HOME: Stories From L.A.

HOME: Stories From L.A.


Latest Episodes

Goodbye (for now)
November 27, 2017

HOME is going on an indefinite hiatus.

Episode 26: Going Tiny
August 17, 2017

HGTV and glossy magazines have sparked a boomlet of interest in tiny homes, but they’ve also made them look fun, cute and easy. The realities of a tiny lifestyle can be more daunting. Municipalities often don’t know what to make of tiny houses,

Episode 25: Lost Heroes and Miniature Histories
August 01, 2017

“The best historians in L.A. are storytellers. They’re gangsters in east L.A., they’re ex-cons, they’re guys who worked in their garage their whole life, they’re guys who’ve worked at one business for forty years,

Episode 24: Life, Death, Ego and Eternity
July 19, 2017

The original Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in the hills above Glendale, may be best known outside California for inspiring the sledgehammer satire of the 1965 cult comedy “The Loved One.” For tourists and curiosity-seekers,

Episode 23: The Last House On Mulholland
July 05, 2017

How will we live in 20 years? Or 50? Or 100? A one-of-a-kind, only-in-LA plot at the very end of Mulholland Highway inspired some of the world’s best designers to think hard about the home of the future, in Los Angeles and beyond.

Update: The Future of HOME
February 25, 2017

Join me, won’t you, as I peel back the curtain on this podcast and kick around some thoughts about its future. (TL;DR: I’m slowing the production cycle a bit to make the project sustainable over the long haul. New season is coming this spring. Also,

Update: New Season Coming
December 14, 2016

HOME is going on a between-seasons hiatus, but will return in the New Year. Sköl!

Episode 22: Kodachrome, Pt. 2
December 01, 2016

Who were we? How did we live, and what did it look like? The vast archive of castoff slides captures, in vivid colors, images of the American family at midcentury. But the stories that go with the pictures are most often lost,

Episode 21: Kodachrome, Pt. 1
November 16, 2016

Color slides were once the state of the art in family photography vibrant, immersive, ubiquitous. So ubiquitous, in fact, that millions, maybe billions of them survive. This week its a conversation