California Sun Podcast

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The California Sun presents conversations with the people that are shaping and observing the Golden State

Episodios

  • Mick LaSalle takes California to the movies

    03/06/2021 Duración: 39min

    Mick LaSalle, author of his new book "Dream State," shows how movies have historically captured the essence of California. For almost a century, the movies have defined the California dream and projected it out to the world. The long-time film critic for the San Francisco Chronicle talks about the mythology of California and the big screen, the future of movie stars, and Hollywood navel-gazing.

  • Justin Zhu talks startups, LSD, and anti-Asian discrimination

    27/05/2021 Duración: 41min

    Justin Zhu was fired from Iterable, the successful marketing startup he founded. The reasons given to him included his use of LSD, inappropriate attire (even by Silicon Valley standards), and giving secrets to a reporter. Unstated, he believes, were issues of race. His story provides a glimpse of what it’s really like in the world of startups — the hours, the egos, the money, and the power of self-delusion about changing the world

  • Denise Hamilton on L.A.’s post-apocalyptic vibe

    20/05/2021 Duración: 28min

    Denise Hamilton is the editor of the just-published anthology "Speculative Los Angeles." In the past writers like Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, and Philip K. Dick represented the dark fantasy life of the city. Now a new generation of writers takes on that dark life for the 21st century.

  • Joel Selvin on the soundtrack that defines California

    13/05/2021 Duración: 28min

    Joel Selven, a music journalist and author of the new book “Hollywood Eden," tells the story of the young artists and musicians who came together at the dawn of the 1960s to create the sound of the California dream. It's the story of how West Los Angeles's University High School class of 1958 — which included Jan & Dean and Nancy Sinatra — helped create an image of the West Coast as an idyllic land of sand and surf.

  • Michael Storper on the L.A. vs. Bay Area conundrum

    06/05/2021 Duración: 49min

    Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers and a professor at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, goes deep into the history and resulting contemporary problems facing Los Angeles and the Bay Area. He explains why some cities grow economically, while others decline.

  • Ron Brownstein on the magic of 1974 Los Angeles

    29/04/2021 Duración: 38min

    The writer Ron Brownstein takes us back to 1974 Los Angeles, a period he views as a cultural and political hinge point. It was during that year — as Brownstein details in his new book, "Rock Me on The Water" — that Los Angeles reached its creative peak, transforming movies, music, television, and politics, and forever cementing the upheaval of the 1960s into our culture.

  • Joe Mathews on how L.A. is failing California

    21/04/2021 Duración: 32min

    Joe Mathews, a long-time California journalist, thinks that the state has a big problem, and the problem's name is Los Angeles. Mathews argues that Los Angeles County, home to 25% of the state's population, undermines the state and holds back its prosperity.

  • Matthew Shilvock on the re-emergence of the San Francisco Opera

    13/04/2021 Duración: 29min

    Matthew Shilvock, the general director of the San Francisco Opera, talks about the reemergence of the 1,000-person opera company and how its shutdown during the pandemic could be the catalyst for a younger, more digital, and more experimental future.

  • Molly Knight on baseball in Los Angeles

    24/03/2021 Duración: 33min

    Molly Knight is a long-time sports writer and is a senior staff writer for The Athletic. Her beat covers Los Angeles sports and most notably, the L.A. Dodgers. The author of "The Best Team Money Can Buy", an inside-the-clubhouse look at two tumultuous years of the Dodgers, shares a bit of her life behind the scenes covering one of the premier franchises in sports.

  • Emilio Garcia-Ruiz and the remaking of the S.F. Chronicle

    18/03/2021 Duración: 28min

    Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, the new editor-in-chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, was the managing editor for digital at the Washington Post. He lays out his vision for bringing the Chronicle fully into the digital era and enhancing its local focus. He sees his job as taking on a fixer-upper with good bones and a great history, but one that needs a lot more than just a coat of paint.

  • Michael Tubbs still has Stockton on his mind

    10/03/2021 Duración: 30min

    Michael Tubbs was elected to the Stockton City Council at age 22, having just graduated from Stanford. He was elected as the city's first African American Mayor at 27. He sought to reshape the most diverse city in America, creating a pilot program for universal basic income. It was seen as a success, yet he lost his bid for reelection. Tubbs shared his personal and political story with the California Sun Podcast.

  • Tess Taylor and her poetry of California

    04/03/2021 Duración: 31min

    Tess Taylor, in her books of award-winning poetry, captures the fragility, fear, and fault lines of California, and examines Dorothea Lange’s enduring influence on our unsteady times.

  • Bradley Tusk on California's corporate exodus

    25/02/2021 Duración: 24min

    Bradley Tusk, bicoastal venture capitalist and political strategist, talks about the political and economic reasons why companies are leaving California. While individuals may be leaving our cities for greener pastures or wide-open spaces, the companies have a very different agenda — one that sits at the nexus of politics, technology, and money.

  • Jill Tucker on San Francisco school debates

    18/02/2021 Duración: 33min

    Jill Tucker has been covering education in California and in San Francisco for the San Francisco Chronicle for 22 years. Not until lately however, has she seen school debates grow so intense and board meetings stretch so long. In this week's podcast, she talks about what's going on, why now, and who's responsible.

  • Shane Bauer on the Vallejo PD

    11/02/2021 Duración: 25min

    Shane Bauer is a Bay Area journalist and author. His recent reporting for The New Yorker examines the violent excesses of the Vallejo police department. What he found and shares with us is a cautionary tale for police departments everywhere.

  • Roman Mars is anything but invisible

    04/02/2021 Duración: 29min

    Roman Mars, the Bay Area author of the book and podcast series 99% Invisible, is a unique guide to the hidden worlds of design and architecture around us. He sees beauty in the built world — things that we visually appreciate, but often neglect, even while they are right under our noses.

  • Joan Didion talks about California

    28/01/2021 Duración: 17min

    Upon the occasion of the publication of a new collection of works by Joan Didion, "Let me Tell You What I Mean," I share a conversation I had with her in 2016 about California, its history, and its many crises. Because of her deep and broad vision, it’s as relevant today as on the day we spoke.

  • Casey Newton on tech platforms as the new town square

    21/01/2021 Duración: 24min

    Casey Newton, a long-time Bay Area-based tech journalist, and the author of the Platformer newsletter looks at our social media platforms and how they have become the foundation of political speech. He discusses the role they should play in our democracy and if they really have become too powerful.

  • Hank Sims on the success of local journalism in Humboldt County

    14/01/2021 Duración: 23min

    Hank Sims, the editor of Lost Coast Outpost, extols the virtues of Humboldt County and explains how his online newspaper has defied the odds faced by most local and regional newspapers.

  • Kathryn Olmsted talks California unions, from farm to Google

    07/01/2021 Duración: 19min

    Kathryn Olmsted, a historian, author, and former chair of the history department at UC Davis talks about California's long history of farm labor union organizing and how that history affects the efforts at Google, Uber, and other Silicon Valley companies.

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