This week we hit some of Southern California's most historic sites: Rancho Los Alamitos in Long Beach, Los Encinos State Historic Park, and the Palomares Adobe in Pomona (pictured).
Deep Beef
L.A. Times food writer Charles Perry takes us to an old fashioned pit barbecue, born when California cattle barons were shipping hides back East and meat was pennies a pound.
Armenian Melodies
Queena Kim tells us about Parseghian Records, the world's biggest Armenian music distributor and label. Parseghian Records is one stop on a tour of Little Armenia. Event info below.
It's Not a Knack
Fairfax flea market vendor Charles has been in the business for 51 years. His secret? Andrea Domanick reports.
50 Billion What?!
If you've been following the Silverlake Reservoir refilling saga, you may have also noticed a mysterious pile of huge white bags at the adjacent Ivanhoe Reservoir. The DWP's Marty Adams tells John what's inside...
Rancho Los Alamitos
This Sunday is Ranch Round-Up at Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Ranch. Amidst the western music, trick roping, chuck wagons and horses, you'll find the original ranch house. That's where KPCC Special Correspondent Kitty Felde caught up with docent coordinator Theresa Barbee.
I Am a Man Now
Jeff Girod can bench-press 300 pounds but he never learned to drive a stick. And this has left him feeling like less of a man.
Mimislist
Mimi Pond discovers the odd nooks of Craigslist. A spatula? Free false eyelashes?
Craigslist Considered
Commentator Brendan Newnam will see Mimi's spatula and raise her. Newnam goes to Craigslist to find people. Namely, a serial killer fan.
Blinky the Friendly Hen
Meet Blinky the Friendly Hen, a dead, headless, buried and exhumed grocery store chicken. Blinky started as an art joke thirty years ago by a Cal State Northridge art student Jeffrey Vallance.
Inside Huxley's World
Marc Haefele says Aldous Huxley's recently published letters are a window into the "Strange New World" that was Huxley's interior world.