Dinner Party Download is a fast and funny 12-minute "cheat sheet" of news and culture... designed to give you enough conversational firepower to dazzle friends and family at this weekend's dinner party. This week: A sober chat with Ezra Feinberg about his psych-rock band Citay...We remember the Great Fire of London with a conflagrant cocktail...and a champion barista drinks deep the mad flava of competitive coffee-making.

Off-Ramp producer Queena Kim goes to Pasadena to check out Yoko Ono's latest art project, trees where people are invited to hang their wishes. Then Queena wishes she could ask Yoko about how she came up with the idea. And guess what? Her wish came true!

KPCC's Brian Watt finds out why a hundred goats came to downtown Los Angeles this week. (Hint: NOT a sacrificial offering.)

Queena Kim explores the quintessential California immigrant experience by talking with a Korean businesswoman...who happens to be her mom.

Physics genius and bestselling author Brian Greene tells us why the world wouldn't end as scientist geared up to test the Large Hadron Collider - the biggest, baddest particle accelerator.

They weren't kidding when they named it. In case you were wondering, the LHC cost around 5 billion dollars to build.

John Rabe attends a snazzy lunch where the Getty Museum director Michael Brand talks about the 2008-2009 offerings.

George Putnam - conservative talk show host, Hollywood Star and anti-gay crusader - passed away on Friday. We remember the outspoken newsman.

The Santa Monica Lawn Bowling Club opens its well-manicured "green" to the public thrice a week. Contributor Jackson Musker asked some seasoned bowlers about the historic pastime.

Citay is an epic eight piece psychedelic band and is playing the 4th annual Campout music festival in Pioneertown California this weekend. Dinner Party Download's Brendan Newnam talks to Citay's Ezra Feinberg.

Restaurant adventurer Steven Wasser samples the menu at Froggy's Fish Market & Restaurant, a no-nonsense hideaway in the Topanga Canyon.

Pasadena artist Stephen Berkman makes old-fashioned photographs called tintypes, which have appeared in such films as The Assassination of Jesse James and Cold Mountain.