The LA Report

In this weekend edition: Former dancers at a North Hollywood topless bar have filed with Actor's Equity to form the country's first stripper's union.

Los Angeles now has its first vegan deli and butcher. KPCC Weekend host Julia Paskin visit's Maciel's in Highland Park to try vegan pastrami and more. 

And we get a peek at the Jewish Deli exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center. 

This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.

Happy Friday! Here's what we're following today:

• Feds cut back Colorado River water supplies to Arizona, Nevada, and northern Mexico
• Taiwanese Presbyterian Church shooter pleads not guilty
• Extending "Project Roomkey"
• Algae bloom in Lake Elsinore prohibits swimming
• North Hollywood strippers seek to unionize

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Good morning! Here's what we're following:

• COVID cases continue to drop
• Monkeypox cases increase to over 1,000 in L.A. County
• Former LAPD officer who punched a man in the face two years ago pleads no contest to assault
• Boeing has entered a new agreement over cleaning up former Santa Susana Field Lab 
• L.A.'s only UNESCO World Heritage Site back open for public tours

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Here's what we're following today:

• Why did USC and UCLA athletics decide to leave the Pac-12 conference?
• Disney claims to top Netflix, with some questionable math
• How did Californians do during the first statewide power-saving Flex Alert of the year yesterday?
• A youth climate group and a one-time candidate for LA mayor are suing Rick Caruso
• Day 1 of "Carmageddon 2" on the 210 Freeway in Irwindale

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(Music by Anton_Vlasov from Pixabay)

Good morning! Here's what we're following:

• Parents of 8-year-old who was fatally injured in his classroom settle lawsuit against against Hacienda-La Puente USD for $18M
• New report says UC regents should have more say in campus decisions about athletics
• Lawsuit filed against L.A. mayoral candidate Rick Caruso's company
• Details on Anne Heche death
• Testimony continues in Kobe Bryant lawsuit
• North Hollywood strippers file petition to unionize

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Here's what we're following today:

• Statewide Flex Alert is coming
• Encampment ban gets final approval
• Judge keeps Herb Wesson off the L.A. City Council
• L.A. County's low monkeypox vaccine supply
• Preventing takeover and other dangerous stunts in Compton

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Here's what we're following this morning:

• Statewide Flex Alert takes effect today
• L.A. is on pace this year to exceed last year's record number of hate crimes
• Third person charged with murder in connection with the shooting death earlier this month of an off duty officer from Monterey Park
• Masks, weekly tests no longer required at LAUSD
• Annual passes for Disneyland go on sale tomorrow, with some changes
• An exhibit in downtown Los Angeles that spotlights the food of Mexican indigenous grandmothers has been given a grant to expand its reach.

This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.

Here's what we're following today:

• "Son of Carmageddon" coming to the 210
• The Mojave Inland Port idea
• Price increases for Disney annual pass holders
• Preserving indigenous languages

This program is made possible in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.