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Update: New Season Coming

FromHOME: Stories From L.A.

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Dec 14, 2016

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HOME is going on a between-seasons hiatus, but will return in the New Year. Sköl!

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Dec 14, 2016

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Titles in the series (33)

What do we mean when we talk about home? A podcast from Bill Barol.

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Episode 0: Introduction: A story about home, and place, and donuts. Music by: Mongo Santamaria (“Mother Jones”) Wintergatan (“Starmachine2000”) Roger Roger (“Slippery Sid”) Bobbi Humphrey (“Harlem River Drive”) Nick Jaina (“Man Without A Head”) Podington Bear (“Tweedlebugs”) C... by HOME: Stories From L.A.
17 min listen
Episode 2: In Their Room: On a warm May day in 2005 a crowd gathered near a freeway embankment in Hawthorne, CA and turned its gaze to a house that wasn’t there. Nobody knows where inspiration comes from — but was the little house that once stood at 3701 West 119th St. by HOME: Stories From L.A.
24 min listen
Episode 1: The House On The Hill: Herman Stein contributed music to more than 200 films, including some of the 1950s’ best-known monster movies: Creature From The Black Lagoon, This Island Earth, It Came From Outer Space, The Mole People, Tarantula and The Incredible Shrinking Man. by HOME: Stories From L.A.
25 min listen
Episode 3: One Man’s Town: This week it’s a story about Amboy, CA, a ghost town 30 miles from anywhere on the old Route 66, and the chicken magnate who’s spent a fortune trying to keep it from collapsing into the desert sand. Can Albert Okura really hold back both history and na... by HOME: Stories From L.A.
17 min listen
Update: Season 2: Season 2 of HOME comes your way in January. Subscribe today and new episodes will automagically fly through the aether to you more or less the very second they’re released. And if you get a moment between now and the start of the new season to tell you... by HOME: Stories From L.A.
3 min listen
Episode 6: Ghosts of The Carlotta: The venerable Villa Carlotta — home to show business A-listers in the Golden Age, and later to a generation of young actors, writers and musicians — sits, a hollowed-out shell, on Hollywood’s Franklin Avenue. by HOME: Stories From L.A.
23 min listen
Episode 12: Home With A Side of Fries: It looks like a Hopper painting plunked incongruously down on a busy commercial street in West Los Angeles — The Apple Pan, home to freshly-baked pies and what hamburger aficionado George Motz says may be the best burger in America. by HOME: Stories From L.A.
14 min listen
Episode 8: A Home, A Murder, A Mystery (or two): Up in the manicured hills of Los Feliz, a neighborhood that boasts at least three famous murder houses, the one with the weirdest history may be the Perelson house… where, deep in the night of December 6, 1959, by HOME: Stories From L.A.
21 min listen
Episode 5: Growing Up 818: There’s the San Fernando Valley, the one you can find on a map… and then there’s The Valley, the one that exists in the culture, whose notoriety far outstrips its size. How did that happen? How did it come to be that you can mention The Valley to peopl... by HOME: Stories From L.A.
21 min listen
Episode 4: A Monk in Venice: Andy Puddicombe left college at 22 and spent a decade tramping the world before returning to the UK and landing, eventually, in Los Angeles. He’s lived in so many countries that he has trouble recalling them on demand. How did his travels, by HOME: Stories From L.A.
25 min listen
Updates: New Season June 22, and Opening It Up To The Room: Here’s an audio update on the upcoming season. In extra bonus content — and let me stress that this is 100% free of cost to you, the home audience — I beg for your help! (That is, if you’re a social media or business development ninja. by HOME: Stories From L.A.
2 min listen
Episode 9: A Home Away From Home: Suppose you wanted to design a home away from home. What would you put in? What would you leave out? What kind of seating would you have? (Soft? Hard? Low? High?) What kind of tables — big working slabs or intimate little two-tops? by HOME: Stories From L.A.
24 min listen
Episode 10: A Life At Sea, On Land: How far would you go to rescue the remains of a bygone world you’ve loved since you were a kid? Peter Knego went to Alang, India, and then did it again and again, to save what he could of the great ocean liners being scrapped there. by HOME: Stories From L.A.
22 min listen
Episode 7: Unmaking a Home: When an elderly parent dies after a long life of lovingly acquiring things, she leaves behind more than memories for her kids. She leaves something much more tangible: The things. So many, many things. Is it things that make a home? This week, by HOME: Stories From L.A.
17 min listen
Episode 18: Cooking With Mihrette: What happens when you bring a kid from the other side of the world into your home forever? How does it change what home means to her? And to you? This week it’s the story of one mom, the daughter she chose, by HOME: Stories From L.A.
21 min listen
Episode 11: The View From The Road: The crowning paradox of the touring comic’s life may be this: You have to leave home to make a name, but without the grounding and security of home you may not have anything to say. This week, three experienced comedians on striking the tricky balance ... by HOME: Stories From L.A.
20 min listen
Episode 17: Dancers In The House: How a roving, shifting company of artists is blowing up the idea of what home is and does. by HOME: Stories From L.A.
19 min listen
Episode 14: Rose, Mercedes and The Days Of The Dead: How do you get a dead lady out of your house? It helps if you have balloons, confetti and a hammer. by HOME: Stories From L.A.
28 min listen
Episode 16: TV Dreamland: When TV producer Phil Savenick started collecting vintage TVs and TV memorabilia, he didn’t anticipate that he’d end up with what he now calls a “dreamland of televisions” in the living room of his West Los Angeles home — or that he’d end up helping th... by HOME: Stories From L.A.
20 min listen
Episode 13: A Pod To Call Your Own: Not a hotel, not a dorm, not quite a hostel, open by design and communitarian in spirit — Los Angeles-based PodShare is something else. And, potentially, something bigger: An affordable way to foster community in a city that’s increasingly stratified ... by HOME: Stories From L.A.
17 min listen
Episode 15: Belushi, Bette and Beverly Hills: The process by which one place stops being home and another starts — it’s a mysterious thing. It happens, most often, when we’re not paying attention. And sometimes, as it did for comedy writer and transplanted East Coaster Janis Hirsch, by HOME: Stories From L.A.
20 min listen
Episode 20: Everything Must Go: Some stories don’t end when you think they do. Some stories just pause. And then they sneak back around and whap you across the back of your unsuspecting head. So here’s one I didn’t expect to revisit, although maybe I should have: Part 2 of Episode 7,... by HOME: Stories From L.A.
17 min listen
Update: New Season Coming: HOME is going on a between-seasons hiatus, but will return in the New Year. Sköl! by HOME: Stories From L.A.
1 min listen
Episode 19: Almost Utopia: Revisiting a Modernist future that never quite arrived, in the hills above Sunset Boulevard. by HOME: Stories From L.A.
21 min listen
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 conversation with midcentury pop culture expert Charles Phoenix:... by HOME: Stories From L.A.
21 min listen
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 pictures are most often lost, by HOME: Stories From L.A.
13 min listen
Update: Season 5 starts July 5 by HOME: Stories From L.A.
2 min listen
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 sustainable over the long haul. New season is coming this spring. Also, by HOME: Stories From L.A.
6 min listen
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 the future, in Los Angeles and beyond. by HOME: Stories From L.A.
28 min listen
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 tourists and curiosity-seekers, by HOME: Stories From L.A.
21 min listen

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