Podcasts by HOME: Stories From L.A.

Episode 8: A Home, A Murder, A Mystery (or two) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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 o...

Goodbye (for now) from 2017-11-27T21:41:50

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 conceiv...

Episode 26: Going Tiny from 2017-08-18T00:05:43

HGTV and glossy magazines have sparked a boomlet of interest in tiny homes, but they’ve als...

Episode 25: Lost Heroes and Miniature Histories from 2017-08-02T02:52:52

“The ...

Episode 24: Life, Death, Ego and Eternity from 2017-07-19T04:49:30

The original Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in the hills above Glendale, may be best known outside California for inspiring the sledgehammer satire of the ...

Episode 23: The Last House On Mulholland from 2017-07-05T15:12:40

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...

Update: Season 5 starts July 5 from 2017-06-30T13:45:44

Update: The Future of HOME from 2017-02-25T20:13:13

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 sustain...

Update: New Season Coming from 2016-12-14T23:35:43

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

Episode 22: Kodachrome, Pt. 2 from 2016-12-02T01:50:34

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 ...

Episode 21: Kodachrome, Pt. 1 from 2016-11-17T02:05:56

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...

Episode 20: Everything Must Go from 2016-11-03T00:01:07

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 didn̵...

Episode 19: Almost Utopia from 2016-10-19T21:57:19

What happens to a utopia that never got off the ground? Bits and pieces of one, an experiment in postwar living for the masses, are hiding in plain sight in the hills above Sunset Boulevard. Archit...

Episode 18: Cooking With Mihrette from 2016-08-31T02:59:27

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 daug...

Episode 17: Dancers In The House from 2016-08-17T02:29:59

A roving, shifting company of dance and performance artists is nudging its audiences to think about home differently — by bringing one-off, site-specific performances to houses, live-work spa...

Episode 16: TV Dreamland from 2016-08-03T00:11:03

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” i...

Episode 15: Belushi, Bette and Beverly Hills from 2016-07-20T04:13:21

The process by which one place stops being home and another starts — it’s a mysterious thing....

Episode 14: Rose, Mercedes and The Days Of The Dead from 2016-07-06T02:15

Actress/writer/artist Rose Portillo lives in the house she was born into, in the Silver La...

Episode 13: A Pod To Call Your Own from 2016-06-22T18:16:35

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...

Updates: New Season June 22, and Opening It Up To The Room from 2016-06-13T23:33:13

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,...

Episode 12: Home With A Side of Fries from 2016-04-09T00:29:40

It looks like a Hopper painting plunked incongruously down o...

Episode 11: The View From The Road from 2016-03-23T18:24:55

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...

Episode 10: A Life At Sea, On Land from 2016-03-09T02:53:39

How far would you go to rescue the remains of a bygone world you’ve l...

Episode 9: A Home Away From Home from 2016-02-24T00:30:58

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 wo...

Episode 7: Unmaking a Home from 2016-01-27T03:27:13

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 thi...

Update: Season 2 from 2015-12-02T23:18:26

Season 2 of HOME comes your way in January. Subscribe today and new episodes will automagically fly throug...

Episode 6: Ghosts of The Carlotta from 2015-11-17T18:35:34

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Episode 5: Growing Up 818 from 2015-11-04T02:06:42

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 th...

Episode 4: A Monk in Venice from 2015-10-20T16:57:31

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 troubl...

Episode 3: One Man’s Town from 2015-10-07T01:47:22

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...

Episode 2: In Their Room from 2015-09-22T23:48:16

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 w...

Episode 1: The House On The Hill from 2015-09-08T16:32:14

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Episode 0: Introduction from 2015-09-03T18:06:29

A story about home, and place, and donuts.

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* Mongo Santamaria (R...