101 Lane Closures Loom As Wildlife Crossing Work Begins

All southbound lanes of the 101 Freeway in Agoura Hills will be closed for five hours each night for construction on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing starting Monday.

The closure will extend from Liberty Canyon to Chesebro roads, but the northbound lanes will stay open, and Caltrans has detours available for drivers. The entire project could last until early 2026. The southbound lanes will close from 11:59 p.m. to 5 a.m. Monday through Friday. On Saturday mornings, the lanes may reopen a little later. Crews will be installing the first girders, a nearly 100-foot-long box of reinforced concrete that will act as the base level of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing. The girders will help support the structure’s horizontal reach across one of the country’s busiest highways, according to the National Wildlife Federation’s #SaveLACougars campaign. We discuss the latest with construction and what you should expect with Beth Pratt, regional executive director of the California National Wildlife Federation, and Jim Medina, public information officer with Caltrans. Questions, comments? Call 866-893-5722 or email atcomments@laist.com.

Why It’s So Hard To Treat TMJ

Pain when chewing. A jaw that won’t open. A ringing in your ear…Just some of the symptoms that affect those suffering from TMJ disorders. The TMJ is the temporomandibular joint (in plain English, that’s where the upper and lower jaw meet). According to the National Institutes of Health, up to 33 million Americans suffer from a TMJ disorder. A recent piece in KFF Health News outlines some of the extreme measures some sufferers have taken over the years to relieve their pain. Many patients cycle through treatment after treatment, practitioner after practitioner. Why can it be so difficult to treat? What options are available out there for patients? Joining us to discuss is Dr. Brad Eli, director of Facial Pain Specialists, a practice focused on head, face and jaw disorders with locations in San Diego and Los Angeles and Glenn Clark, professor of dentistry at USC, and president-elect of the American Board of Orofacial Pain.

Food Friday: ‘LA Has The Best Pizza,’ Said No One Ever…Until Now?

New York City’s storied history with its famous pizza slice began in the early 1900s when a wave of Italian immigrants settled in the big apple. The Neapolitan bakers laid the foundation for the New York slice and the rest is history, as they say. Or is it? Los Angeles has been called “the Wild West of pizza.” SoCal pizzaiolo’s are slinging everything from chilaquiles to bánh mì style pizzas and leaning into the access of year-round produce. But is that enough to rank higher than the famous NY slice? Joining us today on AirTalk to debate this very topic is associate editor of food and culture at LAist, Gab Chabrán and co-owners of Quarantine Pizza Co., Brandon and Carolina Conaway.

FilmWeek Reviews: ‘Arcadian,’ ‘Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus’ And More

Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Lael Loewenstein and Tim Cogshell review this weekend’s new movie releases in theaters, streaming, and on demand platforms:

“Civil War” Wide Release
“The Old Oak” Laemmle Royal April 12th [West LA]
“Coup de Chance” Laemmle Monica Film Center [Santa Monica] & VOD
“Sasquatch Sunset” Alamo Drafthouse [DTLA] April 12th | Expands April 19th
“Arcadian” Wide Release
“Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus” The Egyptian Theater [Hollywood] April 14 | Laemmle Claremont [Claremont], Laemmle Glendale [Glendale], and Laemmle Monica [Santa Monica] April 15 and 16 | The Frida [Santa Ana] April 17 and 18
“Chicken For Linda” Laemmle Royal [West-LA] April 12 + Select Theaters April 15
“Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead” Wide Release
“Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill” Wide Release

FilmWeek Feature: Larry Talks to ‘Civil War’ Stars Wagner Moura & Cailee Spaeny

‘Civil War’ sees director Alex Garland’s imagined universe of what a second civil war would look like in the United States. Audiences are guided through the film by its main protagonists, a quartet of journalists played by Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, and Stephen McKinley Henderson. Shows the lengths to which these journalists are willing to go, to not only document history but also try and live past it. Today on FilmWeek, we welcome ‘Civil War’ stars Wagner Moura and Cailee Spaeny, to discuss their time working with Garland and developing their characters.