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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,...
Episode 19: Almost Utopia
Revisiting a Modernist future that never quite arrived, in the hills above Sunset Boulevard.
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,
Episode 17: Dancers In The House
How a roving, shifting company of artists is blowing up the idea of what home is and does.
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...
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,
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.
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 ...
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.
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.