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Angela Carone

Cultural Enterprise Reporter

Angela Carone covered arts and culture for KPBS and was the author of Culture Lust. Angela has produced public radio programs focused on the arts for the Atlanta and San Diego markets. In this role, she has covered topics ranging from books, film, theater, music, visual arts and pop culture. She also has more than 15 years experience in print media, having been published in various newspapers, alternative weeklies, and exhibition catalogs. Angela has degrees in political science from Pennsylvania State University and in English literature from Georgia State University. She is also a published photographer.

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  • Blues band and San Diego favorites Lady Dottie and the Diamonds were on These Days this morning, doing their best to get Tom Fudge to stand up and pull…
  • Since winning multiple San Diego music awards and garnering a strong following for their live shows, Lady Dottie and the Diamonds have become a popular staple in the San Diego music scene. They join us in studio to perform and talk about their love of the blues.
  • Above: Imagery from earlier today at an Encanto polling site. Angela Carone / KPBS . [ View full-screen ] I couldn't be happier about how I spent my…
  • You should really consider spending your November entertainment budget (before it shrinks!) at the Museum of Photographic Arts. & For the next three Fridays, they are offering three really interesting documentaries as part of their Behind the Lens series. & The first is called
  • Are you going to your neighborhood watering hole? & Hosting a themed party? & Streaking naked through North Park if your candidate wins? & I actually know people who are doing this so if you live in North Park, you might want to move your TV onto the front porch for prime viewing. & Whatever you have planned, we want to know about it!
  • On Sunday I moderated a discussion on the economy for the La Jolla Playhouse's Discovery Sunday Series. & The discussion followed the matinee performance of Tobacco Road, which led nicely into a comparison between today's economic crisis and the Great Depression. & However, I focused mainly on today's economy and what went wrong -- basically how it got sick and why the disease is spreading. & We started with the sub-prime mortgage crisis and dipped in along the timeline of illness at credit default swaps, the $700 billion bailout and ending with projections for the future. Obviously, credit default swaps are hardly part of my regular beat, so I had a lot of studying to do. & Plus, I was interviewing Todd Buchholz, a former economic policy advisor to the White House, who was also a Harvard professor of economics and a hedge fund manager. He was very entertaining on the subject and the audience seemed very engaged - especially when they got fiesty about the current state of affairs. &