HOME: Stories From L.A. Podcast
1) Goodbye (for now)
I started this podcast in the fall of 2015 with a notion to tell stories of the many ways people think about home. For 27 episodes, that’s what I’ve done. I don’t think that going in I ever conceived ...Show More
2) Episode 26: Going Tiny
HGTV and glossy magazines have sparked a boomlet of interest in tiny homes, but they’ve also made them look fun, cute and easy. The realities of a tiny lifestyle can be more daunting. Municipali...Show More
3) Episode 25: Lost Heroes and Miniature Histories
“The best historians in L.A. are storytellers. They’re gangsters in east L.A., they’re ex-cons, they’re guys who worked in their garage their whole life, they’re guys who...Show More
4) Episode 24: Life, Death, Ego and Eternity
The original Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in the hills above Glendale, may be best known outside California for inspiring the sledgehammer satire of the 1965 cult comedy “The Loved One.” For...Show More
5) Episode 23: The Last House On Mulholland
How will we live in 20 years? Or 50? Or 100? A one-of-a-kind, only-in-LA plot at the very end of Mulholland Highway inspired some of the world’s best designers to think hard about the home of th...Show More
6) Update: Season 5 starts July 5
7) Update: The Future of HOME
Join me, won’t you, as I peel back the curtain on this podcast and kick around some thoughts about its future. (TL;DR: I’m slowing the production cycle a bit to make the project sustainabl...Show More
8) Update: New Season Coming
HOME is going on a between-seasons hiatus, but will return in the New Year. Sköl!
9) Episode 22: Kodachrome, Pt. 2
Who were we? How did we live, and what did it look like? The vast archive of castoff slides captures, in vivid colors, images of the American family at midcentury. But the stories that go with the pic...Show More
10) Episode 21: Kodachrome, Pt. 1
Color slides were once the state of the art in family photography — vibrant, immersive, ubiquitous. So ubiquitous, in fact, that millions, maybe billions of them survive. This week it’s a ...Show More