AirTalk for Thursday, August 29, 2013

Contact: Producers Joel Patterson, Jasmin Tuffaha, Karen Fritsche, Fiona Ng

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Thursday, August 29, 2013

 

11:06 –11:20

Topic: OPEN

Guest: TBA

 

11:20 -11:40

Topic: Nissan plans to build first self-driving car by 2020. Are you ready? Cars come with a lot of bells and whistles nowadays, but they got nothing on what the global automobile industry at large is working on next: a car that drives itself. Indeed, the race is on for the automakers to build the first self-driving vehicle. Japanese carmaker Nissan, at an event Tuesday, said that it plans to put the first driverless car on the road by 2020. Not to be outdone, General Motors came out with its own timeline for a self-driving car. Tech giant Google is said to also be working on its own version. As futuristic as they may sound, the technology to build self-driving cars is already available and according to experts, it's just a matter of fine-tuning and improving on what's out there. The technology could mean a less angst-ridden commute for drivers and could reduce road congestion. But then again, it could make drivers ever more distracted than now. How do self-driving cars work? What road rules need to be in place before the arrival of these cars? Would you buy a self-driving car? Is the public ready for them?

Guest: Amir Efrati (ah-MEER eh-FRAH-ti), tech reporter for WSJ

Guest: Bernard Soriano (saw-REE-AHN-noh), deputy director of the California Department of Motor Vehicles who also heads of the agency’s self-driving car project

 

11:40-12:00

Topic: What's the best way to judge college grads' real value to potential employers? High school students who want to sell themselves to the college of their dreams aim for high SAT scores and nosebleed-level grade-point averages. What about ambitious college students who want to land the job of their dreams? Most grads rely on their GPAs, networking and polished resumes packed with summer job experience, volunteerism and recommendations. But can an employer really judge who is ready for the workforce based on an "A+" in Literature 401? A newly revised test for college graduates claims to assess "work competency" and higher-order thinking skills. The Collegiate Learning Assessment, or CLA+, is catching on with some universities which will use it to figure out whether their students are ready for the workforce. As practical as it sounds, will it greet the same criticism as the SAT? (STILL DRAFTING BLURB)

Guest: TBD

Guest: TBD

 

12:06 – 12:30

Topic: What’s the appeal of e-cigarettes? Leonardo DiCaprio is doing it. And he’s not the only A-list celeb making electronic cigarettes look cool. The faux smokes are showing up in movies and television shows and enthusiasts known as “Vapers” even have their own convention called VapeFest, coming to Vegas this September. The emerging subculture of “smokers” is obsessed with the technology of their electronic smokes, which can be tricked out with all kinds of flavors and funky accoutrement. E-cigarettes, also known as personal vaporizers and electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), are battery powered devices that provide inhaled doses of nicotine by way of a vaporized solution. They’re used by many to simulate and replace tobacco smoking. Fans and advocates swear by them as a great way to quit smoking tobacco. But skeptics say it’s not clear whether they really help people kick the habit and that more research into their health impact is needed. So what is it about e-cigs that’s so appealing to users? And what are the risks?  

Guest: Spike Babaian (f) (buh-BAY-un), founder, The National Vapers Club; one of the creators and organizers of VapeFest

Guest: Anne Joseph, M.D., Professor of Medicine; Director, Applied Clinical Research Program; University of Minnesota; President of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (international scientific organization…not speaking for them though)

 

12:30 – 1:00

Topic: How the ‘sports gene’ could be better than doping: Sometimes we can’t help but think that some people would be genetically predisposed to particular abilities. For example, very tall men often hear that they should play basketball, bulky young boys are chided to try out football, and the long-legged are encouraged to take a go at track and field. According to the 10,000-hour rule, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell’s book, “Outliers: The Story of Success,” practice means everything. Not so, says Sports Illustrated writer David Epstein. In his new book, “The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance,” Epstein calls Gladwell’s research biased because the people he studied were already exceptional. According to Epstein, some people have genes that affect their athletic abilities. While growing up, Epstein observed that although a fellow runner was more talented than he was, Epstein improved faster with training. He also noticed that the best runners weren’t just Kenyans, they specifically Kalenjins. “The Sports Gene” mentions how the EPOR gene can cause an athlete to naturally produce more red blood cells, which is the purpose of doping. Other genes affect how someone responds to weight training and regulate how much oxygen is delivered to your body. Do these genes give athletes unfair advantages? What will it lead to in the future? Can you test for “sports genes”? Would it lead to athletic screening? What about in the medical field? Could this lead to more personalized medicine?

