Why California is years late on required disaster reports — and why it matters for the next big fire (0:30)

How do you cope with hearing loss? (18:22)

A check in on “safe parking” zones as Pasadena weighs implementing one  (51:05) 

Broadway composer Marc Shaiman charts his life in new memoir (1:20:49)  

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