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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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HITC 7 05 11

HITC 7 05 11 by Sara Harris

Jul 08, 2011•28 min

HITC 6 28 11

On this week's Hear in the City, we check in with artist, educator, and bicycle activist Patrick Miller about an incident in Los Angeles that made international news last week when 11 cyclists were injured by an alleged drunk driver. And arts editor Jesse Lerner reviews James Benning's newest film titled, simpley "RR" (for railroad). Benning is a long-time figure in Los Angeles experimental film, best known for meticulous timing of 10-minute-long shots --the length of an unedited 16mm film reel-...

Jun 28, 2011•29 min

HITC 6 21 11

It's the first day of summer, the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. We take the opportunity to look at how budget cuts in California are affecting summer course offerings at community colleges while philanthropy allows a new art museum to flourish in East Los Angeles. We visit a nearly one-hundred-year-old music school in Boyle Heights, and we sit down for a special reading of the "Infection Monologues" in honor of the 30th anniversary of the first AIDS diagnosis, here in Los A...

Jun 21, 2011•29 min

HITC 6 14 11

On this week's show, we enter the space of a meticulous 24-hour-long video documentation of one entire day in Christian Marclay’s new work, The Clock, we consider the expanded day of June 16th, 1904, as Bloomsday and James Joyce's Ulysses are recognized by readers around the world, and we start the show with news of the early release of convicted Bay Area Transit cop Johannes Mehserle, less than one year after his sentencing for the killing of a young, unarmed black man on a train platform in Oa...

Jun 14, 2011•29 min

HITC 06.07.11

Hear in the City is back in the ether after a break. On this week's show, we hear about two very different urban places that are well worth visiting. Nearly two years after the Station Fire blazed through more than 160,000 acres of cottonwood, pine, and willow trees in the Angeles National Forest, architect and urban forester Holly Harper takes us on a tour of the slopes hit by the biggest fire in Los Angeles County's recorded history, which are surprisingly green now. Access to the forest is op...

Jun 08, 2011•29 min

9/20/2010: the urban environment

We tour curb-side green interventions by activists, students, and community groups at Parking Day L.A., we check in with immigrants’ rights protesters arraigned by the city attorney, and we take a walk into the water with leopard sharks swimming around our ankles.

May 26, 2011•58 min

2/14/2011: about love

Humans have written about, talked about, sang about broken hearts and first loves and all the clichés that go with them, through the ages. But, we do not so often hear about the moment of awakening that comes with a positive, self-affirming romantic encounter -one that propels us further down the path of self love. We hear from writer Steven Reigns with a tribute to gay love and acceptance and from writer/performer Gabriela Garcia Medina with a poem about empowerment over pervasive pop music mes...

May 26, 2011•33 min

2/07/2011: it’s the year of the Rabbit

This week, we go to the opening of an exhibition by a Mexican photographer whose project is documenting women who are most ignored by dominant Mexican society, and we learn more about how Chinese New Year is traditionally celebrated, and, we have an update from Luis Sierra Campos at City Hall about a proposal that would reduce the length of bus-only lanes on Wilshire Blvd.

May 26, 2011•29 min

01/10/2011: PTSD and “Macho Like Me”

On this week’s show we visit with a psychologist who is committed to providing access to services for traumatized soldiers returning from Afghanistan, and we preview a new one-woman about switching gender in search of a greater understanding of the life of men.

May 26, 2011•31 min

01/03/2011: censorship and the arts

On this week’s Hear in the City, we take a look at censorship in the arts from the perspective of three exhibitions taking place in Los Angeles.

May 26, 2011•30 min

Our first show-09.13.2010

In this episode, we talk to community members in Mac Arthur Park about the LAPD killing of Guatemalan day laborer, Manuel Ramirez (Jaminez), we visit Al Salam Pollería -a Halal poultry shop- on Whittier Blvd., and we look forward to jazz- vanguardist Ornette Coleman’s Los Angeles performance. And Host Sara Harris gets headphones thrown across the table at her live in the studio.

May 25, 2011•1 hr

Art in the Street Review

Hear in the City's arts editor, Jesse Lerner, breaks down some of the contradictions of MOCA's ultra-popular Art in the Streets exhibition at the Geffen Temporary Contemporary in downtown Los Angeles.

May 14, 2011•6 min

04.19.11

On this week's Hear in the City, we experience the Native American tradition of council in a non-traditional setting: a high school classroom just east of the Greyhound station in L.A.'s oldest schoolhouse, Metropolitan High where student build a theater piece inspired by on Dave Eggers non-fiction relating of Hurrica Katrina Zeitoun. And arts editor Jesse Lerner critiques the new Art in the Streets show at the Geffen Temporary Contemporary art museum in Little Tokyo.

Apr 25, 2011•28 min

04.12.11: Forage City App

Hear in the City host Sara Harris talks with Asiya Wadud -founder of Forage Oakland, a fruit and vegetable barter system-- about building community and equality in the city around food justice and about her mobile app collaboration with Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab, a winner of the 2010 Mac Arthur Digital Media and Learning competition.

Apr 14, 2011•10 min
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