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Jobless rate up in California. What will life be like when China rules the world? Then, it's FilmWeek on AirTalk. KPCC film critics review the week's theatrical and DVD releases, including Twilight sequel New Moon, The Blind Side, Bad Lieutenant, and Planet 51.

Los Angeles Urban League Head Start s success. Head start programs enhance children s physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development and the Urban League offers assistance for parents to move towards self sufficiency and support for parents in their efforts to fulfill their parental roles.

The benefits of a nice mud shrimp cocktail.

A year after the Clean Trucks program began at the harbor complex, the two ports in San Pedro Harbor are headed in divergent directions. The port of Los Angeles continues to fight challenges to pollution controls in court. In Long Beach, harbor commissioners are trying to end the same lawsuit.

Software mogul Bill Gates announced today that his foundation will distribute more than $300 million in grants to improve teaching in public schools across the country. Gates pledged nearly one-fifth of that money to charter school operators who run dozens of schools in the Southland.

Through Saturday, UCLA is hosting a grand opening for its new Center for the Liberal Arts and Free Institutions.

Sir Richard Branson changed the face of marketing and of aviation with his Virgin empire, now he takes us on a journey into the future of flight, including the kind that goes straight up - into space; and New York Times columnist Gail Collins was there When Everything Changed - that's her new book about the lightning bolt that was the Women's movement

Police arrested 14 protesters at a University of California Regents finance committee meeting at UCLA today.

California's $21 billion deficit; Andre Agassi opens up about his life and tennis career; the district attorney says he'll prosecute medical marijuana dispensaries; a talk with David Cope, whose computer program "Emily Howell" composes its own music; Ruth Seymour retires as general manager of KCRW

August 8th, 2009 DoSomething's Social Action Bootcamp Los Angeles

It s starts with the beat.