California Sun Podcast

The California Sun presents conversations with the people that are shaping and observing the Golden State

Jonathan Weber on what the tech boom cost San Francisco 06/18/2026

David Beard on Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the music that called us west 06/11/2026

Dan Walters on the governor's race and ungovernable California 06/04/2026

Ivo Jeramaz: The Paris tasting at 50 and the future of California wine 05/28/2026

Joe Mathews on California’s generic governor's race 05/21/2026

Professor William Riggs on why we fear Waymos more than bad drivers 05/14/2026

Kate Washington on how getting into cold water saved her life 05/07/2026

Dillon Osleger on the paths we've erased and the stories buried beneath 04/30/2026

Julia Turner and Julia Wick: making sense of the city with L.A. Material 04/23/2026

Peter Richardson on how Rolling Stone shaped a social revolution … at least for a while 04/16/2026

Ann Carlson: When L.A.'s air was both a punchline and a poison 04/09/2026

Severin Borenstein on global oil shocks and California's price premium 04/02/2026

Miriam Pawel: The Chavez myth comes apart 03/26/2026

Caroline Tracey on the strange life and unnatural death of our salt lakes 03/19/2026

Joe Flint: It’s Oscar weekend, but Hollywood’s future is unscripted 03/12/2026

Geoff Davis on soul food, fair pay, and the service fee that sparked a firestorm 03/05/2026

Valerie Ziegler and Joel Breakstone on teaching students to navigate algorithms and deepfakes 02/19/2026

Scott Eden discusses a tech bro's fatal gamble on black-market cannabis 02/12/2026

Danny Goldberg on how L.A. fought back after Rodney King — and what it means for Minneapolis 02/05/2026

David McCuan on how California's county fairs became corruption hotbeds 01/29/2026

Laurie Lipton: An artist's insane technique for disturbing times 01/21/2026

Esther Mobley on California's wine crisis 01/15/2026

Tom Freston on how MTV changed our music, our culture, and even California 01/08/2026

Scot Danforth on the fight for disability rights in California 12/11/2025

Matthew Scott photographs L.A.'s hidden stories, from concrete rivers to palm-lined streets 12/04/2025

Gustavo Arellano on California families under siege 11/20/2025

Roddy Bottum: A queer rock pioneer remembers San Francisco's lost era 11/13/2025

Ashlee Vance on robot gladiators and the future of AI combat 11/06/2025

Todd S. Purdum: How Desi Arnaz invented modern television and lost himself 10/30/2025

John Freeman sees California as America's literary center 10/23/2025