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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>KCRW News</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <atom:link href="https://feeds.kcrw.com/rss.xml" rel="self" /> <atom:link rel="hub" href="https://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /> <description><![CDATA[KCRW creates & curates music discovery, NPR news, cultural exploration and informed public affairs. From Los Angeles to around the world, KCRW.com.]]></description> <copyright>KCRW 2024</copyright> <image> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <url>https://feeds.kcrw.com/images/default-share-image/@@images/afe77326-52a0-4277-a31a-40aca5fb579e.png</url> <title>KCRW News</title> </image> <geo:lat>34.009276</geo:lat> <geo:long>-118.472869</geo:long> <language>en-us</language> <item> <title>Anaheim teacher layoffs: Who stays, who goes?</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/anaheim-high-layoffs?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Hundreds of teachers are facing potential layoffs amid low enrollment and financial constraints at the Anaheim Union High School District.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">e2e35c2204e84c29bc029cfb85a9c427</guid> <enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/news/ft/KCRW-kcrw_features-anaheim_high_layoffs-240507.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/news/ft/KCRW-kcrw_features-anaheim_high_layoffs-240507.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/@@images/de05b9ab-41d8-409a-93d7-a2a91089367c.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/@@images/466fdf25-4063-42aa-8a72-88c1ae6dd8a3.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Hundreds of teachers are facing potential layoffs amid low enrollment and financial constraints at the Anaheim Union High School District.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>UCLA overhauls security overhaul after pro-Palestinian camp attack</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-hollywood-joan-baez/ucla-safety?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>After violence broke out between pro-Palestinian activists and counter-protestors at UCLA, campus officials are launching its new Office of Campus Safety.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">06f112bed9ff4975a42d9af7e8b43338</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/ed607026-aeae-4a99-83d4-54da411dd194.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/3e63bf31-8cfb-438f-b837-efa80154432c.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>After violence broke out between pro-Palestinian activists and counter-protestors at UCLA, campus officials are launching its new Office of Campus Safety.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Joan Baez on mental health, childhood abuse, and Gaza protests</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-hollywood-joan-baez/when-you-see-my-mother?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Joan Baez talks about her poetry, memories of abuse, living with dissociative identity disorder, and abstaining from the Gaza protests on college campuses.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">40c49e7c750842c98b361e0f9887f8a4</guid> <enclosure length="23336332" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/pp/KCRW-press_play_with_madeleine_brand-when_you_see_my_mother-240506-segment-4.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/pp/KCRW-press_play_with_madeleine_brand-when_you_see_my_mother-240506-segment-4.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-hollywood-joan-baez/when-you-see-my-mother/@@images/0f6ea081-749f-43b6-b3d0-c8c0ab65cef9.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-hollywood-joan-baez/when-you-see-my-mother/@@images/4fc72b1e-ee6a-447e-b96f-83b0e72032bb.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Joan Baez is an icon of 1960s American folk music and a civil rights activist. She sang at the March on Washington in 1963, protested with Cesar Chavez in California, demonstrated against the Vietnam War, and performed at Woodstock in 1969. In her six-decade-long career, she has put out more than 30 albums and inspired many artists, including The Beatles and Lana Del Rey. She retired from touring in 2019, then turned to painting, drawing, and publishing books. Now she’s out with When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance: Poems . She wrote the collection of poems in the 1990s, while processing child abuse. The book title is also the title of one of the poems, which describes Baez’s mother as a young woman. The musician and writer tells KCRW that her mom loved classical music, particularly the work of Jussi Björling, a Swedish tenor. “[The poem is] the story of my mom meeting Björling at this imaginary dance. And my hand took off writing this thing. So it's a fantasy, but it's coming out of real-life feelings of my mom [for Björling], and we imagine in the poem that the feelings were reciprocal.” “When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance: Poems” is the title of Joan Baez’s new book and the title of a poem in it. Credit: David Gahr. Baez’s father, Albert, was a physicist and a professor, best known for his contributions to X-ray technology. At home, however, he had trouble connecting with the rest of the arts-driven family. At mid-life, Baez recovered memories of abuse from him and others, spanning more than six years. She says it’s important to understand what abuse does to a child’s mind and how long it can take to address it. “It took me till I was 50 to even admit there was something down there that was giving me phobias and insomnia, and all the things that are listed in the poetry book.” “Why was that all happening? Why was that all happening?” She asked herself. “And then I thought: Okay, it's down in there somewhere, let me see if I can go down and find it and deal with it, which is what I did. And it took years.” She continues, “They came very quickly for a number of years. And because they came in the form of multiple personalities, it was like my own family.” Baez herself was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, which can stem from childhood trauma. Many of the poems in When You See My Mother were written by “the entities,” a term Baez uses to describe the other personalities. That includes a 12-year-old German boy whose parents survived the Holocaust. A few personalities are still present, Baez says, but are now under control. Another poem in the book is titled “Judy,” and it’s based on a backstage moment between Baez and longtime folk musician and friend Judy Collins. In the piece, Baez is apologizing for not being there enough for Collins, who had lost her son Clark, 33, by suicide in 1992. Now, Baez says she’s focused on creating intimacy among her friends. “Friends that were hard for me to make back then. I have lots of very good friends now and I think that's something I couldn't have had years ago. But I do have now and I'm grateful for it.” This form of intimacy is different from romantic feelings, she points out. “In that sense, I do not have intimacy at the moment. But I do have it with friends with whom I'm closer than I ever was in the past.” “People are going to expect more political activism, etc., out of me in a poetry book, and it simply isn't there,” says Joan Baez. Credit: Dana Tynan. Baez points out that people would expect her to write about political activism in the poems — “and it simply isn’t there.” Still, she says she wants to be on the college campuses where Gaza protests have been recently occurring. “I'm sympathetic with all that. And I think: Well, wait a minute, I can't do that, I'm not a student. I don't even know if I would be welcome. So I'm itching to be there and knowing that at the moment, it's not where I need to be, for a lot of reasons.” She continues, “I think sometimes coming onto the campus when you’re [an] ‘outside agitator’ does more damage to them than good. I think with their ardent support of themselves as students, and that it is their campus, and that they have a right to be doing what they're doing on their campus, I think that probably needs to be respected.” Baez says these student protestors are brave, but she wishes they had been trained in nonviolence. “And if they were organized, [Martin Luther] King would have organized them, you don't let the police get the better of you by you shouting at them. That's all I can say.” If the student demonstrators stand their ground, Baez says some of their demands might possibly get fulfilled. “I'm all in favor of compromise. Gandhi said, ‘There's nothing wrong with compromise as long as you don't compromise your soul.’ So if the students can find ways to speak, keep things open, and get at least a portion of what it is they want — you get a portion, and then you keep fighting for the next chunk or the next chunk.” She continues, “First of all, they've already awakened a whole portion of this society, which really wasn't paying any attention, except in the most superficial way. So in a way, their job is already partly done. And then now hopefully, they can stay on it until they get more substantial gains.”</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>As students protest, California law could prevent divestment</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-hollywood-joan-baez/divestment-legal?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Student protesters are demanding universities divest from Israel. But in California, divestment may not be legally achievable because of a little-known civil rights law.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">48a1ffd3954d45a9a1b2bf0da735ba86</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/ed607026-aeae-4a99-83d4-54da411dd194.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/3e63bf31-8cfb-438f-b837-efa80154432c.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Student protesters are demanding universities divest from Israel. But in California, divestment may not be legally achievable because of a little-known civil rights law.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>We don’t want a strike but we’re ready, says IATSE propmaster</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-hollywood-joan-baez/iatse-propmaster?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Six months after the Hollywood strikes, film and TV productions are still down. Now IATSE is at the table with the AMPTP. Could a strike be on the horizon?</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">8c16edf825ad4324a88cc157d4f3c0c6</guid> <enclosure length="9340968" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/pp/KCRW-press_play_with_madeleine_brand-iatse_propmaster-240506-segment-3.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/pp/KCRW-press_play_with_madeleine_brand-iatse_propmaster-240506-segment-3.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-hollywood-joan-baez/iatse-propmaster/@@images/9af49584-a9ca-4d3d-8ed7-daba81a7ac27.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-hollywood-joan-baez/iatse-propmaster/@@images/c7ed22ec-bd61-42ae-9f0f-f66603d7f065.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Everyone was relieved when the Hollywood strikes ended in November 2023, but more than six months later, production is not back to normal, though it’s better now versus in January. Overall production was down 9% in the first quarter of 2024 compared to 2023, according to Film LA, the office that tracks production and issues permits. TV production, which is the main problem, has dropped 16%. Shows are shooting out-of-state for tax purposes, some series have been canceled, and less money exists for new pilots. Then there’s the threat of another strike — this time with International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), the union representing behind-the-scenes workers, like cinematographers, editors, hair and makeup artists, costume designers, grips, and gaffers. IATSE is asking for higher pay, better health and retirement benefits, and stronger AI protections. Chris Call is an IATSE member and 30-year-long propmaster. He lost months of work during last year’s strikes, and is now watching closely as his union negotiates. He spoke with KCRW in August 2023. Call is now grateful to be working on an NBC sitcom with regular pay. But looking back, he was jobless for more than a year. Others are still without a gig. For some, unemployment has also run out. “A lot of people have been out of work since the beginning of 2023 and are still out of work. I am grateful and blessed to have gotten on one of the very few shows that have started up in the new year. So I am back to work. But it was 13 months for me being out of work. It was very scary.” He adds that below-the-line crew members are stoic people who are used to adversity and change. “But this has taken people out that I can't even describe to the level of. People have lost their homes. They've been evicted. They're living in their cars. They've had their cars repossessed. They've had to move back home. Or they just had to change careers or retire early.” Nobody wants another strike, Call says. But in an economy with rising inflation — paired with watching SAG-AFTRA and the WGA contract negotiations — folks are hunkering down and prepared to fight. “As much as we don't want to have another strike, and it looks like we might be able to avert a strike … we're ready. We're going to do what it takes to get what we need because otherwise, we can't afford to stay in this business.” In the past, studios have offered a 3% wage increase, which Call says isn’t enough. “We lose more and more every negotiation. And I think this time out, everybody realizes that we have to fight for more because things aren't getting better. They're tightening across the board. And whatever film workers are left, we're going to need to have a decent contract to be able to provide the services that the studios need, and I think they understand that.”</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Museums must return Native American artifacts due to new law</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/native-museums?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>SoCal museums are reshaping exhibits as federal regulations now require them to secure Native American tribal consent before displaying cultural items.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">1fdbb70b73734896b0a8424137fdf55b</guid> <enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/news/ft/KCRW-kcrw_features-native_museums-240506.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/news/ft/KCRW-kcrw_features-native_museums-240506.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/native-museums/@@images/8b368360-bc38-4933-bd7b-fb60e0503ea3.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/native-museums/@@images/67dd018a-7fc8-44da-a129-7fe9bc0c013c.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>SoCal museums are reshaping exhibits as federal regulations now require them to secure Native American tribal consent before displaying cultural items.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Do LA voters want another sales tax to fight homelessness?</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/homeless-sales-tax-ballot-housing-solutions?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>A proposed half-cent sales tax would replace Measure H’s quarter-cent tax for homeless services in LA County, approved by voters in 2017.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">dbf4afddcae046378f3cbebbc20b680a</guid> <enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/news/ft/KCRW-kcrw_features-homeless_sales_tax_ballot_housing_solutions-240506.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/news/ft/KCRW-kcrw_features-homeless_sales_tax_ballot_housing_solutions-240506.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/homeless-sales-tax-ballot-housing-solutions/@@images/cd2b3717-2951-4fd7-82ae-fca2f49e7264.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/homeless-sales-tax-ballot-housing-solutions/@@images/721e76b3-3b94-45e3-bd2f-ee6a9a96e1aa.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>A proposed half-cent sales tax would replace Measure H’s quarter-cent tax for homeless services in LA County, approved by voters in 2017.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Uprooted: Climate migration and scientist activism</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/life-examined/climate-migration-activism-abraham-lustgarten-rose-abramoff?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Journalist Abraham Lustgarten and scientist-turned-activist Rose Abramoff discuss the impacts of climate research on human migratory patterns and activism.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">06cf9bd9bca04e70892902b0c97ab31f</guid> <enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" 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on human migratory patterns and activism.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Improving the environment to improve health</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/second-opinion/improving-the-environment-to-improve-health?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>The EPA has just passed some air pollution rules that could improve our American’s health.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 06:35:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">dcedec3f78a94c36929e2537d333905c</guid> <enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/so/KCRW-second_opinion-improving_the_environment_to_improve_health-240505.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/so/KCRW-second_opinion-improving_the_environment_to_improve_health-240505.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/second-opinion/@@images/554e3f0a-cec3-48df-b275-d77e8c7cce6d.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/second-opinion/@@images/abe898d3-7826-4bc7-bd0a-53a50915ebaa.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>The EPA has just passed some air pollution rules that could improve our American’s health.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Writer Jen Statsky shares the secrets to her ‘Hacks’ comedy success</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/ethan-hawke-jen-statsky-rashida-jones/hacks-interview?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Jen Statsky’s beloved Max sitcom “Hacks” is back for its darkly funny third season and she’s here to break it down for us.