August 2009 Archives

As KCET programmer Bohdan Zachary reminds us, those of you looking for ways to remember the late Senator Ted Kennedy, can find a broad range of resources on KCET and PBS:

• A rebroadcast of American Experience: The Kennedys follows the Kennedy story from Jack and Jackie Kennedy's White House through the national tragedies of the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy. It can be watched on KCET beginning at 8pm, or you can stream it online here.
• The Newshour offers a special tribute to Kennedy, including footage of the tribute to the Senator at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
• Lastly, Tavis Smiley discusses the legacy of the U.S. Senate's "liberal lion" with Georgia Rep. John Lewis and civil rights attorney Vernon Jordan. The tribute also features clips from Tavis' past conversations with the patriarch of the Kennedy dynasty.

Pixeltown remembers the late Senator Ted Kennedy the only way it can: via embedded viral podcast. Below is a clip in which Kennedy speaks to popular Spanish-language radio personality Piolin in East Los Angeles. He sings in that famous Massachusetts accent, and his last words are words to live by:

We'll try not to let you down, Senator Kennedy. Rest in peace.

KCET Local's Brian Doherty has been blogging about City Council member's pay. So we wondered what you thought about it. Should Council members get a pay cut?

Welcome back to 'Better Know a SoCal Blogger' on KCET.org! Every week we will be featuring one of the city's many fascinating and first-rate blogs. This week we are speaking to Seil Ju, the person who started one of the city's best 'green' blogs trying to recycle a broken DVD player.

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Welcome back to 'Better Know a SoCal Blogger' on KCET.org! Every week we will be featuring one of the city's many fascinating and first-rate blogs. This week we are speaking to Cindy Mosqueda, who blogs about L.A. through the lens of family relations, Chicano culture and loteria.

The Basics

Blogger Name: Cindy Mosqueda
Official Name of Blog: Loteria Chicana
When did you start blogging? November, 2001
Do you have a day job? Yes, I'm a PhD student in education. I also work for an academic support program for college students in the sciences.
How many hours do you spend online/ on your computer? Too many.
Where do you do your blogging from physically? I do most of my blogging from home. Sometimes I'll get an idea at work and will post from there.
Do you have a picture of your desk? I don't have a photo of my desk. It's way too messy. [It's okay Cindy, our desks here at Pixeltown are not so tidy either!]
What are you reading? I just finished reading David Sedaris' "When You Are Engulfed in Flames." Now I'm reading "The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English" by Mark Abley. He interviewed me for a section on Spanglish, so it's fascinating to read what I said a few years ago.
Do you have a link to your first post? Here. I later purchased my domain and moved my blog [to loteriachicana.net], the first post is here.

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Welcome back to 'Better Know a SoCal Blogger' on KCET.org! Every week we will be featuring one of the city's many fascinating and first-rate blogs. This week we are speaking to one half of the LA Times' Lakers blogging team, Andrew Kamenetzky, a once fanatic fan now transformed into a near obsessive journalist.

The Basics:

Blogger Name: Andrew Kamenetzky
Official Name of Blog: Lakers Blog
When did you start blogging? Oct. 14, 2005
Do you have a day job? You're looking at it, along with our work for ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com and 710 ESPN (which includes our 710 ESPN Lakers podkast.).
How many hours do you spend online/on your computer?
It feels like 26 a day, but in reality, probably 10-12.
Where do you physically blog from?
Home or from a game, for the most part.
Any current readings? When time permits, I'm looking to read "Methland," by Nick Reding, a high school friend.
Can you provide a link to the blog's first post? A trip down Laker Preseason Memory Lane!!!

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