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HITC Special Series:
Category Archives: arts, film, and music
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
Random musical moments
On this episode of Hear in the City, we take an eclectic tour of Los Angeles-based music. We go to the Nethercutt collection– a private showcase of intricate, hand-crafted music boxes featuring pianos with tiny hammers shaped like bees and one … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, Boyle Heights, Downtown, film, MOCA, music, public radio, street art, Sylmar, transportation, Venice
Tagged Adam Hyman, Alternative Projections, Aurelio Reyes, Erin Scott, Jesse Lerner, L.A. Film Forum", Mariachi Plaza, music boxes, Nethercutt Collection, pie-organs, Sara Harris, Venice Beach
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Echo Park Film Center at 10 and Weegee at MOCA
On this week’s episode, we hang out with founders and fans of independent film gem, the Echo Park Film Center on the occasion of their 10th anniversary, and we review some lesser known and more campy … Continue reading
Air Check: the problem beneath the park
On our last episode, we heard from residents about the history of oil fields and parkland in the Baldwin Hills, Ladera Heights, Windsor Hills, and Culver City Crest in South Los Angeles. On this week’s show, we hear about two … Continue reading
Posted in Air Check Series, air pollution, arts, film, and music, Baldwin Hills, City Government, community redevelopment, culture in the city, Echo Park, Echo Park, economy and equality, film, infrastructure, Inglewood, local oil production, public health, public radio, Special Series, urban environment
Tagged Air Check, Baldwin Hills, Baldwin Hills Conservancy, Citizen's Coalition for a Safe Environment, Community Health Councils, Echo Park Film Center, Inglewood Oilfield, Ladera Heights, Newsdesk.org, petroleum extraction, PXP, Sara Harris, Spot.us, Sunset and Alvarado, Thandisizwe Chimurenga
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Air Check: voices from the Inglewood Oilfield
Hear in the City will spend then next few shows in the Baldwin Hills at the Inglewood Oilfield. This place is perched on the summit overlooking the past and the future. On one side, the oil discoveries that drew wealth … Continue reading
Posted in Air Check Series, air pollution, arts, film, and music, Baldwin Hills, community arts, culture in the city, Culver City, economy and equality, local oil production, marginalize communities, public health, public radio, sustainability, transportation, urban environment, water resources, work
Tagged Baldwin Hills, BHC, David McNeill, Dexter Story, Inglewood Oilfield, kpfk.org, Ladera Little League, Newsdesk.org, PXP, Sara Harris, Spot.us, Thandisizwe Chimurenga
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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
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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19th century transportation in the 21st century: 6/28/2011
On this week’s Hear in the City, we launch a new series called Two Wheels and a Mic by checking in with artist, educator, and bicycle activist Patrick Miller about an incident in Los Angeles that made national news last … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, Baldwin Hills, bicycling, culture in the city, economy and equality, film, infrastructure, LAPD, public radio, smog, Special Series, transportation, Two Wheels and a Mic, urban environment
Tagged Critical Mass, cycling in Los Angeles, experimental film, Hear in the City, James Benning, Jesse Lerner, Midnight Ridazz, Patrick Miller, RR, Sara Harris
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eastside arts and 30 years of HIV/AIDS: 6/21/2011
Today we on Hear in the City, we visit two historic arts institutions on the east side of the Los Angeles River, and we sit in on a special session of The Infection Monologues, a theatrical celebration of life and love … Continue reading
Posted in arts, film, and music, Boyle Heights, City Government, community arts, Crisis in Education, culture in the city, economy and equality, education, gender, GLBTQ life, music, public radio, Uncategorized, West Hollywood
Tagged "Infection Monologues" "Vincent Price Museum" "ELAC" "East LA College" "Alex Garner" "Neighborhood Music School" "Summer Solstice" "Hear in the City" "Jesse Lerner" "Sara Harris" "Luis Sierra Campos"
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