HOME: Stories From L.A.

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 you? This week it’s the story of one mom, the daughter she chose, and the way they keep Ethiopia alive in the home that’s now theirs.

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Can the Web series be far behind? Cook With Mihrette here.

Music by Podington Bear:

• “Poppyseed”
• “Pink Gradient”
• “Airlift”
• “Windy”

A roving, shifting company of dance and performance artists is nudging its audiences to think about home differently — by bringing one-off, site-specific performances to houses, live-work spaces and tiny apartments all over the Los Angeles area. Meet homeLA.

Music by Podington Bear:

• “Tuxes”
• “Happy Transit”
• “Osprey”
• “By Grace”

At top: Flora Wiegman, Swimming Laps, at the home of Chloë Flores and Tim Lefevre in Mount Washington. Performed by Flora Wiegman

Here’s a gallery of photographs from past homeLA performances.

All photos by Andrew Mandinach for homeLA.

For more information about the Rose Hills performance on September 24, visit homeLA.

When TV producer Phil Savenick started collecting vintage TVs and TV memorabilia, he didn’t anticipate that he’d end up with what he now calls a “dreamland of televisions” in the living room of his West Los Angeles home — or that he’d end up helping the family of the man who invented TV heal some old wounds.

See more of Phil’s TV Dreamland here.

You can learn more about Philo T. Farnsworth here. I also recommend Jeff Kisseloff’s excellent oral history of the early days of television, “The Box.”

Music by Podington Bear:

• “Puzzler”
• “QuasarGroove”
• “Towl”
• “Hard Won”
• “Crow”
• “Wellness”

Thanks to Phil Savenick and Janis Hirsch.

The process by which one place stops being home and another starts — it’s a mysterious thing. It happens, most often, when we’re not paying attention. And sometimes, as it did for comedy writer and transplanted East Coaster Janis Hirsch, it happens in stages. First she started to feel at home in Los Angeles; but it was only later, after a series of addresses and a run-in or two with Bette Davis, that she landed in the exact place that would be, finally, her home.

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Music:

• “Domestic Fun (a),” by Ernest Tomlinson
• “Prismatone,” by Podington Bear
• “Wook,” by Podington Bear
• “Star Prizes (a),” by Tony Kinsey
• “Lena Sequence,” by Roberto Prgiado
• “Jackie,” by Podington Bear
• “Fashion on Parade,” by Ronald Hanmer
• “Playmate,” by Podington Bear

Thanks to Janis Hirsch and Larry Shulman.

The venerable Villa Carlotta — home to show business A-listers in the Golden Age, and later to a generation of young actors, writers and musicians — sits, a hollowed-out shell, on Hollywood’s Franklin Avenue. It may or may not be about to undergo a transformation into an upscale hotel. What happens to a community when it’s driven from the place where it’s made a home? One resident stubbornly hangs on, battling for the soul of a building that once buzzed with life and energy.

MUSIC:

• “Home,” by Henry Hall and his Gleneagles Hotel Band
• “Twine,” by Podington Bear
• “It’s All Forgotten Now,” by Ray Noble and His Orchestra
• “Tuesday’s Tune,” by Herschel Burke Gilbert
• “Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor,” by Johann Sebastian Bach
• “Zombie,” By Johnny Fever (Sam Fuller)
• “Csm,” by Podington Bear

Photos, top to bottom:
Carlotta exterior 2008 by Stinson Carter.
Carlotta lobby 2015
Carlotta lobby 2014 by Stinson Carter
Carlotta courtyard 2014 by Stinson Carter
Carlotta courtyard 2015

Thanks to Sylvie Shain (above). For more information on the campaign to save the Villa Carlotta, see its Facebook page.

Read Stinson Carter’s excellent piece about The Carlotta in Vanity Fair.