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Episode #53: Speed Shops, Strip Clubs, Quarks, & the Future of Downtown LA
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Episode #53: Speed Shops, Strip Clubs, Quarks, & the Future of Downtown LA

Join us this week as we talk with Gale Banks, the guru of automotive turbo-charging, about the mentors and apprenticeships that shaped his career in high performance. We’ll also visit with Erick Lopez, a Los Angeles City Planner, to learn about about zoning changes intended to create a more transit- and pedestrian-oriented city, and new tools for development for Downtown L.A.

Plus a possible new home for the Bahooka’s famous carrot-eating fish Rufus, why the zoning code enables McMansions, folk artist Leonard Knight of Salvation Mountain dies and a revamped Glassellland sign is coming soon. All this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of Feb. 17th, 2014

Photo: Gale Banks with his award winning 10th grade Science Project

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On Richard Feynman’s artwork, as discussed in Gale Bank’s interview. 

Re:Code LA

Rufus the fish, on the move?

On mansionization and demolition permits.

Leonard Knight, artist at Salvation Mountain, RIP.

Glassellland is coming.

February LAVA Sunday Salon

And the Broadway On My Mind series returns in February

March Crime Lab Seminar

March LAVA Sunday Salon

Kim’s novel, The Kept Girl, is now available

Listen to Episode #53!

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You Can't Eat the Sunshine
You Can’t Eat the Sunshine is the podcast of Esotouric, the offbeat Los Angeles company that turns the notion of guided bus tours on its ear. Each week, join Kim Cooper and Richard Schave on their Southern California adventures, as they visit with fascinating characters for wide-ranging interviews that reveal the myths, contradictions, inspirations and passions of the place. There’s never been a city quite like Los Angeles. Tune in if you’d like to find out why.