Listen to a panel discussion led by Antonia Cereijido (she/her), host of the Imperfect Paradise podcast from LAist Studios about chronicling the 58-year history of the longest running theatre of color in the U.S.

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Guests:

Zandi De Jesus (she/her), actress

Yu Gu (she/her), director

Tamlyn Tomita (she/her), actress

 (Recorded live on Dec. 12, 2023)

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Listen to a panel discussion led by Antonia Cereijido (she/her), host of the Imperfect Paradise podcast from LAist Studios about how Angel City Press has been shaping and influencing public understanding of LA for decades.

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Richie Kulchar (he/him), Director of ARTBOUND, Angel City Press

Terri Accomazzo, Editorial Director, Angel City Press

Paddy Calistro & Scott McAuley, Publishers, Angel City Press

 (Recorded live on Nov. 14, 2023)

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Listen to a panel discussion led by Antonia Cereijido (she/her), host of the Imperfect Paradise podcast from LAist Studios about how Artists-In-Residence programs provide artists opportunities to create uninterrupted work.

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Guests:

Christine Lee (she/her), artist

Jia Yi Gu (she/her), Director and Curator at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture

Kimberly Glann (she/her), Sr. Manager, LA County Department of Arts and Culture

Carol Zou (she/her), artist

 (Recorded live on Nov. 7, 2023)

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Listen to a panel discussion led by Antonia Cereijido (she/her), host of the Imperfect Paradise podcast from LAist Studios about how, following the Watts Uprising, UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television enacted affirmative action policies to increase the enrollment of students of color in the film program—a group that had historically been underrepresented in the student population.

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Guests:

Ben Caldwell (he/him), educator and filmmaker

Moctesuma Esparza (he/him), entertainment executive

Luis Garza (he/him), photojournalist and curator

Alile Sharon Larkin (she/her), artist and educator

Storme Sweet (she/her), executive director, Aliah Sweet Fragile Hearts Foundation

 (Recorded live on Oct. 24, 2023)

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Listen to a panel discussion led by Antonia Cereijido (she/her), host of the Imperfect Paradise podcast from LAist Studios about artist David Alfaro Siqueiros' popular Olvera Street mural "América Tropical".

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Guests:

José Figueroa (he/him), filmmaker, co-founder - Dignicraft

Oscar Magallanes (he/him), artist, co-founder - 3B Collective

Rebecca Zamora (she/her), independent scholar, arts professional

 (Recorded live on Oct. 3, 2023)

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Listen to Antonia Cereijido (she/her), host of the Imperfect Paradise podcast from LAist Studios, as she leads a discussion with all-girl, LA-based punk band The Linda Lindas and musician/author/punk rock trailblazer Alice Bag (she/her) and Jessica Schwartz (she/her), associate professor, music industry; musicology at the The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. 

This inaugural event of the LAist + KCET ARTBOUND Screening Series, in partnership with Grand Performances, featured the premiere screening of the new documentary Chinatown Punk Wars, which digs into how two Chinatown restaurants became the implausible heart of LA’s burgeoning punk scene in the 1970s. 

(Recorded live on Sept. 22, 2023)

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Guests:

The Linda Lindas

Alice Bag (she/her)

Jessica Schwartz (she/her)

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In the year since the L.A. City Council tape scandal, a lot has changed.

Efforts are underway to reform the redistricting process. Nury Martinez and Gil Cedillo are gone from the council. Only Kevin De León remains. Progressive shifts in the council are influencing its policies, and new elected members are working to forge a new way forward in L.A. This is the last episode of Nury & The Secret Tapes.

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Host Antonia Cereijido presses former L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez to account for the racist, hurtful comments she made on the secret recording that rocked Los Angeles and led to her resignation.

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Before the L.A. City Council tape scandal, Nury Martinez, the former council president, was known as a champion of working class immigrants. After, she became the poster child of anti-Blackness and colorism in the Latino community. Host Antonia Cereijido examines how Nury's upbringing influenced her politics and the divisions that emerged within the council under Nury's leadership, leading up to the secretly-recorded conversation.

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We take you behind the scenes of the L.A. City Council tape scandal, a year later. The secret recordings of the conversation among four of the city’s most powerful Latino leaders making racist, derogatory insults – exposed thorny, unresolved issues of race and politics. Host Antonia Cereijido explores those issues and speaks with the people who were most affected by the tapes, including former councilman Mike Bonin. And for the first time since resigning, former L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez breaks her silence.

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“Imperfect Paradise: Nury & The Secret Tapes” tells the story of the biggest political scandal in recent Los Angeles history. A secret recording leaked online in 2022 exposed then-LA City Council President Nury Martinez making racist and derogatory remarks. A year after the scandal and her resignation, Nury breaks her silence in an exclusive interview with LAist.

From LAist Studios, “Imperfect Paradise: Nury & The Secret Tapes,” coming September 27, 2023.