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Would you buy a home next to a leaky nuclear lab?
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Episode 12783
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Would you buy a home next to a leaky nuclear lab?

KB Homes is building 450 homes next to the Santa Susanna Nuclear Test Lab ... Fowler Museum opens exhibit of 2,000 pieces by Chicano Movement icon Jose Montoya ... at Otium, the prices are high, but the service is slow ... Remembering Octavia Butler ...

KB Homes is building 450 homes next to the Santa Susanna Nuclear Test Lab ... Fowler Museum opens exhibit of 2,000 pieces by Chicano Movement icon Jose Montoya ... at Otium, the prices are high, but the service is slow ... Remembering Octavia Butler ...

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Ken Corbett talks about his new book, "A Murder Over a Girl," that examines the murder of transgender Oxnard teen King from the point of view of a clinical psychologist.
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Take Two's A Martinez remembers when he was 11, and had his joke read by his favorite morning host, Charlie Tuna, who died last month at the age of 71.
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Octavia Butler, who died 10 years ago this month, was a black woman who wrote science-fiction stories in a world where white men created the work and starred in the narrative.
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A Simi Valley site being developed by KB Homes would eventually feature 450 homes that start around $700,000, surrounded by nature ... and, according to several tests, elevated levels of contamination.
Fire Chief Charlie is a folk group fronted by Eagle Rock resident Jonah Malarsky and his wife Jamie.
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The L.A. Times called it "L.A.’s most ambitious new restaurant." But in her review, L.A. Weekly restaurant critic Besha Rodell took issue with the its service, its prices, and — maybe worst of all — falafel.
Marc Haefele says the singing is great, but turning one of the greatest operas of all time into a full-length, live animated feature doesn't work.
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"[My father] would lament that he was a lazy farm worker, but I say thank goodness, because he was reflecting and chronicling and 82 years later giving us this abundant harvest."