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What do we mean when we talk about home? A podcast from Bill Barol.

I started this podcast in the fall of 2015 with a notion to tell stories of the many ways people think about home. For 27 episodes, that’s w...

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 re...

“The best historians in L.A. are storytellers. They’re gangsters in east L.A., they’re ex-cons, they’re guys who wor...

The original Forest Lawn Memorial Park , in the hills above Glendale, may be best known outside California for inspiring the sledgehammer sa...

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 wor...

What do we mean when we talk about home? A podcast from Bill Barol.

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 slowi...

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

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 America...

Color slides were once the state of the art in family photography — vibrant, immersive, ubiquitous. So ubiquitous, in fact, that milli...

Some stories don’t end when you think they do. Some stories just pause. And then they sneak back around and whap you across the back o...

What happens to a utopia that never got off the ground? Bits and pieces of one, an experiment in postwar living for the masses, are hiding i...

What happens when you bring a kid from the other side of the world into your home forever? How does it change what home means to her? And to...

A roving, shifting company of dance and performance artists is nudging its audiences to think about home differently — by bringing one...

When TV producer Phil Savenick started collecting vintage TVs and TV memorabilia, he didn’t anticipate that he’d end up with wha...

The process by which one place stops being home and another starts — it’s a mysterious thing. It happens, most often, when we...

Actress/writer/artist Rose Portillo lives in the house she was born into, in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles. It’s the annual s...

Not a hotel, not a dorm, not quite a hostel, open by design and communitarian in spirit — Los Angeles-based PodShare is something else...

Here’s an audio update on the upcoming season. In extra bonus content — and let me stress that this is 100% free of cost to you,...

It looks like a Hopper painting plunked incongruously down on a busy commercial street in West Los Angeles — The Apple Pan, home to fr...

The crowning paradox of the touring comic’s life may be this: You have to leave home to make a name, but without the grounding and sec...

How far would you go to rescue the remains of a bygone world you’ve loved since you were a kid? Peter Knego went to Alang, India, and...

Suppose you wanted to design a home away from home. What would you put in? What would you leave out? What kind of seating would you have? (S...

Up in the manicured hills of Los Feliz, a neighborhood that boasts at least three famous murder houses, the one with the weirdest history ma...

When an elderly parent dies after a long life of lovingly acquiring things, she leaves behind more than memories for her kids. She leaves so...

Season 2 of HOME comes your way in January. Subscribe today and new episodes will automagically fly through the aether to you more or less t...

The venerable Villa Carlotta — home to show business A-listers in the Golden Age, and later to a generation of young actors, writers a...

There’s the San Fernando Valley, the one you can find on a map… and then there’s The Valley, the one that exists in the cu...

Andy Puddicombe left college at 22 and spent a decade tramping the world before returning to the UK and landing, eventually, in Los Angeles....

This week it’s a story about Amboy, CA, a ghost town 30 miles from anywhere on the old Route 66, and the chicken magnate who’s s...

On a warm May day in 2005 a crowd gathered near a freeway embankment in Hawthorne, CA and turned its gaze to a house that wasn’t there...

Herman Stein contributed music to more than 200 films, including some of the 1950s’ best-known monster movies: Creature From The Black...

A story about home, and place, and donuts. Music by: Mongo Santamaria ( “Mother Jones” ) Wintergatan ( “Starmachine2000...