Going BioDiesel; BioDiesel My Ride; Trolling for Oil; Vegging Out; Spiny Forest; Slide Show'n'Tell; Longing for Llano; Hungary for Sausage; Double Jeopardy; Fast Food Dude-Revisited; Theater LAndscape; Reporter's Roundtable
Guinea pig John Rabe bought a classic Mercedes Benz that's been converted to run on (bio-diesel) vegetable oil. In this show, John reports on his new ride.
Lovecraft co-founder Brian Friedman converts diesel engines to veggie oil engines.
John goes on the hunt for used veggie oil. First stop: a local restaurant.
Morning Edition Host Steve Julian takes John's new Veggie-mobile for a spin.
The Arboretum is opening an exhibit of plants from Madagascar's Spiny Forest at its annual LA Garden Show. It's one of the largest collections of Madagascan plants off the African island.
Charles Phoenix takes us inside his secret vault, to show us how he puts together his famous slide shows.
KPCC commentator Marc Haefele visits Llano, the home of Los Angeles County's first-and-only Socialist Colony.
If you're looking for lunch on the Pear Blossom Highway in Little Rock, California, drop by Valley Hungarian Sausage and Meat. Located in the Antelope Valley, the deli is run by a mother-daughter-team. Queena Kim dropped in.
City Council aide Josh Kamensky tells us about being a contestant on Jeopardy! and plays a diddy on the ukulele.
A couple weeks ago, Queena Kim went to Chick-Fil-A with Jeff Girod (a.k.a the Fast Food Dude) of the Riverside Press-Enterprise. This time, Queena asks Jeff, "What's it take to become the Fast Food Dude?"
LA Weekly theater critic Steven Leigh Morris talks with John about the theater scene.
KPCC's Senior News Editor Nick Roman talks with John about the LAPD's reaction to the demonstrations at MacArthur Park.