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Does the American Middle Class have a Future? A Conversation with Eli Broad and Richard Riordan
Thursday, January 27, 2005
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Two of LA's most prominent businessmen and philanthropists, themselves products of the middle class, will discuss the fate of the middle class and the future of upward mobility. They ask whether mobility is still possible in an economically polarizing America, particularly in urban areas like Los Angeles.
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An Evening with Culture Clash:
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14 , 2005, 7:00 PM
The infamous Chicano performance trio joins us to discuss their two upcoming world premiers, Hollywood's relationship with Latinos, and the ever widening gap between art and politics. As irreverent, satirical, and edgy as ever, Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza will share their deepest, darkest secrets.
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Patty Stonesifer, "All Kids College Ready: What Will it Take to Ensure that Our Public Education System Prepares All Children?"
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28 , 2005, 7:00 PM
Patty Stonesifer, the co-chair and president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will join us to discuss education reform. As the head of a foundation whose mission is to improve equity in global health and learning around the world, Stonesifer will share her thoughts on the strategies that we need now in order to prepare children ... LISTEN TO FULL AUDIO
An Evening With Dean Baquet
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1 , 2005, 7:00 PM
Dean Baquet, the new Editor of the Los Angeles Times, joins us to discuss his life in journalism and the future of the paper at a crucial moment in its history. A Pulitzer Prize winner who quit school at Columbia University to jumpstart his career, Baquet will share the story of his ascent from police reporter at his local paper in ... LISTEN TO FULL AUDIO
Tamar Jacoby, "Fixing America's Immigration System"
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11 , 2005, 7:00 PM
Pointing the way beyond the outmoded, emotional debate between those who sympathize with immigrants and those who fear and dislike them – beyond “Fortress America” vs. “open borders” – journalist and author Tamar Jacoby will argue that we as a nation need to reassert control of the border and reestablish the ... LISTEN TO FULL AUDIO
Leonard Chang, "The Terminator, John Updike, and Asian Americana"
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 , 2005, 7:00 PM
The act of writing is difficult enough without the added pressures of race and commercialism, yet many writers must struggle with expectations and pressures foisted upon them by publishers, readers and peers. Ruminating on such diverse topics as Arnold Schwarzenegger's The Terminator and John Updike's literary career, novelist Leonard Chang ... LISTEN TO FULL AUDIO
