Los Audio: Aug 10 - Aug 23

Which means that it is not, in fact, “hot like Chipotle,” because chipotles are dried jalapeños, and god knows it’s humid out there. It’s hot like a fully hydrated, wet jalapeño.

Not that “hot like Chipotle” is a saying. I just thought this was a clever little quip. Please clap.

I have officially finished my first semester of grad school (please clap again) and am ready to languish in my bed with three AC units pointed directly at my face until school starts again. I had an absolute blast—obviously, because I am the kind of tightly wrapped, type-A person for whom the stressors of academia feel like a nice big hug.

I managed to keep my grades up this first semester, but I’m still waiting on that Pulitzer. It goes to the graduate student with the highest GPA, right?

It’s that time again! A new AudioFlux Circuit! Deadline 8/31!

For Team Audio Flux Circuit 08: Confection, we welcome bite-sized audio stories about unexpected conversations, close-to-home discoveries, and the people who quietly shape our lives. And dessert.

Circuit 08 brings together three remarkable partners: award-winning chocolatier Kate Shaffer of Ragged Coast Chocolates in Westbrook, Maine; Transom, whose The Listeners project champions audio stories about ordinary lives that are grounded in place and told with depth and artistry; and media sponsor Maine Public, a longtime supporter of powerful stories rooted in the everyday lives of Maine people.

Additional support for Circuit 08 is provided by the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.

Together, our partners are drawn to what’s right in our midst: ingredients, neighbors, history, communities—and the surprising stories that emerge from them. Audio Flux Circuit 08 is going local.

Read more and enter here!

We set up a big fancy website at maxfunstudio.com and you should check it out if you’re looking for a place to record. Some bulletpoints:

• Up to 5 guests in one space

• 1080p / 4k video on 3 Cameras

• Remote video capable

• Nice smart people to engineer your session!

Maximum Fun is a worker-owned co-op that’s been making shows for over 15 years. We’re really thrilled to have this off the ground and ready for the LA audio community. If you have any questions about the space, feel free to email Kevin Ferguson directly or hit us up at studiorentals@maximumfun.org

It's so hot! Let's chill out in the shade at All Season Brewing. The bar is close to the new subway stop, it has food and nonalcoholic options, skee ball(!!!), and we — the LARC | LA Reporting Collective — will buy pitchers of beer and some snacks for those who get there early.

📅 August 13th

⏰ 6:30 PM

📍All Seasons Brewing

👤 LA Reporting Collective

💰Free

🎟️ RSVP

Eat, explore, and dance at a free, all-ages KCRW Summer Nights party with the Wende Museum, featuring a Good Food–curated Night Market. Sample bites, sip drinks, and catch live food discussions, then hit the dance floor with KCRW DJs Anne Litt and Nassir Nassirzadeh. Plus, take time to explore the museum after hours, including exhibitions like The Sextant by Enrique Martínez Celaya and Mobile Churches by Anton Roland Laub. You won’t want to miss this night that feeds both your appetite and your curiosity.

📅 August 14th

⏰ 6:00 PM

📍Wende Museum

👤 KCRW

💰 Free

🎟️ RSVP

Join KCRW and Metro Art for a free, all-ages KCRW Summer Nights experience at the art-filled historic Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. Catch the hypnotic grooves of RIO KOSTA, plus sets from KCRW DJs J.Rocc and LUXXURY in the station’s iconic Ticket Concourse. Grab some refreshments as you dance in an LA architectural masterpiece.

📅 August 15th

⏰ 6:00 PM

📍Union Station

👤 KCRW

💰 Free

🎟️ RSVP

Go Fact Yourself is a pop culture trivia show hosted by J. Keith van Straaten (he/him) (Ask Me Another, Senior Writer) and Helen Hong (she/her) (Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me, recurring panelist).

On August 16, actor and director Adam Arkin (longtime star of the CBS medical drama Chicago Hope who recently appeared in Peacock’s mystery series Poker Face) and other special guests, plus surprise experts will join J. Keith and Helen for a trivia show like no other!

📅 August 16th

⏰ 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

📍The Crawford

👤 LAist

💰Free (GA) - $20 (guaranteed seating)

🎟️ Tickets

What is a StorySLAM?

The Moth StorySLAM is an open-mic storytelling competition in which anyone can share a true, personal, 5‑minute story on the night’s theme. Sign up for a chance to tell a story or sit back and enjoy the show.

Tonight’s Theme

SERENDIPITY: Prepare a five-minute story about the time an accident felt like fate. A wrong turn lands you at your new best friend’s doorstep. The botched job interview that led you to your true calling. Losing your wallet — only for it to be found by a long-lost cousin. Coffee spilled on the shirt of your future soulmate. Happy accidents. Meet-cutes. Windfalls. Fortuitous flukes. Is it magic? Is it kismet? No…it’s pure serendipity.

📅 August 19th

⏰ Doors Open: 6:30pm
Stories Begin: 7:30pm

📍Los Globos

👤 The MOTH

💰 $20

🎟️ Tickets

KCRW Summer Nights heads to Pine & Promenade in Downtown Long Beach for a free, all-ages evening of music, food, and community with the Downtown Long Beach Alliance. Dance into the evening with sets from KCRW DJs Nassir Nassirzadeh & Raul Campos as the sun goes down and the dance floor heats up. Arrive early to explore Taste of Downtown before the party, making it a full day of food, drinks, and festivities.

