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Hear in the City

Sara Harris•www.myeverydayradio.org
Society & Culture
MyEveryDayRadio is a daily time-mapping exercise asking you to stop and listen, at least once every day. Hear in the City: Radio Realities from the Urban Landscape is a sound-mapping endeavor launched in 2010 on KPFK, 90.7FM in Los Angeles by Sara Harris.
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02.07.11: Bus Only Lanes

On Wednesday, February the City Council met to hear a proposal that would reduce by half the length of a 9-mile bus only lane funded principally by the federal government and in part by the city. The lane would encourage bus ridership and reduce car traffic from downtown to Santa Monica along the historic Wilshire Corridor. Engineers, advocates, environmental groups, and bus riders filled the hall to hear 11th district councilman Bill Rosendahl explain why the residents in his district--which in...

Feb 08, 2011•7 min

02.07.11: Las Olvidadas

This past Saturday evening, Mexican photographer Maya Goded inaugurated a solo exhibition called Las Olvidadas at the California Museum of Photography in Riverside. Goded is a documentarian associated with the Magnum cooperative and known for her work in marginalized and stigmatized communities. She’s been honored with prestigious fellowships and prizes, including a Guggenheim fellowship, the Netherland’s Prince Claus prize, and the Eugene Smith award. Our arts editor, Jesse Lerner, talked with ...

Feb 08, 2011•5 min

02.07.11: Chinese New Year 2011

(c) Hear In The City. 2011. www.hearinthecity.org Airs Mondays at 2:00PM in Los Angeles on 90.7FM KPFK or www.kpfk.org

Feb 08, 2011•9 min

Homeless Count 2011

The Homeless count in Los Angeles County is done every two years and is headed by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), the lead agency in the county’s Continuum of Care. Two years ago when the count estimated that 42,694 people were homeless in Los Angeles County. The numbers from last week’s count are not in yet, but Hear in the City’s Luis Sierra Campos takes us on a journey with volunteers in the City Covina whose assignment it is to take a census of how many people are living...

Feb 01, 2011•4 min

Covina Tour

46,800 people live in this small city in the San Gabriel Valley, two dozen of them without permanent housing. That may not seem like a lot, especially by Los Angeles County standards, but what may make Covina unique is that the Community Redevelopment Agency of this former orange orchard town is investing tax dollars in preventing homelessness for those two dozen people, especially families. The city has made permanent housing for families a priority. Whether or not this is a factor in that soci...

Feb 01, 2011•11 min

01.31.11: Bus Riders vs. Condo Canyon

Let’s go, via phone, to the corner of Wilshire and Western to the headquarters of the Bus Rider’s Union where Sunyoung Yang joins us to talk about recent opposition by West side residents to an ambitious Bus Only Lane that will change the commute on Wilshire and encourage more people to get out of their cars and onto the MTA. Sunyoung, in classic Bus Riders Union style, Super Pasajera and other super heroes were in costume this past Friday downtown at the County Supervisors building.

Feb 01, 2011•8 min

01.10.11: The Soldiers Project

As the U.S. approaches a decade of warfare and occupation in Afghanistan, more and more service men and women are coming back from deployment with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. Many of those with the condition go undiagnosed. According to the department of Veterans’ Affairs, those more likely to develop PTSD are service women and soldiers of color, service men and women with existing mental health problems, and returning soldiers who have little support from family and friends. Hear In...

Jan 11, 2011•10 min

01.10.11: Macho Like Me

Hear In The City's Host Sara Harris spoke with Los Angeles based author Helie Lee. Lee's 1.5 generation Korean American who several years ago spent two harrowing years in China and in Seoul planning to help her mother’s family defect from North Korea. She wrote a best-selling book about the experience called “In the Absence of Sun” and a memoir of her family’s life during the Korean War called “Still Life with Rice.” Helie’s latest undertaking is a one-woman theater performance that mixes docume...

Jan 11, 2011•12 min

01.03.11: L.A. Department of Public Works

Los Angeles has had an unusual amount of precipitation in resent weeks yet, the watershed of the city loses 70% of that water because it is channeled directly to the ocean. This is a fundamental part of city history. The reason for it dates back to decisions made in the 1930’s to channel the Los Angeles River in order to avoid floods. But, the L.A. River is a meandering body of water that can be powerful in times of generous rain and anemic in the summer. Now, almost 85% of the water we use in t...

Jan 04, 2011•7 min
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