One of Philip K. Dick's editors - Marc Haefele - reviews Amazon's "The Man in the High Castle;" the Triforium in downtown LA gets new life; how to be a good gentile at a Hanukkah celebration; listeners try out the LAPD's shooting simulator; 5 Every Week helps you be social and smart.
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In Philip K Dick's books, Ursula Le Guin wrote, "there are no heroes ... but there are heroics … what counts is the honesty, constancy, kindness and patience of ordinary people."
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This week's Officer Involved event put KPCC listeners where no radio station has put its listeners before: in a high school, chasing down a club-wielding killer.
Washington is a jazz saxophonist who's collaborated with names like Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar, "Change of the Guard" is the first track off "The Epic," Washington's latest album.
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How to not panic if your Jewish friends invite you to their house for a Hanukkah party from KPCC's The Mashup Americans podcast.
Behold! five great things you should do in Southern California this week, from art to food to music to wild card adventures from the makers of the 5 Every Day app.
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Standing six stories tall and weighing 60 tons, the Triforium sits on the the corner of Temple and Main Street in Downtown L.A. It's in severe disrepair — how did it get this bad?
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Mary and Vincent Price loved food, but they weren't snooty. Their "A Treasury of Great Recipes" turns 50 this year. Elina Shatkin gets the backstory with daughter Victoria Price.