LAist Studios & USC Annenberg Media Present: How COVID Changed Everything A series where graduate students in the USC Annenberg School... more

LAist Studios & USC Annenberg Media Present: How COVID Changed Everything. A series where graduate students in the USC Annenberg... more

LAist Studios & USC Annenberg Media Present: How COVID Changed Everything When the World Health Organization declared an end to COVID-19... more

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Thank you for listening to Imperfect Paradise. The team at LAist Studios would like to share our latest podcast, California... more

Thank you for listening to Imperfect Paradise. The team at LAist Studios would like to share our latest podcast, California... more

Brian returns to Los Angeles. But his ideas of "home" have changed. Music from this episode composed by: Geir Sundstøl, Modarchive,... more

Brian finally sets foot in Mexico. His audio diary chronicles what it was like to feel at home while feeling... more

Brian is surprised by a letter from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. It’s his Advance Parole document. He can... more

California is home to around 2 million undocumented people. And in Southern California, roughly 80,000 of them have DACA, Deferred... more

Hey, Imperfect Paradise listeners, this is Emily Guerin. I'm one of the hosts and senior producers of this show. We're... more

In early 2020, just as fears about coronavirus are worsening, women begin accusing the founder of Kundalini Yoga, Yogi Bhajan,... more

Katie Griggs, a young woman from rural Maryland, discovers Kundalini yoga in her early 20s and goes all in. She... more

Guru Jagat starts the pandemic with an understandable skepticism of official medical advice, but quickly grows to embrace an array... more

Before her sudden death in 2021, Guru Jagat had become a famous Kundalini yoga teacher based in Los Angeles. But... more

Alex Villanueva has conceded the election. The next sheriff of LA County will be Robert Luna. More analysis to come... more

By the end of 2021, Alex Villanueva has done a 180. Once supported by the local Democratic party, he’s become... more

In 2019, LA County Sheriff’s deputies shot and killed Marco Vazquez, Jr. outside his home while he was having a... more

There have been deputy gangs in the LA County Sheriff’s department for almost as long as anyone can remember. These... more

When retired Lt. Alex Villanueva announces his candidacy for sheriff in 2017, no one takes him seriously. But with the... more

We begin with a scene of a very strange press conference: Sheriff Alex Villanueva is threatening to open a criminal... more

Alex Villanueva, an underdog maverick, runs for LA County Sheriff as a progressive reformer in 2018 and wins, surprising everyone.... more

Adolfo finds new information about the night Oscar died, and has to have a difficult conversation about what really happened... more

Adolfo learns about the dangers of Santa Barbara’s bluffs and gets a second opinion on Oscar’s death report.  The Forgotten Revolutionary... more

Adolfo reckons with his own relationship to his past and the Chicano student movement. And he finds someone who may... more

Was Oscar going to leave the Chicano student movement? Adolfo discovers new information about Oscar’s last months.  Support for this podcast... more

Adolfo finds a briefcase with information that could lead to clues about Oscar’s death.  The Forgotten Revolutionary is sponsored by BetterHelp... more

Adolfo gets his first lead on a person possibly involved in Oscar’s death. The Forgotten Revolutionary is sponsored by BetterHelp and... more

Adolfo learns that there was a dark side to Oscar’s experience in the Chicano student movement.  The Forgotten Revolutionary is sponsored... more

Oscar Gomez was a star of the 1990s Chicano student movement and then, unexpectedly, he died. A rattling event in... more

In the early 1990’s, hateful anti-immigrant political rhetoric roused California’s Chicano student rights movement, and college student and radio host... more

David attempts to rally his supporters, some of whom find themselves conflicted.

A tour of similar housing projects goes off the rails, and ends up doing more harm than good to David’s... more

David Gillanders wants to build housing for people experiencing homelessness in Orange County. When his idea hits more opposition than... more