Welcome to our vault of PORTABLE UNIVERSE episodes! We're proud to share our off-beat, off-the-beaten-track television content with you. Click and view from the menu on the right and find a vibrant variety of live music, raw poetry, live painting, photographic studies, and many other arts, culture, and life subjects we love shedding light on.
We're a public-access television show transmitting out of Long Beach, California. Our first show aired in 1999, and, scores of episodes later, we're enjoying a resurgence. We invite you to stay tuned regularly for new episodes. Also, please enjoy our video documentaries Neon Hunting and Tiki Hunters (click below). Both are accompanied by feature articles written by Theo Douglas and published in the Long Beach Press-Telegram, from which you can learn about the show's creator, David Witham, and his frequent collaborator, Matt Cohn.
There's a Portable Universe inside your dome, always take it with you when you leave home!
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Bill Alves American Gamelan play two Elegies -
Eclipse Quartet plays Carrot Revolution & The Negro Speaks of Rivers -
The Smudges play two selections from Song and Call -
Wax & Wane - The final days of Movieland -
Dwight Trible and friends remember Oscar Brown Jr. -
Alex and Nels Cline at the Moss Theatre 01.13.18 -
Witham / Gauthier / Wisdom at Ernie Wolfe Gallery -
Jodi Siegel sings of Blues and BBQ -
The Art of Plasma -
Neon Hunter Collective with Norton Wisdom -
The Tierney Sutton Band plays 'Driven to Tears' -
Alex Cline - 'Oceans of Vows' EPK -
Welcome to the Jungle: The Forgotten Tale of Long Beach's Oceanfront Slum -
Mocean Worker previews his new album -
Front-Porch Americana with Bearcoon -
Nels Cline and friends play the music of Andrew Hill -
Long Beach Noir - The Mystery of the Smog Shop Hearse -
Neon Hunter walks us through the Doors -
Music with Lakin -
The surreal tableau that is the NAMM Show -
Alex Cline - For People in Sorrow -
Eric Johnson - The Maize Project -
The Eclipse Quartet @ MONA -
Lou Mannick plays the saw -
Ralph Glenmore - Visions of a Traveler -
Neon Hunt #10 - San Francisco Neon -
Richard Stekol - solo -
Purple Gums - Improvisation as a Subversive Act -
The Music of Many Axes -
Best of the Universe - The Art of the Photo Essay -
Candice Gawne -Seeing in the Dark -
Grossman / Vlatkovich / Garcia - Call and Response -
The Music of Polychrome -
Luis Conte and Friends - Rumbon -
Cultural Grab Bag - Spring '08 -
A tribute to Dan Morris -
Episode 100 Part 1 -
Episode 100 Part 2 -
Julie Christensen and Stone Cupid Part 1 -
Julie Christensen and Stone Cupid Part 2 -
A tribute to MONA -
DW & Frig host the Best of Cryptonight 2003-05 -
The Artwork of Candice Gawne -
Music on Found Objects by the Obliteration Percussion Quartet -
Jennifer Bowens & the Jazz Poetry Collective make their point perfectly clear -
The Crescent City Gone Wild @ Mardi Gras 2001 -
Norton Wisdom & Nels Cline mix up the visual and sonic -
Michael O' Neill and friends get down to business -
The Indoor Funk Ensemble in the middle of a Timeswitch -
Low Riders! -
Frigidaire makes his point using subtle visual aids -
Mike Miller and DW work out on Episode # 1 -
Build something, cook something, and have a little taste with Greg Eicher -
Neon Hunt #11 - "In Search of the Magic Lamp" -
Poul Pedersen and the Missiles of October go Back to the Basics -
The Tom Warrington Trio featuring Larry Koonse and Joe La Barbera -
Phil Upchurch plays and speaks -
Portable Universe REALITY TV - Melvin and the Flying Boat -
Adwin Brown - Ice Cream -
Richard Stekol - Comedy, or Reality? -
Jay Anderson - 'Will Call' -
Capoeira in Bellflower -
Music and History with Mexika -
Chucho Valdes Piano Clinic