Introducing a new show from LAist Studios: California Love. Join host and New York Times writer Walter Thompson-Hernández as he takes us through his personal journey back to his hometown of Los Angeles. Walter tells profound and moving stories of a city in transition — stories of streets that no longer look the way they did during his childhood, largely molded by gentrification; reflective stories that connect the present to his experiences during the 1992 riots and the time he met Kobe Bryant; entertaining stories about an infamous phone line and parrots that fill the City’s trees that are sacred to locals, yet unknown to most of the world. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.