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Hosted by David Weinberg · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 21 episodes
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Los Angeles is a city carved out of the desert — a conjured image of paradise. Award-winning journalist David Weinberg returns with stories of people who learn what lies beyond the dream.
David Weinberg hosts Welcome to LA, a society show with 21 episodes published.
This is a piece I helped produce for the The New Yorker Radio Hour and Transom. A few months ago, the great American historian and writer Jill Lepore shared a documentary with us that was presented by the National Park S
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PSUzUJhQqk This piece was produced by Nick White with help from Emile Klein.
When David first got the email, it just seemed like one of those offers that's too good to be true. The idea that he would be holding the reins of a horse drawn carriage tearing across the high plains of Colorado and tha
A crossover spectacular! Richard Parks III, the host of Richard's Famous Food Podcast, helps David find where food meets fame in Los Angeles. And is that Wolfgang Puck in the backseat?
Remember what Friday nights used to feel like? It was freedom, that moment when you get off work, and your time no longer belongs to someone else — the night is yours. Here is an ode, a time capsule, to everyone's favori
In this episode of Welcome to LA: A look at redlining in Southern California. A story about how Black families are being priced-out of LA and moving to Palmdale and other cities of the High Desert. Also some rock and rol
Inside an old restaurant you can hear the sound of kids hunkered down at the counter, plotting a revolution. It's a long shot for sure, but maybe they will pull it off. Maybe they will save us all.
How did a group of stuntmen in the 1960s diversify Hollywood? On this episode of Welcome to LA, we delve into the origin story of the Black Stuntmen's Association.
Have you ever had a friend who you thought should live their life differently than they do? A story about building a meaningful life out of chaos.
Los Angeles is a city carved out of the desert – a conjured image of paradise. Award-winning journalist David Weinberg returns with stories of people who learn what lies beyond the dream.
Lost Notes is a podcast from KCRW. It's about music, and artistic legacy, and people. Listen to this episode about David Bowie's favorite rock band, Fanny. Then, go subscribe in your podcast player. See you soon for more
Architect Trevor Pan built his first building with his own hands in a barren patch of Arizona desert. It didn't have running water or electricity, but it got him some attention in the architecture world and his career wa
Before he launched one of the most successful porn companies in America, Rob Navarro was a chart topping Christian rock star and the voice of Ronald McDonald. Then he got the help of a few good men from the U.S. Marine C
Luis Gutierrez Sanchez, a hot dog street vendor also known as "Grace of the Sea," lived in a garage in South LA for six years. Miraculously good at finding beauty in dark places, he tells his story of surviving as a gay
Before Judge Judy there was "The People's Court" This is the origin story of the court case that started what is now a lucrative empire that feeds off the petty disputes of everyday Americans.
Tyreek Bilal has gone through many transformations in his life. He's been barber for powerful celebrities, a husband to six wives, a celibate religious scholar. Now he's taking a stand against changes at his neighborhood
When a suspicious couple and a former soap opera actress try to rent an apartment they offer to deposit the entire year's rent into the building owners bank account. But something wasn't adding up.
Kevin Gage played villains in Hollywood action movies of the mid-90s. But in 2003 he went to federal prison. He tried to start a new life in Mexico but Los Angeles sucked him back in. We find Gage in a new role at the Pa
Host David Weinberg moves to Los Angeles and on his first day in town ends up on a yacht, attending a birthday party for a Russian theremin builder. But the pleasure cruise turns disastrous and they have to be rescued by
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