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.

The LA Sheriff's Department debate recent events, what moms have been going through during the pandemic and how the fires have affected a Santa Anita community.

The latest on the state's fires, the Emmys are happening this weekend and we check in with Nick Quah of Servant of Pod.

The Bobcat Fire is threatening the famed Mt Wilson Observatory, CA Secretary on Trump's visit to the state and the latest on recent census hearings.

Two gunmen were shot in Compton and protests followed, a KPCC Reporter was arrested while covering the events and the latest on the 2020 census.

How wildfires are still affecting the state, what it's like to attend a drive in dance and what to do this weekend.

Wildfires continue to burn across the west coast, we have our latest installment of Race in LA and we have updates on CA's high-speed rail project.

All of CA's national forests will be closed to the public, new criteria from the Academy on films vying for best picture and Servant of Pod host Nick Quah joins us.

We update you on the wildfires in the area, how one elementary school teacher started the school year and the latest on Hollywood, The Sequel with John Horn.

What CA lawmakers have been looking at this week, how COVID-19 has affected the Latino community and what you can do this weekend even with the heat.

We start in South L.A. where two LA County Sheriff's Deputies shot a Black man, what it's like to start college from home and it's throwback Thursday today.

Long Beach has agreed to pilot a UBI program, the story behind an Oscar winning actress working at an Amazon fulfillment center and Nick Quah joins us.

CA lawmakers end their last session, there's a new exhibit on firefighters in Riverside and John Horn joins us to discuss Hollywood, The Sequel.