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Lost Notes is a podcast from KCRW. It's about music, and artistic legacy, and people. Listen to this episode about David Bowie's favorite rock band, Fanny. Then, go subscribe in your podcast player. See you soon for …

Trevor Pan was a student at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, where he designed, built and lived in a spectacular desert shelter …

The story of how Rob Navarro, the former voice of Ronald McDonald, became one of the most successful gay pornographers in America. One day, while …

Luis Gutierrez Sanchez had been living in a single-car garage in South L.A. for six years when he had to move. Fearing city inspectors, his landlord …

The Court TV genre started with a frustrated game show producer who pitched an idea that would make housewives’ fantasies come true. That show …

While serving seven years in prison for second-degree murder, Ron Walker became a devout Muslim. After he was released, he became the personal barber to Suge Knight and the stable of artists on the Death Row label. …

One day a suspicious couple and a former soap opera actress turned real estate agent put in an application to rent a vacant apartment. They had a strange story and wanted to deposit an entire year’s rent into the …

Kevin Gage was an actor who played villains in some of the biggest Hollywood action movies of the mid ‘90s to the early aughts. But in 2003 he was …

Host David Weinberg moves to Los Angeles and on his first day in town ends up on a yacht, attending a birthday party for a Russian theremin builder and his musician friends. But their pleasure cruise turns disastrous …

Los Angeles is a city carved out of the desert – a conjured image of paradise. These are the stories of people who learn what lies beyond the dream – boat rides with theremin makers that end on the rocks, low-budget …