Angelenos Go To The Polls; E-3: The State Of Video Gaming; San Francisco Archbishop To Oversee Church Doctrine; Perfect Soldiers
Angelenos Go To The Polls
Today voters will choose the next mayor of Los Angeles. In addition to the run-off between Mayor Jim Hahn and City Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa, residents will vote on two City Charter amendments and decide who will fill the 11th District City Council seat. Larry checks in with KPCC reporters around Los Angeles including Frank Stoltze, and Rachael Myrow, to get a feel for what’s going on at the polls.
E-3: The State Of Video Gaming
In recent years, the audience for video games has expanded, revenues have climbed, and the games themselves have pushed the boundaries of creativity and technology. E3, a four-day video game conference and expo, begins today at the LA Convention Center. Larry speaks with experts about E3 including Dan Hewitt, Manager of Media Relations for Entertainment Software Association which owns E3 Expo, Ryan Bowling, PR Product Manager for Sony Playstation, Joel Johnson, Editor of gizmodo.com, John Davison, Vice President and Editorial Director for Ziff Davis Game Group, Dr. Peter Vorderer, professor of Communications at USC and head of the Annenberg School’s entertainment program, and Dr. Ute Ritterfeld, Research Associate Professor at USC’s Annenberg School for Communicationabout the growing popularity of video gaming and how interactive game playing is evolving as an entertainment medium.
San Francisco Archbishop To Oversee Church Doctrine
On Friday Pope Benedict XVI, named Archbishop William Levada (leh-VAY-duh) of San Francisco to be his successor as the leader of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the body which rules on what on what the church allows and does not. Benedict held this job for 24 years until he became Pope last month. Archbishop Levada is the first American to serve in this position, one of the most important and contentious in the church, and becomes the highest-ranking American ever at the Vatican. Larry Mantle talks about this appointment with Father James Bretzske, professor and co-chair of the Department of Theology at the University of San Francisco.
Perfect Soldiers
Who were the men who changed the world on September 11th, 2001? In his new book, Perfect Soldiers, The Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It, author Terry McDermott says the most remarkable thing about the three hijackers is that they were unremarkable. Larry talks with McDermott about his book which traces these men’s live and the evolution of their beliefs, offering an new understanding of Al Qaeda.