In The Mood For California

Today we’ll feel and experience San Francisco and the Painted Ladies followed by an interview with remarkable Ruth Todd! Ruth Todd, FAIA, is a former president and board chair of the San Francisco–based Page & Turnbull, an architecture, planning, and preservation firm founded in 1973. Ruth studied at Clemson University and held a Richard Morris Hunt Prize fellowship in France before becoming assoc...

Today we’ll feel and experience Irvine followed by an interview with wonderful Biff Baker! Biff (Harold) Baker grew up in East Providence, Rhode Island, with a love for languages, literature, and places. His Ph. D. dissertation in Comparative Literature was on representations of landscape in narrative and painting. After twenty years in education including a stint teaching Russian at UCI, he joine...

Today we’ll feel and experience Boyle Heights followed by an interview with amazing John Padilla! John E. Padilla is a stand-up comedy show producer and film producer from Boyle Heights, CA. John is currently producing a docuseries entitled Joking G’s in collaboration with video production company Chicano Hollywood. The series is about previously incarcerated and formally involved gang youth from...

Today we’ll feel and experience Marin County featuring an interview with legendary Ken Cook! Ken Cook, president and co-founder of Environmental Working Group, is widely recognized as one of the environmental community’s most prominent and influential critics of industrial agriculture, U.S. food and farm policy and the nation’s broken approach to protecting families and children from toxic substan...

Today we’ll feel and experience Alhambra featuring an interview with incomparable Yolanda Gonzalez! Yolanda was born into a family whose artistic heritage dates back to 1877. Her world is one of curiosity, demonstrating her love of people and their surroundings. González’s travels in different countries, the bonds forged with individuals in those places, and the resulting transformative experience...

Today we’ll feel and experience Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles featuring an interview with incredible Patti Lewis! Patti Lewis is a yoga student and teacher, mom to a human and a dog, married to an Italian, and loves hiking, the beach as well as snow. Patti wishes she was a better gardener, loves to read and loves eating brown rice and chips but not together, although maybe. Yoga has seen Patti...

Today we’ll feel and experience Musso and Frank Grill featuring an interview with wonderful Andrea Scuto! Andrea has the honor to serve as the General Manager for Musso & Frank Grill and has been with the company since 2018. He considers Musso’s the pinnacle of his career as a restaurateur. Andrea Scuto was born and raised in Rome, Italy and moved to Los Angeles in 2006. Interestingly enough, Andr...

Today we’ll feel and experience the Beverly Hills Hotel followed by an interview with legendary Yona Kunstler Nadelman and her incredible daughter Celina Nadelman! Yona Kunstler Nadelman was only 5 years old when the bleak years of World War 2 began and Nazi Germany occupied Poland. Separated from her parents, Yona left Poland, grew up in Paris, came to Los Angeles in the mid-fifties and created a...

Today we’ll feel and experience Culver City followed by an interview with magical Helane Anderson! Helane Marie Anderson is a transformational voice coach, singer, pianist, sound healer, musician, composer, energy healer, author, multi-instrumentalist and teacher. Her unique style of working with sound blends her years of studying healing modalities with contemporary music & sound healing. As a so...

Today we’ll feel and experience Riverside and the Mission Inn Hotel followed by an interview with wonderful Sharon Newby Gilbert! Sharon was born and raised in Riverside. She spent some time away in Las Vegas and Orlando, Florida, but returned to Riverside in 1987. She loves the beauty, history, architecture, and fabulous location! Sharon has led a colorful and fascinating life. Growing up in a mu...

Today we’ll feel and experience Burbank and Warner Brothers studio followed by an interview with incredible Tita Hutchison! Tita has recorded and toured backing artists signed to major labels such as Capitol, Columbia, Sony, and Hollywood records, she's sung jingles, commercials, voice overs, demos, performed in bands of almost any genre you can think of. Tita’s worked and performed with: Artists/...

Today we’ll feel and experience Glendale and the Armenian community followed by an interview with amazing and talented Award winning Costume designer and entrepreneur Mikael Sharafyan! Mikael was born into a family of artists and entertainers. His debut as a costume designer was in 2008, when he designed for a musical “Can Can” for the FIDM Debut Show. He designed for Julia Ormond, Rosanna Arquett...

