We mark the 20th anniversary of the 6.7 magnitude Northridge Earthquake by starting our show at the epicenter of the disaster; and we consider Sheriff Baca's sudden resignation.
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• 4:14
KPCC's Patt Morrison writes with a commentary on earthquakes, the weather, the Los Angeles riots of 1992 and how the rest of the America looks at California.
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• 8:43
Commentator Marc Haefele considers Sheriff Baca's odd and sudden departure, and we look at other colorful sheriffs in LA County's past.
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• 4:43
Joe Sauer has reason to remember the Northridge Earthquake of Jan. 17, 1994: The epicenter was literally close to home.
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• 3:03
Humorist Dylan Brody broods about a freelance job to "write a viral video." Who knew you could take something as natural as viral spread and turn it into something sick?
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• 6:53
Larry Davis's story proves F. Scott Fitzgerald was drunk when he said, "There are no second acts in American lives." Davis recorded his first album after he retired; he's working on the second.
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• 4:04
In less than three years, Tony Yanow opened two successful bars and a brewery in Los Angeles, a town that's traditionally been a wasteland of beer culture.