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Podcast title Torrance Daily Breeze - Life and Culture
Website URL http://robocaster.com/dailybre...
Description Lifestyle and Culture news from the Torrance Daily Breeze. The Daily Breeze provides local and global news coverage for the South Bay and Harbor areas of Los Angeles County including Torrance, Palos Verdes, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach and surrounding areas.
Updated Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:06:33 GMT
Image Torrance Daily Breeze
Category TV & Film
Arts
Kids & Family
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Episodes

1. It's a bumper crop of first-time food gardeners
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Description: One of the healthiest by-products of the recession has been a nationwide bumper crop of first-time food gardeners. According to the country's leading seed company, W. Atlee Burpee and Co., there were 7.

2. Mail-order companies spring into action
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Description: W ith rain interspersed with warmer days, suddenly it looks like spring in Southern California. The first tip-off always is the beautiful white clouds of flowering pears that line area streets.

3. It's prime time for pruning roses
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Description: "Dead. Get rid of it." Chop. "Crossing. Pitch it." Clip. "Wimpy. It's gone." Lop.

4. RENEE MOILANEN: Heartfelt words never fade from handwritten letters
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Description: I came across the letter while cleaning out an old junk drawer. It was from my grandfather, written in his shaky scrawl on the white half-sheet tablet paper he always used.

5. RENEE MOILANEN: Unconditional motherly love isn't always instantaneous
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Description: Jessie Canfield did a very bad thing. Police say the young woman excused herself from a party in Redondo Beach, gave birth to a 6-pound baby girl and then dumped the newborn in the trash.

6. RENEE MOILANEN: Stealth crimes such as identity theft are insidious -- and infuriating
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Description: Apparently, sometime in mid-January, I checked myself into a Santa Monica hospital, stayed a week and racked up nearly $56,000 in medical bills.

7. RENEE MOILANEN: Who picks a name for a newborn without crunching the data first?
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Description: When you're married to an engineer, the simplest tasks can get pretty complicated. Take hanging a picture. I eyeball a location, hammer in the nail and throw the thing up there.

8. RENEE MOILANEN: Women's conferences also primo shopping arenas
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Description: Back in the day, women came together around a patchwork quilt to gossip, trade advice and create a supportive, loving space for one another. Today, we go to women's conferences.

9. RENEE MOILANEN: Living 'adjacent the good life' in the South Bay
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Description: My husband and I sat out the South Bay housing boom and instead, like two good fiscally responsible adults, put the extra dollars into our savings.

10. ADELL SHAY: Sounds of spring make a welcome return
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Description: Every year, I forget how warm the sunlight feels. I forget the smell of freshly mowed grass, the feel of warm pockets of air that envelop and hang suspended from a cloudless sky, the shimmer and barely perceptible sway of trees.

11. ADELL SHAY: Grammar and spirituality: Part 3
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Description: Grammar and spirituality: Part three of a three-part series: Being. That's what looked into and out from her eyes in the hospital room. And at that moment, the grammar was clear, infinitely clear. There is only, ever, Subject.

12. ADELL SHAY: Grams' Valentine is her 100th birthday
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Description: Beans. Specifically, lima beans. That's the secret to longevity according to Grams. At least that's what she told the mayor of El Segundo last Sunday. Marie Stinnett, or as her family calls her, Grams, turned 100 on Valentine's Day.

13. ADELL SHAY: Learning to deal with the impulse to fix everything
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Description: There is intense suffering in the belief that situations or people should be different, or that I know how things should be.

14. ADELL SHAY: If you see me smile, thank a hat
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Description: I love hats.I've loved them from the time I was 10 and got a round white fur one with dangling pompoms that tied around my chin.

15. Stryker leaves Amp, returns to KROQ
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Description: Stryker, who was instrumental in getting top-40 Amp Radio (KAMP, 97.1 FM) off the ground, returned to his alternative KROQ (106.7 FM) roots earlier this month, taking on the afternoon drive/early evening time slot on the legendary station.

16. RICHARD WAGONER: AM station The Spa changes from tunes to talk
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Description: The Inland Empire will lose contemporary standards music and gain another talk station on Monday as The Spa (KSPA, 1510 AM) makes a shift toward irrelevance. All right, that may be a bit harsh.

17. RICHARD WAGONER: KFI newcomer Carroll needs to do his homework
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Description: Bill Carroll made his "unanticipated" KFI (640 AM) debut Monday, replacing Bill Handel in the noon to 2 p.m. shift.

18. Doo-wop rocks the airwaves Wednesdays on Retro 1260
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Description: As more and more oldies stations move away from music of the 1950s and '60s, it is getting harder and harder to find doo-wop on the radio airwaves. Management at Retro 1260 (KGIL, 1260 AM and 105.

19. The legendary Art Laboe honored at luncheon
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Description: Art Laboe accepted his Lifetime Achievement honor at the LARadio.com awards luncheon last week at Vitello's in Studio City. It was an entertaining afternoon that showcased one of Los Angeles radio's true greats.

20. Why Air America never really took off
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Description: Liberal talk network Air America abruptly shut down last week, taking its final breath after having essentially spent all of its life on life support.