This week on HOME: Stories From L.A., a member of the Boing Boing Podcast Network: HGTV and glossy magazines have sparked a boomlet of interest in tiny homes, but they've… Read the rest of the article: Living Tiny
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Bill Barol This week on HOME: Stories From L.A., a member of the Boing Boing Podcast Network: "The best historians in L.A. are storytellers. They're gangsters in east L.A., they're ex-cons, they're… Read the rest of the article: Lost Heroes and Miniature Histories of L.A.
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Bill Barol This week on HOME: Stories From L.A.: The original Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in the hills above Glendale, may be best known outside California for inspiring the sledgehammer satire… Read the rest of the article: Life, Death, Ego and Eternity
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Bill Barol This week on HOME: Stories From L.A., a member of the Boing Boing Podcast Network: How will we live in 20 years? Or 50? Or 100? A one-of-a-kind, only-in-LA plot… Read the rest of the article: A house for tomorrow in Los Angeles
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Bill Barol Here's a brief audio update on the immediate future of HOME: Stories From L.A. The TL;DR version is, I'm slowing down the production schedule to make the project more sustainable over… Read the rest of the article: Update: The Future of HOME
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Bill Barol This week on HOME: Stories From L.A.: Who were we? How did we live, and what did it look like? The vast archive of castoff slides captures, in vivid colors,… Read the rest of the article: Kodachrome, Pt. 2
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Bill Barol This week on HOME: Stories From L.A., a member of the Boing Boing Podcast Network: Color slides were once the state of the art in family photography — vibrant, immersive,… Read the rest of the article: Kodachrome, Pt. 1
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Bill Barol This week on HOME: Stories From L.A., a member of the Boing Boing Podcast Network: Some stories don't end when you think they do. Some stories just pause. And then… Read the rest of the article: Everything Must Go
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Bill Barol HOME: Stories From L.A., a member of the Boing Boing Podcast Network, is back for its fourth season. This week: What happens to a utopia that never got off the… Read the rest of the article: The Modernist Utopia that never was
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Bill Barol HOME: Stories From L.A., a member of the Boing Boing Podcast Network, is on a brief hiatus, and returns for its fourth season in October. If you haven't heard the show yet,… Read the rest of the article: What do we mean when we talk about home?
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Bill Barol This week on 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… Read the rest of the article: What happens when you bring a kid from the other side of the world into your home forever?
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Bill Barol This week on HOME: Stories From L.A.: A roving. shifting company of dance and performance artists is nudging its audiences to think about home differently — by bringing one-off, site-specific… Read the rest of the article: Dancers in the house
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Bill Barol This week on HOME: Stories From L.A.: 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… Read the rest of the article: TV Dreamland
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Bill Barol This week on HOME: Stories From L.A.: 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… Read the rest of the article: Belushi, Bette and Beverly Hills
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Bill Barol How do you encourage a dead woman to leave your house? It helps if you have a hammer, balloons and confetti. This week on HOME: Stories From L.A., the story… Read the rest of the article: Rose, Mercedes and The Days Of The Dead
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Bill Barol Not a hotel, not a dorm, not quite a hostel, open by design and communitarian in spirit — Los Angeles-based PodShare is something else. And, potentially, something bigger: An affordable… Read the rest of the article: A Pod To Call Your Own
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Bill Barol This week on HOME: Stories From L.A.: It looks like a Hopper painting plunked incongruously down on a busy commercial street in West Los Angeles — The Apple Pan, home… Read the rest of the article: Do fries go with that home?
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Bill Barol The crowning paradox of the touring comic's life may be this: You have to leave home to make a name, but without the grounding and security of home you may… Read the rest of the article: Comedians describe the tricky balance between the road and home
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Bill Barol How far would you go to rescue the remains of a bygone world you've loved since you were a kid? Peter Knego went to Alang, India, and then did it… Read the rest of the article: A Life at sea, on land
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Bill Barol Suppose you wanted to design a home away from home. What would you put in? What would you leave out? What kind of seating would you have? (Soft? Hard? Low?… Read the rest of the article: Former Starbucks designer on what makes a "third place" feel like home