Generation Z Job Seekers Turn to Smartphones for Help
When you think about young people in the workplace, you might think about millennials. But the young folks coming up behind them -- what demographers like to call "Generation Z" -- are nipping at their heels. The youngest are in grade school. The oldest have just started college. There are around 60 million of them across the nation. And many of these young job seekers are turning to their smartphones for help.
San Francisco LGBT Seniors' Hope for Housing in a Changing Castro
The generation that made San Francisco's Castro district a world-famous hub for the LGBT community is aging. But many who had hoped to spend the rest of their lives there cannot afford the sky-high prices. That's why a new housing project opening this fall is fueling a lot of excitement.
How a Determined L.A. Reporter Helped Expose the Alleged Grim Sleeper Killer
In the mid-1980s, the crack cocaine epidemic raged in South Los Angeles. Deadly gang warfare bloodied the streets. But these murders were different: young black women, killed in the same manner and dumped on the streets. By 1988, the murders appeared to stop. Around 15 years later, they resumed, inspiring L.A. Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek to nickname the killer the Grim Sleeper. Pelisek also broke the story behind the investigation that eventually led police to a retired sanitation worker named Lonnie Franklin Jr. He's now accused of murdering at least nine women and a teenage girl in South L.A. between 1985 and 2007. We talked to Pelisek outside the L.A. Criminal Courts building, where she’s covering the trial for People Magazine. She says the victims seemed to have a lot in common. A warning; some listeners might find portions of this interview disturbing.
Can Goodwill Capture Thrift Shopping Magic Online?
If you want to find the best deals on some used clothes, would you hit the suburbs and avoid big city shops, where competition can be fierce for musty old hand-me-downs labeled "vintage"? Well, the mother of all thrift stores -- Goodwill -- says "stay home!" And pick through their stuff online.
New Releases From 2 Jazz Duos Reach for the Ineffable
Duo collaborations are pretty common in jazz. Think Monk and Coltrane, Getz and Gilberto, and more recently the guitarists Julian Lage and Nels Cline. Such pairings can be a performance peak for the artist and the listener. New albums from a couple of duos with California roots could fit right into that lineage. Jazz critic Andy Gilbert and director Suzie Racho take a listen to new records from pianist Vijay Iyer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, and from guitarist Ross Hammond and tabla player Sameer Gupta.