L.A. World
L.A. World is a weekly podcast that cuts through the noise to help listeners understand what's happening in Los Angeles. Hosts Hayes Davenport and Antonia Cereijido team up with the newsroom at L.A. Material and editor-in-chief Julia Turner to discuss the top L.A. stories and dive deep into the issues dominating headlines. The show launched in the summer and offers a comprehensive look at the news, culture, and conversations shaping the city.
Episodes
Can Congress save Hollywood?
With 26 days until the mayoral election, Matt Hamilton is back for another installment of Campaign Supernova. We break down the latest candidate forums, the L.A. Times/UC Berkeley poll that has Nithya Raman ahead of Karen Bass with a third of voters st...
Is everyone in Hollywood eating live worms for breakfast?
Mosquitoes are biting harder than ever, with numbers in L.A. running at least 30% above the five-year average, so we're devoting a whole episode to the pests taking over our city. We ask the Vector Control District whether those striped ankle-biters ar...
How “Fast & Furious” lives on in L.A.
Twenty-five years ago, a scrappy little movie about street racers living in Angelino Heights turned L.A.'s underground car scene into a global franchise that has since traveled to Tokyo, Brazil, and outer space. Now the Fast & Furious franchise is back...
The One Street That Explains L.A.
Drive the length of Wilshire Boulevard, from downtown to the beach, and you'll come across places that reflect L.A.'s most pressing challenges and greatest ambitions. We picked three stops along the way that capture the city's past, present, and future...
How did reporters get the Clippers scandal so wrong?
Steve Ballmer and the Clippers just got hit with the harshest penalties in NBA history for circumventing the salary cap for star player Kawhi Leonard — we get into the story behind the story, including how so many reporters seemed to get it so wrong. P...
What’s really going on with street vendors in L.A.?
Street vending has suddenly become a flashpoint in the mayor's race — we unpack the actual scale and legal status of Los Angeles' vending economy. Plus, a new report claims a single 2014 ballot measure, Prop. 47, drove 7,000 Californians into homelessn...
L.A.'s Mayor's Race is Heating Up
The mayor's race has ten weeks to go! L.A. Material senior reporter Matt Hamilton joins us to break down the state of the race. Plus, the city just signed a financing deal with LA28 — we dig into the numbers to answer the question: Will the Olympics en...
After the Lakers sale, are the Dodgers next?
Mark Walter just sold the Lakers after only a year of owning them — we dig into the federal investigation of his insurance business and ask whether a sale of the Dodgers could be next. Plus, LAX's long-promised "people mover" is still stuck at 99.6% co...
Should you be freaked out by the super El Niño?
El Niño is back, and this year looks like a bigger deal than usual — how worried should you be? Plus, RFK Jr. and HUD Secretary Scott Turner visit L.A. to lambaste the city and county's homelessness response — we predict what changes could be coming to...
L.A. World: Coming Soon
L.A. World, hosted by Hayes Davenport, Antonia Cereijido, and L.A. Material Editor-in-Chief Julia Turner, coming to you this summer.
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