Los Angeles is a city carved out of the desert — a conjured image of paradise. Award-winning journalist David Weinberg returns with stories of people who learn what lies beyond the dream.
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This is a piece I helped produce for the The New Yorker Radio Hour and Transom. A few months ago, the great American historian and writer Jill Lepore shared a documentary with us that was presented by the National Park Service for the nation's bicentennial in 1976. In it, Americans shared what they thought about the 200th year of the republic: how the country was doing, what it meant to be an…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PSUzUJhQqk This piece was produced by Nick White with help from Emile Klein.
When David first got the email, it just seemed like one of those offers that's too good to be true. The idea that he would be holding the reins of a horse drawn carriage tearing across the high plains of Colorado and that his passenger would be the famous movie star Ethan Hawke, the whole idea of being in a movie just seemed unlikely. This was the dream of millions of people who have made their…
A crossover spectacular! Richard Parks III, the host of Richard's Famous Food Podcast, helps David find where food meets fame in Los Angeles. And is that Wolfgang Puck in the backseat?
Remember what Friday nights used to feel like? It was freedom, that moment when you get off work, and your time no longer belongs to someone else — the night is yours. Here is an ode, a time capsule, to everyone's favorite night of the week.
In this episode of Welcome to LA: A look at redlining in Southern California. A story about how Black families are being priced-out of LA and moving to Palmdale and other cities of the High Desert. Also some rock and roll.
Inside an old restaurant you can hear the sound of kids hunkered down at the counter, plotting a revolution. It's a long shot for sure, but maybe they will pull it off. Maybe they will save us all.
How did a group of stuntmen in the 1960s diversify Hollywood? On this episode of Welcome to LA, we delve into the origin story of the Black Stuntmen's Association.
Have you ever had a friend who you thought should live their life differently than they do? A story about building a meaningful life out of chaos.
