Artist Isabelle Alford-Lago: Gorilla (6:10) Alex Weber interviews artist Isabelle Alford-Lago. "Everyone can relate to a gorilla’s primitiveness." You can thank Isabelle Alford-Lago for the many gorillas found in the Los Angeles area. ALEX WEBER ISABELLE ALFORD-LAGO

Confessions of a Puppet Master (3:00) Tracy Joy explains the difficulty and obstacle of working with puppets.  PACHUCO PUPPETS 

Tonan & Venice Skate Park:  Skateboard-Tailor  (3:30) Ruiz has been part of the Venice hard-core skateboard scene since he was a little boy. TONAN

Tamaleria La Doña (:60) On Compton Boulevard looks more like a house than a factory, but inside it's easy to see why customers travel from all over Los Angeles and Orange counties to buy tamales by the dozen.

Xander - L.A.'s Insanely Awesome Wheelchair Guy (1:50) Xander Mozejewski is a Valley kid who had it all: brains, athleticism, California looks. Hired as a model, he soon got behind the camera. Then, in 2011, "Moze" was struck by a car while riding his motorcycle to a surf shop.

Dora & Sam - Sunset Sesh: Venice (:15)

SOBE Presents: Comedian Alex Weber WEBER & Pro Skater Dora Hurst (3:55) Comedian & Host ALEX WEBER spends the afternoon with Pro Skater Dora Hurst.  ALEX WEBER

Sites of Local Resistance: Leimert Park (2:19) Executive Director of the Crenshaw Subway Coalition Damien Goodmon shares how the African American center of Los Angeles, Leimert Park, is being threatened by gentrification and cultural erasure.   HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT

Sites of Local Resistance: Boyle Heights (2:03) In the midst of a protest outside the home of 1815 E 2nd St building owner BJ Turner, tenant Melissa Reyes and Los Angeles Tenants Union & Union de Vecinos organizer Fernando Ramirez share how speculative real estate and artwashing have led to the displacement of vulnerable, longtime residents across Boyle Heights — the center of Chicano culture in Los Angeles.    HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT

Sites of Local Resistance: Little Tokyo (2:31) Jaimee Itagaki, a resident facing eviction at 800 Traction Ave, and neighborhood activist Taiji Miyagawa, share how Little Tokyo is struggling to hold on to its original culture, as large finance capital in collusion with the city has led to almost complete displacement of the Japanese Americans who made it such a creative community in the first place.  HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT

Resist Gentrification: Action Summit (2:40) Amid growing concerns about gentrification, nearly 50 organizations joined Housing Is a Human Right for a historic conference in Leimert Park, Los Angeles on December 2, 2017. The Resist Gentrification Action Summit drew more than 800 activists and residents to discuss how to combat the housing affordability crisis in their neighborhoods.  Additional footage by Eleven.  HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT

DOGTOWN:  The inside story with Ray Flores - SPEED (2:40)  Ray Flores bombing hills in the Palisades on his skateboard at 35-45 miles an hour!  REY FLORES

CITY HEARTS Fresh Focus: A New Shot at Life (1:30) Photography “Ted” Talks with Noureddine El Warari & Johnny Simmons, ASC. City Hearts: Kids Say Yes to the Arts.  CITYHEARTS

City Hearts: Leica Fresh Focus 2017 (2:56) City Hearts has provided Visual and Performing Arts classes at no cost to children in the greater Los Angeles area for over thirty years. CITYHEARTS

LA release party for 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (2:15) The night began with a train ride on the Hogwart's Express (aka a train from Union Station) and ended at Flourish & Blotts (aka Skylight Books) with the release of the book at midnight.  Circa 

Tonan & Venice Skate Park:  How free am I? (3:00) Tonan reminisces his younger skateboarding days while finds similarity in groms at the skate park.  TONAN  

Adolfo & Douglas (:60) Award winning City Hearts student Adolfo spends time with legendary photographer Douglas Kirkland. On September 16, 2018 City Hearts will host its 6th Annual "Fresh Focus" photography auction at the Leica Gallery, Los Angeles. Honoring Douglas Kirkland. cityhearts.org/

Breeding Ground: Venice Skate Park with Eric “Tuma” Britton (:60) 4K • Raised in the Venice skateboarding scene and a pro since age 12, Eric "Tuma" Britton is now an elder statesman of the sprawling beachside skate park they call the Breeding Ground.

The Do Lab constructing Big Fish for Coachella (:45) The Do LaB art collective holds a unique position in the Coachella ecosystem, designing huge structures for the festival that double as art installations and performance spaces, bringing their unique, colorful aesthetic to the Empire Polo Grounds.

What Great Dish Can A Kid Cook? Ludo shows them how (:60) Learns how to make gnocchi from one of L.A.'s great chefs, Ludo Lefebvre. Read the full story

Saint Motel - The Road to Coachella (:60) For years, the nerdy Los Angeles pop rockers Saint Motel were seen on mock Coachella posters that adorned the Internet. Now, the "suddenly" hot Saint Motel is playing coveted slots at the 2015 Coachella festival.