Greater LA

Listen, download, subscribe

Apple Podcasts

Spotify

LA bakers sprint to meet Thanksgiving pie demands

Thanksgiving week is one of the busiest times of year for professional pie bakers. The hours are long and the payoff is big. We’ve all got family holiday traditions. Three KCRW listeners share their favorite unusual Thanksgiving celebrations. This holiday weekend is a perfect time to hike around LA due to cooler temperatures and red-orange autumn foliage. Cris Hazzard, aka The Hiking Guy, shows you where to go.

• 

  How has LA homelessness changed in over 8 years?

• 

  Angelenos are crowding clown shows — ‘an act of counterculture’

• 

  Sale of Skid Row grocery store aims to bring racial healing

• 

  Finding love and beauty at Mosaic Tile House in Venice

• 

  Will ‘Ambassadors’ help LA metro riders feel safer?

• 

  Forget Hinge and Tinder? LA singles try ‘Love Isn’t Blind’

• 

  Once-quiet landslide zone is starting to move. SoCal residents are worried

• 

  Helpers replay special: Miracle Messages, Las Fotos, Underdog Community

• 

  Animals replay special: Shrimp farming, bear boom, cats on hikes

• 

  Replay: Looking back on 100 years of Tinseltown’s Hollywood Sign

• 

  ‘Santa Claus Conquers the Martians’: Failed film is hit theater show

• 

  LA Breakfast Club: ‘Everybody is on the same level,’ regardless of backgro…

• 

  For many LA Latinos, making tamales is core to the holidays

• 

  Driverless cars: Is it safe to be a passenger?

• 

  Fake snow, ice rinks: Which LA areas are creating a white Christmas?

• 

  Diamond Bakery, Jewish LA institution, closes after 7 decades