Larry Mantle
Host, AirTalk
(he/him)
Larry Mantle has been the host of AirTalk on LAist (formerly KPCC) since April 1st, 1985. It is now the longest continuously running daily talk program in the Los Angeles radio market. Mantle also hosts the movie review and interview program FilmWeek on AirTalk, heard every Friday at 11 a.m. on LAist 89.3 and Saturday at noon.
A fourth-generation Angeleno, Larry has interviewed thousands of prominent guests on an extraordinary array of topics, and received many journalistic awards in the process. Larry grew up in southwest Los Angeles, Inglewood, and Hollywood. He's a graduate of Hollywood High School and Vanguard University of Southern California. Larry and his wife Kristen are the parents of Desmond.
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The quake killed 58 people, injured more than 9,000, displaced 125,000 residents. Larry Mantle, longtime host of "AirTalk" on 89.3 FM, remembers how communities came together. -
Mantle, who has hosted LAist's AirTalk program for nearly 40 years, shares his favorites books about Los Angeles to give friends and family.
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David Lehrer was best known for his advocacy work at the Anti-Defamation League and most recently Jews United for Democracy and Justice.
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L.A. Mayor Karen Bass joins LAist’s radio show AirTalk each month. On Wednesday, she shared her thoughts on Kevin de León refusing to resign from the L.A. City Council, the city’s homelessness problem, and more.
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With the supply chain problems, we've had shortages of materials for batteries and more. Is it possible to meet this 2035 deadline with exclusively 100% renewable energy?
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We have the full line-up: Gustavo Dudamel, Ricky Martin, Grace Jones, Sheryl Crow, Harry Potter, The Sound of Music, Star Wars and more.
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A terror warning was recently issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI for the Fourth of July holiday. Here's what experts say is behind the threat.
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Police said Friday night four people died in a shooting rampage that started at a small home in Santa Monica and spilled onto the campus of Santa Monica College, where police exchanged gunfire with the suspected gunman, who died in the library. Earlier they said six were dead.
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Though satisfied with the Supreme Court decision, Arpaio was suspicious of the timing of a recent lawsuit in relation to the decision.
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The head of the state corrections department said Thursday that a three-week hunger strike by hundreds of California inmates has come to an end, although a group that has been suppporting the prisoners said they couldn't confirm that.
