Los Angeles Dreaming

The appeal of other Earwolf shows is more immediate. On a recent Monday afternoon, co-hosts Andrew Ti and Tawny Newsome sit down with their producer, Cody “Zig” Ziglar, and a guest, Dave Holmes — the co-host of an Earwolf show, “Homophilia” — to record an episode of “Yo, Is This Racist?” Together they field voicemails from listeners on a variety of race-related subjects, from the racist undertones of tiki culture to the etiquette of covering up ...

In the 1970s and ’80s, the country’s top orchestras began using blind auditions to select their musicians, hiding the faces and forms of the applicants behind opaque screens. If the musicians were unseen, the thinking went, the juries—almost universally white and male—would be less apt to discriminate against women (who made up only a tiny fraction of orchestra rosters) and African Americans (who had been excluded for decades). The experiment worked—to a point.

Hang onto your crystals, kids. This November, logic and reasoning will get you nowhere fast. Rely instead on love and wanton grooviness — values supported by Venus and Neptune. (Both planets go direct this month. And Venus resumes her Morning Star status on the 16th, when early risers can see her shining in the eastern sky.) Angels can also enjoy two meteor showers: the Taurids (November 11th and 12th) bring love and happiness to the sky, and the Leon...