From Where We Are – Ampersand

Please Don’t Stop the Music

Mia HairstonApril 30, 2020

Through this time of uncertainty and discomfort, what happens when a pandemic makes the thing you love most hurt instead? Reporter Mia Hairston, who was quaran...

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Best Coast’s New Album Spotlights Self-Care

Victoria AlejandroMarch 11, 2020

Best Coast, the California based, surf rock group, has just released a new studio album for the first time since 2015. It’s called “Always Tomorrow,” and it fo...

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Community, Not Cash, In LA Comedy Circles

Nicola WenzMarch 6, 2020

Lights, camera, comedy. Annenberg reporter Nicola Wenz took a tour around the comedy scene in LA and realized it's almost impossible to make a living as a come...

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The Psychedelic Awakening of Mental Health Treatment

Megan BotelFebruary 26, 2020

People all over Los Angeles have been gathering for mysterious and somewhat secret ceremonies to ingest a hallucinogenic tea called ayahuasca. Some people seek...

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Car Washes and Celia Cruz

Victoria AlejandroFebruary 19, 2020

First generation kids in the U.S. can feel torn between two worlds – caught between their cultures of origin and the pressure to be “American.” Ampersand’s Vic...

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Passion of the Stan: The New Superfan

Mia HairstonFebruary 18, 2020

Even if you don’t know the word "stan," you know what a stan is. You know about the people who go wild for their favorite artists on social media and are alway...

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The Things You Can’t Erase: Remembering Through Story

Clarissa KernerDecember 10, 2019

Why are painful memories more permanent than others? How does storytelling bring back these memories? Listen to Clarissa Kerner discuss memory through a scient...

CULTUREFrom Where We Are

A Lifetime of Dancing, an Hour of Improvisation

Sophie BressDecember 6, 2019

Bret Easterling is an international dance artist. He has been dancing and choreographing since childhood. His new piece, BRECHT, is a one-hour solo performance that uses improvisation as a means to discover his own voice. ...

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Madeline Hollander’s dance for science nerds

Aino FrilanderDecember 2, 2019

You may have come across Madeline Hollander's dances at the most recent Whitney Biennial in New York City or seen her handiwork in Jordan Peele’s movie "Us" – ...

DANCEFrom Where We Are