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On This Week's Show For the broadcast of May 30, 2009
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listenUp and Away

Ed Asner, who voices the lead character in the new Pixar movie Up!, says this is the era of the grouch ... a role he perfected as "Lou Grant."



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listenSword Play

Jackson Musker takes us to a groundbreaking exhibit that uses depictions of the samurai to make the case that Japanese animation and comic books are real art.



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listenCyberFrequencies

This week, we tell you about a Beat Boxing competition on YouTube. Check out the competition on CyberFrequencies





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listenHome Again

Garrison Keillor joins us to preview "A Prairie Home Companion" next Friday at the Greek. He tells us about writing his famous monologue, why he has to be funnier in LA than in Minnesota, and says Martin Sheen is better as a villain!



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listenNine Lives

Queena Kim visits the "9 Lives" exhibit at the Hammer Museum and talks to a local legend, artist Llyn Foulkes.



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listenThe Hidden City

KPCC's Shirley Jahad visits a dismantled homeless encampment under the 605 Freeway. LA County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore says the space was filled with animal carcasses, rats and housed babies.



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listenRunner's High

We strap a microphone onto KPCC's Sharon McNary, who led a pack of runners through the LA Marathon.



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listenTuesday's Fallout

KPCC's Brian Watt goes to Chief's Economy Barbershop in Leimert Park and asks folks what they thought of the recent ruling upholding Prop 8.



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listenAmes on 8

Christopher Ames proposes his own Defense of Marriage Act. First on the list, ban divorce!


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