Earlier this month, Public Matters got the fantastic news that we’d be one of the inaugural recipients of the Creative Economic Development Fund (CEDF), a program of the Center for...
A Project Review + Event Recap: WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY 2015 Writing + Video by Public Matters Fellow Xochilt Sanchez The Truth About Flavor culminated with the public celebration of World...
Written by Public Matters Fellow Xochilt Sanchez LONG LIVE LA 2015: Premiere Screening On Wednesday, March 18, 2015, The Truth About Flavor myth-buster videos had their world premiere at Mercado La Paloma...
Join us on March 18 for film, food, and a friendly discussion about art & public health! We were thrilled when our friends at LA Freewaves invited us to be one...
The PWC Jeepney. An orange wonder on wheels. We’re excited that it’s getting a well-deserved place in the spotlight, courtesy of the awesome folks at KCET’s SoCal Connected. The piece profiles...
Since the middle of September, students in South L.A. at Augustus Hawkins High School’s Community Health Advocates School (CHAS) have been getting a fresh perspective on tobacco. Specifically, they’ve been...
World Food Day. What it’s all about: drawing attention to eradicating hunger and poverty, providing food security and nutrition, improving livelihoods, managing natural resources, protecting the environment, and achieving sustainable development,...
Public Matters just added another book to its bookshelf – Todd Presner, David Shepard, and Yoh Kawano’s HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities. Not just another urban planning tome from...