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This is a prototype for a 12-unit audio-based curriculum with a coloring book field guide about the ecology and flora and fauna of the Mojave Desert in Southern California. Copyright pending. (hearinthecity.org)

We offer you this original submission to the KCRW 24 Hour Radio Race 2020 "Time Warp", with gratitude, for the opportunity! After nearly three months of bickering while quarantining together, this mother-daughter team finds peace while making radio together about a person whom they both loved very much and eventually lost to Alzheimers disease. With original poetry by Minerva Lerner and original song by Edward Harris. Produced and edited by Sara Harris. Hear in the City’s Sara Harris and Minerva Lerner delve into old audio recordings documenting the voice of Sara's father and the fluidity of time over 10 years living with -and through- Alzheimers in a multi-generational household. This, in honour of Edward Samuel Harris (02/18/1930-03/30/2018). (Featuring Minerva Lerner, Sara Harris, Amanda Harris, Edward Harris, and the sounds of homes they have lived in.)

Human excrement, overgrown undergrowth, general disregard for the landscape in the Shadow of Dodgers Stadium.

Installment #4: What if we all took a moment out of each day to think about and talk about and perhaps even thank- or decide to delete- the long list of contacts in our cellphone?

With the intention of creating a masterfully-crafted, self-contained, internally edited and smooth musing, this entry of MyEveryDayRadio documents nothing more than two dogs barking behind a fence and a homeless man searching for a plastic bag in the weeds on a hillside.

Random rantings during a windy April day in L.A.

Welcome to day one of an experiment in daily decompression from wherever my mind takes me.

December 21st, 2012- the winter solstice- was thought by many to portend the end of the world, and by others as the moment of spiritual and cosmological transformation as it represented the end and new beginning of the Long Count Aztec and Maya calendars. On this New Years Day, 2013 episode, Hear in the The City goes out the the wasteland spaces of California's Salton Sea to find out if the Apocalypse happened... or if it is still on the horizon. (Originally broadcast on KPFK, 90.7FM, Los Angeles, 1/01/2013

Listen to our Mother's Day episode and share it with your mothers.

This episode, we take a trip to one of the largest on-site rain/storm water catchment systems in Los Angeles. On an unusually rainy May day, in a year, when rain has been scarce, Andy Lipkis and Jim Hardie of Tree People walk us through the basics of the past, present, and future of the relationship between trees and water in a time of climate change in Los Angeles.

This week's radio outside of the studio: we celebrate Earth Day with a crew of people who think every day is Earth Day--we visit Northeast Trees on planting mission in the Mar Vista Gardens Housing Projects and ride a bike to power a dj party with Movable Parts at Ciclavia.

This episode, we visit with Afro-futurist filmmaker Cauleen Smith as she brings her slide-show performance drawn from archives of and admiration for Sun-Ra to Los Angeles. It's national poetry month, and we have some choice recordings of Mr. Ra/Mystery, the cosmic polymath, composer, and poet.

This week, we take a walk with the "old man of water", Waterkeeper's Conner Everts to find concrete solutions to problem of a concrete city that pours most of its water right back into the ocean instead of saving it for a non-rainy day.

On this episode, we spend the show loitering at City Hall with artist Chris Cuellar who is part of a gallery show at Los Angeles City College called "Come in; We're Open" --a collection of conversations about social practice and a project of Performing Public Space. Also on the show: the day-after the dislocation of Occupy L.A.

This episode: "When you are at kilometer 30...that's when the pain and the absurdity of the marathon come into focus." "Ever since starting to work on this guide, whenever I see a plain, industrial building, I just have to wonder: who's being screwed behind those frosted, black windows?"

This week's Hear in the City wraps up our series on natural elements in the the urban space with "Water" by Radiosonideros collective featuring the poetry of Lewis McAdams, co-founder of Friends of the Los Angeles River. We also offer you a guide to a proposed landmark urban plan on the L.A. River and a meditation on the multiplicity of love.

Next in our series of audio art honoring natural elements in the urban space: Earth. We spend most of the program exploring the fundamental issues that arise when a piece of land is set aside for public park use at a time when disinvestment in open and un-exploited spaces has become the norm in the State of California.

This week, we visit Mexico City--once the dirtiest metropolitan area in the Americas-- now the recipient of a prize for clean air and sustainable transport. Plus, audio poetry by Clare Fox and responses from our Pit Bull show.

The number one dog breed euthanized in shelters in cities in the U.S. is the Pit Bull Terrier. On this episode, we travel to two spaces in the City to visit extraordinary people who are committed to difficult dogs and helping society to deal with them. Featuring Larry Hill of Puppy Imprinters and Lori Weise of the Downtown Dog Rescue.

The 2012 U.S. presidential election had been decided. California saw record turn-out. Some Angelinos went beyond the call of voter duty and hit the pavement in Las Vegas to make sure to get out the vote in our neighboring swing-state. Listen to the show to hear how it went.

Hear in the City went to Vegas this weekend to map the city with volunteers for Obama and Romney who traveled all the way from Los Angeles to get out the vote in this swing state where the President won in 2008 by a 537 vote margin. Listen tomorrow on KPFK, 90.7FM at 2:30 PDT.

