After 75 years, the last race will be run at Hollywood Park this coming Sunday. Once the celebrity playground of Hollywood stars, who owned thoroughbreds and stock in the racetrack, it's slated to become a multi-billion dollar mixed use development in the heart of Inglewood. Producer David Weinberg visits the track.

Saying goodbye to Hollywood Park

Obama's Affordable Care Act promotes the digitization of millions of medical records to measure outcomes and contain costs. Big Data may also help doctors better understand many diseases, who's most likely to get them and what the best treatments might be. It also makes the most intimate kind of personal information available to the government, insurance and drug companies — even prospective employers.  We look at the pros and cons.
Warren Olney hosts To the Point with guests, Joel Dudley: Mount Sinai Hospital  Nortin Hadler: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Iya Khalil: GNS Healthcare and Deborah Peel: Patient Privacy Rights

To the Point: Big Data and Healthcare

Madeleine Brand talks to David Weinberg about his "Random Tape" podcast and plays some amazing tape. On KCRW's Press Play on Monday 3/17/14.

RANDOM TAPE

An intimate and imagined conversation with Studs Terkel about the edges of life and death.

Winner of the 2015 People's Choice Award for Third Coast International Audio Festival's ShortDocs Challenge: Studs Rules
http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/competitions/shortdocs/2015

http://thirdcoastfestival.org/library/1675-where-do-i-find-you-now

Where Do I Find You Now?

This story was produced for KCRW's 24-hour Radio Race.

In the city of New Orleans - the Big Easy - it's a syrupy, sultry, slow passage of time. For Johnny Angel, time changes everything.

NOLA: Crawfish and Cowboys

I'm Marco Werman.
 
This upscale Persian carpet store in LA is all about imported rugs.
 
Some came here from Iran long before the US trade ban.
 
CLIP: "The rugs that were made 150 years ago, doesn't have anything to do with politics."
 
Now politics is getting out of the rug business.
 
As Iranian imports become legal once again.
 
Our story on The World.

Photo: Saul Gonzalez

PREVIEW: Iranian rug imports, legal again

ERIC DRACHMAN: Wife and Wife

Jamie and Marisa’s love is irresistible. It’s so sweet, Jamie worried it would sound saccharine, but it’s true and kind and generous. And it’s about to be celebrated by their "favorite dearest sweetests" at their wedding. Even a  few years ago, they wouldn’t have been able to legally marry each other, but today they are glowing with the anticipation of celebrating with family, friends, and even the state.

Special thanks to my brother, Evan Drachman, for the use of his beautiful cello recording of “Menuets - Bach Suite No. 1 In G Major” from his album, “Full Circle”!

Photo by: Matt Sumell

ERIC DRACHMAN: Wife and Wife (2016 Radio Race)

KCRW's Saul Gonzalez explores the rise and fall of Los Angeles fashion company American Apparel.

The Rise and Fall of American Apparel

Everything You've Ever Felt (with Lady Midnight and Mike Massey)

Raúl Pacheco and Ulises Bella from Ozomatli stopped by KCRW's Santa Barbara studio before their show at the Lobero Theater. They spoke with KCRW's Larry Perel about their eclectic style, hunting for 20-year-old tapes hidden in a vault on a mountain and their new album, Non-Stop: Mexico to Jamaica.

Ozomatli at KCRW's Santa Barbara studio

Los Angeles-based public radio station KCRW is one of the most respected and progressive radio stations in the world, featuring an eclectic mix of independent music, NPR news, talk and arts programming. 
 