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid 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season. The series stars Emmy-winner Jean Smart as comedian Deborah Vance, now on a career comeback arc with the assistance of younger writer Ava Daniels (played by Hannah Einbinder). Jen Statsky is the series’ co-creator alongside Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello. Statsky’s prior writing credits include a number of fiercely beloved recent comedies including The Good Place, Broad City, and Parks and Recreation. Statsky tells The Treatment that one of the keys to Hacks’ success was Smart’s ability to convincingly play a comedy star. She also tells us about the city of Las Vegas as an additional and important character in the series. And she talks about the power dynamics and boundaries (or lack thereof) within all of the main characters’ relationships.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Rashida Jones on George Orwell's iconic ‘1984’</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/ethan-hawke-jen-statsky-rashida-jones/rashida-jones-george-orwell-1984?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Actress and producer Rashida Jones discusses the impact of George Orwell's dystopian (but prescient) novel 1984 on her life and creative work.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">0e4519fc724546f4a6acde8a489ff357</guid> <enclosure length="5473174" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/tt/KCRW-the_treatment-rashida_jones_george_orwell_1984-240504-segment-3.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/tt/KCRW-the_treatment-rashida_jones_george_orwell_1984-240504-segment-3.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/ethan-hawke-jen-statsky-rashida-jones/rashida-jones-george-orwell-1984/@@images/b2b47a92-77df-4fb8-abdd-f0b831badb13.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/ethan-hawke-jen-statsky-rashida-jones/rashida-jones-george-orwell-1984/@@images/57521c40-846c-4383-b2e7-707523cafaf8.jpeg" width="1460" height="819" /> <content:encoded>Actress and producer Rashida Jones is best known for her roles in the hit TV series Parks and Recreation and The Office. She’s also starred in the Kenya Barris comedy #blackAF. In 2018, she co-directed the Grammy-winning documentary Quincy about her legendary father, Quincy Jones. Her latest project is as executive producer of the Hulu series The Other Black Girl, adapted from the novel of the same name by Zakiya Dalila Harris. More: Rashida Jones on producing Hulu’s The Other Black Girl (The Treatment, 2024) For her Treat, Jones delves into the inspiration behind some of the more dystopian motifs in her projects. Drawing from George Orwell’s timeless 1984, she argues how futuristic fiction can serve as a magnifying glass for pressing societal issues. By fictionalizing and personalizing these narratives, she underscores their potential to symbolize historical and cultural ripple effects that can hopefully lead to change. More: Guest DJ Project: Rashida Jones This segment has been edited and condensed for clarity. A book that has influenced me my whole life is George Orwell's 1984. I read it in high school, and I think it was the first time that I understood that you could tell a story about something — fictionalize something and personalize something — that could represent a much larger human, historical, [and] cultural issue. I was obsessed with that book. And since that moment, all I want to do is think about dystopia. To what end? I don't know. But a lot of the things that I work on, whether it's The Other Black Girl or Black Mirror … I like to tell stories that feel like warnings about what could be possible. What could change, or how it could change really fast if we don't look at it closely. George Orwell's 1984. Photo credit: Creative Commons/Wikimedia I was such a rule follower growing up and what was especially resonant for me about 1984 was that there was this other angle that was like, 'if you follow the rules to the letter, and you completely shrink yourself as much as you can to these big brother rules, you'll be okay'. That was so funny. I didn't like that feeling. But I think especially for people who feel marginalized already, that ringing the alarm and being the rabble-rouser, the one who actually speaks up, and the consequence of that can be really terrifying. But I also think we live in a time now where you can do that and there's support behind that. I feel very lucky. I know there's a lot that's wrong in the world, but I feel very lucky to live in [the] time that we do in America. You can talk about these things, you can bring it up, you can find people who have similar experiences to you and not feel alone. You don't have to wilt away under the weight [or] the oppression of anything. That book is so iconic because it creates a whole world that isn't the world, but it is the world, and I don't know how he did that. But the fact that we still refer to things as Orwellian … Obviously all of his writing [is impactful], but that one in particular for me, hit hard. We see it in art and we see it in reality. That, to me, that's the whole point of being an artist. If you could be a writer that can live in those two worlds, that's it. So hopefully, one day I'll write something, not 1984, but something that can hit that hard, even just for myself or for a few people, I would be so lucky.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Ethan Hawke on the horror motifs of his Flannery O’Connor biopic ‘Wildcat’</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/ethan-hawke-jen-statsky-rashida-jones/wildcat-interview?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Ethan Hawke returns to “The Treatment” to fill us in on his latest directorial feature, “Wildcat”, a Flannery O’Connor biopic starring his daughter Maya Hawke.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">32eb4d3970234d1eaaa32925627e7db9</guid> <enclosure length="27360861" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/tt/KCRW-the_treatment-wildcat_interview-240504-segment-1.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/tt/KCRW-the_treatment-wildcat_interview-240504-segment-1.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/ethan-hawke-jen-statsky-rashida-jones/wildcat-interview/@@images/c876499b-782d-43a7-bbf9-55f3e3d2c9a6.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/ethan-hawke-jen-statsky-rashida-jones/wildcat-interview/@@images/0838164a-7c06-4e17-b55c-c618f73d70b8.jpeg" width="1460" height="819" /> <content:encoded>Actor and director Ethan Hawke cannot be pigeon-holed. Well-known for his collaborations with director Richard Linklater — including the Before trilogy and Boyhood — he’s also appeared as rookie police officer Jake Hoyt in the drama Training Day (for which he received an Oscar nod), questioning minister Ernst Toller in Paul Schrader’s First Reformed, and prep school student Todd Anderson in the Peter Weir directed Dead Poets Society. Troy Dyer, his character in the 1994 twenty-something slice-of-life comedy Reality Bites, is often cited as a shorthand for a definitional type of Gen X slacker dude. As director, Hawke helmed the recent documentary The Last Movie Stars — an in depth examination of the lives and work of husband/wife duo Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. And now he’s directed the film Wildcat about novelist Flannery O’Connor, which stars his daughter Maya Hawke as the struggling writer. Hawke tells The Treatment about the thrill of directing his daughter as well as Cooper Hoffman, son of the late actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who was a close friend of Hawke’s. He also tells us why he used horror film motifs in the film and how his experience of working with the “mystic” director Peter Weir early in his career was unforgettable. More: Actor and director Ethan Hawke on the personal and professional dynamics of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward (‘The Treatment’, 2022)</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>For vintage spirits collectors, bourbon can be liquid gold</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/cocktails-hollywood-movies-vintage-spirits-carnitas-barista-championship-cherries/dusty-booze-book-aaron-goldfarb?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>From Prohibition bourbon to dolce vita amaro, journalist Aaron Goldfarb follows collectors hunting for vintage spirits.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">9fbf4a81dc394b45bd99267515683e0a</guid> <enclosure length="10912913" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/gf/KCRW-good_food-dusty_booze_book_aaron_goldfarb-240503-segment-2.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/gf/KCRW-good_food-dusty_booze_book_aaron_goldfarb-240503-segment-2.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/cocktails-hollywood-movies-vintage-spirits-carnitas-barista-championship-cherries/dusty-booze-book-aaron-goldfarb/@@images/b5ec37a6-87c7-4e8c-9649-5a0e775daf96.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/cocktails-hollywood-movies-vintage-spirits-carnitas-barista-championship-cherries/dusty-booze-book-aaron-goldfarb/@@images/76ddd7ff-049c-4a29-b1d8-3333af513830.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>"A weird quirk of spirits history, but especially bourbon history, is that for most of its existence, it merely existed to be drunk," writes Aaron Goldfarb . But for some people, liquor is so much more. We're talking about the collectors, the completists, the people who haunt estate sales and flea markets, who travel thousands of miles, who pay massive sums to possess rare bottles distilled during their birth year, the teetotalers who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on exquisite liquors they'll never taste. Goldfarb focuses on these alcohol obsessives in his book, Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits . A bartender at Eleven Madison Park pours various Van Winkle bourbons. Photo by Kowarski/Flickr. He pinpoints 2010 as the moment the mania for vintage spirits took off. Bottles of Pappy Van Winkle began selling for outrageous prices as collectors sought out older vintages. "Unlike wine or beer, we don't exactly say that spirits age. We call them liquid time capsules because of their proof and the way they're made. Once they're bottled and someone opens them, you're literally tasting what a person would have tasted when it was bottled," Goldfarb says. From the 1960s to the 1980s, bourbon fell out of favor and was difficult to sell so distilleries started churning out gimmicky decanters to draw attention to their product. Many of those have become collectibles, like this chess set from Old Crow . Aaron Goldfarb explores why trends of modern collectors want to stock their liquor cabinets with vintage bottles. Photo by Cory Smith. "Prohibition radically changes both spirit production and collecting," Goldfarb says. During that era, several distilleries received special licenses to continue producing bourbon and rye, which they sold as "medicinal whisky." Prohibition also changed what was produced in America. Rye whisky dried up and the country became bourbon territory. Goldfarb names the defunct Stitzel-Weller Distillery as the "King of Kings" among bourbons. Operated by Julian Van Winkle Sr., it opened on Kentucky Derby Day in 1935 and survived until 1992. While neophytes may look down on Wild Turkey, bottles from the 1980s are highly coveted. "Dusty Booze: In Search of Vintage Spirits" follows collectors on the hunt for liquid time capsules. Photo courtesy of Abrams.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Meet Guadalupe Baez, LA's Carnitas Queen</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/cocktails-hollywood-movies-vintage-spirits-carnitas-barista-championship-cherries/carnitas-queen-guadalupe-baez-memo-torres?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Memo Torres of L.A. Taco introduces us to the Carnitas Queen of Los Angeles.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">ed81d1294e8c49d5b18e8b389bf4a749</guid> <enclosure length="9249017" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/gf/KCRW-good_food-carnitas_queen_guadalupe_baez_memo_torres-240503-segment-4.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/gf/KCRW-good_food-carnitas_queen_guadalupe_baez_memo_torres-240503-segment-4.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/cocktails-hollywood-movies-vintage-spirits-carnitas-barista-championship-cherries/carnitas-queen-guadalupe-baez-memo-torres/@@images/2b8b2296-8e46-476a-95a6-a2d7a82e12d6.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/cocktails-hollywood-movies-vintage-spirits-carnitas-barista-championship-cherries/carnitas-queen-guadalupe-baez-memo-torres/@@images/8fea53a9-efae-4c94-9edd-7dff2a06bddc.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>When we talk about great tacos, we generally talk about their flavor, texture, spice, and the warm hug of a fresh corn tortilla. Rarely do we talk about the strength it takes to cook 1,000 pounds of carnitas, rendering the meat in its own sizzling fat in a makeshift kitchen on a sidewalk while pressing handmade tortillas. That's exactly what Guadalupe Baez does every Sunday morning at Carnitas Los Gabrieles in Downtown LA. In a story for L.A. Taco , Memo Torres describes her as the Queen of Carnitas. With parents from Michoacán and Puebla, Baez decided to start making carnitas during her divorce so she could earn extra income. She reached out to her brothers and cousins, who taught her the basics, which had been passed down in their family for at least four generations. Although the pandemic threw a wrench into her plans, she eventually found a spot in a parking lot in DTLA's Piñata District. The lines grew and her small batches got bigger. With three locations, 18 employees, and a second-weekend pop-up in Pacoima, Baez is set to open her first brick-and-mortar Carnitas Los Gabrieles on Olympic Blvd. Making carnitas has traditionally been a male-dominated endeavor, Torres points out. Heavy pots and cooking that starts at 3 a.m. aren't for the faint of heart. The process also involves stewing lard, turning pounds of pork for hours in the coldest part of the night. Torres says it's like being "the blacksmith of taqueros."</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>It's cherry season in Southern California</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/cocktails-hollywood-movies-vintage-spirits-carnitas-barista-championship-cherries/farmers-market-report-cherries-clemence-de-lutz?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Clémence de Lutz heads to the farmer's market for cherries she can feature at Petit Grain Boulangerie, her new Santa Monica bakery.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">bbcc0c9db6e047deaf4f89f6dc391754</guid> <enclosure length="8704834" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/gf/KCRW-good_food-farmers_market_report_cherries_clemence_de_lutz-240503-segment-5.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/gf/KCRW-good_food-farmers_market_report_cherries_clemence_de_lutz-240503-segment-5.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/cocktails-hollywood-movies-vintage-spirits-carnitas-barista-championship-cherries/farmers-market-report-cherries-clemence-de-lutz/@@images/91f2ef37-7844-4704-8ac6-5c915a9e2d9f.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/cocktails-hollywood-movies-vintage-spirits-carnitas-barista-championship-cherries/farmers-market-report-cherries-clemence-de-lutz/@@images/7645a91f-fd4f-42b2-9ab9-d03c54b83e0c.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>What's in season at the farmers market this week? – Early Glen and Arvin Glen cherries ( Cherry Clafoutis ) – Artichokes ( Grilled Artichokes with Umami Butter ) – Green Garlic ( Pork Tenderloin with Grilled Green Garlic ) It's the most exciting time of the year in Southern California. Cherries are here, which means stone fruit season has officially begun. Clémence de Lutz of the Gourmandise School has just opened a new bakery in Santa Monica along with partner Tony Hernadez. Located on Wilshire Blvd. and 12th St., Petit Grain Boulangerie officially started serving May 1. The bakery focuses on classic French pastries as well as some Mexican sweets, like conchas. All the pastries feature at least 20% whole grain flour grown in California. On opening day, lines stretched down the block for cherry clafoutis croissants and hand pies with almond frangipane and cherry compote. De Lutz shops for cherries at Murray Family Farms . Steven Murray Jr. is a sixth-generation California farmer. His cherries, which are grown in Bakersfield, are the first to market in North America. To make sure they can harvest the cherries early, the growing process involves reflective tarps, pruning techniques, high-calcium clay used as a sunscreen, and overhead misting with winter chilling. All this work brings the cherries to market a mere seven days earlier but the profits are considerable. Early Glen and Arvin Glen cherries are available now but the farm grows 60 varieties of cherries, which will be available through June 5. Murray is seeing three times as much fruit as last year.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>How Old Hollywood made cocktails look cool</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/cocktails-hollywood-movies-vintage-spirits-carnitas-barista-championship-cherries/old-hollywood-cocktails-movies-hadley-meares?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Historian Hadley Meares looks at how Hollywood sips cocktails on the big screen.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">51bb14f2886c4dadb2b6d823c6ec6084</guid> <enclosure length="15344952" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/gf/KCRW-good_food-old_hollywood_cocktails_movies_hadley_meares-240503-segment-1.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/gf/KCRW-good_food-old_hollywood_cocktails_movies_hadley_meares-240503-segment-1.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/cocktails-hollywood-movies-vintage-spirits-carnitas-barista-championship-cherries/old-hollywood-cocktails-movies-hadley-meares/@@images/9d50fa0c-ebd7-4bea-9b9f-94f9464ea2c3.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/cocktails-hollywood-movies-vintage-spirits-carnitas-barista-championship-cherries/old-hollywood-cocktails-movies-hadley-meares/@@images/45d10690-a547-4be2-b767-13d8053f7bbb.