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How caregivers cope on Thanksgiving
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Dan Carino
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Episode 14627
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How caregivers cope on Thanksgiving

Prepare to drool as Mario Batali gives us his Thanksgiving making turkey porchetta recipe ... We meet a woman who’ll spend Thanksgiving organizing dinner for her huge family, taking care of her elderly parents, and being the caregiver for a 91-year old woman ... Rosalie Atkinson explains how the late Leon Russell’s music helped her meet her mom ... The Friends of the Rockhaven Sanitarium in Glendale are celebrating after the city council approved their preferred plan to preserve the historic site.

1964: John Cassidy and son, Cass, share cooking chores in their Chatsworth home
1964: John Cassidy and son, Cass, share cooking chores in their Chatsworth home
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Steve Young/LA Public Library Valley Times Collection
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Prepare to drool as Mario Batali gives us his Thanksgiving making turkey porchetta recipe ... We meet a woman who’ll spend Thanksgiving organizing dinner for her huge family, taking care of her elderly parents, and being the caregiver for a 91-year old woman ... Rosalie Atkinson explains how the late Leon Russell’s music helped her meet her mom ... The Friends of the Rockhaven Sanitarium in Glendale are celebrating after the city council approved their preferred plan to preserve the historic site.

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Mario Batali can think of absolutely nothing wrong with Thanksgiving. And yes, he has an amazing recipe to share with us.
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Victoria Price: "We could go down our own rabbit hole of fear, but I really feel that all of life comes down to two choices, love or fear. And one of the ways we can manifest love, is to keep making art that speaks against fear."
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November is National Caregiver's Month, which is cold comfort for folks who juggle orchestrating Thanksgiving dinner and caring for a loved one.
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Off-Ramp's Rosalie Atkinson's letter of gratitude to legendary songwriter and performer Leon Russell, who died Sunday at 74.
Happy Thanksgiving everybody. Offramp's Song of the Week this time around comes by way of South L.A. punk outfit Generacion Suicida with the song, "Sombras." Spanish for "shadows," Sombras is a surprisingly bright number that showcases the band's melodic sound: a dreamy Smiths-reminiscent guitar solo, punchy drums akin to Marky Ramone, and a lead bass that's front and center in the sound mix.
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Some dedicated runners in L.A. are trying to transform the perceptions of exercise and the city through the art that inhabits it.