Society & Culture
December 21st, 2012- the winter solstice- was thought by many to portend the end of the world, and by others as the moment of spiritual and cosmological transformation as it represented the end and new beginning of the Long Count Aztec and Maya calendars. On this New Years Day, 2013 episode, Hear in the The City goes out the the wasteland spaces of California's Salton Sea to find out if the Apocalypse happened... or if it is still on the horizon. (Originally broadcast on KPFK, 90.7FM, Los Angeles, 1/01/2013