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Whether it's Humphrey Bogart's French 75 in Casablanca, Audrey Hepburn's Mississippi Punch in Breakfast at Tiffany's or James Bond's martini (shaken not stirred, of course), old Hollywood movies had a way of making cocktails look like the apex of leisure and sophistication. Historian Hadley Meares looks at how Hollywood sips cocktails on the big screen. Evan Kleiman: So much of my enjoyment of watching old movies involve moments of people making and sipping drinks. There's something about the whole process, how people hold their glasses, hold the shaker, how they add the ingredients. It adds this whole other layer to the reality that's being created. Hadley Meares: Absolutely. I think it's really stuck in a lot of the American psyche, particularly the old movies where they drank all the time. There was a lot of drinking of cocktails to watch. People always think of old movies as promoting smoking but they also promoted drinking cocktails. When did cocktails show up on the screen? It's really interesting. There's this really cool lady named Cheryl Charming , who owns this blog called Miss Charming . She charts the evolution of cocktails and alcohol throughout the movies. According to her, one of the earliest examples she could find is in 1917. It's an early film called The Adventurer . Charlie Chaplin makes what seems to be a whiskey and soda. That is probably one of the earliest examples of someone drinking an actual mixed drink on the screen. Then, during the 1920s, it's the height of Prohibition. One of the ways people could escape and dream of a time when they could have fun again was to go see flappers like Louise Brooks, Joan Crawford, and Clara Bow drinking with abandon, drinking martinis, drinking all these wonderful drinks in speakeasies and nightclubs. It really promoted the idea that adults should be able to drink, that this is something we can enjoy. Actor David Niven drank his way through Hollywood's Golden Age in films such as "My Man Godfrey" (1957). Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures. Then you get into the 1930s and there's the repeal of Prohibition, which many people feel the movies helped happen because they glamorized drinking to such an extent. The 1930s is absolutely my favorite era of cocktail drinking. You see stars in screwball comedies and musicals like The Awful Truth and My Man Godfrey , having these lovely, elegant drinks at all times of the day. It's just so evocative of this kind of person we all secretly wish we could be, right? That's my favorite era too. Nick and Nora Charles, William Powell and Myrna Loy in anything. They're my favorite onscreen duo of all time. William Powell and Myrna Loy co-starred in several Thin Man movies in which they drank cocktails with abandon. After this interview, I'm going to have to go watch one of those movies. The way that drinking was portrayed in these older movies tells us a lot about class and social status in America. Those William Powell and Myrna Loy movies were light years away from a Western where a bottle of rocket whiskey would be plunked on the bar. Absolutely. It told us a lot about class, class signifiers, and cocktails. If you saw a character holding a cocktail, you could instantly place them in the social hierarchy of the day, especially during the Depression, when people were probably drinking whatever cheap beer or cheap liquor they could find. The fact that people had these mixed drinks that were exotic and took time to make was really appealing and exciting. Nick and Nora Charles are the ultimate power couple in movies in the 1930s. The Thin Man series is one of my personal favorites, with William Powell and Myrna Loy playing Nick and Nora Charles, who are, if we think about it, functional alcoholics. They drink all day. They're this ultimate fantasy couple. They're independently wealthy. They're madly in love. They're witty and they solve murders (that don't really seem to impact anybody) for fun. And they would, in particular, drink martinis and Manhattans and highballs. One of my favorite scenes in any movie is in the first Thin Man , in 1934, when Nora meets Nick at a bar and she says, "How many drinks have you had?" He says, "Well, this will make six martinis." Nora goes to the bartender, "All right, will you bring me five more martinis and line them up right here?," which to me is such a signifier of women's liberation. She can give [as good as she gets] and she can drink as good as the guy can. They're true equals. Let's get specific, starting with Mary Pickford. One of the most popular drinks during Prohibition was named after her. What's in it? Tell us a bit about who she was and how this particular drink came to be named after her. Mary Pickford was the biggest star in the world during the 1910s and '20s. She was America's sweetheart. She was the girl with the golden curls. She played a lot of child characters long after she was a child. But she was also an incredibly savvy businesswoman. She helped direct and write and produce so many of her works. So it's really appropriate that the Mary Pickford Cocktail is a sweet pink drink with a real kick. It's white rum, pineapple juice, grenadine, and maraschino liqueur. What I love about it is that during the 1920s, drinking was becoming more popular for women. Speakeasies were actually much more mixed between men and women than bars had been. So it was very appropriate that they started targeting cocktails specifically towards women. And who better to target them with then America's #1 female at the time, who was Mary Pickford? The Shirley Temple, made with soda, grenadine syrup and a cherry, remains a popular non-alcoholic drink, especially among children. Photo via Shutterstock. On the non-alcoholic side, there's the Shirley Temple. As a child, I couldn't wait to be mature enough to drink a Shirley Temple. How did this cocktail come to be? And what did its namesake think of it? As someone who no longer drinks, I have drunk a lot of Shirley Temples for the past 11 years. I also like a Roy Rogers , which is a variation named after another star. Legend has it that Shirley Temple was always having to go to these fancy Hollywood restaurants with her parents. One day, she was whining about how her parents were getting to drink these delicious looking Old Fashioneds and she wanted one. So the waitstaff, to appease her, mixed a version that had no alcohol in it. It was ginger ale and grenadine with a maraschino cherry on top, just like an Old Fashioned . So the Shirley Temple became this universal thing that children got on special occasions. You were so excited to drink this drink named after the greatest child star in the world. What's so funny is Shirley would say she was often served it as a joke when she'd go places, and she absolutely came to hate it. She said it was way too sweet. Then, in 1988, there was an attempt to make a bottled version of the Shirley Temple, and she actually brought a civil suit against it , saying all a celebrity has is their name. I think she got quite annoyed with her name being associated with a drink that she didn't even like. In Casablanca, Rick (Humphrey Bogart) orders a French 75, an act of resistance to the Nazis. Tell us about Humphrey Bogart and that French 75 in Casablanca. Why do you think the screenwriters or the director, Michael Curtiz, picked this particular drink for that particular scene? Casablanca is really the ultimate, to me, bar movie. "Of all the gin joints in all the world." At one point, someone asks Rick, "What is your nationality?" And he says, "I'm a drunkard." I think why he orders that French 75 , which is champagne with gin, lemon, and simple syrup, is because at that point in the movie, his ex-girlfriend, Yvonne, shows up with a new guy who happens to be a Nazi. Then, he orders a French 75. What was a French 75 named after? It was named after a field cannon used by the French against the Germans in World War I. So drinking a French 75 is an act of subtle resistance on Rick's part, which you see him doing throughout the movie in his own cynical, laconic way, trying to get up the courage to fight the good fight and beat the Nazis. Do you think there are any downsides to these depictions of drinking and movies? Well, of course. You can't drink like Nick and Nora Charles all day and be a functional human being. It was totally unreal to assume that people could drink at the level that these folks did in movies and have a productive life. You do start to see, in the 1940s, as Alcoholics Anonymous becomes more popular, a spate of anti-drinking movies showing what can go wrong — The Lost Weekend , The Days of Wine and Roses . They did start to slowly say, hey, there's also a bad side to having 10 cocktails a day. But it was just too much fun to watch these people drinking, so it took a long time for things to change. Dean Martin was famous for having a drink in his hand when he was on stage but it may have been a prop. Here, Martin (far right) and his wife, Jeanne, celebrate the upcoming marriage of Nancy Davis (left) to Ronald Reagan in 1952. They're at Ciro's Nightclub on the Sunset Strip with, presumably, real cocktails. Photo courtesy of the Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library Collection. There were so many movie stars who made drinking throughout the day their entire identity. One thinks of Humphrey Bogart, Dean Martin, Bette Davis. How did that play out for them in real life? Not so well. A lot of times, drinking too much can lead to dependence on alcohol. Bogey reportedly said, "The whole world is three drinks behind and I'd like them to catch up." But a lot of people said even though he was known to be a very heavy drinker and that he'd get into a lot of fights (he was a person who loved to needle people anyway), so add alcohol into that, and it was explosive, they actually say he didn't drink quite as much as he pretended to. Dean Martin is the same. A lot of people say when Dean Martin was drinking his Scotch on the rocks, a lot of times it was apple juice with ice on stage. Shirley MacLaine, who was a co-star and good friend of his makes a really good point in her autobiography that she felt that the drunk persona for Dean was a way to free himself up, to be able to be crazy and silly and not a traditional, stoic Italian male on stage. So even if he wasn't drunk, getting to pretend he was drunk was liberating for him. That's so interesting. I'm a martini gal, and there may be no one who made a single drink more iconic than James Bond with the martini and the very specific way he liked it to be prepared. How did 007 impact cocktail culture? Enormously. In the '60s, when the first Bond movie, Dr. No , comes out, Americans don't really drink vodka. They see him with this vodka martini, "shaken, not stirred," and it becomes all the rage. People start drinking this drink that had before been associated with Russia and the cold and not at all with the apex of daring and sophistication. A martini made with Kina Lillet was the drink Ian Fleming invented for superspy James Bond. Photo by Ambitious Studio, Rick Barrett/Unsplash. Then, in Casino Royale , Bond orders a Vesper Martini, which I've read is his actual drink. What is the Vesper Martini and why do you think he deviated from a standard martini? Actually, the Vesper Martini is the drink that is originally written about in the Ian Fleming books. It's claimed Ian Fleming made the drink up. A Vesper Martini is three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, and half a measure of the liqueur Kina Lillet . Kina Lillet is not made anymore. It was a liqueur made with white wine mixed with fruit liqueurs and flavored with quinine. So I think Ian Fleming created this specific, intriguing drink to match the man himself. Now, if you want to have a Vesper Martini, you have to improvise a little bit because Kina Lillet isn't made anymore. So you have to use Lillet Blanc or something else to take the place of Kina Lillet. And a splash of tonic water. Yes, with a little splash of tonic. If we move forward in cinema history, in the late '80s, Cocktail comes out starring Tom Cruise as this super flashy bartender. The most famous drink in that movie is the Red Eye, a hangover cure . How well do you think Cocktail depicts what was going on in that moment with cocktails? I think it actually depicts them very well. Cocktails in the 1980s, you think Margaritaville, right? You think syrupy, bright blue, and in these huge, obnoxious goblets. It's the ultimate opposite of 1930s refinement and class and little Nick and Nora highball glasses. It's completely different. I think it captured how cocktails, which had once been this quite sophisticated thing, became more of an emblem of young party culture, spring break, tropical vacations. It became totally different and had a totally different reason for being considered fun than what it was in the '20s and '30s. Now, all of these different cocktail cultures live side by side. It's really fascinating. Everybody picks their niche of which time period of cocktails they want to emulate. It's still a class symbol. It's still a way of showing that you take time to prepare things and that you enjoy the finer things in life or that you're a good time party girl who just wants a giant Pina Colada. Exactly. I have to ask you about what was, to me, one of the weirdest synergies of movie character and drink — the White Russian in The Big Lebowski . Tell us a little bit about that drink and what it tells us about the character of the Dude. I used to love a White Russian , which is vodka, Kahlua, and cream, which the Dude refers to in the movie as the Caucasian. Apparently the reason they chose that for the Dude as his signature drink was partially because the character of the Dude was based on a guy named Jeff Dowd, who's a producer and a political activist. He had this brief, very intense obsession with the White Russian. So that's why they chose the White Russian. I think it's perfect because at the time the movie was made, it was not a cool drink. It's very heavy. It's kind of gross with all of that heavy cream. So it's the perfect iconoclastic weird thing for such a specific character to love. He couldn't drink a martini or a beer. Both of those are too basic. No way. Thank you so much, Hadley. I have loved this conversation. I had so much fun. I guess I'll have a Shirley Temple, now. And I'm gonna go watch The Thin Man.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Frank La reps the US in the 2024 World Barista Championship</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/cocktails-hollywood-movies-vintage-spirits-carnitas-barista-championship-cherries/frank-la-barista-championship-be-bright-coffee?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Frank La of Be Bright Coffee heads to Busan to compete in the World Barista Championship.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">f5e3754f30484ac3a4270efddedd2806</guid> <enclosure length="10576874" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/gf/KCRW-good_food-frank_la_barista_championship_be_bright_coffee-240503-segment-3.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/gf/KCRW-good_food-frank_la_barista_championship_be_bright_coffee-240503-segment-3.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/cocktails-hollywood-movies-vintage-spirits-carnitas-barista-championship-cherries/frank-la-barista-championship-be-bright-coffee/@@images/14fb065e-8275-4362-8f5a-ba0cb5e47002.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/cocktails-hollywood-movies-vintage-spirits-carnitas-barista-championship-cherries/frank-la-barista-championship-be-bright-coffee/@@images/eb9128fc-8717-4561-a140-c9fa534af932.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>In March 2024, Frank La of Be Bright Coffee took first place in the Barista Championship at the U.S. Coffee Championships . The victory earned him a spot in the World Barista Championship , which takes place May 1-4, in Busan, South Korea. Contenders for the U.S. Barista Championship have 15 minutes to present an espresso, a milk beverage, and a signature beverage to four sensory judges. The drinks can be presented in any order but each competitor must give a TED Talk-like presentation while preparing the coffee. Two tech judges follow the barista to make sure technique and protocols are followed. La first presented an espresso using Ombligon , a relatively new variety of Colombian coffee produced by Nestor Lasso. In Spanish, the variety translates to "bellybutton" because it's named for the dimple in the coffee cherries. La describes the floral, aromatic, candy-like sweetness of the roast: "It tasted almost like a Haribo gummy bear." He extracted it over frozen spheres to capture more compounds. He used the same espresso for the cortado but used more coffee in his basket to bring an intensity to the flavor and shortened his extraction. Tasted on its own, it would be sour and tart, La explains. When a lactose-free milk is added, it harmonizes with the espresso. He froze the milk and let it defrost in the refrigerator for two days then evaporated it. "What the judges are looking for is synergy with your coffee," La says of his high-scoring signature beverage. There needs to be a purpose behind the ingredients. La also served a long-pulled espresso that he cooled then combined with a milk punch made with Oolong tea, a grape cheong that sat for 200 hours, and a coffee saccharum. To prepare for the national competition, La says he practiced pulling the three coffees more than 50 times. Located around the corner from Pink's Hot Dogs, Be Bright Coffee sits along trendy Melrose Ave., ready to sate your caffeine fix. Photo courtesy of Be Bright Coffee.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>US traffic of guns turns productive Mexicans into desperate refugees</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence/us-guns-mexicans-refugees-ieva-jusionyte?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>The solution to Trump's exploitable border crisis is to end the US trafficking of guns for drugs that turns productive Mexicans into desperate refugees.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">d0cd8d5fa6d2411b8a355b7dd78dab90</guid> <enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/si/KCRW-scheer_intelligence-us_guns_mexicans_refugees_ieva_jusionyte-240503.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/si/KCRW-scheer_intelligence-us_guns_mexicans_refugees_ieva_jusionyte-240503.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence/us-guns-mexicans-refugees-ieva-jusionyte/@@images/910dfd47-e8e4-406e-80e5-a82b70974fa3.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence/us-guns-mexicans-refugees-ieva-jusionyte/@@images/cd192684-6736-4df8-ab02-8cc521cfa13e.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>The solution to Trump's exploitable border crisis is to end the US trafficking of guns for drugs that turns productive Mexicans into desperate refugees.