendent Margaux Viera extricate themselves from Baldwin Lake at the LA County Arboretum & Botanic Garden. Aug. 23, 2016.
KPCC's John Rabe and Baldwin descendent Margaux Viera extricate themselves from Baldwin Lake at the LA County Arboretum & Botanic Garden. Aug. 23, 2016.
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You shouldn't modify the word “unique,” but if you could, you could say that singer Baby Dee is one of the most unique performers you’ll ever encounter ... The Day-Lee Foods World Gyoza Eating Championship ... Rabe wades into the LA County Arboretum's Baldwin Lake, which is in big trouble ... Film historian R-H Greene takes a new look at a long neglected late film by Orson Wellles, “Chimes at Midnight,” now in the Criterion DVD collection.

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Singer Baby Dee - playing Fri., Sept. 2 at the Fonda Theatre - is probably the only tree surgeon, church organist, tricycle-riding harpist you'll ever hear playing the accordion.
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Baldwin Lake ran 12 to 15 feet deep in its heyday, but now the average depths sits around 30 inches. Arboretum officials say it doesn't have to be that way.
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A remarkable Shakespearean, "Chimes" is an epic summation of Welles the artist on a canvas as broad and alive as "Citizen Kane," and it might include Gielgud's best performance.
Holter is a Los Angeles native and a graduate of Cal Arts, with four albums to her name so far.
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One lucky competitive eater did last week. And although you might've missed the 2016 Day-Lee World Gyoza Eating Championship, don't worry: we have pictures.
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It’s 28 miles from the Getty to the Huntington, but you should make the trip to see “London Calling” and “Blast.” Together, they provide a rich, continuous century’s span of English figurative art we’ve seldom seen here.