Patt Morrison for Monday, June 6, 2011

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Monday, June 6, 2011

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:06 – 1:30

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1:30 - 1:58:30

Ride along with MTA chief Art Leahy

Join Patt for the latest installment in a transportation series with MTA chief Art Leahy, with updates on the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s plans for new highways, railways, and extensions of the existing Orange and Gold Lines. How will the MTA’s decisions to eliminate some bus lines and significantly reduce others affect its low-income ridership, which is expected to increase in light of rising gas prices? Whatever came of the controversy surrounding the construction of a new station in Leimert Park? And are you prepared for the temporary closing of the 405 freeway, July 16-17? Plus, check out the MTA’s new online bus-tracking service, NexTrip, and its revolutionary Spanish-language blog El Pasajero, which attempts to put a “Latino face on Metro.” Weigh in with your transit questions and comments.

 

Guest:

Arthur Leahy, chief executive officer, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority

IN STUDIO

 

 

 

2:06 – 2:30

Teacher credentialing commission under fire for mismanagement

A teacher charged with exposing middle school students to pornography; another arrested on charges for crimes from prostitution to petty theft; a substitute teacher who urinated in the classroom in front of students and banned from teaching for one year… these are among the cases highlighted by the California state auditor in a scathing report issued earlier this year on how the Commission on Teacher Credentialing handles, or mishandles, reports of teacher misconduct. Finding slow or no action on hundreds of files, including a three-year backlog of 12,600 arrest or prosecution reports, Auditor Elaine Howle called for major changes, telling the Sacramento Bee, “It’s one of the worst-run organizations we’ve seen in a long, long time – of any state agency that we’ve looked at.” Top managers of the commission have stepped down and California lawmakers are demanding change, but what is the collateral damage to students and schools when misconduct isn’t investigated and questionable teachers are allowed to stay in the classroom?

 

Guests:

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Representative of California State Auditor’s office

 

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Representative of Commission on Teacher Credentialing

 

 

Kathleen Carroll, former attorney with the Commission on Teacher Credentialing; she is the whistleblower on this issue.

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State Assemblymember Ricardo Lara (D – South Gate), chair, Joint Legislative Audit Committee, which is holding oversight hearings on this issue

 

AJ Duffy, president the United Teachers of Los Angeles

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2:30 – 2:39

OPEN

 

 

2:41:30 – 2:58:30

How to smell like Lady Gaga: undercover and inside skank perfumery

Lady Gaga expects to take more than just the perfume world by surprise when she unveils her first fragrance this September—she’s requested it “smell of blood and semen.” Too bad that doesn’t raise many eyebrows in the perfume industry, where scents inspired by bodily fluids, even skank ones, have been a longtime in the making. There was the 2006 Secretions Magnifiques, by L’Etat Libre D’Orange that featured “salty, metallic, medicinal, milky and decayed-white-florals-in a-coffin notes.” There was also this year’s La Petite Mort, which “embodies the elusive substance that is created by a woman as she is about to climax” with hints of warm skin, milk, urea secretions and “animalic darkness.” Even Sarah Jessica Parker has announced she’s working on a perfume with a B.O. note. How will Gaga’s scent be received? Patt talks with an expert about the history and origins of perfumery and we also hear from a perfumer about what it takes to develop that special scent.

 

Guests:

Denise Hamilton, a Los Angeles based crime novelist and editor of the Edgar Award winning anthology Los Angeles Noir. She is also the L.A. Times Perfume Columnist. The column runs monthly in the LA Times Magazine. Her new novel, Damage Control (Scribner) comes out this September.

IN STUDIO

Brent Leonesio, owner of the West Hollywood perfume firm SmellBent

IN STUDIO

 

 

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