Meet Milton Love, the Neil deGrasse Tyson of the Sea

Flu v Covid ... The eerie parallels between LA's responses to the 1919 and 2020 pandemics

Larry Davis: tears in his beer led to singing career - at 74!

A Christmas Carol ... the old time radio version, and some new takes on the Dickens classic

Happy 100th Maila Nurmi. Listen to a full-length radio documentary celebrating one of the most remarkable women in TV -- "Vampira"

David Dean Bottrell is a charming warning to little kids: Don't be greedy little Christmas pigs!

One late King of Food helps us remember another: Jonathan Gold on the legacy of King Taco

A rite of passage for LA journos: Rabe recounts his angry phone call from Harlan Elllison

How Leonard Nimoy found peace with Spock, himself, and his son Adam

"My grandpa survived the USS Indianapolis," says Kevin Ferguson ... California's last WW1 vet ... and Rabe rides a B-24

What's it like to ride a motorcycle in LA? Susan Carpenter says, "life affirming"

The Big Disaster: The Big Burn from LAist Studios

Celebrate "The War of the Worlds'" 84th anniversary with the radio legend's backstory: "The War of the Welles," a radio documentary with George Takei

RIP Jules Bass, 87. Was his "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" a Hanukkah TV special hiding in plain sight?

Paul Newman's controversial new memoir probably doesn't tell this story: When he taught Karen Ocamb how to clean fish

Tom Jones reveals the hardest song he's ever sung, rethinks "Letter to Lucille," and tells us why he thinks of his voice as a weapon

You sit on the piano bench next to Maestro Jeffrey Kahane ... and talk Bach, clapping (No!), and The Clippers

Rabe talks with Petros Papadakis, radio's loudest and second smartest host. (Matt "Money" Smith is first.)

Jim Tully, hard-boiled detective pioneer, Chaplin's wingman, the first real Hollywood journalist, and maybe the most famous Angeleno you never heard of

Meet Julie Gigante, the world's tallest violinist, and Kent Twitchell, who painted her along the Harbor Freeway