Pasadena artist Kenton Nelson ... Hipstamatic & Instagram v News ... new voting tech via crowdsourcing ... Giant Rock = Boffo Muz Biz? ... RIP Firesign Theatre's Peter Bergman ...
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• 3:27
Peter Bergman's KPFK radio show gave birth to Firesign Theatre. He also produced political satire for KPCC called “True Confessions of the Real World.”
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• 7:39
When the Pogues met in a hotel room in 1991, they knew they had to fire unreliable frontman Shane MacGowan, but how would he take it? James Fearnley tells us.
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• 5:13
He made Pomona walkable, and banks likable, and the conservancy is fighting to preserve his work.
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• 5:04
Painter Kenton Nelson's work can be seen in galleries and homes all over, museums as far as Austria and five times on the cover of the New Yorker.
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• 4:47
If all went according to plan this Saturday morning, the L.A. County Museum of Art received its newest and largest acquisition: a 340-ton granite boulder, which will sit on top of a 456-foot-long concrete slot – walkable by museum visitors – in LACMA’s north lawn.
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• 4:51
L.A. County is the nation's biggest election jurisdiction, and it's also got an outdated voting system. Now the registrar is looking for answers.
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• 5:43
Nick Stern: "Every time a news organization uses a Hipstamatic or Instagram-style picture in a news report, they are cheating us all."