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Tim Robbins hopes to bring unity through ‘Topsy Turvy’ play</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/tim-robbins?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Writer and director Tim Robbins explores comedy, drama, and modern woes in a new stage play, “Topsy Turvy,” from The Actors’ Gang .</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">6aba2d6b3e77435986a309fe5346cb45</guid> <enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/news/ft/KCRW-kcrw_features-tim_robbins-240503.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/news/ft/KCRW-kcrw_features-tim_robbins-240503.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/@@images/de05b9ab-41d8-409a-93d7-a2a91089367c.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/@@images/466fdf25-4063-42aa-8a72-88c1ae6dd8a3.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Writer and director Tim Robbins explores comedy, drama, and modern woes in a new stage play, “Topsy Turvy,” from The Actors’ Gang .</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>US campus protests: Drawing too much attention away from Gaza?</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/left-right-center/us-campus-protests-lgbtq-idaho?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Have media outlets gone overboard in their coverage of campus protests? What’s at stake in (another) legal battle between states and the White House?</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">087de794dc4146c9b6b5e17699c71290</guid> <enclosure length="11731695" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/1CCGC6/dovetail.prxu.org/241/4f16a988-bdd2-40ac-9efb-97caa14e2058/KCRW_left_right_center_us_campus_protests_drawing_too_much_attention_away_from_gaza_240503_1of3_1_.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/1CCGC6/dovetail.prxu.org/241/4f16a988-bdd2-40ac-9efb-97caa14e2058/KCRW_left_right_center_us_campus_protests_drawing_too_much_attention_away_from_gaza_240503_1of3_1_.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/left-right-center/us-campus-protests-lgbtq-idaho/@@images/db872924-463c-4b70-b189-65910091a47a.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/left-right-center/us-campus-protests-lgbtq-idaho/@@images/3b4a2562-dafe-4a84-b061-56362176443b.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Have media outlets gone overboard in their coverage of campus protests? What’s at stake in (another) legal battle between states and the White House?</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Weekend film reviews: ‘The Fall Guy,’ ‘I Saw the TV Glow’</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/film-reviews/fall-guy-tv-glow-evil-does-not-exist-mars-express?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>The latest film releases include The Fall Guy, I Saw the TV Glow, Evil Does Not Exist, and Mars Express.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">6b7e3be664624feb9caed63b10318af5</guid> <enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/fr/KCRW-film_reviews-fall_guy_tv_glow_evil_does_not_exist_mars_express-240503.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/fr/KCRW-film_reviews-fall_guy_tv_glow_evil_does_not_exist_mars_express-240503.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/film-reviews/fall-guy-tv-glow-evil-does-not-exist-mars-express/@@images/8a9774d6-c45d-4ee9-b738-3e234c42b5e4.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/film-reviews/fall-guy-tv-glow-evil-does-not-exist-mars-express/@@images/bf4e429b-ab48-42ff-94b5-c93d1945242e.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>The latest film releases include The Fall Guy, I Saw the TV Glow, Evil Does Not Exist, and Mars Express. Weighing in are William Bibbiani, film critic for the Wrap and co-host of the Critically Acclaimed Network, and Monica Castillo, freelance film critic and senior film programmer at the Jacob Burns Film Center.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Pam Grier: On ‘Them,’ Blaxploitation, and Tarantino</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-business/pam-grier-comcast/them-the-scare-blaxploitation-foxy-brown?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>The legendary action film star discusses why she found playing her role in season 2 of Prime’s horror anthology “Them” was scarier than she expected.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">8dfb6a65e2cf4bd597adecccaca1e510</guid> <enclosure length="8143097" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/tb/KCRW-the_business-them_the_scare_blaxploitation_foxy_brown-240503-segment-2.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/tb/KCRW-the_business-them_the_scare_blaxploitation_foxy_brown-240503-segment-2.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-business/pam-grier-comcast/them-the-scare-blaxploitation-foxy-brown/@@images/3ef99029-d811-41e8-bcd4-cab6a81ae551.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-business/pam-grier-comcast/them-the-scare-blaxploitation-foxy-brown/@@images/9f8db9af-dc6f-4baf-a7c5-a7274a7c1c99.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Eric Deggans speaks to Pam Grier, the legendary Blaxploitation film star known for ‘70s movies like Coffy and Foxy Brown. The actress now appears in the second season of Prime Video’s horror anthology series, Them: The Scare. She found that playing the role was scarier than she expected. “It gave me such stress. I had a nosebleed at one point. I was shaking. I was breaking out in a rash like, ‘I don't know how much I can do. But I've got to finish it. I've committed and if I can not have them send me to the hospital, we're good,’” Grier jokes. 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But Silicon Valley’s “wide and deep” ties to Israel complicates that demand.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Why Comcast’s NBA TV plans made Warner Bros. Discovery’s stock crash</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-business/pam-grier-comcast/warner-discovery-nba-tv-paramount-merger?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Plus, major changes continue at Paramount as a potential merger inches closer.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">e3c0e4e6ed1a4eb5833fc106ef4b84e5</guid> <enclosure length="19212746" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/tb/KCRW-the_business-warner_discovery_nba_tv_paramount_merger-240503-segment-1.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/tb/KCRW-the_business-warner_discovery_nba_tv_paramount_merger-240503-segment-1.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-business/pam-grier-comcast/warner-discovery-nba-tv-paramount-merger/@@images/5825c168-3791-4fe1-a072-8d2bf794fa63.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-business/pam-grier-comcast/warner-discovery-nba-tv-paramount-merger/@@images/1542e9fb-a9bd-4290-933d-e501bda581da.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Warner Bros. Discovery’s stock took a major tumble after an announcement that Comcast is preparing a competitive bid for NBA TV rights. Why is that such a big deal for WBD CEO David Zaslav and co.? Also: Major changes continue at Paramount as a potential merger inches closer. What led to Paramount CEO Bob Bakish stepping down and being replaced by an interim trio of executives? Kim Masters and Matt Belloni investigate. Comcast’s half-court shot? After years of broadcasting NBA games on TNT, Warner Bros. Discovery might be facing competition from Comcast, who reportedly is planning to bid more than double what the studio currently pays. “It's a $2.5 billion-a-year offer from Comcast to take over the TNT package of games, which will probably even be a little smaller, because they're carving out a third package that is likely going to go to Amazon, and Disney will take its package for ESPN and its over-the-top service. So that is a huge development and the stock of Warner Discovery dropped 10% on that news,” Belloni says. Your move, WBD? Comcast’s planned bid comes at a costly time for Warner Bros. Discovery, making a counter bid an expensive proposition. “Zaslav has been laboring to cut the crippling debt that was put onto this company in this deal that combined Discovery and Warner Brothers, and now having to potentially shell out so much more for basketball… That is not a good thing for them,” Masters speculates. What led to Paramount’s demise? After inheriting Paramount Global from her late father Sumner Redstone, Shari Redstone may have been tasked with Mission: Impossible, as Masters puns. “I guess the question is, ‘Is she not capable? Or was it Mission: Impossible, to use a Paramount movie?’ I lean a little bit toward it probably was impossible,” she says. “And yet her leadership, putting Bob Bakish in charge… Who was Bob Bakish to run that company? He made a lot of decisions that were mystifying. Not selling off Showtime being a huge example where they could have got a few billion dollars. It just has been a succession of errors and bad luck.”</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Weekend film reviews: ‘The Fall Guy,’ ‘I Saw the TV Glow’</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-womens-health-entertainment/fall-guy-tv-glow-evil-does-not-exist-mars-express?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Critics review the latest film releases: “The Fall Guy,” “I Saw the TV Glow,” “Evil Does Not Exist,” and “Mars Express.”</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">4670a25a45014912842bc7cf3b4254b6</guid> <enclosure length="16445439" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/pp/KCRW-press_play_with_madeleine_brand-fall_guy_tv_glow_evil_does_not_exist_mars_express-240502-segment-4.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/pp/KCRW-press_play_with_madeleine_brand-fall_guy_tv_glow_evil_does_not_exist_mars_express-240502-segment-4.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-womens-health-entertainment/fall-guy-tv-glow-evil-does-not-exist-mars-express/@@images/7fb13103-38cf-40b1-bb7d-612ad962d4c6.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-womens-health-entertainment/fall-guy-tv-glow-evil-does-not-exist-mars-express/@@images/80c70cd0-bace-4246-90ab-7bc90149be06.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>The latest film releases include The Fall Guy, I Saw the TV Glow, Evil Does Not Exist, and Mars Express. Weighing in are William Bibbiani, film critic for the Wrap and co-host of the Critically Acclaimed Network, and Monica Castillo, freelance film critic and senior film programmer at the Jacob Burns Film Center. The Fall Guy Ryan Gosling plays a Hollywood stuntman working on a film directed by his ex-girlfriend (Emily Blunt). Then the lead actor disappears, throwing the production into turmoil. Director David Leitch also got his Hollywood start as a stuntman. Castillo: “Any attention that we can give [to] … the folks behind the scenes, the more the merrier. However, I felt The Fall Guy fell short of my expectations. … I think Ryan Gosling knocks it out of the park … he's just so charismatic, and he really carries this movie effortlessly. But there's moments in between the explosions and his charming moments that just felt lackluster in comparison. And I wish they would have given Emily Blunt a little bit more after she totally killed it in Oppenheimer.” Bibbiani: “What I think is interesting, and what I actually liked about The Fall Guy, is that unlike a lot of action movies, where it's all about pumping up the stakes, this is actually mostly a farce about Hollywood. And the gag is that we're just going to force this stunt guy to do all of these things ‘in real life’ that he would normally only have to do for a movie. And I think that this really is just poking fun at the industry. … There's a line in the movie where someone asked, ‘Hey, do you stunt people get Oscars?’ And Ryan Gosling has to say, ‘No, we don't.’ And stunt people have been asking for an Academy Award for … a couple of decades now at least, and they're not getting the respect that they deserve. And I feel likeThe Fall Guy is specifically stuntpeople trying to make sure the mainstream knows that they risked their lives to give us the movies that we enjoy, and that they deserve more credit and respect. And I think they do so with a certain amount of wit and humor. I guess mileage might vary about whether or not you think it's funny, but I had a blast.” I Saw the TV Glow This psychological thriller follows two teenage friends obsessed with a fictional TV series called The Pink Opaque in the late 1990s. But after the show is mysteriously canceled, their reality begins to blur. Jane Schoenbrun, who identifies as non-binary, wrote and directed. Bibbiani: “I wouldn't be surprised if this is the best film of 2024. I absolutely was hypnotized. … About half of the movie feels like a plausible, dramatic tale about the way that people live vicariously through their art when they feel young and oppressed, and they cannot express themselves. And then halfway through the film, there's a time jump, and we catch up with them a few years later, and every single thing we've seen starts to be questioned, and the movie starts becoming a lot more surreal. This is rather obviously, I think, an allegory for the trans experience. But at the same time, it has a significant number of levels that run everything from metacritique to just any coming-of-age story. I think this movie is relatable to anybody. But more than anything else, I feel that we're watching a filmmaker who is especially fascinated with the interests and the preoccupations of a generation whose interests and preoccupations have not necessarily been treated well by other filmmakers. It feels like we just keep getting shoved nostalgia. And this is a movie … about watching TV in the 1990s, and it isn't nostalgic. It is pained and it is observant.” Castillo: “I am a millennial. … And I love, love, love, love, love this movie. Co-sign everything. … It's just such an incredible world that you're immersed in. I also wanted to give cinematographer Eric Yue some attention because he and Jane really create this fantastic realm. The TV show within the movie looks incredible, and it looks like of that time, the color palette that they're playing with is this beautiful jewel tone that glows and captivates no matter what's going on onscreen. … And gosh, the emotions of this movie — I don't think I've cried as hard yet this year so far as I have in this movie.” Evil Does Not Exist A man and his daughter live in a peaceful Japanese village, then real estate developers arrive and announce a plan to build a glamping resort there. The trailer describes the film as a thriller about “the violations of nature.” Ryusuke Hamaguchi, who won an Oscar for Drive My Car, is the director. Castillo: “It's just so immersive in that struggle, explaining the different ways that we affect each other as people without even thinking about it. … It is very much of a thriller, even though it is very meditative. … You get to really see this rural area, and you then get invested in this struggle because you don't want to lose that imagery … that nature that's so precious to these people.” Bibbiani: “I'm getting completely immersed and sucked into the story, much of it is about very, very subtle things. And then by the end of the film … I had to just sit for 20 minutes and think about it. It all added up to something a little unexpected for me.” Mars Express In this animation, a detective is investigating the disappearance of his college-aged daughter and her friend in the 23rd century. Bibbiani: “It definitely has Ghost in the Shell vibes, it definitely has Blade Runner vibes. It's science fiction about robots. … I was actually really impressed with the way this film found its own personality and created its own world. … It is about a detective … who is living on Mars in the future, Earth is uninhabitable. And they live side-by-side with robots, but also a different class of robots, which are people who died but downloaded their consciousness into a robot so that they can continue living. And over the course of the film, someone is jailbreaking robots, which is to say giving them free will and the ability to hurt humans if they want to. … The world that they have created is highly detailed and unusual, yet incredibly easy to get into and understand. And it concludes in a way that is both exciting and somewhat transcendent.” Castillo: “I was so wrapped up in the mystery of it all, the whole world-building of it is really interesting, the fact that they are addressing AI clones and what that means, and using AI to sustain people's memory and presence on Earth, even though their physical form is no longer there, that gets really interesting and emotional. For a short run time, it's very powerful. And I was so entranced by the animation part of it and figuring out the different ways that this world is working, while also solving the mystery alongside the detectives.”</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>‘Hamas sees itself as winning’: Checking in on Gaza war</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-womens-health-entertainment/israel?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Police arrested more than 130 people at UCLA after law enforcement dispersed protesters and dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment. The demonstrations have taken attention away from the actual war in Gaza.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">8bded34b930449a2bcba378ab8c9fa90</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/ed607026-aeae-4a99-83d4-54da411dd194.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/3e63bf31-8cfb-438f-b837-efa80154432c.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Police arrested more than 130 people at UCLA after law enforcement dispersed protesters and dismantled a pro-Palestinian encampment. The demonstrations have taken attention away from the actual war in Gaza.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>After the Golden Age of TV, is this the era of ‘mid?’</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-womens-health-entertainment/mid-tv?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Shows that have all the trappings of prestige TV — the cinematic look, the big names — are everywhere on streaming services. But one critic says they’re all average.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">7e31f85c3fda463bb4d59640662d8761</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/ed607026-aeae-4a99-83d4-54da411dd194.