MaryAnne LoVerme is a teacher and native New Yorker who moved to Los Angeles where she lived, car-free, for twelve years. In Los Angeles, she hit the ground running; immersing herself in improv, transit activism, and opening the beloved and much-missed Los Angeles County Store. In 2025, she packed it all up and relocated to a suburb of Paris (France). We caught up before she left us in the proverbial dust.

@MaryAnneOfLA

@NobodyDrivesInLApod

NDLA's RedBubble

NDLA's Discord

Back in July, Eric appeared as a guest on episode number two of Julia Beach’s podcast/online radio show, “Friend of the Month.”

Friend of the Month is broadcast on Frank Radio, an online broadcaster and eventspace located in Los Angeles’s Fairfax District. “Friend Of The Month” is a radio show about knowing your neighbors. In each episode, they feature an Angeleno with a good story, and ask them what it means to feel like a local.

The program begins with the audio from a piece by Greg Ruben about indigenous roads of Los Angeles. Ruben makes meditative videos about Los Angeles’s culture and history that can be seen on Instagram. He recently founded “Walking School of Los Angeles: a series of guided walks through LA’s past, present and future.” After Ruben’s piece, Julia and Eric discuss — what else? — mass transit – albeit with a focus on the Silver Lake neighborhood, where Julia and Eric both live.

www.frank.radio

Julia Beach’s Instagram: @zuuuumaaa

Greg Ruben’s Instagram: @gregruben

Nobody Drives in LA's co-hosts and hall-of-famers—Eric Brightwell, Ivy Kwok, Kyle Rebar, and Rogelio Pardo—upzoned LA Comic-Con with our panel LA Transit in Pop Culture. Their discussion touches upon the song "Walking in LA" and the (tired) trope that no one (and only nobodies) walk; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; L.A. Noire; reframing the discussion in Hollywood and pop culture around public transit; and how transit in film reflects our collective hopes and fears about the future.

Special thanks to our videographer and favorite Atomic Polar Bear ⁠Alex Denney⁠.

Kyle's been getting around: K-Town, Atwater, Anaheim. Not just via the beloved E-Line, mind you. We're talking bike, bus, Metrolink, and motorscooter. Links to many of our topics below!

LA Stuff

Westside Repair Cafe

Park Tool HCRW5 Ciclavia

WeHo Pick Up

Metro 460 Disneyland Bus Metrolink Contracts Metrolink Schedules OCTA Bus Schedules

CA Motorcycle Safety Course

National Stuff

SEPTA Funding Crisis

Fun Stuff

Bridging the Expanse: There Are No Small Roles (WonderCon)Diwata KomiksEric on Marketplace: “Is a Car-Free Guy a Care-Free Guy?” Kyle’s Jeff the Mantis Cartoon

Listen as we get our socialism on with transit advocates Anne Marie & Shelby—Lyft is trying to muscle its way in to Metro's bikeshare program and our guests tell us why that's a terrible idea. We touch on Zohran Mamdani's primary victory, bike maintenance, and how to get involved with leftist causes in LA.

@StopLyft

@DSA_LA

DSA-LA's Event Calendar

Metro Board's July 24th Meeting

Metro's Event Calendar

In this special mini-episode, we sit down with labor activist Anne Marie, and transit activist Shelby, for a discussion about the dos and don’ts of protesting during the current regime’s war on public space and the public itself.

How to Stay Safe at a Protest - DSA

Kyle and Eric sit down in the Koreatown Media Lab with Phyllis Ling and Eric Adams — two activists from the Stop the Gondola campaign. They talk about why the Aerial Rapid Transit Technology (ARTT) isn't the mass transit solution it's being pitched as but, upon examination, an enormously costly gadgetbahn and, frankly, more of a Shelbyville idea.

Stop the Gondola's Linktree

L.A.’s Cornfield Row: How Activists Prevailed

PBS Socal Railyard

Oral History

Memo on 3S Gondola Systems

PBS Socal Cornfield

Hollywood Bowl Park & Ride

Kyle and Eric sit down with City Council District 13's Senior Transportation & Infrastructure Deputy, Rogelio Pardo. The conversation touches upon activism, Al Fresco dining, Access to Hollywood, the Department of Transportation, and much more. Plus, Rogelio answers listener questions.

CD 13's Newsletter

FINAL Silver Lake Walk!

Environmental Activism in Final Fantasy VII LA Comic Con Panel

CD 13 (https://cd13.lacity.gov/)

Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Transportation & Mobility Committee (https://www.silverlakenc.org/transportation-and-safety)

MyLA311 -- https://lacity.gov/myla311

Streets are for Everyone (https://www.streetsareforeveryone.org/)

Walkin' About Podcast (https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/walkin-about/)

Linear Parks -- Coulée Verte René-Dumont (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coul%C3%A9e_verte_Ren%C3%A9-Dumont)

Seoullo 7017 (https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%84%9C%EC%9A%B8%EB%A1%9C_7017)
Trash Clubs (https://www.echoparktrash.club/, https://www.instagram.com/losfeliztrashbusters/, https://www.instagram.com/silverlake_trash_club/, and https://www.instagram.com/trash_humans_of_silverlake/)

Los Angeles Comic Con (https://www.comicconla.com/)

West Hollywood Pick-Up Line (https://www.wehopickup.com/)