Summary: Join us this week as dip down to Long Beach where Kerstin Kansteiner shares the inspiration behind her popular establishments Portfolio Coffeehouse and Berlin Bistro. We'll also visit with poet Joan Jobe Smith to hear about her mentor Charles Bukowski and how her writer's voice has evolved since the 1960s. We'll also discuss developer Geoff Palmer's bridge approved for the Da Vinci project over Temple Street, a less majestic sort of palm planted to replace dying ones in Elysian Park, pending restoration of the Globe Theatre marquee, the evolving mystery of Rufus the Bahooka tiki bar fish and two newspaper editorials that call for the Zanja Madre in Chinatown to be preserved in place. All this and more as Kim and Richard usher in the week of May 26th, 2014 Photo: Marx-Engels-Platz and the Palast der Republik in East Berlin in the summer of 1989
