Imagine the stories you hear on NPR or read in the New Yorker--but told live on stage in front of a packed house.

This is what Pop-Up Magazine is all about - great, never-before-heard stories told by journalists of all stripes.

It started in San Francisco--where else--and next month Pop-Up Magazine is coming to LA for the first time.

Tickets go on sale Thursday and producer Pat Walters joins the show to tell more.