La Burbuja

KCRW DJ Raul Campos talks about his parents’ home in the Maravilla projects in East LA, and how many of his high school peers were phonetically challenged when it came to pronouncing his name.

Photo by Eric Pearse Chávez
Our sonic profile series was recorded inside La Burbuja – Sonic Trace’s mobile recording booth. They aired everyday on KCRW’s Morning thru the holiday season. KCRW’s Sonic …

Teresa de Jesus Rivera was born in the small town in California. Her parents came to the US from Sinaloa, Mexico in the 1950′s. Their job? Picking produce in the fields of Delano, California. Her family went on to make history in the early days of the United Farm Workers movement of the 1960′s.

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Tomorrow, our final interview profiles KCRW’s Raul Campos …

In today’s sonic profile, thirty-five-year-old Janet Lopez tells the unlikely story of how her parents met. “They were Match.com before Match.com existed.”

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Tune into KCRW’s Morning Edition at 7am thru Jan. 4 to hear our Sonic Profile series gathered inside La Burbuja – our mobile recording booth. The profile of Janet Lopez was produced by Anayansi Diaz-Cortes and Matt Holzman. A …

Being a teenager is hard enough, but for Paulina Lopez, it was especially hard. Her family moved from Oaxaca, Mexico to Los Angeles when she was 12, forcing her to learn a new language and new culture, and to make new friends. These days her family runs LA’s staple Oaxacan restaurants, Guelaguetza Restaurant.

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Tune into KCRW’s Morning Edition at 7am …

Gustavo Arellano was born in LA. His family is from Zacatecas. He says that if his father wouldn’t of immigrated, he probably would of. These days he is the editor at OC Weekly, author of the syndicated column ¡Ask A Mexican!, and a contributor at KCRW.

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Tune into KCRW’s Morning Edition at 7am thru Jan. 4 to hear our Sonic Profile …

Today, as part of our Sonic Profile series, Silverlake resident Norma Medina talks about her picturesque childhood in Mexico, and the culture shock she experienced when she was taken to live with her Aunt and Uncle in their ‘Brady Bunch’ house in California.

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Tune into KCRW’s Morning Edition this holiday season for a series of short profiles gathered inside La Burbuja …

Octavio Olivas is from Mexico City. His wife is American, and they live in LA. Before getting married, he got a taste of Texas hospitality on a trip into the US from Mexico.

Photo by Eric Pearse Chávez
Tune into KCRW’s Morning Edition this holiday season for a series of short profiles gathered inside La Burbuja – our mobile recording booth. The profile of Octavio Olivas …

Mercedes Moreno emigrated from El Salvador to Los Angeles 36 years ago. She came working as a babysitter, and in the process became a mother. Mercedes is one of the hundred of thousands of Salvadoreans who fled a brutal civil war that killed 75,000 and displaced more than one million people. This is her story of arrival.

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Tune into KCRW’s …

Aldo Velasco was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco to an American mother and a Mexican father. At the age of five, he was taken on an ‘adventure’ to Los Angeles. At the age of five, he could not have imagined that this trip would change his life, forever.

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For the next two weeks, KCRW’s Morning Edition will be airing profiles gathered …

Sonic Trace’s portable recording booth, La Burbuja (The Bubble) is built and ready to record your story at Guelaguetza Restaurant in LA’s Koreatown.
Come to 3014 West Olympic Boulevard Mondays-Thursdays, 12-6pm thru December 6th to tell us your story inside La Burbuja.
Why did you leave? ¿Por qué te vas?
Why do you stay? ¿Por qué te quedas?
Why did you return? ¿Por qué regresas?
Are you or your …