Hear In LA

Christian Lozada is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. A teacher of English composition at Harbor College, a poet, and a fan of both Charles Bukowski and the beach community of San Pedro. In this episode we talk about all of it, and where the best spots are for delicious sandwiches and kite flying.

The DJ, actor, model, photographer, skater, cheerleader and flag football champ explains why you shouldn’t box her in.

Mike Sonksen is a native Angeleno who has an contagious love for the city as if he's seeing it for the first time. If you follow him on social media you can see him zig zagging to the beach to OC to North Hollywood and into the SGV. He's everywhere. He busts his rhymes on the mic nearly every week and we are so lucky he rocked a few with us on this podcast.

The Senior Features Writer of the LA Times on traveling the world writing about next season's trends to rolling joints with a former member of the Byrds.

Billboard's director of Dance Music on taking her mom to a three-day camping rave, on how festies at Bonnaroo inspired her to move from Wisconsin to LA, and how she was able to get past her imposter complex.

It's right in the middle of the Valley and yet people often think it's North Hollywood or Sherman Oaks or... shudder... Valley Village. But it's not. It's glorious and one of your favorite films was shot there.

You may know more about this central Valley neighborhood than you think. The great Rob Takata, a native from the SGV, will educate you in a lovingly funny way. And yes, Tiki drinks will be part of the discussion.

This Emmy-winning writer, producer, and now showrunner might be best known for his Twitter account where he doles out quirky facts about LA. But he's also an accomplished writer spanning topics from our freeways, the Dodgers, and great hikes to get your steps in. Fans of E! should know he helped make Brooke Burke famous. And fans of Purple Rain, The Rolling Stones, and It Happened One Night will be pleased to find out that Paul grew up next to what many know as Mayberry.

The writer, producer, director, movie buff and former LAist film reviewer on how he worked his way up in Hollywood simply by being cool.

To celebrate our 1st anniversary / birthday, the delightful Zohra Banon interviews Tony about his origin story, his personal habits, the unusual place where he does most of his work, and what got him motivated to take on this ridiculous marathon of a project that just may take 20 years to complete.