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Bullied?
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
A night at the Welcome Inn
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
Liberia in L.A. and visiting the Inglewood Oilfield
For the rest of this month, Hear in the City will be airing a special series on oil exploration and drilling right in the middle of residential Los Angeles. It’s called Air Check: pollution and petroleum from a community perspective. … Continue reading
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Performance, protest, prayer in public space
In honor of our one-year anniversary on Hear in the City, we bring you a show about protest, performance, and prayer in the public space. We visit the Asco arts exhibition “The Elite of the Obscure” at … Continue reading
the fine line between what is permitted and what is not permitted in the public realm
Hear in the City is back on the airwaves and the web-space celebrating our one-year anniversary! We are thrilled to return with a series of audio maps of what may well be the biggest arts exhibit in the world, in our … Continue reading
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community gardens, cuban photography, and bicycle bells
On this week’s episode, we offer a mixed bag of art and culture happening around Los Angeles. Luis Sierra Campos visits a community garden in Highland Park that serves as a model for urban sustainability and food security in a … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, bicycling, community arts, culture in the city, economy and equality, marginalize communities, music, photography, public health, public radio, Special Series, sustainability, transportation, Two Wheels and a Mic, Uncategorized, urban environment, work
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the Great Wall of Los Angeles mural
This week on Hear in the City producer Luis Sierra Campos visits the Tujunga Wash with artist and Social and Public Art Resource Center founder Judy Baca to talk with artists about the restoration of the Great Wall of Los … Continue reading
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two wheels and a mic: L.A. city council votes to protect cyclists
This week on Hear in the City we talk to LAPD Sergeant David Krumer about the a law that was approved by the Los Angeles City Council last weekmaking the physical or verbal harassment of cyclists a civil crime. Does it … Continue reading
let’s go to the market
On this episode of Hear in the City, we go to the market and ponder the question of loyalty. We sit down at the kitchen table with a 32 year veteran employee of the largest grocery chain the U.S. at … Continue reading
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Tagged Carmageddon, chain stores, Costco, Hear in the City, Kroger, Los Angeles, Manuel Tavison, membership, Radio realities, Ralphs, Sara Harris, shopping, strike, the market, the urban landscape, walk-out, Will Coley
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Zoot Suit, 30 years later
Last month, on a Wednesday night at eight, the Million Dollar Theater on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles was packed for the 30th anniversary screening of a now classic film, Zoot Suit. On this episode of Hear in the City, … Continue reading
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