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/3e63bf31-8cfb-438f-b837-efa80154432c.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Shows that have all the trappings of prestige TV — the cinematic look, the big names — are everywhere on streaming services. But one critic says they’re all average.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Arizona repeals historic abortion ban amid battle for reproductive rights</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-womens-health-entertainment/abortion-fl-az?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Arizona's Republican-led legislature repealed the state's Civil War-era abortion ban, reverting to a 15-week limit. Meanwhile, Florida enforces a six-week ban.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">e74b4f8e3a5e4149adf694057422b5c0</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/ed607026-aeae-4a99-83d4-54da411dd194.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/3e63bf31-8cfb-438f-b837-efa80154432c.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Arizona's Republican-led legislature repealed the state's Civil War-era abortion ban, reverting to a 15-week limit. Meanwhile, Florida enforces a six-week ban.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>New at some LA vegan restaurants: Meat options. Who’s biting?</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/vegan-restaurants?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Some LA vegan spots are adding regenerative meats to their menus, pushing away long-time customers who only eat plant-based meals.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">e8217e9471c14997a3a1da269620bd0c</guid> <enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/news/ft/KCRW-kcrw_features-vegan_restaurants-240502.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/news/ft/KCRW-kcrw_features-vegan_restaurants-240502.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/@@images/de05b9ab-41d8-409a-93d7-a2a91089367c.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/@@images/466fdf25-4063-42aa-8a72-88c1ae6dd8a3.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Some LA vegan spots are adding regenerative meats to their menus, pushing away long-time customers who only eat plant-based meals.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>KCRW’s “How’s Your Sex Life” discusses falling in love and falling apart with Jonathan Bastian</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/life-examined/relationships-love-partner-marriage-seperation-divorce-healing?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>KCRW Life Examined host Jonathan Bastian makes a guest appearance on KCRW’s How’s Your Sex Life, and talks about his insights on relationships, divorce and heartbreak.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">2323e4ca82e6490db19be882c903eb8c</guid> <enclosure length="0" 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Your Sex Life, and talks about his insights on relationships, divorce and heartbreak.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Amid US campus protests, can Dartmouth offer a different path?</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-cannabis-mothers-day/dartmouth-israel?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>After violence between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian sides broke out at UCLA overnight, two Dartmouth lecturers with differing views on the war offer a model for cooperation.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">ec87ef192ed84114bf14780456494ecf</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/ed607026-aeae-4a99-83d4-54da411dd194.png" /> <media:content medium="image" 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It’s currently Schedule 1, along with heroin.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">0a0a46bc92204467bc96255f25a529d7</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/ed607026-aeae-4a99-83d4-54da411dd194.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/3e63bf31-8cfb-438f-b837-efa80154432c.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>The Department of Justice proposed making cannabis a Schedule 3 drug, acknowledging after decades of illicit use that it has medical value and a lower risk for abuse. It’s currently Schedule 1, along with heroin.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Mother’s Day: Try marinated strawberries with cookies or ice cream</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-cannabis-mothers-day/strawberries?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Strawberries are easy to transform into a dish that’s like a gift. To kick them up a notch, marinate them with a drizzle of flavorful balsamic vinegar.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">1e2a6664ff674f938420e1cd14d3976b</guid> <enclosure length="2938670" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/pp/KCRW-press_play_with_madeleine_brand-strawberries-240501-segment-4.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/pp/KCRW-press_play_with_madeleine_brand-strawberries-240501-segment-4.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-cannabis-mothers-day/strawberries/@@images/3d031b4b-6c23-4e4e-bfe2-a7965422b314.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-cannabis-mothers-day/strawberries/@@images/a9e5937e-7e0c-489a-ad4e-e431436b0d10.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Strawberries are beautiful and delicious. The color and shape mean that they often show up as afterthought garnishes on dessert and brunch plates, or split and placed on the edge of a cocktail glass. I’ve always thought these types of garnishes are such a waste when there are so many options for creating a delicious and festive dish. Why for mom? Because strawberries are easy to transform into a dish that’s like a gift. Yes, you can bake them into a cobbler, or tuck them into shortcakes, or use them in a pavlova, or even dip them in chocolate. But this year, I want to recommend making something a little simpler with a gift that keeps on giving. A simple bowl of perfect berries is enticing, but as they say, to kick it up a notch, try marinating them with a drizzle of flavorful balsamic vinegar. It’s so easy to make, yet feels special. There is something about the combination of tart, barely sweet fruity vinegar on the ripe strawberries that really sings. You can eat the marinated berries as is with a couple of shortbread cookies. Or do what I love to and spoon some of the marinated berries over a bowl of vanilla or strawberry ice cream or sorbet. To complement the great berries you’re going to buy, you need to look for something beyond that cheap bottle of balsamic at your favorite small grocery chain. I like Seka Hills Elderberry Balsamic Vinegar still and Global Gardens Berry Cranberry Dark Balsamic Vinegar . For something more traditional yet still affordable, look for Giuseppe Giusti Balsamic 3 Medals Vinegar . It’s a lovely combination of sweetness and tang. And give the bottle to mom. Get the best, ripest berries you can find at the farmers market. Wash and trim them just before serving. Shake dry in a dish towel. Cut up as you like, in halves or quarters, or even chopped if you’re going the ice cream route. Place the berries in a bowl and drizzle with one of the vinegars mentioned above with a light additional sprinkle of sugar, if you like. Stir, cover, and refrigerate until ready to use. Even after the strawberries are eaten, mom still has that bottle of vinegar to use. I also reached out to food scientist Dr. Arielle Johnson , who is a flavor pairing genius, to ask how she would eat a bowl of berries. She replied, “Sprinkle with a little orange zest and unrefined (or brown) sugar, then eat with some incarnation of cream. Add a *little* tarragon or cracked cardamom. I keep Okinawan black sugar around, that would be my first choice. 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I’m a 51-year-old virgin and I don’t know where to start! 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Galloway says he’s grateful for the many successes in his life, which he attributes not to hard work but to the people, time and circumstances that made them possible. 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On this episode the hosts welcome Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor at Our World in Data and a Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford and discuss her book “Not the End of the World, How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet.” Tune in for a thought-provoking dialogue you won't want to miss!</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Cannabis is akin to Tylenol with codeine? DEA wants reclassification</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/cannabis-is-akin-to-tylenol-with-codeine-dea-wants-reclassification?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is recommending that cannabis be rescheduled as a less dangerous drug. 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California is preparing for the changes.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Supreme Court weighs power clash between workers and corporate giants</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-tj-labor-hbo-nba/nlrb?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>The NLRB has accused Trader Joe’s, Starbucks, Amazon, and SpaceX of harassing and intimidating workers. The companies are challenging the power of the board to protect workers’ jobs.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">36ff519d4c58472393201080e1ecb5e3</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/ed607026-aeae-4a99-83d4-54da411dd194.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/3e63bf31-8cfb-438f-b837-efa80154432c.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>The NLRB has accused Trader Joe’s, Starbucks, Amazon, and SpaceX of harassing and intimidating workers. The companies are challenging the power of the board to protect workers’ jobs.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Protesters want universities to divest from Israel, schools aren’t bending</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-tj-labor-hbo-nba/divest-endow-university?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Campus protestors nationwide are demanding universities divest and cut financial ties to Israel. 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Is that possible in today's complex, global economy?</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Is Trader Joe’s stealing food ideas from small producers?</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-tj-labor-hbo-nba/trader-joes?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Trader Joe’s works with global suppliers to make eclectic products, but some small food producers say the company rips them off, reports Adam Reiner, founder of Restaurant Manifesto.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">ff43e52e923e4d018ded5084cd58ec89</guid> <enclosure length="8537233" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/pp/KCRW-press_play_with_madeleine_brand-trader_joes-240430-segment-2.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/pp/KCRW-press_play_with_madeleine_brand-trader_joes-240430-segment-2.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-tj-labor-hbo-nba/trader-joes/@@images/722ba5af-827d-409c-ab40-674d8cae73e0.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-tj-labor-hbo-nba/trader-joes/@@images/96bec986-5aa0-4da8-b238-a1299f0cd8c2.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Founded in Pasadena in 1967, Trader Joe’s is one of LA’s most beloved grocery stores. It now has nearly 600 locations nationwide. The constantly evolving offerings include Asian simmer sauces, Mediterranean dips, playful snack items, and frozen meals from around the world. TJ’s works with global suppliers to make its eclectic products, but there are questions about the business practices behind the colorful Hawaiian shirts. Some small food producers say Trader Joe’s has ripped them off, according to Adam Reiner, founder of Restaurant Manifesto . He covered the issue in the online magazine TASTE . For the last few decades, Trader Joe’s has operated through a system called private labeling. It finds manufacturers from around the world and creates products that are packaged with its own TJ’s branding. 85% of Trader Joe’s products are private labeled. “Back in the day, people used to look at these generic brands as something that was inferior. But what Trader Joe's has been able to do is repackage these items in a sexy, fun way that makes them feel like they're different,” Reiner tells KCRW. “That especially has really appealed to younger clientele, millennials and Gen Z, who really respond to the idea that they're hacking the grocery aisle.” In some cases, Trader Joe’s works with large companies like Pepsi and Wonderful that make products like Naked Juice and Wonderful Pistachios to create TJ knock-offs. However, the identities of the manufacturers are often hidden due to non-disclosure agreements, Reiner says. While the large companies still make money on wholesale production, smaller producers have reported a very different experience working with Trader Joe’s. One of the small food entrepreneurs Reiner spoke with was Chitra Agrawal . The product innovation team at Trader Joe’s contacted her and showed interest in her product, so she shared samples and pricing information. They spoke privately for “several weeks, if not months.” Then, radio silence. But half a year later, Trader Joe’s released a version of her roasted garlic achaar (an Indian pickle), using the same ingredients and labeling. Her followers noticed and thought her original product was being stocked at TJ’s. “There was a lot of confusion that was created at the time, and I don't think that she really wanted to make a big issue of it until she felt like it was necessary to clear up the confusion that she was not the person that was behind making that product,” Reiner explains. Most of the vendors Reiner spoke with come from the ethnic food space, he explains, and feel like their recipes are not only culturally-specific but contain history: “They have a personal story, something that a company like Trader Joe's may not have the know-how to replicate.” Many of the founders felt taken advantage of after working in good faith with Trader Joe’s to help design food products. Reiner says, “In some of the cases of the people that I spoke to, there was a back and forth with Trader Joe's where they were asking them to do things like take a little cilantro out of it. … After several months, they just disappear. The conversation ends, and then all of a sudden, a Trader Joe's version of something extremely similar ends up on the shelf.” Small culinary entrepreneurs have little legal recourse. Trademark laws don’t protect recipes — just the packaging. One founder Reiner spoke to threatened legal action over nearly identical branding, which caused Trader Joe’s to slightly adjust their version. Other folks took to social media to express their frustrations. Agrawal publicly clarified online that the Trader Joe’s product wasn’t hers. Reiner compares Trader Joe’s practice of copying small businesses and undercutting their products on price to what companies like Zara do in the fast fashion industry. In both cases he says, the low costs come at a price. “What my story should bring into focus is that many times when prices are so cheap like this, there are people that are getting hurt in the background. And in the case of the founders that I spoke to, they’re working years creating these products, spending a lot of money to market and merchandise them — creating a lane in some cases for products that didn't exist before. And then Trader Joe's is just swooping in with their facsimile, copycat products and taking advantage of all that hard work. It's really hard not to feel sympathy for those small businesses.”</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Encore: ‘The Sympathizer’ offers fresh look at Vietnam War</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-tj-labor-hbo-nba/sympathizer-encore?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Author and USC professor Viet Thanh Nguyen won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2015 novel “The Sympathizer.” It’s just been adapted into a new limited series from HBO.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">b52a84b8c32c45b597f997b7efc6bd66</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/ed607026-aeae-4a99-83d4-54da411dd194.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/3e63bf31-8cfb-438f-b837-efa80154432c.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Author and USC professor Viet Thanh Nguyen won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2015 novel “The Sympathizer.” It’s just been adapted into a new limited series from HBO.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Was last night Lebron James’ final game as a Laker?</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-tj-labor-hbo-nba/lakers-clippers-dodgers?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>After the Denver Nuggets eliminated the Lakers from the NBA playoffs on Monday night, Lebron James refused to say whether or not he’ll be wearing purple and yellow next season.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">f0fef3b7787e403e98e14d0345c452e1</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/ed607026-aeae-4a99-83d4-54da411dd194.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/3e63bf31-8cfb-438f-b837-efa80154432c.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>After the Denver Nuggets eliminated the Lakers from the NBA playoffs on Monday night, Lebron James refused to say whether or not he’ll be wearing purple and yellow next season.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Congrats to the James Beard 2024 Media Award Nominees</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/james-beard-media-nominees?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Good Food earned a nod for our episode, "The life and times of Lalo García." Several recent Good Food guests also received nominations.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:31:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">e34697e823424645acd670436c2d7b47</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/james-beard-media-nominees/@@images/fdd284cd-0021-42f9-ba10-85c43c49166d.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/james-beard-media-nominees/@@images/782a12aa-0ee9-4462-a7e0-4664ba57d40b.