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Category Archives: public radio
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
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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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
Posted in culture in the city, Culver City, economy and equality, public radio, Uncategorized, Venice, work
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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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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