With one week left until the U.S. presidential election, Sara visits Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles where a group of faith-based volunteers teams up with the county sheriff's department to register eligible voters in jails. It's the first effort of its kind, and while most former felons and non-violent inmates serving misdemeanors are unaware of the fact, they do have the right to vote in California. At the end of the show we celebrate el Día de los Muertos with the Los Angeles Theater Academy's children's choir.

On this episode of Hear in the City, we enter a collection drawn from old boxes recently found in a house sold after the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City. The boxes belonged to the hard-working and versatile photographer, Lola Alvarez Bravo. Inside, was a treasure of documents and unedited photos and correspondence from a half century of travel and changing times. The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California is showing the collection to the public for the first time. Plus, we dive into the underground warehouse electronica scene with music correspondent, Alvaro "el Barbaro" Parra.

On this episode, we visit a humble house on a winding road in the hills of Los Angeles where a group of artists turn one family's mortgage default and foreclosure story into a lens for looking at a larger problem. With "A Notorious Possession", artist Olga Koumoundouros squats the abandoned house across the street, paints it gold, and holds economic justice parties. We wrap up the show with a tribute to Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring".

We are cruising down a European highway through the wooded hills of Belgium. We are 30 kilometers from the border with the southern tip of Holland. We are on a detour to an abandoned coal-mine-turned-into-art-space-commentary on the state of capitalism.

Where can kids who've been pushed to the margins of the learning experience in life find a place to reach their potential? This week's Hear in the City takes you to two spaces where dignity, integrity, and discipline guide the path to learning success for high-schoolers on two ends of Los Angeles: at a juvenile probation camp in the San Gabriel Mountains and with emerging hip-hop artists and DJ's at an after-school program in Watts. Featuring Rob Thelusma of Affirmative Athletics and Brian Mora at Inner Circle Youth with original music by DJ Nozer and Jahli. Reporting by Sara Harris and Alvaro Parra of High Life Radio.

This episode, Hear in the City runs into the only 24-hour, 7-day-a-week, animal rescue team of its kind...and, we sit in on a tiny puppet show of epic poetic proportions. SMART in Los Angeles and Automata in Chinatown.

On this episode, we meet a coyo-dog, Sara chases a coyote up into the hills in the broad daylight, and we revisit the animal's predicament in the urban space.

While most media are regurgitating Calderón and the PRI's assertions that Mexico has a president-elect, today on Hear in the City, Sara interviews investigative journalist and Enfoque Latino contributor Dolores Dorantes about what she calls "A Coup d' Etat, Mexican Style." We do a simultaneous translation, and we have a visit to the anti-Walmart protest this weekend as well.

On this episode of Hear in the City we attend the unveiling of a 340 ton rock that crossed 22 cities and 4 counties from a quarry in Hurupah Valley, Riverside, California to land in Los Angeles as the latest object to be added to the list of land art in the world...and we preview Radio Ambulante, a new show that brings the best of radio story-telling to a pan-American audience, en español.

We start this episode of Hear in the City at Los Angeles' historic Echo Park Lake, the site of a $65 million water quality project that has temporarily displaced dozens of birds and turned the ponds of lotus flower into a giant construction site. From there, we follow the ducks and geese to their new home in Mac Arthur Park where we catch catfish in the middle of the city and finally find a free lunch at Langer's Deli in honor of their 65th anniversary.

On this episode of Hear in the City we visit with two extraordinary people who dedicate their lives to caring for pets who would otherwise fall through the cracks of the urban economic crisis. One, a veterinarian and self-proclaimed "bleeding heart", is owed $40,000 by the City of Los Angeles Department of Animal Services. The other, a computer scientist who feed feral cats by night, is an unusual creature on the streets of L.A.: a walker, a veritable flaneur.

On today’s Hear in the City, in honor of Mothers’ Day, we offer you two stories of motherhood during difficult times... The first is an audio postcard from a group of teen moms who are finishing their high school degrees at a small school in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley. The second story is an inquiry into a mother’s journey across landscapes of occupation as she tries to keep her children safe across changing borders at a time of war.

It's our May Day show. Studs Terkel, Lenin's Head by the Gao Brothers, Pete Seeger, The East is Red, and the connections between the immigrant rights movement and the 99%. From Los Angeles as the marches get underway. (photo credit, LA Times).

Martha White interviewed her friend Jessica Chapin at Santa Monica's Step Up on Second, a psychosocial rehabilitation and support program for people affected by severe and persistent mental illness. Jessica is a resident in the organization's permanent supportive housing and Martha is a member in the supportive services programs. Martha and Jessica sat down to interview each other about what the program has helped them accomplish in life. Their interview was produced by Will Coley and Sara Harris in Los Angeles.

This week's Hear in the City offers you a sonic journey into translations between languages, media, and landscapes as we map an eclectic sampling of Mexican artists whose work is currently featured around Los Angeles.