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Good Food earned a nod for our episode, "The life and times of Lalo García." Several recent Good Food guests also received nominations.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>When are universities legally allowed to shut down protests?</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-gary-hustwit/free-speech-protests-colleges?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested nationwide amid protests on college campuses. Law professor Jessica Levinson explains the free speech issues and how these schools have responded.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">109c45a35d31417c9519a01a12dd7efc</guid> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/ed607026-aeae-4a99-83d4-54da411dd194.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/@@images/3e63bf31-8cfb-438f-b837-efa80154432c.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Hundreds of demonstrators have been arrested nationwide amid protests on college campuses. Law professor Jessica Levinson explains the free speech issues and how these schools have responded.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>New Brian Eno film comes in ‘a couple billion potential versions’</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-gary-hustwit/brian-eno?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Brian Eno pioneered “ambient music” and helped create the sounds of U2, David Bowie, and other rock stars. Multiple versions of a new documentary show his life and work.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">0a7e0e653257475c9cbd70c8f0baa015</guid> <enclosure length="15341190" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/pp/KCRW-press_play_with_madeleine_brand-brian_eno-240429-segment-4.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/pp/KCRW-press_play_with_madeleine_brand-brian_eno-240429-segment-4.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-gary-hustwit/brian-eno/@@images/66c740ff-dff3-436c-bd06-2e69b8321cb2.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-gary-hustwit/brian-eno/@@images/88f736ea-5def-44db-b96a-7eb47274e16d.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>In Brian Eno’s 50 years of making music, he’s released nearly 30 solo albums, pioneered his so-called “ambient music,” and influenced many artists after him, like Björk, Daft Punk, and LCD Soundsystem. As a producer, he helped create the sounds of U2, David Bowie, Talking Heads, and Coldplay. Now a new documentary called Eno highlights his innovative work and life. Director Gary Hustwit says that in college, he became a fan of the now 75-year-old musician, who he describes as a “creative enabler” — someone who can disrupt bands’ creative processes and provide new ideas. Eno himself attended art school in England in the late 1960s to early 1970s. While training as a painter, he formed bands and released records. “He often talks about how he was either going to be a painter or a scientist. And I think there are elements of both those things in his music and just the way he's done things since. He's very analytical. He's very scientific. He's one of the most well-read people that I've ever met.” Hustwit continues, “And I think he got into music as a non-musician. He knew how to use a tape recorder because he had done it in art school. And that's why Roxy Music wanted him to come over to the rehearsal studio to tape some songs. And he became a member of the band, and just went from there.” Eventually, he left Roxy Music because he hated touring, Hustwit says. “He often talks about what a waste of time it is spending 23 hours of the day preparing for one hour of the day.” He also wanted to be back in the studio to experiment and record tracks. “The recording studio became his instrument. He was an early pioneer of the use of synthesizers in rock music. But really, it was in the recording studio that he really expressed his creativity, and then also expanded that to working with other bands and becoming a producer.” One particularly close relationship Eno had was with David Bowie. They were constantly cracking jokes and experimenting with new approaches to songs, Hustwit says. “When Bowie did [the albums Low, “Heroes,” and Lodger] … he would have been living in LA and trying to get out of the limelight and become anonymous in Berlin. … There was a mutual respect there, and Bowie brought him in to reinvent his sound.” Announcing my next film: ENO. The definitive career-spanning, multi-platform documentary about visionary musician and artist @BrianEno . It's like an art film about creativity, with the output of Brian’s 50-year career as its raw material. Coming in 2023. https://t.co/3QYwha2Khj pic.twitter.com/75tgfUAKqH — Gary Hustwit (@gary_hustwit) April 27, 2022 “There's a couple billion potential versions of the film. The way it works is the beginning scene with Brian is the same in every cut, and the end scene with Brian is the same in every cut. And then there are a handful of scenes that are in every version that we think are important, or act as little signposts or a very loose structure for the narrative. And then in between those scenes, all kinds of things can happen.” Hustwit continues, “What connects it all is it's all Brian. And it's like if you meet someone, the first time you meet them, you learn a few things about them. The second time or third time you meet them, you can learn a little bit more about them. And I feel like that's the experience of watching this film too.” Showing the documentary in theaters — as opposed to premiering on a streaming service — is key because it creates a communal experience, and it’s an attempt to get audiences back to the big screen, Hustwit says. Having multiple versions of the production is also a way to see if technology can give films “more agency,” he adds. “He talks about in the film that the greatest need we have as human beings is this need to belong to someone. And music is a way that we can feel like we're part of a bigger thing. If you go to a concert, it's not just the music, it's being part of this crowd that's experienced this thing together.” The documentary is screening in Glendale on May 4 at The Alex Theater.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Amid Gaza protests, USC administration is out of touch, says professor</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-gary-hustwit/usc-protests?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>USC journalism professor Sandy Tolan talks about what he witnessed when visiting Gaza protest encampments on campus. He also responds to the commencement cancellation.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">ff165a09426b41658f95192d84978d24</guid> <enclosure length="14249481" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/pp/KCRW-press_play_with_madeleine_brand-usc_protests-240429-segment-1.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/pp/KCRW-press_play_with_madeleine_brand-usc_protests-240429-segment-1.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-gary-hustwit/usc-protests/@@images/4d8b30b5-ad30-465d-a270-260f8b117a92.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-gary-hustwit/usc-protests/@@images/f565c9fc-0a36-4157-b1f7-ec99370ce8bb.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>As the war in Gaza continues, so too have protests on American college campuses. Nearly 300 students were arrested at various universities over the weekend. USC has been mired in controversy and protest for weeks after the institution canceled valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s commencement speech following complaints from pro-Israel groups. Last week, the LAPD arrested 93 people on campus. Now USC has closed the campus to the general public and canceled the main commencement ceremony. After its clearing on Wednesday, a pro-Palestinian encampment has been reestablished on campus. USC journalism professor Sandy Tolan has visited the encampments, including for several hours on Saturday. He and about 20 other faculty members went there after seeing reports of dozens of police vehicles being spotted. Tolan says the encampments were peaceful: “It was rather surreal. At one point, you had a woman standing on a fountain quietly reading the names of people who have died in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza. And she was surrounded by people sitting cross-legged, just listening quietly as she read the names, the ages.” In contrast, LAPD helicopters were thundering overhead, he notes. Then, late that night, the operation appeared to be called off and the helicopters left. In a statement released Friday , USC President Carol Folt described the demonstrations as unsafe, and stated that safety policies were violated, threatening language was shouted, and people were assaulted. Tolan says he has not seen that kind of behavior. “I, and many other faculty members, have witnessed many hours of the students and none of us have seen any violence, any threats, any shouting or screaming — other than chanting. And so the idea that these people are somehow a threat is to me absurd. And President Folt, her statements have been really out of touch.” He continues, “It's clear that she hasn't been there. But not only that, on the day that the 93 protesters were arrested last Wednesday, the only statement she made was a celebration of the return of Reggie Bush's Heisman Trophy. So there's a kind of surreal disconnect going on here, the idea that somehow, students who are speaking their conscience are somehow a threat. I don't know what the threat is to free speech.” He points out, however, that just because he hasn’t personally witnessed hateful language — including antisemitic remarks — that doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Instead, he posits that everyone has the right to feel safe. “If someone feels uncomfortable because there are protests in support of Palestinians, that is another matter. I do not think that in of itself is antisemitic. But where there is genuine antisemitism, it should be absolutely denounced.” He continues, “And I would also like to point out one of the groups that has been very actively involved in the protests at USC is Jewish Voice for Peace, and there are regular seders in the evening there. There was a kaddish reading scheduled along with yoga and kite-making and Black Palestinian solidarity sessions scheduled for Wednesday, before the police broke it up.” Meanwhile, some commencement speakers at USC’s satellite graduation ceremonies have withdrawn, including writers C Pam Zhang and Safiya U. Noble. Tolan describes the situation as a fiasco that could have been avoided if the university didn’t cancel Tabassum’s speech, which he says there’s still time to reinstate. “I'm so sorry for the students, many of whom didn't get to have a high school graduation during the pandemic. Now, they don't get to have a graduation from USC. And imagine the pride of so many, especially first-generation students, some of whom had family coming from different places all over the world. And to have this canceled — this did not need to happen.” Tolan notes that many members of the press — excluding reporters from USC Annenberg and The Daily Trojan — were not allowed in. “I have reported from more than 40 countries. This is what dictators do. This is what besieged leaders from around the world [do]. They cut off access to the press. This is what people do under martial law. I don't think USC intends to create the impression that it's creating martial law. And I'm not saying it's doing that exactly. But these kinds of restrictions are completely inappropriate, especially under the circumstances of peaceful protests, which might make some people uncomfortable. And again, when it veers into antisemitism, which I have not witnessed, then that's another matter. But this is a complete overreaction by my administration.” He says the best way to move forward is for USC’s administration to reflect on how the situation panned out and to extend an olive branch to all members of the university’s community and say, “We made a mistake, we're going to try to make it right. We're going to put on the graduation again. We're going to have Asna Tabassum read the valedictorian speech.” He continues, “I think that's the best solution and I have zero hope that, at this point, that that will happen unfortunately.” So how effective are these protests? Tolan compares them to the anti-Vietnam War and civil rights protests of the 1960s. “At the time, I'm sure there were people questioning how effective they could be. But when you look back, historians look back, and I think people would agree that they have generally contributed to change. … [Now] I think there's a huge disconnect and empathy gap … between seeing Palestinians as human beings and seeing Israelis as fully human, which, of course, everyone should. … These protesters, I think part of what they're doing is trying to empathize with people who are under siege.”</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Some violent altercations broke out amid peaceful UCLA Mid-East protests</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-gary-hustwit/ucla-protests?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Despite tense moments between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators at UCLA over the weekend, school administrators and police stayed mostly out of it.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">ebf54db060594d6abe13206556a26679</guid> <enclosure length="8288547" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/pp/KCRW-press_play_with_madeleine_brand-ucla_protests-240429-segment-2.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/pp/KCRW-press_play_with_madeleine_brand-ucla_protests-240429-segment-2.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-gary-hustwit/ucla-protests/@@images/483d9c09-6ca6-460f-9552-0f1fec151d8d.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-gary-hustwit/ucla-protests/@@images/c6cd1e93-265e-4d6e-8bc8-005273eda447.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Protests at UCLA over the war in Gaza have largely been peaceful. However, there were intense, and sometimes violent, altercations between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators over the weekend. Campus officials say a barrier separating the two groups was breached. The atmosphere was fairly peaceful that afternoon, says Dylan Winward, UCLA features and student life editor for The Daily Bruin. That changed in the evening after the breach. “It led to the first violent altercation that we've seen at UCLA. On Sunday, there were then four different groups demonstrating on campus. Barriers were breached, and it led to some violence between the two groups. We've reported that there was someone with blood on their face, and one of our reporters got punched … by demonstrators.” Winward says UCLA’s administration is keen on fulfilling their commitment to students’ rights of free speech and demonstrations, and the university emphasizes that it is not going to preemptively call the police to address the encampment. Each side has different demands, Winward says. Among pro-Palestinian demonstrators are “divestment, the university breaking ties with the LA Police Department, and also an academic boycott of Israeli universities, so a severing of UCLA ties with those universities as well for things like research.” He continues, “On the other side, the demonstration appears mainly to be advocating to the university to protect Jewish students against antisemitism, which they say has been rampant on this campus since October, but also in particular with the encampment. Many of the organizers yesterday were keen to emphasize that their demonstration was a show of support for Jewish students.” Winward says he is not aware of specific antisemitic targeting on campus, although he points out that it doesn’t mean that hasn’t taken place.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Will the ‘Caitlin Clark effect’ boost LA Sparks ticket sales?</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/caitlin-clar-wnba-la-sparks?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Basketball star Cailin Clark signed with the Indiana Fever, but she’s elevating the entire WNBA. Will a rising interest in women’s basketball boost the LA Sparks?</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">afef24ddb2ff4915a4a0e8c5194ed985</guid> <enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/news/ft/KCRW-kcrw_features-caitlin_clar_wnba_la_sparks-240429.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/news/ft/KCRW-kcrw_features-caitlin_clar_wnba_la_sparks-240429.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/@@images/de05b9ab-41d8-409a-93d7-a2a91089367c.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/@@images/466fdf25-4063-42aa-8a72-88c1ae6dd8a3.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Basketball star Cailin Clark signed with the Indiana Fever, but she’s elevating the entire WNBA. Will a rising interest in women’s basketball boost the LA Sparks?</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Long COVID: Millions have it. Why do we still know so little?</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/long-covid-symptoms-diagnosis-treatment-disability?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>The CDC estimates 17 million Americans experience long COVID. What have patients and doctors learned about the mysterious illness?</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">1aba386157144cada934d30057299aae</guid> <enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/news/ft/KCRW-kcrw_features-long_covid_symptoms_diagnosis_treatment_disability-240429.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/news/ft/KCRW-kcrw_features-long_covid_symptoms_diagnosis_treatment_disability-240429.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/long-covid-symptoms-diagnosis-treatment-disability/@@images/e539f8a4-f33a-4add-acb3-b798161ead00.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/long-covid-symptoms-diagnosis-treatment-disability/@@images/78870aae-adbe-40c0-9921-916c127a220c.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>The CDC estimates 17 million Americans experience long COVID. What have patients and doctors learned about the mysterious illness?</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Border Crossings: Navigating identity, language, and belonging</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/life-examined/migrants-immigration-border-crossings-language-belonging-identity?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Authors Lauren Markham and Alexjandra Oliva share their own experiences with immigration and the history, ethics, and moral complexities of border crossings.