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Press Play with Madeleine Brand, 100 episodes.

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What’s next for Israel after Arab parties’ historic gains

2

Dolores Huerta, powerful-yet-flawed labor leader, dies at 96

3

How America became a fearful nation that normalized white supremacy

4

Dexter Story’s tribute to the spiritual practice of fasting

5

Why is LAX’s People Mover such a boondoggle?

6

Meet Sunil Malhotra, the new voice of Apu on ‘The Simpsons’

7

John Green on what Hollywood’s fame machine does to young actors

8

Guitarist Julian Lage’s lessons from a lifetime of accolades

9

Steve Hilton on affordability, homelessness, and yes…that ad

10

Shiny ceilings. Flavortown! Burbank airport’s new terminal opens

11

“Lazy, unfunny, sexist.” Shane Gillis’ SNL monologue sparks outrage

12

Childhood nostalgia for Saudi Arabia on Bedouine’s new album

13

Low morale, suicide attempts: USS Abraham Lincoln comes home

14

Oct. 7 response looms over Netanyahu's reelection

15

Disney v. FCC, Skydance closes in big day for LA media giants

16

The Strokes were supposed to save rock ‘n’ roll. They didn’t

17

Recapping the final (and only) Becerra-Hilton debate

18

Bass and Raman’s differing views on Israel’s war in Gaza

19

'You don’t need to learn everything' to win on Jeopardy!

20

Baby monitoring tech also collects data

21

The tension and division when home ownership is out of reach

22

West Nile on the rise in LA. How concerned should we be?

23

Min Jin Lee on betrayal, class struggle in the Korean diaspora

24

Settlement clears the way for Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

25

Kahlo. Rockwell. Jabba the Hutt. Inside the new Lucas Museum

26

Rhea Seehorn finally gets Emmy love for ‘Pluribus’

27

‘Widow’s Bay’ cleans up, and makes history, at the Emmys

28

The Linda Lindas are growing up. And have a new album

29

Teaching 9/11 to a generation too young to remember it

30

How McCarthy-era 'Scoundrel' Roy Cohn shaped Donald Trump

31

LA County sues State Farm over Palisades, Eaton fire response

32

Press Play 'Producer's Cut': Ariana Morgenstern, Dan Tana's

33

How Black women inspired Gloria Steinem’s feminism

34

Former DOJ official: USPS ballot rejection unlikely to work

35

Why some LA renters are revolting against shared utilities

36

The science behind the perfect pop song

37

Yayoi Kusama’s polka dots and infinity rooms conquered the art world

38

LA’s 2000s nightlife and a more innocent pre-social media era

39

Remembering larger-than-life country music icon Dolly Parton

40

Paul Simon’s magnum opus ‘Graceland’ turns 40

41

Bass, Raman trade barbs throughout a testy mayoral debate

42

Why Pico-Robertson’s Orthodox Jews are scootering on Shabbat

43

Buss vs. Buss: Spicy sibling dispute over Lakers sale

44

Meta faces $1.4 trillion reckoning in ‘tobacco moment’ lawsuit

45

Air Force One switcheroo a ‘Russian nesting doll of scandal’

46

What Iceland’s melting glaciers teach us about time, memory

47

Jackie the eagle, P-22, and the allure of celebrity wildlife

48

Great outfits, street parties, swagger: Tana Yonas’ essential summer tracks

49

Eaton Fire victims’ lawyer thinks new report will encourage Edison to settle

50

Jane Schoenbrun’s campy and surrealistic take on teen slasher movies

51

New Queer Cinema pioneer Gregg Araki’s characters mirror his own life

52

Is big Hollywood back? ‘Spider-Man’ smashes box office records

53

Remembering LA icon Betye Saar, and how she saw race in America

54

Dan Tana’s daughters reflect on their dad’s singular restaurant

55

Europe is on fire. A coming heat wave could make it even worse

56

Homelessness is up in LA. What it means for the mayor’s race

57

No phonies here: Why ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ still resonates

58

Ross McElwee’s new film ‘Remake’ explores his son’s overdose

59

Jackie got jumped! Beloved Big Bear eagle recovering after attack

60

Summer spins with DJ, Stones Throw Records founder Peanut Butter Wolf

61

Eastsiders enraged as charred, rotting food stinks up Boyle Heights

62

What’s behind the Los Angeles Zoo’s doom loop

63

Angry voters. Corrupt leaders. Shakespeare’s ‘Coriolanus’ feels like a modern tragedy

64

What happens when a quarter of Congress is over 70

65

Why libraries still matter as LA Central Library turns 100

66

Why immigration arrests are surging again

67

AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood. Marketing gag, or existential threat?

68

White House mounts fierce push to reverse soccer star’s red card

69

Fireworks are illegal in LA. Why are they still everywhere?

70

‘A little bit of freedom’ as CA moves death row prisoners out of isolation

71

State Sen. Scott Wiener run out of a trans march over Gaza stance

72

How legendary producer Ariana Morgenstern shaped KCRW’s sound

73

Supreme Court puts thousands of Haitians at risk for deportation

74

Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, and sports’ most intense rivalry

75

Brexit begets ‘Bregret’: 10 years on, Brits feel buyer’s remorse

76

What’s in Boyle Heights fire’s toxic air spreading across LA?

77

Venezuelan artist Magdalena Suarez Frimkess is 96. And pissed.

78

Remembering Lorcan O’Herlihy, who built affordable housing that looked good

79

Yoko Ono at The Broad: An 'iconoclast' willing to do 'the strangest stuff'

80

Miles Davis’s nephew says his uncle’s fusion era is misunderstood

81

‘A global eclipse’: The World Cup arrives in Los Angeles

82

The eyebrow-raising ethics of a White House cage fight

83

Historian Ada Ferrer recounts her 9-year-old brother left behind in Cuba

84

Jakob Nowell on filling his late father’s shoes as Sublime’s frontman

85

The unpleasant experience of visiting Yosemite

86

Bass headed to runoff; Pratt says ‘I hope she’s ready’

87

Do YouTubers’ success in Hollywood threaten the studio system?

88

Spencer Pratt’s insurgent campaign reflects the anger of some Angelenos

89

Assessing Karen Bass's record on housing, public safety, fires

90

Political outsider Adam Miller promises more cops, fewer homeless in LA

91

Nithya Raman tries to forge a third way for LA between Bass, Pratt

92

How Monterey Park banned AI data centers

93

Chiara Barzini’s ‘Aqua’ chronicles LA’s water in peril

94

Mayoral hopeful Rae Huang vows to fire LAPD chief, make buses free

95

The many delights of Herb Alpert

96

Why the coming “Godzilla El Niño” could preview life on Earth in 2035

97

Sophy Romvari reimagines her family tragedy in ‘Blue Heron’

98

Meet the sculptor making a giant transgender Jesus out of chocolate

99

Jazz giant Arturo Sandoval still finds inspiration in his 70s

100

LA Metro’s decades-in-the-making D Line opens this weekend