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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig, authors of So Gay For You and stars of The L Word, about their decades-long friendship and the show's lasting impact on culture.

NPR's Mandalit Delbarco visited some of the tres chic party's held by Hollywood's gliterati following last night's Oscar ceremonies.

NPR's Mandalit Del Barco reports on the recent crackdown by Los Angeles health officials on street vendors selling tacos.

General Motors pulls its ads in the Los Angeles Times after the newspaper's Pulitzer Prize-winning auto critic, Dan Neil, called for the resignation of GM's chief executive in a column this week. Neil and other industry analysts say the company is falling dangerously behind its foreign competitors, especially in developing hybrid cars. Paul Eisenstein, publisher of TheCarConnection.com, an Internet magazine, discusses the controversy.

The legendary guitarist turns our studio into a bluesman's front porch in Como, Mississippi.

Smog season in Los Angeles, where the air is dirtier than in any other city, is approaching. But as NPR's Mandalit DelBarco reports, L.A. has achieved huge reductions in air pollution over the past two decades, despite the city's reputation for lung-searing smog. Though new kinds of gas, cleaner industry and better cars are part of the solution, lots of little things have helped as well--like cleaner backyard barbecues.

Georgia Anne Muldrow's newest album Overload, sees the hip-hop artist moving from the L.A. underground into the mainstream spotlight.

The protesters who have gathered around the Democratic National Convention represent causes large and small. While they seem to get media attention only when they clash with the law, NPR's Don Gonyea paused to take in the clashes and the quiet last night.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports that while the average weekday in Los Angeles brings traffic jams throughout the city and region, the air pollution is at its worst during the weekend. Scientists say the reasons for this are as hazy as the LA skyline.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports that Former Colorado Governor Roy Romer is facing a big challenge in trying to turn around the massive, and troubled, Los Angeles school district. Romer has been working in LA as the School superintendent for half a year.