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Azmina and Sasha
If you would like to help the Kanji family rebuild their home after the fire you can donate to their gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-sasha-and-azmina-rebuild-after-palisades-fire
Birdman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PSUzUJhQqk This piece was produced by Nick White with help from Emile Klein.
S2E7 Nikola and Fritz
When David first got the email, it just seemed like one of those offers that's too good to be true. The idea that he would be holding the reins of a horse drawn carriage tearing across the high…
S2E6 Welcome To Richard's Famous LA Food Podcast
A crossover spectacular! Richard Parks III, the host of Richard's Famous Food Podcast, helps David find where food meets fame in Los Angeles. And is that Wolfgang Puck in the backseat?
S2E5 Friday Night: The Kingdom of Time
Remember what Friday nights used to feel like? It was freedom, that moment when you get off work, and your time no longer belongs to someone else — the night is yours. Here is an ode, a time capsule,…
S2E4 What's Ours
In this episode of Welcome to LA: A look at redlining in Southern California. A story about how Black families are being priced-out of LA and moving to Palmdale and other cities of the High Desert.…
S2E3 Deep Time: The Strange Life of an LA Googie
Inside an old restaurant you can hear the sound of kids hunkered down at the counter, plotting a revolution. It's a long shot for sure, but maybe they will pull it off. Maybe they will save us all.
S2E2 Buffalo Soldiers
How did a group of stuntmen in the 1960s diversify Hollywood? On this episode of Welcome to LA, we delve into the origin story of the Black Stuntmen's Association.
S2E1 The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Prologue
Have you ever had a friend who you thought should live their life differently than they do? A story about building a meaningful life out of chaos.
S2 Welcome Back to LA
Los Angeles is a city carved out of the desert – a conjured image of paradise. Award-winning journalist David Weinberg returns with stories of people who learn what lies beyond the dream.
Listen to Lost Notes
Lost Notes is a podcast from KCRW. It's about music, and artistic legacy, and people. Listen to this episode about David Bowie's favorite rock band, Fanny. Then, go subscribe in your podcast player.…
S1E8 Pan's plans
Architect Trevor Pan built his first building with his own hands in a barren patch of Arizona desert. It didn't have running water or electricity, but it got him some attention in the architecture…
S1E7 The Recruiter
Before he launched one of the most successful porn companies in America, Rob Navarro was a chart topping Christian rock star and the voice of Ronald McDonald. Then he got the help of a few good men…
S1E6 Grace of the Sea
Luis Gutierrez Sanchez, a hot dog street vendor also known as "Grace of the Sea," lived in a garage in South LA for six years. Miraculously good at finding beauty in dark places, he tells his story…
S1E5 The Case of the Missing Sprinkles
Before Judge Judy there was "The People's Court" This is the origin story of the court case that started what is now a lucrative empire that feeds off the petty disputes of everyday Americans.
S1E4 Bilal's Calling
Tyreek Bilal has gone through many transformations in his life. He's been barber for powerful celebrities, a husband to six wives, a celibate religious scholar. Now he's taking a stand against…
S1E3 The Grifter
When a suspicious couple and a former soap opera actress try to rent an apartment they offer to deposit the entire year's rent into the building owners bank account. But something wasn't adding up.
S1E2 The Paradise Motel
Kevin Gage played villains in Hollywood action movies of the mid-90s. But in 2003 he went to federal prison. He tried to start a new life in Mexico but Los Angeles sucked him back in. We find Gage in…
S1E1 Concordance
Host David Weinberg moves to Los Angeles and on his first day in town ends up on a yacht, attending a birthday party for a Russian theremin builder. But the pleasure cruise turns disastrous and they…
S1 Welcome to LA Trailer
Drifters and dreamers in the great American mirage.
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