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This month we bring you VOCES, an eight-part series hosted by Edward James Olmos and presented by Latino Public Broadcasting.
We also feature the documentary Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and their Times and Ken Burn's new series The National Parks: America's Best idea.
SoCal Connected
Finding and bringing you the most important and compelling stories - and voices - shaping life in our region.
MoreHuell Howser
Huell Howser travels the state to share the history, natural wonders, and amazing people of California.
Visit Huell's official website.
Web Stories
An online multimedia magazine that offers an insider's glimpse of the cultural diversity found in Los Angeles.
MoreFine Cut
Now in its twelfth season, Fine Cut features the work of a collection of visionary artists and filmmakers attending such SoCal institutions as the California Institute of the Arts, Loyola Marymount, UCLA, American Film Institute, Otis, and USC.
MoreBohdan's Corner
KCET's chief programmer, Bohdan Zachary, launches a new blog about the station, and the power of television and new media to impact peoples' lives.
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Life & Times
Walter Cronkite on Life & Times
In 1997 and 2005, KCET's Life & Times was able to sit down with legendary news anchor Walter Cronkite.
More from Life & TimesCalifornia Connected
Family Matters
In San Diego County, an experiment is going on with foster kids from abused and neglected backgrounds.
More from CA ConnectedMosaic
Scientology
Members of the Scientology chapter in East Hollywood explain L. Ron Hubbard's often-criticized philosophy of "dianetics" and the practice of Scientology in which it is based on.
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KCET Local Blogs
404 City- Los Angeles is the ultimate networked metropolis, and in 404 City blogger Ophelia Chong takes a look at our diverse web of communities, all of them interwoven by freeways, shared history, media, automobiles, and the ever present digital penumbra of cell-phones and computers.
Blur + Sharpen- Blur + Sharpen is an insider’s look at Los Angeles’ vibrant and globe-trotting community of new media artists. It is curated by Holly Willis.
Cakewalk- Cakewalk is journalist and op-ed columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan's first-person account of politics and identity in Los Angeles, with an eye towards the city's African American community.
City of Angles- From City Hall to the City Council, from the County Board of Supervisors to the L.A. Unified School District, from elections to ballot measures to budgets to scandals, Brian Doherty's "City of Angles" will help you understand and appreciate all the angles of L.A.'s always lively and often perplexing political scene.
The Guest Room- Every now and then we'll be asking one of your neighbors - famous, anonymous, maybe infamous - to share a few blog posts about their corner of Southern California. Past guest bloggers have included NPR host Madeleine Brand and journalist Ki-Min Sung.
Movie Miento- Movie Miento is a poetic exploration of Los Angeles history, Latino culture and overall sense of place, darting across LA’s physical and psychic borders. It is written by poet and journalist Adolfo Guzman-Lopez.
Pixeltown- KCET Local's editorial team crawls the SoCal web and brings you the best of local blogs, video, film, television and other pixellated curiosities.
Think Tank LA- Think Tank L.A. is a slow-boil chronicling of the goings-on at policy centers, research institutions, and the like in and around the Southland – and beyond. The blog covers the tanks themselves, the people who work at them, and the big ideas so often born at tanks. It is written by Jeremy Rosenberg.
Where We Are- Where We Are is an ongoing examination of LA's twinned identities as urban and suburban written by one of the area's great chroniclers, D. J. Waldie.