This is a prototype for a 12-unit audio-based curriculum with a coloring book field guide about the ecology and flora and fauna of the Mojave Desert in Southern California. Copyright pending. (hearinthecity.org)
We offer you this original submission to the KCRW 24 Hour Radio Race 2020 "Time Warp", with gratitude, for the opportunity! After nearly three months of bickering while quarantining together, this mother-daughter team finds peace while making radio together about a person whom they both loved very much and eventually lost to Alzheimers disease. With original poetry by Minerva Lerner and original song by Edward Harris. Produced and edited by Sara Harris. Hear in the City’s Sara Harris and Minerva...
Human excrement, overgrown undergrowth, general disregard for the landscape in the Shadow of Dodgers Stadium.
Installment #4: What if we all took a moment out of each day to think about and talk about and perhaps even thank- or decide to delete- the long list of contacts in our cellphone?
With the intention of creating a masterfully-crafted, self-contained, internally edited and smooth musing, this entry of MyEveryDayRadio documents nothing more than two dogs barking behind a fence and a homeless man searching for a plastic bag in the weeds on a hillside.
Random rantings during a windy April day in L.A.
Welcome to day one of an experiment in daily decompression from wherever my mind takes me.
December 21st, 2012- the winter solstice- was thought by many to portend the end of the world, and by others as the moment of spiritual and cosmological transformation as it represented the end and new beginning of the Long Count Aztec and Maya calendars. On this New Years Day, 2013 episode, Hear in the The City goes out the the wasteland spaces of California's Salton Sea to find out if the Apocalypse happened... or if it is still on the horizon. (Originally broadcast on KPFK, 90.7FM, Los Angele...
Listen to our Mother's Day episode and share it with your mothers.
This episode, we take a trip to one of the largest on-site rain/storm water catchment systems in Los Angeles. On an unusually rainy May day, in a year, when rain has been scarce, Andy Lipkis and Jim Hardie of Tree People walk us through the basics of the past, present, and future of the relationship between trees and water in a time of climate change in Los Angeles.
This week's radio outside of the studio: we celebrate Earth Day with a crew of people who think every day is Earth Day--we visit Northeast Trees on planting mission in the Mar Vista Gardens Housing Projects and ride a bike to power a dj party with Movable Parts at Ciclavia.
This episode, we visit with Afro-futurist filmmaker Cauleen Smith as she brings her slide-show performance drawn from archives of and admiration for Sun-Ra to Los Angeles. It's national poetry month, and we have some choice recordings of Mr. Ra/Mystery, the cosmic polymath, composer, and poet.
This week, we take a walk with the "old man of water", Waterkeeper's Conner Everts to find concrete solutions to problem of a concrete city that pours most of its water right back into the ocean instead of saving it for a non-rainy day.
On this episode, we spend the show loitering at City Hall with artist Chris Cuellar who is part of a gallery show at Los Angeles City College called "Come in; We're Open" --a collection of conversations about social practice and a project of Performing Public Space. Also on the show: the day-after the dislocation of Occupy L.A.
This episode: "When you are at kilometer 30...that's when the pain and the absurdity of the marathon come into focus." "Ever since starting to work on this guide, whenever I see a plain, industrial building, I just have to wonder: who's being screwed behind those frosted, black windows?"
This week's Hear in the City wraps up our series on natural elements in the the urban space with "Water" by Radiosonideros collective featuring the poetry of Lewis McAdams, co-founder of Friends of the Los Angeles River. We also offer you a guide to a proposed landmark urban plan on the L.A. River and a meditation on the multiplicity of love.
Next in our series of audio art honoring natural elements in the urban space: Earth. We spend most of the program exploring the fundamental issues that arise when a piece of land is set aside for public park use at a time when disinvestment in open and un-exploited spaces has become the norm in the State of California.
This week, we visit Mexico City--once the dirtiest metropolitan area in the Americas-- now the recipient of a prize for clean air and sustainable transport. Plus, audio poetry by Clare Fox and responses from our Pit Bull show.
The number one dog breed euthanized in shelters in cities in the U.S. is the Pit Bull Terrier. On this episode, we travel to two spaces in the City to visit extraordinary people who are committed to difficult dogs and helping society to deal with them. Featuring Larry Hill of Puppy Imprinters and Lori Weise of the Downtown Dog Rescue.
The 2012 U.S. presidential election had been decided. California saw record turn-out. Some Angelinos went beyond the call of voter duty and hit the pavement in Las Vegas to make sure to get out the vote in our neighboring swing-state. Listen to the show to hear how it went.
Hear in the City went to Vegas this weekend to map the city with volunteers for Obama and Romney who traveled all the way from Los Angeles to get out the vote in this swing state where the President won in 2008 by a 537 vote margin. Listen tomorrow on KPFK, 90.7FM at 2:30 PDT.
With one week left until the U.S. presidential election, Sara visits Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles where a group of faith-based volunteers teams up with the county sheriff's department to register eligible voters in jails. It's the first effort of its kind, and while most former felons and non-violent inmates serving misdemeanors are unaware of the fact, they do have the right to vote in California. At the end of the show we celebrate el Día de los Muertos with the Los Angeles Theat...
On this episode of Hear in the City, we enter a collection drawn from old boxes recently found in a house sold after the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City. The boxes belonged to the hard-working and versatile photographer, Lola Alvarez Bravo. Inside, was a treasure of documents and unedited photos and correspondence from a half century of travel and changing times. The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California is showing the collection to the public for the first time. Plus, we dive in...
On this episode, we visit a humble house on a winding road in the hills of Los Angeles where a group of artists turn one family's mortgage default and foreclosure story into a lens for looking at a larger problem. With "A Notorious Possession", artist Olga Koumoundouros squats the abandoned house across the street, paints it gold, and holds economic justice parties. We wrap up the show with a tribute to Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring".
We are cruising down a European highway through the wooded hills of Belgium. We are 30 kilometers from the border with the southern tip of Holland. We are on a detour to an abandoned coal-mine-turned-into-art-space-commentary on the state of capitalism.
Where can kids who've been pushed to the margins of the learning experience in life find a place to reach their potential? This week's Hear in the City takes you to two spaces where dignity, integrity, and discipline guide the path to learning success for high-schoolers on two ends of Los Angeles: at a juvenile probation camp in the San Gabriel Mountains and with emerging hip-hop artists and DJ's at an after-school program in Watts. Featuring Rob Thelusma of Affirmative Athletics and Brian Mora ...
This episode, Hear in the City runs into the only 24-hour, 7-day-a-week, animal rescue team of its kind...and, we sit in on a tiny puppet show of epic poetic proportions. SMART in Los Angeles and Automata in Chinatown.
On this episode, we meet a coyo-dog, Sara chases a coyote up into the hills in the broad daylight, and we revisit the animal's predicament in the urban space.
While most media are regurgitating Calderón and the PRI's assertions that Mexico has a president-elect, today on Hear in the City, Sara interviews investigative journalist and Enfoque Latino contributor Dolores Dorantes about what she calls "A Coup d' Etat, Mexican Style." We do a simultaneous translation, and we have a visit to the anti-Walmart protest this weekend as well.
On this episode of Hear in the City we attend the unveiling of a 340 ton rock that crossed 22 cities and 4 counties from a quarry in Hurupah Valley, Riverside, California to land in Los Angeles as the latest object to be added to the list of land art in the world...and we preview Radio Ambulante, a new show that brings the best of radio story-telling to a pan-American audience, en español.
