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Saving sea lions, and listening to jazz at The Blue Whale
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Dan Carino
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Episode 15293
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Saving sea lions, and listening to jazz at The Blue Whale

We spend a day with the California Wildlife Center in Malibu, which rescues all kinds of animals, but this time of year helps the growing number of sea lions that strand themselves on the beach ... Marc Haefele applauds a new program that has LACMA putting on exhibits in other museums around the Southland ... The Blue Whale, now one of Southern California’s hippest spots for live jazz ... How to celebrate Valentine’s Day without paying a fortune for a fixed-price meal.

California Wildlife Center's Mike Remski uses "boarding" technique to hide himself as he feeds sea lions 1, 2, 4, and 5. They don't name them because they don't want to imprint on them.
California Wildlife Center's Mike Remski uses "boarding" technique to hide himself as he feeds sea lions 1, 2, 4, and 5. They don't name them because they don't want to imprint on them.
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RH Greene
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We spend a day with the California Wildlife Center in Malibu, which rescues all kinds of animals, but this time of year helps the growing number of sea lions that strand themselves on the beach ... Marc Haefele applauds a new program that has LACMA putting on exhibits in other museums around the Southland ... The Blue Whale, now one of Southern California’s hippest spots for live jazz ... How to celebrate Valentine’s Day without paying a fortune for a fixed-price meal.

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The people who brought you the giant inflatable rabbits and the giant musicians along the 110 bring you a coffee break Wednesday with two veteran string players from the LA Chamber Orchestra.
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Each year from January to April, undernourished sea lions beach themselves on the Malibu Coast searching for warmth and food. Their numbers and condition, and the heroic efforts needed to save them, are harbingers for the state of the California coast.
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In 7 years, the audience at The Blue Whale in Little Tokyo has gone from being 3 awkward dudes nursing a Pepsi for two hours to a big crowd showing up for hip, progressive, youthful jazz.
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32 year-old Hesam Moazzami was excited to see his parents--something he'd done only twice in 7 years. Then suddenly, the family's plans for the future went dark.
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They’re just … pots, and there’s something so pleasing about a good display of perfect ceramic pots … simple, useful, and strikingly beautiful.
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FIfth-grader: If you don't have Valentine’s Day, if you’re married, how will you ever say to that special person “I love you?”