
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


#258: Los Angeles is spending nearly $4 million to clean up and fence off the Oceanwide Towers after the three abandoned buildings were covered with graffiti. Some people are glad to see the graffiti go, but others say they like what the murals represent, arguing that their removal is a bad use of tax dollars.
Meanwhile, LAist reporting shows the company who owns the Oceanwide towers has been linked to bribery and money laundering investigations. With all this drama on our mind, we wanted to talk with someone with deep knowledge of LA's graffiti writing scene.
We meet up with Red Ortiz, a graffiti writer turned barber and film director. He'll tell us how painting illegal murals changed his life, and why he thinks graffiti is so important to LA's culture.
If you want to share your hot take, write to us at howtola(at)scpr.org
Music in this episode composed by Dexter Thomas
By LAist Studios4.7
8787 ratings
#258: Los Angeles is spending nearly $4 million to clean up and fence off the Oceanwide Towers after the three abandoned buildings were covered with graffiti. Some people are glad to see the graffiti go, but others say they like what the murals represent, arguing that their removal is a bad use of tax dollars.
Meanwhile, LAist reporting shows the company who owns the Oceanwide towers has been linked to bribery and money laundering investigations. With all this drama on our mind, we wanted to talk with someone with deep knowledge of LA's graffiti writing scene.
We meet up with Red Ortiz, a graffiti writer turned barber and film director. He'll tell us how painting illegal murals changed his life, and why he thinks graffiti is so important to LA's culture.
If you want to share your hot take, write to us at howtola(at)scpr.org
Music in this episode composed by Dexter Thomas

38,786 Listeners

26,226 Listeners

397 Listeners

40 Listeners

1,117 Listeners

14,674 Listeners

1,071 Listeners

9,104 Listeners

10,330 Listeners

1,524 Listeners

16,494 Listeners

6,581 Listeners

1,226 Listeners

89 Listeners

1,305 Listeners

876 Listeners

395 Listeners

445 Listeners

9 Listeners

529 Listeners

121 Listeners

79 Listeners

1,788 Listeners

189 Listeners

11 Listeners

96 Listeners

19 Listeners