Today we’ll feel and experience Oxnard followed by an interview with wonderful Carolyn Mullin! A Miami native of Mexican American descent, Carolyn Merino Mullin has 20 years' worth of experience in the nonprofit sector. Her work has been featured in the LA & NY Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, NPR, LA Weekly, Huffington Post, Bark Magazine, New Scientist, Artillery Magazine, Psychology Tod...

Today we’ll feel and experience Lake Elsinore and Aimee’s Castle followed by an interview with beautiful, warm and wonderful Valerie Geason. It all started with Jazz music for Valerie. She began singing at the age of 19. Valerie sang in front of her first audience trying to win scholarship money for college. From that point on she was bitten by the performance bug. Being introduced to jazz first,...

Today we’ll have a conversation with a 3rd generation Californian, wonderful Mike Rogerson. Mike was born and raised in Los Angeles, one of a long line of self-starting innovators and entrepreneurs. His 30 year real estate career has included work on a variety of projects in the most celebrated areas of California, from Iconic recording studios in Hollywood to historic hilltop estates in Beverly H...

Today we’ll feel and experience the life of Sergei Rachmaninoff in Los Angeles through an interview with incredible Dr. Keenan Reesor! Dr. Keenan Reesor is a musicologist and pianist, equally at home in the archive, concert hall, and classroom. As a scholar, he specializes in the music and reception of Sergei Rachmaninoff, and his research has taken him to the British Library, the Library of Congr...

Today we’ll feel and experience a beautiful city of Ventura, followed by an interview with wonderful Nicole Taylor! Originally from Los Angeles, soprano and Teaching Artist Nicole Taylor is a graduate of the Masters program at The Juilliard School in New York. Since her Carnegie Hall recital ‘debut in 2006, Nicole Taylor has won awards in international and American competitions, including the Conc...

Today we’ll feel and experience “Pearl of the Pacific”, beautiful Santa Monica followed by an interview with a uniquely talented artist Melissa Meier. Melissa Meier's work confronts social and spiritual issues by incorporating mixed media sculpture into narrative assemblage. She is constantly working with new processes and structure, for example, with her “Laced” series, she photographed mug shot...

Today we’ll feel and experience charming Marina del Rey, followed by an interview with amazing Mark Feller. Mark is a Climate Advocate and Sustainable Development Advisor on environmentally driven projects. Mark will share with us what it feels like to live in Marina del Rey. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maria.korpacheva.3 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inthemoodforcalifornia/ Twitter:...

Today we’ll feel Los Angeles and its various perspectives, including its exploration in a conversation with very talented and beautiful Mika Newton. Originally from Ukraine, she came to Los Angeles in 2011 right after she won the 4th place in the international song competition Eurovision. Mika is a singer, songwriter and actress. A recent cancer survivor she continues to embrace Los Angeles and wo...

Today we’ll go on a journey to Malibu to explore and feel Hieroglyph of the Human Soul in the conversation with its creator a true modern Renaissance man, Leigh McCloskey! Leigh is an artist, author, well known actor and visual philosopher. His highly creative life has been devoted to exploring the symbolical, archetypal and hidden aspects of the psyche and inner self through his art, scholarship,...

Today we’ll explore and feel Whittier followed by an interview with amazing Joanna Segoviano! Joanna Segoviano is a Home Stager with the Midas touch—everything she touches turns to gold. Owner and founder of Viano Decor – A Home Staging Company, this young millennial business woman made a splash since hitting the home staging scene a year ago, staging 100 homes her first year in the business with...

Today we’ll explore and feel Will Rogers State Historic Park located in Pacific Palisades, followed by an interview with beautiful and remarkable Natasha Marin! Russian-born pianist Natasha Marin enjoys working as a soloist, with orchestra, chamber ensembles and piano duos. She was featured on the radio and TV, recorded and has been performing extensively in the United States and internationally,...

Today we’ll explore and feel Los Angeles International Airport located in Westchester, followed by an interview with wonderful Russell Sakamoto! Russell is a Chief Accounting Officer of the Los Angeles Times. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of Russell personally.  They do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the Los Angeles Times. Facebook: https://www.faceb...

Today we’ll explore and feel the birthplace of California, Campo de Cahuenga located in Studio City, followed by an interview with an amazing musician John Storie! John is a jazz guitarist, music educator, composer and arranger based in Studio City, CA. His instagram is @jazzstorie and his website is www.johnstorie.com. He currently teaches at Pierce College and performs with actor/musician Jeff G...