Guest: David Epstein, author of "The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance;" he is a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and notably covered Lance Armstrong and the Boston Marathon.

TENTATIVE – DO NOT PROMOTE

Guest: Malcolm Gladwell, author of “Outliers: The Story of Success” (Little, Brown and Company, 2008), which popularized the 10,000-hour rule; he is also a writer for The New Yorker

 

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AirTalk for Friday, August 23, 2013

Contact: Producers Joel Patterson(on vacay), Jasmin Tuffaha, Fiona Ng, Jerry Gorin, Kaitlin Funaro

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Friday, August 23, 2013

11:06 –11:20

OPEN

 

11:20 -11:40

Topic: Holmes trial: Should juries hear testimony on death penalty procedures? [temp head]

Guest: Nancy Haydt, criminal defense attorney who specializes in death penalty cases; she has practiced in California, Colorado, and federally; she is also on the Board of Governors for California Attorneys for Criminal Justice

BY PHONE

2ND GUEST TBD

 

11:40-12:00

Topic: Museum row gets exotic with Petersen plan: The iconic Petersen Automotive Museum is about to get a very expensive present for its 20th birthday - a total renovation. The Miracle Mile museum is about to undergo a dramatic silver and red redesign that's been called a "fiery red zebra". The new exterior will be competing for eyeballs on 'museum row' with the $650 million renovation of LACMA. Will the dramatic new exterior design by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates draw attention away from the new LACMA? Is the design too overpowering for the location? If you've visited the Petersen in the past, will the new design bring you back for a second look?

Guest:  Terry Karges, Executive Director, Petersen Automotive Museum

BY PHONE

Guest: A. Eugene Kohn, Chairman, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) - lead architectural firm for the Petersen Automotive Museum redesign; KPF designed the expansion and renovation New York’s Museum of Modern Art

BY PHONE

 

12:06– 12:40

Topic: Filmweek: You’re Next, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers and more: Larry is joined by KPCC film critics Henry Sheehan and Alynda Wheat to review this week’s releases, including You’re Next, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers and more. TGI-Filmweek!  

Guest:  Henry Sheehan, film critic for KPCC and CriticsAGoGo.com

IN STUDIO               

Guest: Alynda Wheat, film critic for KPCC and People

IN STUDIO               

 

12:40 – 1:00

Topic: Val Kilmer explores Mark Twain in a one-man show [temp head ]:

Guest:  Val Kilmer, Actor starring in “Citizen Twain” at the Pasadena Playhouse

 

 

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AirTalk for Wednesday, August 21, 2013

SCHEDULE FOR AIRTALK WITH LARRY MANTLE

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

11:06 –11:30

OPEN

 

11:30-12:00

Topic: Should parents who choose not to vaccinate their kids be liable if others get sick or die as a result?

Guest: Arthur Caplan, Head, Division of Medical Ethics, NYU Langone Medical Center

BY PHONE

Guest: Dorit Reiss (door-eet rice), Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of Law

BY PHONE

PENDING

Guest: Eugene Volokh, Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law

 

12:06 – 12:20

Topic: Should police be allowed to search your cell phone without a warrant?

Two cert petitions have been filed with the Supreme Court seeking ruling on whether searching a cell phone requires a warrant.  In one case, the US government seeks judgment regarding a case from 2007 that involves a Massachusetts man who was arrested on suspicion of selling drugs.  When making the arrest an officer noticed the suspect’s flip phone was receiving a call from “my house”, and he traced the number to an address where police later found more drugs, cash and guns.  In his case the defendant (Wurie) argued that the police had no right to look at his cell phone’s call history without a warrant, and though the initial district court denied that motion, the US First Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the defendant.  The Obama administration,countering the higher court’s ruling, points to a handful of cases that have given police discretion to search a suspect’s person under the Fourth Amendment, including items like notebooks and pagers, and are seeking judgment on whether searching through a cell phone’s call history is protected in the same way.  In the other case, Riley v. California, the police officer searched a suspect’s iPhone, and appeared to have done a more extensive search through the suspect’s contact information. At first glance it seems that searching a basic cell phone’s call log doesn’t seem to violate the Fourth Amendment, but cell phone technology has advanced so much that people nowadays hold a wealth of information and assets on their phones that make this a thornier issue. It seems that one way or the other the Supreme Court will soon have to decide exactly where cell phone data lies under the rules of the Fourth Amendment. Is a cell phone or a smartphone akin to rifling through a paper notebook? Or is it more like searching the nooks and crannies of an automobile, which can often require a warrant for searches? What if the smartphone is connected to “the cloud” and could link up to a plethora of data belonging to the arrestee?

 

Guest:  Jeffrey L. Fisher, Attorney for David Leon Riley in Riley v. California; Fisher authored the current petition before the Supreme Court challenging police searches of cell phone content; Professor of Law and Co-Director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Stanford University Law School

2nd Guest: TBD

 

12:20 – 12:40

Topic:  Bring up the neighborhood: “gentefication” versus gentrification in Boyle Heights, Long Beach and other SoCal hip spots

The city of Boyle Heights, a working class Latino neighborhood east of Downtown, was recently profiled in The New York Times. The paper looked at the neighborhood’s twist on gentrification. The people changing Boyle Heights are neither white nor middle-class, but are young, hip Latinos who have moved back into the area, the very place their parents had left years ago, to open up record shops and bookstores—often times the first signs of a neighborhood going upscale.

They are called “Chipsters” – short for Chicano hipsters and what they are doing is called “gentefication.” Despite the shared cultural and ethnic background, local residents aren’t always welcoming this spate of newcomers with open arms.

This phenomenon isn’t just happening in Boyle Heights, but also in places like Santa Ana, Silver Lake, Long Beach, Echo Park —cities that have always had a large Latino presence. Is there a difference between gentefication and good old gentrification? Have you returned to a neighborhood you grew up in? If so, why?

OPEN PHONES +

Guest:  TBD

 

12:40 – 1:00

Topic:  Paying for dates: Men want women to chip in; women only want to be asked

Most men are still paying for dates, but in reality many are wishing women would chip in sometimes. According to a new study presented at the American Sociology Association, 64% of men and women believed should pick up the tab from time to time. At the same time, 39% of women hoped men would not ask them to contribute at all. The ritual of men paying for all the outings dates back to when most jobs were not accessible to women. But today men and women are both equally in the workforce. The study looks at how this dynamic shift of gender roles impacts the dating realm. Do women want equality in dating too? The study shows that younger college-educated men and women were more likely to share the costs of dating.Who should pay for the first date? Should men always pay? How have the ‘rules’ of dating changed? Does it matter who makes more money?

Guest: Janet Lever, Professor  of Sociology at Cal State Los Angeles and the co-author of the study titled “Who Pays for Dates.”

BY PHONE

 

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Jasmin Tuffaha    office: 626.583.5162 

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AirTalk for Tuesday August 20, 2013

Contact: Producers Joel Patterson(on vacay), Jasmin Tuffaha, Fiona Ng, Karen Fritsche, Jerry Gorin

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Tuesday August 20, 2013

11:06 –11:30

OPEN

 

11:30 -11:40

Topic: Are wildfire fights in California targeting the wrong culprit? This month’s Silver Fire devastated communities in Riverside County - destroying nearly 50 buildings, including homes, and injuring almost a dozen firefighters. The fire also seems to be challenging conventional wisdom about where wildfires start and what causes them to spread.

 

Guest: Richard Halsey, (pron: TBA) Director, The California Chaparral Institute - an organization dedicated to the preservation of native shrub land habitats, based in Escondido

BY PHONE

 

11:40-12:00

Topic: Should firefighters be allowed to use helmet video cameras?

Over the weekend, San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White banned firefighters in the city from using of helmet cameras. The move came after footage taken by a firefighter’s helmet camera after the Asiana Airlines crash became public. The images showed a fire truck running over a Chinese girl at the scene of crash in San Francisco. The San Francisco Chronicle published stills from the footage.

Yesterday [MONDAY], officials at the San Francisco Fire Department backtracked on the decree and said they will revisit the issue. Cities like Baltimore and Houston have a firefighter helmet cameras ban in place, as do the Los Angeles City Fire Department and the County of Los Angeles Fire Department. Proponents of the ban say the use of helmet cameras and dissemination of the images violate the privacy rights of victims and firefighters. But some firefighters contend that these cameras don’t just make an useful training tool, but they save lives.

"The department seems more concerned with exposure and liability than training and improving efficiency," San Francisco Battalion Chief and president of the employee group, the Black Firefighters Association Kevin Smith, told the San Francisco Chronicle. "Helmet cams are the wave of the future - they can be used to improve communication at incidents between firefighters and commanders.”

 

-- TENATIVE --

Guest:  Timothy E. Sendelbach, editor in chief of Fire rescue magazine

BY PHONE

-- REACHED OUT TO --

Guest:   LA COUNTY FIRE DEPT and LA CITY FIRE DEPT

Guest: County of LA Firefighters’ Association

 

12:06 – 12:20

OPEN

 

12:20 – 12:45ish

Topic: College hook-up culture off the hook? Not so, new study says: Despite recent headlines claiming that sex among college students was on the rise, students are actually having less sex than two decades ago. This, according to new research presented last week at the American Sociological Association. Martin Monto, a sociology professor from the University of Portland, found “no evidence of substantial changes in sexual behavior that would support the proposition that there is a new or pervasive ‘hookup culture’ among contemporary college students.” But young adults do seem to be having sex with fewer strings attached to partners. The researchers looked at nationally representative data from the General Social Survey of 1,829 high school grads, ages 18-25, who had finished at least one year of college. They compared answers from 1988-1996 with those from 2002-2010 and found no major differences. These latest findings echo other, similar surveys from researchers across the country. So is the hook-up culture just a myth? What’s behind the popular misconception that hooking up is rampant among college students? What’s really going on behind closed campus doors?

Guest: Laura Hamilton,  Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced

BY PHONE

Guest: Kathleen A. Bogle, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Sociology and Criminal Justice, La Salle University; author of Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus (New York University Press), which examines the nature and culture of “hooking up” between college students as well as what happens after students leave the college environment

BY PHONE

 

12:45ish – 1:00

Topic: A brand new car....show! How can the LA Auto Show bring new wheel appeal?

Guest:  Ed Hellwig, Senior Editor, Edmunds

BY PHONE

 

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AirTalk for Monday, August, 19, 2013

Contact: Producers Joel Patterson (on vacay), Jasmin Tuffaha, Fiona Ng, Karen Fritsche, Jerry Gorin

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Monday, August, 19, 2013

11:06 –11:20

OPEN

 

**TENTATIVE **DO NOT PROMOTE**

11:20-11:30

Topic: Are wildfire fights in California targeting the wrong culprit?

Guest: Richard Halsey, (pron: TBA) Director, The California Chaparral Institute - an organization dedicated to the preservation of native shrubland habitats, based in Escondido

BY PHONE

 

11:30-12:00

Topic: Woman sues Best Buy Geek Squad for posting her nude photos online:

A student at the University of Alabama is suing Best Buy, claiming that revealing photos on her laptop were unjustifiably removed and put on the internet after she left her laptop with Best Buy’s Geek Squad technical support team for repairs. The lawsuit, filed at the US District Court in Alabama, claims an invasion of privacy, breach of contract, and negligent supervision, training and entrustment. March found about 2 years after she’d taken the computer in for repairs that that naked photos of her, which identified her by name, were being shared on peer-to-peer networks like The Pirate Bay. The woman then notified the manager at the Best Buy in Tuscaloosa, and though an agent with Geek Squad claimed to have tracked down the culprit and deleted the files, the agent also allegedly asked her to do him the “favor of not asking who the culprit was”.  So instead she filed a police report.  We all know that our computers are subject to be tampered with when we give them to IT experts, so we hide the private photos, the password lists and the bank statements, right?  Or do we?  And can’t a savvy IT worker find stuff anyways?  How often does this kind of stuff happen, and what gets stolen or misused?  How can consumers protect themselves?  How are IT training and certification boards ensuring that this kind of stuff doesn’t happen?  Or are too many IT personnel operating without much supervision?  And what are the legal implications of tampering?  If you give up your computer under a contract that says the service can wipe your hard disk clean, how can you stop them from stealing stuff before they purge it all?  

Guests:  TBA

 

12:06 – 12:20

OPEN

 

12:20 – 12:40

Topic: Is your circle of friends a colorful kaleidoscope or monochrome?

A recent poll conducted by Reuters found that many Americans do not have friends of another race. The poll found that nearly 40 percent of white Americans and 25 percent of non-whites are surrounded by friends of their own race. In certain regions however, where there is more diversity there is a greater chance for people to develop friendships outside their own race.  California is the most diverse with both friendships and love, but areas of the south has the lowest percentage of people with diverse acquaintances.

Do you have friends of a different race? What role do you think location plays in this? Is it important to have a diverse set of friends?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/08/us-usa-poll-race-idUSBRE97704320130808

 

Guest: Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, (roh-DAHL-foh) director of the Greater Good Science Center at University of California, Berkeley.

Via ISDN       

Guest: Maurice Tammin, (MOHR-ees , TAM-mihn) polling editor Reuters

BY PHONE

 

12:40 – 1:00

Topic: Cable news newcomer Al Jazeera America debuts tomorrow:

The first new news network to hit US airwaves in decades is making its debut on Tuesday. Al Jazeera America will have its first chance to rival CNN, MSNBC and Fox News on its own turf. The network has opened 12 bureaus around the country and is hiring more than 1,000 journalists. Its plan is to cover serious national news while also bringing an international perspective. Opinions seem to be divided over the news agency's parent company Al Jazeera. There is still bitterness toward Al Jazeera for providing an outlet for Osama bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks, a move which led some to derisively label the network "Jihad TV."  Last month, 22 crew members of Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr in Egypt resigned over what they said was biased coverage. But as many Americans grow frustrated with the current network news options, is now the time for a newcomer? Does the US news media need a fresh voice like this to shake things up? Will you be watching Al Jazeera America? Do the controversies bother you?

Guest:  Philip Seib, (pron: TBA) Director of USC’s Center on Public Diplomacy and author of the book “The Al Jazeera Effect” (2008)

IN STUDIO    

2^nd Guest: TBA

 

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Jasmin Tuffaha    office: 626.583.5162 

Producer, “AirTalk with Larry Mantle” 

 

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AirTalk for Friday, August 16, 2013

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Friday, August 16, 2013

11:06 –11:20

OPEN

 

11:20 -11:40

Topic: MLB proposes broader use of instant replay: Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig had repeatedly shunned calls to expand the use of instant replay in baseball. But yesterday [THURSDAY], he pulled an about-face and announced new policy on the use of instant replay in the sport. Currently, instant replay is only used for home run calls. Next season, the technology will be used in virtually every play except the strike zone and managers will get three challenges every game. The proposal is expected to be formalized at a meeting of team owners in November. MLB has been reluctant to widen the use of instant replay drastically, but conceded after a couple of egregious botched calls during last year’s playoffs. Should instant replay be used so widely in baseball? Should we do away with umpires all together? Do you think instant replays and manager challenges will slow down an already pretty slow game? Or should technology be used even more, such as in the strike zone?

