Free Passes to California State Parks for Green Friday
It's Black Friday. You know what that means: chaos at the shopping mall. But there is an alternative to the endless lines, the jammed parking lots and the rampant consumerism. It's called Green Friday.
'Ray And Joan' Chronicles Complex Life Of Kroc's Philanthropic Wife
McDonald's began in a scrappy working class town east of LA, but businessman Ray Kroc turned it into a billion dollar global enterprise. And it's Kroc's 3rd wife Joan who donated much of the Kroc fortune after his death. It's a story that KCRW's Lisa Napoli tells in the book "Ray And Joan: The Man Who Made The McDonald's Fortune And The Woman Who Gave It All Away." She told our John Sepulvado the couple actually had a decade long affair before finally wedding in 1969.