Press Play with Madeleine Brand

• A bear moved into Altadena man’s crawlspace. He won’t leave.

  Plus, Australia bans social media for users under 16, Target continues to face backlash over its rollback of DEI efforts, and Paramount’s Landman drops us right in the middle of a West Texas oil boom.

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• Remembering Frank Gehry, the ‘never pretentious’ star of the starchitects

  Plus, Paramount’s hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the Supreme Court considers expanding presidential power, and LA-based quintet SML blurs the lines between jazz and electronica.

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• Caribbean boat strikes, Signal fiasco. Could Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s days be numbered?

  Plus, why self-driving cars could be a “public health breakthrough,” a new documentary follows a woman in rural Iran who won a seat on her village council, and our weekly film reviews.

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• Why San Francisco sued Coca-Cola, Kraft Heinz, and others over ultra-processed foods

  Plus, children are working on California farms and an investigation finds the state is turning a blind eye to safety violations, a mom writes a private letter to her son every year and gives them to him when he turns 18, and Evan Kleiman on the loved (and loathed) holiday fruitcake.

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• ‘No Lessons Learned’ over 12 pretty, pretty good seasons of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’

  Plus, longtime Ukraine watcher Alexander Vindman doesn’t expect the war with Russia to end anytime soon, an LA Times investigation adds context to the Trump administration’s claims about attacks on ICE agents, and whether or not a domesticated raccoon would make a good house pet.

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