Busted?; Graffiti Artist or Vandal?; Graffiti Removal; Malibu Heroes; Living with your Mother-In-Law; Tuskegee Airmen celebrate Obama; Good-Bye LA; Famed Songwriter Lamont Dozier; Chip Off the Old Block; MOCA Update; Off-Ramp Music Recommendations
Busted?
John Rabe rides along with a crew of LA County Sheriff Deputies and probation officers as they check-up on suspected taggers and gang-bangers on probation.
Graffiti Artist or Vandal?
In 1988, a Chicano teenager, who goes by the nom-de-aerosol "Toomer" started a tagging crew called "T-K-O." KPCC's Adolfo Guzman-Lopez met up with Toomer and his crew as they painted a mural in South Central LA.
Graffiti Removal
Queena Kim spent a morning with the Boyle Heights graffiti removal crew. The crew removes over 250,000 square feet of graffiti every month.
Malibu Heroes
Two men were honored for bravery this week by the LA County Board of Supervisors. It all started on October 7th with a small plane crash off Malibu.
Living with your Mother-In-Law
Just before the inauguration, Dan Savage helps out the Obama's with advice on living with your mother-in-law. The White House is a big place, but is it big enough?
Tuskegee Airmen celebrate Obama
KPCC's Brian Watt talks to the Tuskegee Airmen who were invited to the president-elect's inauguration.
Good-Bye LA
Furnell Chatman says goodbye after 35 years at KNBC-Channel 4's. He says it wasn't hard being one of the few black reporters in Los Angeles; what was hard was breaking the color line in New Orleans.
Famed Songwriter Lamont Dozier
Lamont Dozier is a soul music legend - first as a singer with groups like The Romeos, then, most famously, as the co-writer of dozens of Motown hits, including just about every hit for The Supremes and the Four Tops.
Dinner Party Download's Rico Gagliano caught up with Dozier, who teaches songwriting at USC.
Chip Off the Old Block
Artist Moira Hahn brings a new twist to the old art of Japanese woodblock prints.
MOCA Update
Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight gives us an update on LA's Museum of Contemporary Art and makes a radical suggestion: show your art!
Off-Ramp Music Recommendations
Paulette McWilliams joined us for a recent Off-Ramp session with Clarence McDonald, and she joins Grammy-winning sax player Tom Scott at Catalina's Friday through Sunday of next week. And the world-famous Pacifica Quartet play Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy.