The latest on minimum wage, pricing on generic drugs, screenwriter Ron Nyswaner talks new movie, 'Freeheld.'
Innovating LA's transportation grid: Metro hires a new 'Chief Innovation Officer'
Los Angeles is having a massive transportation growth spurt. The rail system is rapidly expanding, L.A. teamed up with the app Waze and next year the city debuts a new a bike share program.
These are some of the most recently developments, but there's one more: a Chief Innovation Officer. It's a new position created by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Joshua Schank takes on that role starting Oct. 5, and he joined Take Two with what kind of innovation he hopes to spur in Los Angeles.
Ron Nyswaner talks new film, 'Freeheld'
'Freeheld' is the true story of Laurel Hester, a successful and decorated detective. Once she is diagnosed with terminal cancer, fights to for the right to leave her pension benefits to domestic partner.
The film stars Julianne Moore as Laurel Hester, and Ellen Page plays her partner.
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The film's screenwriter, Ron Nyswaner, joined host Alex Cohen to tell more about the movie.
To listen to the full interview, click on the blue audio player above
New film profiles Oyler, a school that's trying to save a city
For many teenagers, getting through high school is tough enough, but factor in poverty and few educational role models to look up to and this sentiment becomes all too common, "Everybody used to tell me, "You're not going to make it through high school, you're going to have a baby by 16."" The person saying that is a student named Raven Gribbins from the new documentary titled "Oyler."
The film highlights what a school in the Cincinnati area, the Oyler community learning center, is trying to do to bridge that achievement gap.
Take Two's A Martinez recently spoke with the film's creator
, who's also the education correspondent at the public radio program Marketplace.
If you'd like to hear the entire interview click on the audio embedded at the top of this post.
How to build a high-end sports stadium to lure a pro team? Here's how Tijuana did it.
As multiple sites in Southern California push bids to build new stadiums in the hopes of luring an NFL team, Tijuana's Estadio Caliente offers an example of how one city revamped an old site into a popular destination for sports fans.
The stadium is home to the city's beloved pro soccer team, the Xolos.
Reporter Mark Zeigler visited recently and wrote about it for the San Diego Union Tribune. He says attending Estadio Caliente is a top sports experience in the region.
The search for intelligent life has gotten much more serious
Could we find aliens sometime soon?
The SETI Research Center, whose purpose is to find life elsewhere in the universe, is having its moment. It got a big infusion of cash this summer and yesterday
director of the Berkeley SETI program, briefed members of Congress.
Andrew Siemion joins Ben Bergman to talk about the search for life elsewhere in the universe, the complications that come along with trying to find funding and whether we'll find aliens anytime soon.
To hear the entire conversation click on the audio embedded at the top of the post.
How are drug prices determined?
Last week was not a good one for people taking the drug Daraprim. Turing Pharmaceuticals, the new owner of the medication, announced plans to jack the price from $13.50 a tablet to a whopping $750.
The incident has raised a lot of questions about the price of drugs in this country and how those prices are set and Southern California Public Radio's health reporter
joins Alex Cohen to talk about how this sort of thing can happen.
She joins the show every week for a consumer health segment that we call "Impatient." You can also check out this topic over at her blog.
To hear the entire conversation click on the audio embedded at the top of this post.
The Styled Side: How to look cool when heat waves keep happening
It's fall, so that means it's time for pumpkin spice lattes, hay rides, and – in Southern California –heat waves!
While summer ends in the rest of the country, SoCal tends to get hot weather.
When your friends elsewhere are donning their sweaters, what are you going wear?
Michelle Dalton Tyree from Fashion Trends Daily has her advice on how to dress cool even if it's not cool outside.
- Yes, you can wear white after Labor Day. Even better: you can keep the rays away with white jeans, which are back in style.
- Culottes are back! It's the perfect seasonless item that's neither a short nor a pant. But ladies be warned: in informal polls, guys are not a fan of culottes.
- The shirt dress was in during the spring and summer, so keep giving yours a life by wearing it into the fall.
- For guys, it may be blazing hot out but blazers are a good office style. They are formal enough to wear around coworkers, but flexible enough to leave at your desk when you head out into the sun for the rest of the day.