In this very special episode, we bring you our KPCC live show from Los Angeles! We speak with the brilliant science writer Jennifer Ouellette about serendipity, cultivating openness and what makes us who we are. Plus jiu jitsu, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and so much more. Then we pass the mic to American Public Media’s The Mash-Up Americans for a different take on identity… and mezcal!
Audrey Hepburn’s Former Los Angeles Mansion Is Up for Sale
The Hollywood icon’s Los Angeles mansion is listed for $14 million.
Michael Mizanin, ‘The Miz’ Of WWE Fame, Lists His LA Home
The actor and reality TV star is the reigning intercontinental champion of the WWE.
We interview Professor Butch Rovan, a performer, composer, media artist, and the faculty director of the Brown Arts Initiative. Once a rock musician in Los Angeles, Butch now creates award-winning work at intersection of technology, code and composition. We learn why it’s artists who push technology to the nth degree, how to interpret your work from one field to another, and why movie soundtracks make us cry.
Fly from Los Angeles to Sydney in Under Four Hours on this Sleek Supersonic Jet
Charles Bombardier’s newest aircraft concept is designed to shuttle hundreds of passengers long distances in a fraction of the time it takes a modern commercial airliner.
The youngest member of the Keeping Up with the Kardashians clan, Kylie Jenner, has already outgrown her teenage crib for her new adult home.
Just over one year ago at the age of 17, the reality-TV personality and budding cosmetics entrepreneur bought her first house for $2.6 million. The bachelorette pad, in the Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas, breathes a clean, contemporary aesthetic. Read more >
Carolwood Drive is tucked in the illustrious enclave of Holmby Hills—part of Los Angeles’ exclusive Platinum Triangle. One of the most expensive streets on Earth, the prestigious stretch is lined with mega-mansions once occupied by some of Hollywood’s greatest stars, from Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, and Marilyn Monroe to Walt Disney, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley.
Priced at $150 million, the newest kid on the block is a 38,000-square-foot spread containing 10 bedrooms and 20 full baths—freshly built on the site of Barbra Streisand’s old Mon Rêve estate, across the way from Frank Sinatra’s erstwhile abode. Read more >
If you’re visiting Oslo on a budget, definitely think twice before you take a cab. The Norwegian capital has the most expensive taxi fares in the world with a typical three-mile ride during the daytime costing $32. That’s over three times as high as London. Read more >
Starchitect Designs $30 Million Hollywood Hills Bachelor Pad for ‘Full House’ Creator
Jeff Franklin, creator of the hit ‘80s and ‘90s sitcom “Full House,” listed his three-story Hollywood Hills home back in 2014, for $30 million. Read more >
In Beverly Hills, A Mansion Hits The Market For $135 Million
An 18,000-square-foot Beverly Hills home once owned by comedian Danny Thomas has hit the market with a quiet ask price of $135 million, making it the second-most expensive home for sale in Los Angeles.
The Most Expensive Home Sales In U.S. History
Two nine-figure sales each shattered the previously-held record for America’s most expensive home sale before mid-year. By the end of 2014, a whopping 16 sales had closed at the $50 million price point or higher–a heretofore unheard of volume at this price level. Read more.
1. Seattle Sounders
2. Los Angeles Galaxy
3. Houston Dynamo