Anne Marie Ruff who recently published her first novel, Through These Veins, explores the question “if we had a cure for AIDS, would it ever make it to market?:” She spent a lot of time at the Los Angeles Central Library while writing and offers us this audio post-card to the Central Library. All profits from the sale of her book benefit Doctors Without Borders and the Ethiopian Institute for the Conservation of Biodiversity. Her commentary was originally published in the Downtown News. Anne Marie will be at Stories bookstore reading from her novel on Thursday, April 5th. Visit our website, Hearinthecity.org for details.

On this week's episode: Walmart makes inroads to Los Angeles via Chinatown and the Los Angeles Central Library is a home away from home, with author Anne Marie Ruff.

Before this week's show, Hear in the City host Sara Harris will be presenting her work at the Center for Non-profit Management and talking about the ins-and-outs of independent radio/audio production. One of Sara's all-time-favorite stories she's worked on is this collaboration with Street Poet Jorge Nuñez. After growing up his whole life in Los Angeles, Jorge was deported to Tijuana, Mexico and tells this story about his experience. This piece was produced for Youth Radio and originally aired on All Things Considered.

This is an excerpt from an audiopostcard Hear in the City host Sara Harris produced with Haitian students at Toussaint L'ouverture High School in Del Rey Beach, Florida after President Jean Bertrand Aristide was pushed out of power. An English teacher at the High School invited Sara to her poetry class. Her students wanted to challenge the pervasive impression that their country and their culture is one of misery, suffering, and disaster. So, together, they recorded their poetry and their choir practice. This piece was produced for Youth Radio aired on NPR's All Things Considered.

"Our vibrations reach Japan today." Spoken by Mineo Hoshi of the South Coast Interfaith Council in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo on the moment of ringing the bell at Nishi Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, 2:46PM, PDT, in honor of what was lost in the Tsunami one year ago.

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 year. We also visit an unusual architectural landscape of courtrooms and social services dedicated to children who have become wards of the foster care system.

At the beginning of the year, Hear in the City was selected by the national youth radio network --Generation PRX-- to participate in a one-hour radio special about bullying. This episode of Hear in the City features two wonderfully talented students at Roosevelt High School, Oscar Rodriguez and René Ayala, reporting about how bullying is not as easily defined as you might think. Also features music by EMA and They Live, Midnight Ridazz, #99!

We spend this week's show at a one-time musical happening that takes space in a motel on Colorado Boulevard where the rooms are converted into experimental music stages and installation spaces for an afternoon. Arts editor Jesse Lerner condenses a 6 hour sound fest by the Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound into our half-hour radio show. If you like Ornette Coleman, Kamou Daaood, and John Cage, you don't want to miss this episode of Hear in the City!

On this episode, we take an eclectic tour of Los Angeles-based music. First, we go to a private collection that is open to the public...and houses the king of keyboards. After that, we’ll check in with Los Angeles Film forum about upcoming screenings of works that served as visual sisters to the punk rock scene in the city. At the end of the show, we go to Venice Beach with a Mariachi odd couple from Boyle Heights as they try to expand their territory.

It’s our first show of the new year! We’ll go to the Rose Parade to hear the first Occupy Los Angeles march of the year...and we’ll go up above Hollywood Boulevard at the Barnsdall Art Park for "Civic Virtue", an exhibition that deals with the ambivalent relationship between city government and the arts.

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 work of a yellow press stalwart from 1940’s New York and L.A. Plus, a coda from the Baldwin Hills.

“It’s really hard for someone to get their head around what the Inglewood Oil Field is.” On this week’s Hear in the City we offer you part two in our series about oil extraction in the Baldwin Hills, and we help L.A. local-global micro cinema, the Echo Park Film Center, celebrate it’s 10th anniversary. Listen to KPFK, 90.7FM, Tuesday's at 3:30pm.

Here's a little taste of what we'll be delving into next week on Hear in the City for part 2 of our Air Check series from Baldwin Hills. Listen on Tuesday, December 13th at 3:30pm in Los Angeles on 90.7fm or at www.kpfk.org to hear the whole story about the oil fields in the middle of the city and what dangers they pose to people.

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 and intrigue and prospectors to L.A. at the turn of the last century and on the other side, the future of Los Angeles parkland at a moment when public access to the great outdoors may well trump the desire for traditional industrial jobs and big real estate developments. To a degree, both spaces on this summit are imaginary. To a degree, both spaces are very real. Listen to the voices from the oilfield: Part One of our Series sponsored by Newsdesk.org and Spot.us.

This month, we’ll be launching our new 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. It’s complicated. It involves oil rigs in the middle of the city, and it involves multiple agencies. You are welcome you to visit our website, www.hearinthecity.org to get a taste of who we’ll be hearing from in our reporting. Today, we wanted to follow up on an international story we've been covering from L.A. Liberians went to the polls on Tuesday, for a second round of voting in a run-off election for the country’s president. We bring you an interview with three leaders in the Liberian community in L.A. to talk about the recent Nobel Peace shared by activist Leyma Gbowee and President Sirleaf Johnson with a young Yemeni journalist: all women.