“It’s really hard for someone to get their head around what the Inglewood Oil Field is.”  On this week’s Hear in the City we offer you part two in our series about oil extraction in the Baldwin Hills, and we help L.A. local-global micro cinema, the Echo Park Film Center, celebrate it’s 10th anniversary. Listen to KPFK, 90.7FM, Tuesday's at 3:30pm.

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On this episode of Hear in the City we visit with two extraordinary people who dedicate their lives to caring for pets who would otherwise fall through the cracks of the urban economic crisis. One, a veterinarian and self-proclaimed "bleeding heart", is owed $40,000 by the City of Los Angeles Department of Animal Services. The other, a computer scientist who feed feral cats by night, is an unusual creature on the streets of L.A.: a walker, a veritable flaneur.

Abandoned Pets

Next in our series of audio art honoring natural elements in the urban space: Earth. 
We spend most of the program exploring the fundamental issues that arise when a piece of land is set aside for public park use at a time when disinvestment in open and un-exploited spaces has become the norm in the State of California.

Earth: future in the balance for an urban park

We offer you this original submission to the KCRW 24 Hour Radio Race 2020 "Time Warp", with gratitude, for the opportunity!

After nearly three months of bickering while quarantining together, this mother-daughter team finds peace while making radio together about a person whom they both loved very much and eventually lost to Alzheimers disease. With original poetry by Minerva Lerner and original song by Edward Harris. Produced and edited by Sara Harris.

Hear in the City’s Sara Harris and Minerva Lerner delve into old audio recordings documenting the voice of Sara's father and the fluidity of time over 10 years living with -and through- Alzheimers in a multi-generational household. This, in honour of Edward Samuel Harris (02/18/1930-03/30/2018).

(Featuring Minerva Lerner, Sara Harris, Amanda Harris, Edward Harris, and the sounds of homes they have lived in.)

Kaddish

MyEveryDayRadio is a daily time-mapping exercise  asking you to stop and listen, at least once every day. Hear in the City: 
Radio Realities from the Urban Landscape is a sound-mapping endeavor launched in 2010 on KPFK, 90.7FM in Los Angeles by Sara Harris.

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