📅 August 22nd

⏰ 6:00 PM

📍Downtown Long Beach

👤 KCRW

💰 Free

🎟️ RSVP

Hitch a ride to come and see FilmWeek’s screening of “Collateral.” Michael Mann’s 2004 neo-noir thriller follows taxi driver Max, as he’s unexpectedly made an accessory to the schemes of his newest customer, a contract killer played by Tom Cruise. The film was a critical and box office success, reaching the top spot in its opening weekend and earning Academy Award nominations for Best Film Editing and Best Supporting Actor for Jamie Foxx’s performance as Max. Stick around after the film as host Larry Mantle welcomes special guests to discuss its lasting impact.

📅 August 22nd

⏰ 7:00 PM

📍The Frida Cinema

👤 LAist and The Frida Cinema

💰 $16

🎟️ Tickets

Podcast- and radio-makers fear dead air. This class is a guide to elevating the beauty and curiosity of ambient and field sounds into your mix. Instructor and radio artist Joan Schuman will help you consider how to tell a chunk of your story beyond voice, through stereo panning and pushing sound to the front while the voice falls further back for longer than a few seconds. Joan will teach you to move beyond the pre-sets and to experiment with effectively altering sound to offer a deeper feeling or understanding to listeners, building depth without confusing them. Found sound and field recordings will be focused on beyond online libraries as it gets us to listen more fully, both for the radio-maker and audience.

This is a two-part workshop where students will receive feedback on their work. Be prepared to arrive with a work-in-progress, idea or scene you want to experiment with and complete by the end of the second class.

📅/⏰ two Monday sessions at 9:00 AM, beginning August 10th. The second session meets Monday, August 17th

👤 Radio Boot Camp

💰 $150

🎟️ Register

Creativity is a fundamental quality and skill in our work. We know we need to take creativity seriously, yet the only way we can do that is by accessing our essential playfulness.

In this 3-part group coaching program, we explore the question, ‘How can I bring more creativity to my work?’

You will join a supportive group of like-minded audio practitioners to create a safe, non-judgmental space. We will work with a range of exercises and tools to encourage self-awareness and elicit creativity. You will be invited to be curious, to explore, and challenge yourself and one another in ways that support taking your learning and insights forward.

This is an invitation to enrich your audio practice and gift yourself the time and space to allow your creativity to bloom through the summer months. Rather than giving advice or teaching, coaching is grounded in presence, deep listening, and powerful questioning.

📅/⏰ Session 1: Aug 12, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM PST: Focuses on your relationship with your creativity.

Session 2: Sep 16, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM PST: We take the exploration further, developing greater awareness and discovering new ways of enhancing creativity in our work.

Session 3: Oct 14, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM PST: We will integrate all we have experienced and learned through the summer of creative inquiry, and define the next steps to sustain more creativity in your work.

👤 Radio Boot Camp

💰 $375

🎟️ Tickets

These days, it seems like everyone and their mother hosts an interview show. While making one may seem simple, creating one that will grab people’s attention (in an ever-changing podcast industry) can often be tremendously challenging. In this two-part workshop, award-winning showrunner, producer, and consultant John Asante will teach you how to develop and pitch your podcast idea, create a structure and format, form sustainable production methods, and produce a show that will keep your listeners coming back for more.

📅/⏰ Two Tuesday sessions at 9:00 AM PST: September 15 & 22

👤 Radio Boot Camp

💰$150

🎟️ Register

Successful audience growth isn’t about reaching everyone; it’s about finding the right, most engaged members of your community.

But the amount of data out there can be mind-boggling — within all the reports on impressions and conversion rates, what should you actually be looking for? And what platforms should you use to get that data?

This workshop, led by executive podcast strategist Christabel Nsiah-Buadi, will empower you to identify the data you already have and will walk you through important qualitative and quantitative data to look for and how to leverage both to sharpen your editorial strategy. She’ll also talk about the tools you need to learn more about your audience and dive deep into essential metrics for engagement: Downloads/Streams, Engaged Listeners, Followers, and Listener Countries. Finally, she’ll help you plot your next move for growth.

📅 August 17th

⏰ 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM

👤 Radio Boot Camp

💰 $100

🎟️ Tickets

Good social media strategy looks different for a bakery, a political podcast, and a vintage electronics restorer — but the underlying principles are the same.

Andrew Parsons turned @nostalgic_nooks_bk into a full-time business by doing one thing well: making people genuinely care about vintage televisions converted into cat beds. In this class, he’ll walk you through the strategy behind building a loyal audience in any niche — content development, platform mechanics, and the part everyone wants to get to: monetization. We’ll cover brand partnerships, what sponsors are actually looking for, and how to position yourself for deals that work for your audience and your business.

Come with your account handle and a rough sense of what you want your account to be.

📅 August 20th

⏰ 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

👤 Radio Boot Camp

💰$100

🎟️ Tickets

Like dreams that blur the line between “real-life” and another kind of consciousness, this workshop is an invitation to listen more fully.

In this two-part course, you will use material from dreams to guide the listener’s ears around metaphor, abstract image, or even as translated scripts to create small but elaborate audio gems. We’ll leave aside concerns about impartiality and truth-telling in order to explore adventurous sound design and story-making.

We’ll listen to dream-related sonic works for a sense of approach, to imagine who might be listening, and to see how abstract or semi-fictional scenes can augment a linear story. Between sessions, you will mix your ideas into a short scene (five minutes or less). In the second session, we’ll closely listen as a group and offer feedback.

You should plan to arrive with recorded material, such as voiced dream recollections of your own or others; metaphoric sounds; or a theme to explore based on a remembered phrase or word.

📅/⏰ Two Wednesday sessions at 10:00 AM PST, beginning September 23rd. The second session meets Wednesday, September 30th

👤 Radio Boot Camp

💰 $150

🎟️ Tickets

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