Welcome! We hope you will join host Phil Leirness, announcer Marc Hershon and musical director Jon Lawlor for an epic and spooky good episode all about community building!

(Photo by Larry Underhill)

Siobhan Burke has a passion for building as both an architect and a designer, and she is devoted to her community, having served for several years on the neighborhood council. Phil interviews her about such topics as the Hyperion Street Safety Coalition, the 99 Neighborhoods Network, the L.A. 2028 Olympic Games, and about story-driven design and about how spaces create community.

(Los Feliz-based Write Bloody Publishing)

Derrick Brown is the poet laureate of Los Feliz and the President and Executive Director of the Write Bloody publishing imprint. He also is someone who used to jump out of planes for a living! In a free-wheeling, heartfelt, hilarious, and inspiring conversation, he and Phil discuss his life, his career, and his ideas for how poetry can help build community.

(2nd annual Porchfest L.A. takes place November 1st & 2nd - details @ http://porchfestla.com)

The 2nd annual Porchfest L.A. is taking place on the 1st and 2nd of November throughout Los Feliz, East Hollywood and Silverlake. Phil gets together with Helene Udy, the driving force behind the event, to discuss what will be a truly joyous celebration of community, as well as to discuss her long-running “Was Ist Das” cabaret, her accomplished career as a performer, and to pay tribute to their mutual friend, Robert Patrick, a titan of off-off Broadway and gay theatre.

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