Mark Araujo-Levinson

LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho discusses student achievement, school safety, and cellphone bans in an exclusive interview with KCRW’s Robin Estrin.

How Lionel Richie and a Soul Train dancer helped take break dancing from the streets of LA to the Olympic stage, 40 years before becoming an official Olympic sport in Paris.

You might know that Los Angeles beaches get dirty after a winter storm, but it remains a problem in the summer, too. Why? And does it keep anyone away?

The U.S. says Israel was behind this week’s remote detonations of Hezbollah’s communication devices. How was the operation pulled off?

By proving how much money Little Arabia brings to Orange County, advocates got Anaheim to post highway signs pointing travelers to that ethnic neighborhood.

Tiffany Haddish talks “Black Comedy in America,” Jake Kasdan breaks down his new Christmas-action-comedy “Red One,” and Dan Ackroyd has The Treat.

Venice Beach teen Dee Dee Keel was desperate to find out what was happening behind the scenes, in the clubs and hotel rooms of Hollywood: so she tracked an intriguing local rocker, Jim…

Ivy broke out in the early 2000s with "Edge of the Ocean." As their album “Long Distance” makes its vinyl debut, the surviving members reflect on its creation.

Leah Penniman and Reverend Lennox Yearwood share their passion for farming and explore the shifting landscape in the fight for environmental and racial justice.