 

OPEN PHONES

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Guest: (PENDING) Jayson Stark, Senior Baseball Writer for ESPN.com

Guest: Adam Felder, manager of digital analytics at Atlantic Media Company. He wrote this piece for the Atlantic magazine’s website

 

11:40-12:00

Topic: Coastal Commission vows to investigate offshore fracking

The Coastal Commission has said it will launch an investigation into reports of hydraulic fracturing - known as fracking - happening off the California coastline. The Associated Press reported that there have been 12 instances of offshore fracking in the past two decades that the Coastal Commission said it didn’t know about A complex maze of federal and state agencies means that it's hard to track down where and when fracking is happening. There have been various attempts to ban the method of extracting oil and gas because of environmental concerns. The oil industry says the method is safe and not damaging to the environment. Should the state or federal government ban or heavily regulate offshore fracking? Are there separate environmental concerns for offshore versus onshore fracking? Should California take more initiative to find out what is happening in federal waters off the coast?

Guests: TBD  

 

12:06 – 12:40

Topic: FilmWeek: Jobs, Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Kick-Ass 2, and more: Larry is joined by KPCC film critics Wade Major and Claudia Puig to review this week’s releases, including Jobs, Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Kick-Ass 2, and more. TGI-FilmWeek!

Guest: Wade Major, film critic for KPCC and boxoffice.com

IN STUDIO                        

Guest:  Claudia Puig, film critic for KPCC and USA Today

IN STUDIO           

 

12:40 – 1:00

Topic: History of Jewish American Comedy (TEMP HEAD)

Guest: Ron Frank, Director, “When Comedy Went to School” - a documentary tracing the roots of Jewish American comedy

IN STUDIO

Guest:  Lawrence J. Epstein, Author, “The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America”

BY PHONE

 

 

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AirTalk for Thursday, August 15, 2013

Contact: Producers Jasmin Tuffaha, Fiona Ng, Jerry Gorin, Kaitlin Funaro

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

 

11:06 –11:30

Topic: Is vacation-rental website Airbnb a blessing or nuisance for Angelenos?:

Guest:  TBA

 

11:30 -11:40

Topic: OPEN

Guest: TBA

 

11:40-12:00

Topic: ‘Til death do us part, doesn’t need to kill you: When most couples marry, they vow to stay together in good times and bad. Christo and  Sharlene Lassiter of Cincinnati certainly did, when they got hitched in 1986. 10 years later, however, they called it quits. 17-years later, their divorce-related battles are ongoing. The divorce between the two ex-spouses, who also happen to both be law professors, has been so acrimonious, that a judge recently rebuked the pair saying they make a mockery of the legal profession. Not all divorce cases are this extreme. But the very process of divorce is by nature, adversarial. So what options exist for couples who hope to split up more amicably? It’s called collaborative divorce and it’s a process that addresses the financial, emotional and legal aspects of divorce, all at once. It’s aimed at saving couples heartache, money and ugly court battles. How does collaborative divorce work? What if one spouse is hooked on fighting?

Guest: Mary Ann Aronsohn, marriage and family therapist in private practice in South Pasadena; collaborative divorce coach

Guest: Leslee J. Newman, attorney at law specializing in amicable divorce

 

12:06 – 12:20

Topic: OPEN

Guest: TBA

 

12:20 – 12:40

Topic: Parents and the child-free: can they truly be friends?

In one corner you have sleep-deprived parents who are more concerned about school districts than which are the best new bars in town. In the other corner, you have  child-free folks who could care less about preschools or which brand of car seats to get. Yes. Yes. We are firmly in the territory of stereotypes, but the fact remains that the two lifestyles are pretty different and come with different priorities. The divide has caused one mom recently to wonder whether it is indeed possible for people with kids to stay friends with people who are child-free. If you are child-free, do you like hanging out with friends who have kids? If you are a parent, how is it hanging out with friends who don’t have kids?

Guest: TBA

Guest: TBA

 

12:40 – 1:00

Topic: Junípero Serra and the Legacies of the California Missions

Guest: Steve Hackel, co-curator of the exhibition, professor of history at the University of California, Riverside, and Serra biographer (“Junípero Serra: California’s Founding Father”)

Guest: Cathy Gudis, co-curator of the exhibition and professor of California and public history at the University of California, Riverside