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">18b8c22018354734b89ca832df3c997c</guid> <enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/fox/KCRW-life_examined-migrants_immigration_border_crossings_language_belonging_identity-240428.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/fox/KCRW-life_examined-migrants_immigration_border_crossings_language_belonging_identity-240428.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/life-examined/migrants-immigration-border-crossings-language-belonging-identity/@@images/810f81ba-3362-4ae4-8111-f53ccb7a23c4.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/life-examined/migrants-immigration-border-crossings-language-belonging-identity/@@images/b558ea43-4c1b-4b2a-8920-c7170838d50c.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>After years of working at the intersection of immigration and education, journalist Lauren Markham offers a different approach to writing about immigration that may lead to greater understanding. In her book A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging , Markham talks about challenging narratives and stories, looking at our own history, and asking what it means to belong to a place.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Confirmation Bias</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/second-opinion/confirmation-bias?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Research findings are not etched in stone.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 06:35:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">431db5cec2884ba8aaa5b4c5933f47a6</guid> <enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/so/KCRW-second_opinion-confirmation_bias-240428.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/so/KCRW-second_opinion-confirmation_bias-240428.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/second-opinion/@@images/554e3f0a-cec3-48df-b275-d77e8c7cce6d.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/second-opinion/@@images/abe898d3-7826-4bc7-bd0a-53a50915ebaa.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Research findings are not etched in stone.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Diarra Kilpatrick brings her ‘Detroit’ experiences to BET+</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/elisabeth-moss-diarra-kilpatrick-thom-zimny/diarra-from-detroit-bet?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Actress/producer Diarra Kilpatrick talks about her latest creation “Diarra From Detroit”, getting the supporting characters right, and political family life.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">ed89b168ff9943cb81e078dddfd7c537</guid> <enclosure length="15920900" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/tt/KCRW-the_treatment-diarra_from_detroit_bet-240427-segment-2.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/tt/KCRW-the_treatment-diarra_from_detroit_bet-240427-segment-2.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/elisabeth-moss-diarra-kilpatrick-thom-zimny/diarra-from-detroit-bet/@@images/f8d0d8e4-6c76-41d4-8227-4febc6247bd7.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/elisabeth-moss-diarra-kilpatrick-thom-zimny/diarra-from-detroit-bet/@@images/f009f96a-9901-47d9-8f3c-d4315e90a001.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Actress, writer and producer Diarra Kilpatrick is no stranger to acclaim, having scored an Emmy nomination for her ABC Digital series American Koko in 2018. She’s also played pivotal roles in The Twilight Zone (2019), The Last O.G., and Perry Mason. In her new BET+ mystery-comedy series Diarra From Detroit, she leans heavily on her Motor City hometown to function as an additional character. Kilpatrick tells The Treatment about growing up in a politically active family and how that informed her career. She talks about creating fully fleshed out supporting characters who could each have their own series. And she says she believes the specificity of the show and its references to Detroit will appeal even to those who know very little about the city.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Thom Zimny on the 1983 wordless experimental documentary “Koyaanisqatsi”</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/elisabeth-moss-diarra-kilpatrick-thom-zimny/thom-zimny-koyaanisqatsi-bruce-springsteen-born-in-the-usa?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Director Thom Zimny recounts how seeing the film “Koyaanisqatsi” led him to the ‘magic’ of using images and music together in storytelling.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">18d82c6504dc40d7bd3a7bc67c6266f3</guid> <enclosure length="5201083" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/tt/KCRW-the_treatment-thom_zimny_koyaanisqatsi_bruce_springsteen_born_in_the_usa-240427-segment-3.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/tt/KCRW-the_treatment-thom_zimny_koyaanisqatsi_bruce_springsteen_born_in_the_usa-240427-segment-3.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/elisabeth-moss-diarra-kilpatrick-thom-zimny/thom-zimny-koyaanisqatsi-bruce-springsteen-born-in-the-usa/@@images/309ac629-0d4e-4081-b23f-8b4bca7a81d4.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/elisabeth-moss-diarra-kilpatrick-thom-zimny/thom-zimny-koyaanisqatsi-bruce-springsteen-born-in-the-usa/@@images/2548e722-e47e-4869-82a8-bf0df3ee83f4.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Emmy and Grammy-winning director, documentarian, and editor Thom Zimny considers music an essential facet of his storytelling process. Zimny has created cinematic portraits of iconic musicians, including Elvis Presley , Johnny Cash, and Bruce Springsteen . His latest project, the 2023 documentary Sly (Netflix) follows the dramatic highs and lows of action star Sylvester Stallone’s life and career. More: Documentarian Thom Zimny on his latest subject Sly (The Treatment, 2023) For his Treat, Zimny candidly discusses his struggle with dyslexia and reveals how, at the age of 18, he stumbled upon a profound source of inspiration in the 1983 experimental indie film, Koyaanisqatsi. Stemming from the Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance”, Koyaanisqatsi was directed by Godfrey Reggio and scored by Philip Glass. The film presents an apocalyptic documentary-style vision, devoid of dialogue and relying instead on the symbiosis of music and imagery to convey its narrative. Through witnessing the film's editing and ingenious use of images and music together, Zimny unearthed a new means of expression — a language he could use to express himself and his ideas. This segment has been edited and condensed for clarity. I was a dyslexic kid who could not connect to reading and writing. But at the same time I had all these emotions, all these thoughts, and all these feelings that I wanted to get to or just try to express. I got invited to a screening of a film that I barely had any understanding of what it would be, and it turned out to be a film called Koyaanisqatsi. Koyaanisqatsi Official Trailer #1 - Ted Koppel Movie (1982) HD This film had not a single line of dialogue. It was images and music, a score by Phillip Glass. It told me that there was another language, a language I didn't have to worry about, that I didn't have to struggle with. That was the language of music and film. Two images put together with music could tell a story. That changed my life. So at 18 [completely obsessed with this film Koyaanisqatsi], I bought a video camera, rigged up two VCRs, [and] wanted to figure out this magical act called editing by taking one tape and hitting play and another tape hitting record. [With] Koyaanisqatsi in my heart, I started making films. And the first thing I wanted to tackle was a song I was obsessed with which was "Born in the U.S.A.." Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A. (Official Video) I read an essay that it was not a song that was pro-America. It was about a Vietnam vet, and I got obsessed reading those lyrics. … I decided I was gonna make my version of "Born in the U.S.A.". [I] sat in my room all night long and cross-cut [the song] with a PBS documentary [about Vietnam] and a Memorial Day parade. It was my early attempt at telling stories. For me, the first time I experienced an edit that I made — felt a new meaning when putting the two images together — I felt my place in the world. I felt like this is something that I need to chase and that I could finally talk to people in some way Performing the magic of editing, falling in love with this new language and this magic trick – that's something I've been chasing all my life. I'm most grateful that it turned out to be a job for me later in the space of creativity — that I got to work with Bruce Springsteen(!) But also, really the most important part of it was that Koyaanisqatsi opened up a door of a language, a way of telling stories with music. Koyaanisqatsi - "The Grand Illusion"</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Elisabeth Moss (Un)Veiled</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/elisabeth-moss-diarra-kilpatrick-thom-zimny/the-veil-fx-interview?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Emmy-winner Elisabeth Moss breaks down her new FX series “The Veil”, why she seeks out complex roles, and how her ballet background informs her work.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 09:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">fe722cc0e5fe40e38d873949d9193676</guid> <enclosure length="27360861" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/tt/KCRW-the_treatment-the_veil_fx_interview-240427-segment-1.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/tt/KCRW-the_treatment-the_veil_fx_interview-240427-segment-1.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/elisabeth-moss-diarra-kilpatrick-thom-zimny/the-veil-fx-interview/@@images/dd417282-d23e-442d-8a65-fe72772c0ad7.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/elisabeth-moss-diarra-kilpatrick-thom-zimny/the-veil-fx-interview/@@images/ec24b278-b6dc-46d3-a157-53ce82c67c02.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Elisabeth Moss enjoys playing characters who have a secret. This duality is present in many of her most well known roles: Mad Men’s Peggy Olson, The Handmaid’s Tale’s June Osborne (aka Offred), and Top of The Lake’s Robin Griffin. Moss won her first Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in The Handmaid’s Tale, and a second as producer when it won for Outstanding Drama Series — both were for the show’s debut season in 2017. Her latest multifaceted role (both as actor and producer) is for FX’s new spy thriller The Veil. Moss tells The Treatment why she keeps coming back to play complex parts, how her ballet training informs her work, and why she prefers adhering to the script over improvising. More: Oppressive designs: Fashion in 'The Handmaid's Tale' (Design and Architecture, 2017)</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>‘Spin the wheel’ with Cal State LA's game show curriculum</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/cal-state-la-game-show?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Cal State LA is launching a curriculum that helps students learn to produce their own game shows — the first of its kind in the nation.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">84d7b8df32a74a879731061f3e0f173f</guid> <enclosure length="0" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/news/ft/KCRW-kcrw_features-cal_state_la_game_show-240427.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/news/ft/KCRW-kcrw_features-cal_state_la_game_show-240427.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/@@images/de05b9ab-41d8-409a-93d7-a2a91089367c.png" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/news/shows/kcrw-features/@@images/466fdf25-4063-42aa-8a72-88c1ae6dd8a3.png" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Cal State LA is launching a curriculum that helps students learn to produce their own game shows — the first of its kind in the nation.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Does the best cookie in Los Angeles come from a gas station?</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/vegan-pie-korean-food-pasta-shapes-cookies/zooies-cookies-arezou-appel-gas-station?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Using fresh ingredients and operating out of a gas station, Arezou Appel has made Zooies Cookies a success.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">4267e00a01c8400589f661bb4076981b</guid> <enclosure length="9200952" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/gf/KCRW-good_food-zooies_cookies_arezou_appel_gas_station-240426-segment-2.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/gf/KCRW-good_food-zooies_cookies_arezou_appel_gas_station-240426-segment-2.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/vegan-pie-korean-food-pasta-shapes-cookies/zooies-cookies-arezou-appel-gas-station/@@images/3a171d1a-cd5e-470b-bf79-2d7977d98c25.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/vegan-pie-korean-food-pasta-shapes-cookies/zooies-cookies-arezou-appel-gas-station/@@images/74306de2-bd60-4a7f-ad06-06d4c2931ebd.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Arezou Appel , the founder of Zooies Cookies , was born in Tehran where she lived until she was five years old. She remembers her parents, who were both educators with strong personalities, disagreeing about many things — except food. "Food was a time where everything looked and felt amazing," Appel says. "The food we had was traditional, really good Persian food, which is very healthy with a lot of herbs, vegetables, fruit, and nuts. [My mom] would do non-Persian food as well because we lived here from the time I was five until I was seven. That was right before the Revolution in Iran, so the food from here also became something she was making." Appel became a chiropractor and practiced for eight years before studying Chinese medicine. While doing a rotation at Beijing Hospital, she met her husband. After they married and had their first child, Appel left her practice to raise her children but her urge to care for people never left. Once her oldest daughter started preschool, Appel realized the sweets she was limiting at home couldn't be avoided. Seeing all the additives in store-bought cookies was a turnoff so she started making her own. They were so good, she started selling the cookies out of a West LA gas station that her husband owned. The 9 Layer Bar features pecans, walnuts, chocolate, butterscotch chips, and shredded coconut. Photo by Danielle Venus. The ability to pump gas and grab a cookie helped both businesses. These days, people often show up just for the cookies. Appel sells up to 3,000 of them a day. Texture and flavors are crucial. A crisp exterior, a soft center, and different notes of chocolate are hallmarks of her creations. From the graham cracker to the marshmallow, everything is made at the gas station. "Because of my background, that I took care of patients for the years I did, I am so aware that the world is made out of so many types of people and needs," Appel says. ". I wanted Zooies to be a place for people [where] everybody is included. That's why we do have gluten-free, diabetic-friendly, paleo, and vegan."</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>For a ribbon-winning vegan pie, simplicity is key</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/vegan-pie-korean-food-pasta-shapes-cookies/vegan-pie-jennifer-yee?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>Jennifer Yee of Baker's Bench talks about the joys and pitfalls of vegan pies.</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">0601b10803e842be8ffc8803f779cfa3</guid> <enclosure length="6833213" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/gf/KCRW-good_food-vegan_pie_jennifer_yee-240426-segment-3.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/gf/KCRW-good_food-vegan_pie_jennifer_yee-240426-segment-3.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/vegan-pie-korean-food-pasta-shapes-cookies/vegan-pie-jennifer-yee/@@images/fb8e4fcc-7c01-4a1c-86e2-7d7b6ecea78b.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/vegan-pie-korean-food-pasta-shapes-cookies/vegan-pie-jennifer-yee/@@images/c26ebf16-3b83-47e6-aece-bcdc7e2fb690.jpeg" width="1460" height="820" /> <content:encoded>Vegan pies are riddled with challenges. "I feel like one of the biggest mistakes that I see is sometimes people are trying to aim too high or overachieve," says Jennifer Yee, the proprietor of Bakers Bench , a Chinatown bakery known for its plant-based croissants and other baked goods. "I don't have to have a vegan crème brûlée pie," she remarks. A delicious blueberry or strawberry pie can win a ribbon. After trying a variety of plant-based butters, Yee has had success using Miyoko's and Earth Balance . "I like the flavor of Earth Balance but it can get a little waxy," she says. Combining the two, creates the perfect structure and flavor. For alternatives to dairy, Yee opts to blend soy and oat milks. Soy milk has protein that will give a pie crust color while oat milk has toasty flavors. To avoid weepy, watery pies and to achieve a creamy texture, she substitutes coconut milk, which has fat and the proper water content. Ideally, she opts for good, old fashioned tapioca or cornstarch to hold everything together. Yee recommends avoiding aquafaba meringues, which can't withstand heat during a day-long pie contest. Balance is key. Add lemon juice or salt to dial down the sweetness of pie fillings. Add sugar or maple syrup to help crusts brown. "Our brains, when we see brown pastries, say 'tasty'," Yee says. Jennifer Yee of Bakers Bench will soon be opening a brick-and-mortar spot for her popular treats. Photo by Eric Kelly.</content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>How K-pop and Korean soaps sparked a global interest in Korean food</title> <link>https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/vegan-pie-korean-food-pasta-shapes-cookies/koreaworld-korean-food-deuki-hong-matt-robard-cookbook?utm_source=KCRW&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=kcrw-news-rss</link> <description>"Modern Korean cuisine doesn't know any kind of stricture. It really is expanding at the speed of light."