Celebrating the 1-year anniversary of Shuttle Endeavour's triumphal arrival at the California Science Center ... the Cyrus Cylinder comes to the Getty Villa ... the Mediterranean house gecko and you ...
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• 48:29
To celebrate its 75th anniversary, KPCC presents the original Orson Welles/Mercury Theatre broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” and a documentary featuring George Takei, Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek."
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• 10:52
It was one the most joyous long weekends in LA history. Shuttle Endeavour crawled from LAX to the California Science Center, as millions of us cheered. We mark the 1 year anniversary, and look at the center's plans for Endeavour.
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• 4:50
KPCC's Kevin Ferguson went to the Getty Villa in Malibu, where the ancient Cyrus Cylinder is on display now through December.
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• 4:16
Today, 'Crime' video games are violent enough to scare away plenty of parents, but back in the '40s, it was crime comic books that filled the violent media role.
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• 4:47
Roz Wyman tells Off-Ramp why bringing a baseball team to LA was her first priority when she was elected to city council, and how hard it was to pluck the Dodgers from Brooklyn.
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• 4:40
Natural History Museum curator Greg Pauly wants to know what's in your backyard. He's interested in geckos, and your own porch might be the home of a new species.
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• 5:02
Tired of bad news out of Dodger Stadium? You'll forget about Frank McCourt when you listen to Clayton and Ellen Kershaw talk about their experiences helping orphans in Africa.
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• 1:07:19
"Artifex" was a wide-ranging, eye-opening, and sometimes profane discussion on Chicano art at Koplin Del Rio Gallery, led by Cheech Marin, with Susana Smith Bautista, and artists Einar & Jamex de la Torre, Shizu Saldamando, John Valadez, and Harry Gamboa Jr..