Monthly Archives: March 2011

3/22/2011: world water day and education in crisis

Posted on March 29, 2011 by hitc

As part of our series on the crisis in public education, we hand part of this show our students who study art with The HeArt Project as a way to open-up personal and professional possibilities while struggling to graduate from high … Continue reading →

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3/14/2011: Los Angeles libraries and oil fields

Prop L

Posted on March 16, 2011 by hitc

For the first time in its nearly 140 year history, the L.A. Central library stopped offering seven-day-a week hours due to sever city budget cuts. The passage of ballot measure L last week brings back services and hours. Martín Gómez, the … Continue reading →

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3/14/2011: Los Angeles libraries and oil fields

UCLA Film and Television Archive

Posted on March 16, 2011 by hitc

The UCLA Film and Television Archive is one of the largest repositories of old, fragile, rescued, rare, and otherwise significant film and video works. Sara talks to the head of public programs at the archive, Shannon Kelley, about this year’s … Continue reading →

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3/14/2011: Los Angeles libraries and oil fields

Air Check

Posted on March 16, 2011 by hitc

On this week’s show we launch our new series Air Check: petroleum and air pollution from a community perspective. With the support of independent news sites –Newsdesk.org and Spot.us– our reporters will follow the path a barrel of oil from … Continue reading →

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3/14/2011: Los Angeles libraries and oil fields

Project 23

Posted on March 16, 2011 by hitc

We visit another local treasure: The Page Museum: home to the world’s richest deposits of “Ice Age” fossils and to the LaBrea Tar Pits.  Hear In the City, senior producer, Luis Sierra Campos, takes us to a new –and accidental– … Continue reading →

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3/07/2011: “prop O” is for oil

Posted on March 3, 2011 by hitc

Where is Hear in the City? We’ve been off the airwaves for two weeks now for KPFK’s fund-drive, but we’re back on Monday, March 14th with a one-hour, post-election special starting with a look at Proposition O on the March … Continue reading →

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