Category Archives: public radio

lost archives of a career photographer

Posted on October 10, 2012 by hitc

Our radio station, KPFK in Los Angeles, is calling: support our non-commercial airwaves! It’s L.A.’s home for Democracy Now! and Al Jazeera. While we break for that cause, listen to this latest episode of Hear in the City. We enter a collection … Continue reading →

Posted in arts, film, and music, City of Los Angeles, culture in the city, Downtown, Long Beach, love, marginalize communities, Mexico, music, photography, photography, public radio | Tagged Adriana Zavala, electronica in L.A., Hear in the City, Jesse Lerner, Lola Alvarez Bravos, Love Fix, Mapping The City, MOLAA, Museum of Latin American Art, photography in Mexico, Rachel Arauz, Sara Harris. Alvaro Parra, Xavier De Enciso | Leave a comment

sports and music making the difference

Posted on September 18, 2012 by hitc

This episode of Hear in the City takes us on a journey to the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains at Camp Afflerbaugh, one of the 19 juvenile probation camps in Los Angeles County. Affirmative Athletics director Rob Thelusma introduces … Continue reading →

Posted in arts, film, and music, Crisis in Education, culture in the city, economy and equality, education, football, juvenile detention, La Verne, music, probation camps, public radio | Tagged "Alvaro Parra", "Camp Afflerbaugh", "flag football", "Inner Circle Youth", "juvenile detention", "Rob Thelusma", "WLCAC", dj-ing, Hear in the City, Sara Harris | Leave a comment

unique little endeavors

Posted on July 21, 2012 by hitc

Sara was walking through the park looking for a place to photograph a tin house when she noticed a life-size plastic horse being pulled up a ravine on a stretcher by a small team of uniformed rappelers with helmets. As … Continue reading →

Posted in animal services, arts, film, and music, Chinatown, City of Los Angeles, Griffith Park, public radio, puppets, theater, Uncategorized, urban wildlife, work | Tagged 90.7FM, Animal Rescue, Automata, Elmo, Hear in the City, Horse Rescue, Janie Geiser, KPFK, Mapping The City, Puppet Show, Puppeteering, Sara Harris, SMART Los Angeles, Susan Simpson, Urban Space | Leave a comment

wildlife encounters

Posted on July 15, 2012 by hitc

The direct encounter with a wild predator in the urban context is exhilerating, unsettling, and urgent. Something has to happen. On this episode of Hear in the City, Sara confronts a coyote on the street in broad daylight, sending it … Continue reading →

Posted in animal services, City of Los Angeles, culture in the city, public radio, Uncategorized, urban environment, urban wildlife | Tagged "Glen Berian", "The Glendale Bear", "wildlife services", Coyotes, Hear in the City, Los Angeles, Sara Harris, Urban Space, urban wildlife | Leave a comment

“It’s just a big rock” and Radio Ambulante

Posted on July 1, 2012 by hitc

On this episode, Hear in the City takes us to the unveiling of Levitated Mass, a 340-ton rock with its own Twitter feed. The rock’s trip through 22 cities in Southern California from Jurupah Valley to its perch atop a … Continue reading →

Posted in arts, film, and music, culture in the city, land art, MOCA, public radio, radio, Uncategorized | Tagged Antonio Villaraigosa, Daniel Alarcón, David Brinkley, Ends of the Earth, Hear in the City, Jesse Lerner, LACMA, Land Art, Levitated Mass, Michael Heiser, MOCA, public radio, Radio Ambulante, Radio en español, Robert Smithson, Sara Harris | Leave a comment

Two events: one tragic, one joyous

Posted on April 18, 2012 by hitc

On this episode, we take you to the 10 miles of streets where countless thousands of Angelinos had the rare pleasure of walking, cycling, skating, and otherwise propelling themselves on human power, exclusively, for a day during this April’s Ciclavia event. … Continue reading →

Posted in bicycling, Boyle Heights, Chinese culture, City of Los Angeles, community redevelopment, culture in the city, Downtown, East Hollywood, economy and equality, infrastructure, marginalize communities, Neighborhood/Area, public health, public radio, street art, street parades, sustainability, transportation, Two Wheels and a Mic, Uncategorized, urban environment, USC | Tagged "Hear In The City" "Sara Harris" "Chinese Student Scholars Association" "USC" "Ciclavia" "Jacqueline Hamilton" "Mingshi Di" "Jia Silu" "Owen Zheng" "Ming Qu" "Ying Wu" "Urban Cycling" "Real Ridaz" "Ea | Leave a comment

the Coyote show

Posted on April 11, 2012 by hitc

This episode is about co-existence. Coyotes live all over the continent of North America, in all sorts of landscapes. But nowhere –across the 50 states– are coyotes as comfortable in an urban setting as they are in Los Angeles. By … Continue reading →

Posted in animal services, Anza Borrego Desert, public health, public radio, Santa Monica Mountains, sustainability, Uncategorized, urban environment, urban wildlife | Tagged City Of Los Angeles, co-existence, Coyotes, Gregory Randall, Hear in the City, Los Angeles Wildlife, Sara Harris, Seth Riley, Southern California wildlife, Urban Landscape, urban wildlife, Wildlife Expert | 2 Comments

bells for Japan and advocates for foster children

Posted on March 13, 2012 by hitc

On this week’s episode, we ring the big bell at the Nishi Honganji Buddhist Temple in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles at 2:46pm in recognition and solidarity with the people of Japan who were hit by the earthquake and Tsunami last … Continue reading →

Posted in City Government, culture in the city, economy and equality, education, foster care, Little Tokyo, nuclear energy, public health, public radio, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Bullied?

Posted on March 6, 2012 by hitc

On this week’s show, we are thrilled to announce that Hear in the City has been selected to be part of a national one-hour radio series: Generation PRX’s Bullied Project. Student producers René Ayala and Oscar Rodriguez … Continue reading →

Posted in arts, film, and music, bicycling, Boyle Heights, Crisis in Education, culture in the city, Downtown, economy and equality, education, infrastructure, LAUSD, marginalize communities, music, public radio, street art, Two Wheels and a Mic, Uncategorized | 1 Comment

A night at the Welcome Inn

Posted on February 5, 2012 by hitc

We spend this week’s show at a one-time musical happening in a motel on Colorado Boulevard in Los Angeles. The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound converts a block of rooms into experimental music stages … Continue reading →