Take Two

The week in California politics, answering questions about that second dose of the vaccine, and music to take help you decompress from the stresses of this week.

Take Two devotes an hour to LAist's Racism 101 Project to help answer people's questions about race and facilitate conversation.

LA Supervisor Janie Hahn talks about why it's ok to reopen outdoor dining, California energy secretaries respond to Biden climate plan, Selena gets a podcast.

LA will be hit hard by rain this week, plus an audit of the state's unemployment agency finds it woefully unprepared for recession, restaurants react to re-opening

The Governor, citing flattening of curve, drops statewide stay-at-home orders, though LA still in purple tier; media literacy in 2021

We look at the future of CA's relationship with the Whitehouse, an update on L.A.'s vaccine rollout and Becerra announces a concerning "pattern and practice" by LASD.

We look at the implications of President Biden's environmental policy on the state, check in on how LA hospitals are holding up during the coronavirus surge, and look at history of Smallpox in L.A..

The historic inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, meet the mentor of the first Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, and a reflection on the Chilean coup.

We answer the latest questions about the spread of the coronavirus in LA County, So Cal teachers get serious about civics post-insurrection, and Biden expected to push for path to citizenship

Dodger Stadium opens up as a mass vaccination site, Kemp Powers has a written two films this winter, including 'One Night in Miami,' and we profile one of LA's to citizen journalists.

A half century later, the Voting Rights Act still faces challenges, more cars have security flaws that allow them to be hacked, does the public really want VR?

Should the personal finances of presidential candidates matter to voters? The Latino influence in Iowa's early caucuses, game companies turn attention to e-sports.

A legal challenge is imminent for President Barack Obama's plan to cut emissions, teaching kids to be resilient by failing, new music from Mac DeMarco.

The White House releases a plan for new regulations on greenhouse gas emissions, a social experiment on living tech-free, the new film, 'Dark Places.'

The improbably rise of Bernie Sanders, new clues in last year's disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines jet, Sturgis motorcycle rally turns 75

Could prisoners get Pell Grants back? Miguel Herrera is no longer coach of Mexico's national soccer team, the transgender community weighs in on the notion of a 'movement.'

More agreement that mandatory sentence laws need to be reformed, a study looks at how police treat black women, and Tuesday Reviews Day.

New York Magazine's latest cover features the women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual crimes, a modeling agency for transgender people in LA.

The latest on a shooting at a theater in Lafayette, Louisiana. Scientists find the most Earth-like planet yet, and a chat with the director of "Unexpected."

A look at hate crime laws in the United States, how having the Internet in your car can lead to hacking, what a 'computer' means to different people.

Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown, in Rome, calls for leaders to "light a fire" against climate change. Why the media loves Donald Trump, and combatting the high cost of birth.