Colin Marshall sits down at UCLA with urban planning professor Donald Shoup, author of The High Cost of Free Parking and the man who’s made us aware of the fact that our cities’ problems come not from too little parking, but too much. They discuss the academic tendency to believe, without verification, anything bad about Los […]
Colin Marshall sits down nine stories above Westlake with Jesse Thorn, host of Public Radio International’s Bullseye, proprietor of the Maximum Fun radio and podcast empire, and host of the men’s style web series Put This On. They discuss what it takes for GQ to introduce you as a guy who hates Los Angeles; the points […]
Vital stats: Format: Portland-related gab sessions and interviews Episode duration: 30-38m Frequency: weekly As soon as my feet touch Portland soil, in flood the good vibes. Every time I emerge from a car, plane, or MAX train into the fresh, cool, only slightly moist Portland air, I echo the words of Brigham Young reaching Salt […]
Colin Marshall sits down in Del Rey with David C. Sloane, professor and director of undergraduate programs at the University of California’s Price School of Public Policy and editor of Planning Los Angeles. They discuss the book’s obvious contrarian marketing angle against the widely held idea of Los Angeles as the most chaotic, least planned U.S. […]
Colin Marshall sits down in Lakewood City Hall with D.J. Waldie, author of books like Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir and Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles, collaborator on books like Real City with photographer Marissa Roth, and a 34-year employee of the City of Lakewood as Public Information Officer and Deputy City […]
Colin Marshall sits down in Little Tokyo with novelist Todd Shimoda, author, in collaboration with visual artist L.J.C. Shimoda, of “philosophical mystery” novels with science, engineering, Japanese and Japanese-American themes. His latest, Subduction, follows a disgraced young physician into his four-year exile on a tiny, earthquake-prone, mythology-freighted island off the Japanese coast. They discuss Japan’s […]
Colin Marshall sits down in Barnsdall Art Park with Hollywood Steve Huey, writer and media personality, former critic at All Music Guide and host of the web series Yacht Rock. They discuss his introductions to the likes of Michael Jackson, Yngwie Malmsteen, and Barry Manilow; elements of his home state of Michigan, including Big Rapids […]
Colin Marshall sits down in Silver Lake with Eric Brightwell, proprietor of both Pendersleigh & Sons Cartography, which offers hand-drawn maps of neighborhoods in Los Angeles and beyond (and posts them to Amoeba Music’s Amoeblog), and Brightwell, which offers luxury and craft items to the discerning cosmopolitan gentleman. They discuss the days when Silver Lake […]
Colin Marshall sits down in Silver Lake with comedian, writer, and comedy writer Todd Levin, who’s written for Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, Conan, and the Onion News Network. They discuss using comedy performers as tools; the advantages of being a cipher; deliberately bewildering the audience, listening for reactions […]
Colin Marshall sits down at KPCC headquarters in Pasadena with Tony Pierce, the station’s blog editor, former editor at LAist and blog editor at the Los Angeles Times, and author of the Busblog. They discuss the time when he was the only English-language blogger to ride the bus; the longing for Los Angeles that brought […]