John talks with 35-year old Chris Thile (THEE-lee), who takes over as the new host of A Prairie Home Companion this weekend, and hopes he can bring in a younger audience, without scaring off its older listeners. ... Anthony Hernandez, who's been taking pictures for almost 50 years: Downtown LA in the ‘70s, Rodeo Drive in the ‘80s, the homeless in the ‘90s. ... For KPCC's Voter Game Plan, Meghan McCarty tells us how she’s helping voters understand the very complex Measure R transportation tax. ... We meet an Armenian-Syrian college student from Damascus juggling a full time job, night school, and the torture of knowing what his family is going through back home.
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Off-Ramp's R.H. Greene didn't make it inside, but only 350 people did, when Paul McCartney played at the famous Pioneertown venue Thursday night.
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Hernandez — a street photographer whose career has spanned decades — just got his first ever museum retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Singer, mandolin virtuoso, and frequent guest on A Prairie Home Companion becomes the host of the show October 15, taking over from its creator, Garrison Keillor. He talked about the creative challenges of his new job with Off-Ramp host John Rabe.
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... because she's been working hard for months to make sure you know all you need to know about the proposed transit funding measure. Meghan talks with Off-Ramp's John Rabe about how she keeps the listener in mind as she reports the story.
Deepakalypse is the plainspoken, folk-punk solo project of singer/songwriter Deepak Krasner, a native of Ventura, California.
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Allison Wolfe is a writer, musician and English teacher. She writes about one student, Shahan Sanosian, whose story starts in Damascus, Syria.