</description> <author>webmaster@kcrw.org (KCRW)</author> <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:00:00 -0700</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">b1009bb1127e4de7bc3a945c05b101f8</guid> <enclosure length="18480900" type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/gf/KCRW-good_food-koreaworld_korean_food_deuki_hong_matt_robard_cookbook-240426-segment-1.mp3" /> <media:content type="audio/mpeg" url="https://chtbl.com/track/1CCGC6/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/podcast-download.kcrw.com/kcrw/audio/podcast/etc/gf/KCRW-good_food-koreaworld_korean_food_deuki_hong_matt_robard_cookbook-240426-segment-1.mp3" /> <media:thumbnail url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/vegan-pie-korean-food-pasta-shapes-cookies/koreaworld-korean-food-deuki-hong-matt-robard-cookbook/@@images/deda6d9b-002a-44fa-9b5d-ebef908a2b82.jpeg" /> <media:content medium="image" url="https://feeds.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/vegan-pie-korean-food-pasta-shapes-cookies/koreaworld-korean-food-deuki-hong-matt-robard-cookbook/@@images/3ec10665-82b7-4e7e-9a30-4f2c8736bfe4.jpeg" width="1460" height="819" /> <content:encoded>We last talked to chef Deuki Hong (who runs an ice cream shop and two bakeries in San Francisco) and journalist Matt Rodbard (the editor-in-chief of Taste ) eight years ago when they released their book Koreatown , which explores the rising popularity of Korean food across the United States. Proving the cuisine knows no borders, they've widened their lens with their latest venture, Koreaworld , which explores the influences on Korean cuisine and its impact on the world. Evan Kleiman: I'm so happy to have you. There's been no slowing down of the reach of Korean cuisine across the globe. As a person who is really lucky to live in Los Angeles, a city that has a huge Korean diaspora with all of that amazing food, you can't divorce the food from the global explosion of Korean pop culture. Matt Rodbard: The gateway from the film industry and television has been significant. If you scroll on Netflix and you look at your grid, you're gonna see something from Korea. For a country of only 50 million people, the soft power, so to speak, coming out of Korea is tremendous [with] the global influence of the cinema and television industry. With food, we're seeing a similar globalization and interest, and we cover it, not just in Korea but in America. With the book, we were attempting, and I believe we succeeded, in crystallizing a modern Korean cuisine or a modern Korean vocabulary for food. It's not the cannon. It's not barbecue. It's not gamjatang . It's not the "uncle food" that we wrote about in Koreatown almost a decade ago. This book really captures the modern spirit of Korean cuisine and through the recipe list, it's pretty different than some may think. I find it interesting, this interplay between cuisines that are represented by kind of ossified versions that were remembered and by immigrant home cooks, who often launch the first wave of restaurants that we see when immigrants move to the US. But then there's the reality of how food constantly changes in the home place. Matt Rodbard: The home kitchen is not all about tang and guk and jjigae , so to speak. It's about V60 pour overs and gilgeori toast , which is a recipe Deuki developed , inspired by Queen's , up in San Francisco. A lot of the recipe list is pulled from our experience traveling in Korea and through America, and, of course, Deuki's lived experience as a Korean American chef and the great change in the cuisine. Our coffee and bakery section in Koreaworld really says something. It says that modern Korean cuisine is not ossified. It is moving, it is at the speed of light. What we did with our stories throughout the book, our citizens of Koreaworld, we captured the essence of this change through modern food. Can you explain the concept of hallyu? Deuki Hong: Hallyu , the literal translation is "the Korean Wave." It's a cultural phenomenon. Why are a bunch of non-Koreans dancing in the streets of London, in the streets of Brazil to Korean K-pop? Why are my friends that have nothing to do with anything Korean telling me about the latest Korean drama that came out on Netflix? This maybe started in the '90s but really hit in the last 10, 15 years. Then it got a boost the last five or six years. That's why we felt compelled to document it one more time. There's so much. I have to say that one reason why I love Korean soaps is the food. I feel like I'm a fly on a wall, watching what is actually happening when people go out to eat or make food at home. It's just so enjoyable. Matt Rodbard: Are you an Extraordinary Attorney Woo fan? Oh, my god. Matt Rodbard: You love it? So much! Matt Rodbard: Isn't it great? I mean, just the way kimbap comes alive with that show. I love your point. It's so accurate. The food, and the way it's served in Korea… Deuki and I have been really fortunate to go to Korea many times. It's quite different even from Los Angeles, which is truly the epicenter, in America, of Korean cuisine. It's so different. And Attorney Woo gets you really excited about Korean food. It's such a great observation. Can you dig down into that difference and pick one menu item or a range of dishes? Matt Rodbard: I'll take one to start. I think the difference is this. In Korea, it's not Korean food, it's dinner or it's lunch or it's late night or it's a snack. I think what we've done is we've crystallized these recipes, some of which have been fads. So we go over dalgona , which was a big fad a few years ago , but we also have a dish like rose tteokbokki , which is a traditional tteokbokki rice cake dish but with the inclusion of cream in the sauce, which we saw in Korea quite a bit. Another is vongole . We've seen an exploding interest in Italian cuisine in Korea and we have a vongole recipe in Koreaworld, which I think is probably the only Korean book with a vongole recipe, but it made a lot of sense for us. It's this idea that modern Korean cuisine doesn't know any kind of stricture. It really is expanding at the speed of light. Deuki, is it a traditional vongole or is there a twist? Deuki Hong: This is kind of akin, I would say, to maybe how people talk about Tokyo pizza. We're going back to the globalization, the flow of information. I can, with the tip of my fingertips, know exactly what's happening in Italy and the vongole over there. Korea's the same. I know exactly what's happening, not in Korea as a whole, but that region, that town, what they do. I think the Korean vongole [has] a strong garlic presence but ingredient-wise, it's very Italian. It's just how hard you put the garlic upfront — Koreans love garlic, Asians love garlic — and how back you put the olive oil. In Korean, it's called the ghee, that oiliness. We're not big fans of it so we'll put it in the backseat instead of the passenger seat. Ingredient-wise, it's very similar with clams and beautiful, fresh ingredients. It's not like, "Hey, it's vongole and here's kimchi on top of it." That's not what we're talking about. It's Koreans going, "Hey, this is the best vongole. We recognize that it's an Italian dish but we like to eat it this way." Matt Rodbard: We had these breakthroughs throughout our travels. We would go to Jeju , Gangwon-do , we went to Jeolla and experienced some temple cuisine there. But we were surprised around every corner about how our interpretation of Korean cuisine was changing almost in real time. There's this one page you have in the book: The 17 Best Things We Ate in Seoul and Around Korea. Could you pick something else from that list and break down the evolution of it away from the traditional or if it's something brand new? Matt Rodbard: One that really stuck out to me was at this restaurant, Hojokban (there's a location in New York City now ), and they're doing kimbap with a truffle tuna mayo. To me, the idea that kimbap can be so many different things (we see this in K-dramas, as we mentioned) and to bring truffles, which even 10 or five years ago, was only reserved for Pierre Gagnaire's restaurant in Seoul . But now, truffle mayo is part of kimbap. It had a nice, finely ground perilla powder on top of it. The kimbaps, too, were half the size of what you would find on 32nd Street in New York or out on an Olympic Boulevard in Los Angeles. It's very different. It's almost like a fine dining version. But when it came down to it, this was like only 10,000 won, which is about $8 a serving. So the point, with this dish, is that it illustrates how Western cuisine and Western sensibilities are being done in Korea in a way that I wouldn't call fusion. It's its own way and it's exciting Deuki, could you talk about the Mu Kimchi Granita? Deuki Hong: Yeah, that's a recipe that I came up with a long time ago, actually, more than 10 years ago. It was my influence working in Centrico , which I guess not a lot of people know, with chef Aarón Sanchez , and the idea of hot, cold — of temperature being a source of flavor, a vehicle for sensation and one that's not just sweet, salty. It's like okay, we can play with temperature as well. With the Mu Kimchi Granita, a lot of people ignore the beautiful cabbage liquid that comes out. I decided to freeze it, [turn it into] granita, learning that technique from Centrico and applying it to oysters, applying it in noodle dishes. I think in Korean cuisine, we play with temperature really well, like hot Korean barbecue with cold noodles, even with a granita, [which is] cold on really cold. So let's have a fresh, cold oyster and let's make it even colder [by putting it on a] shaved ice granita. Nearly a decade ago, chef Deuki Hong (left) and journalist Matt Robard mapped out Koreatowns across the US. Their follow up goes global. Photo by Alex Lau. I love the idea of icy, icy kimchi because I love icy, icy soups. You write that a visit to Jeju Island, which is referred to as the Hawaii of Korea, changed the way that you prepare fish at home. What did you learn and from whom? Matt Rodbard: What an adventure, Deuki, we had. Do you remember? Deuki Hong: Yeah, you share way better about this part but I'll add on. Matt Rodbard: So we were in Jeju Island , which is the Hawaii of Korea. Everyone should go there. It has its own foodways. They have this famous black pork but they also have a horse meat tradition, which we tried. It is a little bit more mild than you'd imagine. We were driving around and found this little seaside restaurant that was doing a whole, it was kind of like a porgy , fried and what we saw them do gave us the idea for the recipe. They brought the fish to our table fried and they drizzled on this gochujang -based sauce, which was kind of like the gochujang you'd get with Korean fried chicken. Instead of it being served delicately and having each customer pick apart the whole fish as you would at any restaurant, the owner put on some plastic gloves and proceeded to literally smash the entire fish, breaking up the meat from the bone. We were like, "This is crazy." But when they left it, we were like, "This is actually amazing because it's given us this easy way to enjoy the fish." It separated the flesh from the bone but it also created this kind of bibimbap . It was a bit of a mixed vibe. Deuki, what else did you take from that? Deuki Hong: Outside of the flavors, it was the presentation piece of it. The joy of that, the textures, even the cartilage you're eating, it was actually really good. I think the sauce was incredible but it could apply to any sauce. It was just the way of eating that I felt was okay, we're in the middle of essentially nowhere. There are no signs here. There's no Yelp rating here. And this couple, who were of my parents' generation, this is all they do. Every table has this fish. It's this presentation piece, it's the texture, it's the familiarity of fried but not the familiarity of, "Hey, I'm picking out the bones, as well." It was eye-opening for me. That dish, I just love the photograph. It gives you permission, you know? Matt Rodbard: We love the recipes in the book. We think it's actually quite doable. Frying a whole fish with a cast iron pan, it's easier than you think. It's such a set piece for a dinner party. Let's talk about the coffee and dessert culture because it's crazy. It's crazy here. I can only imagine what it's like in Korea. Is there a particular person or group of people who are at the forefront of the growth? Matt Rodbard: I write about coffee a lot at Taste where I'm editor and I've done consulting in the coffee world. I love coffee and I've been going to Korea for almost 15 years. When I first started going to Korea, it was all about Nescafe push button culture, which you know, not great. But in the past five years, the so-called Third Wave movement in Korea has been so incredible. It's lapping Japan. Everyone talks about Japan as being this amazing coffee culture and it's not untrue. But if you go to Seoul, you can go to a couple places that come to mind. One is Mesh and this restaurant called Nanpo Seongsu , which is kind of the Bushwick of Seoul . It's a very up-and-coming neighborhood, a little former industrial space. And also Fritz , which you can find in LA at Dayglow Coffee , which is a great cafe. They have one in Hollywood, I believe. You can buy it and it's just this tremendous roasting that's happening there that would be on par with any of the American or Scandinavian roasters. What about the desserts or pastries that go along with a cup of coffee? Deuki Hong: I run two bakeries, pastry shops in San Francisco, so I went to Korea in these last two years with a really keen eye on the pastry scene and what they're doing. I remember the first time, the visuals and the concepts and eating in a hanok — beautiful. I would say the product fell second to that beautiful concept. The last time around, the product was insane. Everyone just caught up. I would say in America, Eunji Lee of Lysee is probably leading the forefront of fine pastry dining, if you could even call it that. Just high technique, introduction of flavors that we haven't seen and she's really Korea or America. I would say she's leading on those fronts. In Korea, we have a couple of favorite cafes, Nudake is one of ours. They are known for their croissants and they have these huge onigiri-looking croissants. Koreans really have fun with it. Matt Rodbard: I'll shout out a place in Hannam , in a neighborhood on the north side of Seoul, called Honeybee that is doing the most tremendous lemonade doze and also a certain style of European-driven but Korean-flavored pastry. I feel like right now, the pastry scene in Korea and the desert scene is extremely exciting and innovative. And I agree Lysee in New York City is one of the top pastry shops in the world. Wow, maybe they'll open in LA. What chefs or cooks should we be paying attention to here in LA? Matt Rodbard: Evan, this question is so loaded. We have so many friends. You are blessed with some of the most talented people in the world. So Deuki, I'm just gonna say a couple names and you can say a couple names. We've got the folks at Yangban . Yangban is doing something that is hard, which is banchan that is transcending any banchan I've ever had, using pears and acidity. I think about what Perilla what Jihee Kim is doing down in that cool little spot on the Eastside. I'm not sure if she's been on your show but I think Perilla, as a concept, is really modern in that it's a daytime cafe, doing dosirak -like box lunches but it's also this incredible banchan shop. Deuki Hong: To put a pastry mix in there, one of my favorite cafes is Smoking Tiger . They're more in the OC, just to give a little greater Los Angeles love. Smoking Tiger is one of my favorite spots. Really big Korean influence, incredible drinks. Shamelessly, Korean is in the forefront. Misugaru indarmee. They don't shy with it. Even their pastries, they put a yakgwa , which is a very, very traditional [cookie]. Our parents' generation eats this dessert and it's on top of a croissant. If you had to say, "This is a Korean cafe," I would say Smoking Tiger embodies that. Spaghetti Alle Vongole 봉골레 스파게티 Serves 3 or 4 This? Here? Okay, hear us out. During our travels in and around Korea, it became clear that Italian food—mostly notably pasta—has exploded in popularity for both restaurant diners and home cooks across the country. Restaurants in Busan, Gwangju, and Seoul sell a pure escape to the Italian Riviera through a bowl of linguine with pesto. But for home cooks, it can be challenging. Quality canned tomatoes can be hard to find in Korea, and when you do spot them in a luxury food hall like Gourmet 494, they can be expensive. Pine nuts? Forget about it. The work-around is spaghetti alle vongole, a dish cemented in the Italian canon that, when prepared in Korea, utilizes many ingredients that are commonly found local items: clams, garlic, parsley, gochugaru for a warming spiciness, and soju in place of white wine, which adds an element of depth. You can, of course, sub in white wine for the soju and chile flakes for the gochugaru. But this Korean-style version is really great as written. Ingredients Kosher salt 8 ounces dried spaghetti ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil 4 to 6 garlic cloves, minced ½ teaspoon gochugaru 2 pounds littleneck or Manila clams, scrubbed thoroughly ½ cup soju 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, or a handful of arugula Instructions Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat. Season it well with salt, add the pasta, and cook, stirring occasionally, until 1 to 2 minutes shy of al dente, according to the package instructions. Drain the pasta, reserving ½ cup of the cooking water, and set the pasta and water aside separately. While the pasta is cooking, begin making the sauce. In a Dutch oven or other large, heavy pot, heat the oil over medium heat until it shimmers. Add the garlic and gochugaru, turn down the heat to medium-low, and cook, stirring often, until fragrant, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the clams and soju, stir well, and raise the heat to medium. Cover and steam until all the clams have fully opened, about 5 minutes. Using tongs, transfer the clams to a plate, discarding any that failed to open. Add the cooked pasta to the sauce and toss and stir until evenly coated and al dente, using the reserved cooking water to loosen the sauce as needed. Return the clams to the pot, add the parsley, and toss and stir until well mixed. Serve immediately Reprinted with permission from Koreaworld: A Cookbook. Copyright © 2024 by Deuki Hong and Matt Rodbard. Photographs copyright © 2024 by Alex Lau. Published by Clarkson Potter, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. "Koreaworld: A Cookbook" follows the evolution of Korean cuisine to its current state. Photo courtesy of Clarkson Potter.</content:encoded> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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