Colin Marshall sits down in an undisclosed Hollywood-ish location with Mark “Frosty” McNeill, co-founder and creative captain of the internet radio “future roots music” collective Dublab. They discuss founding an internet radio station in 1999, when everything sounded like a tin-can phone; the nature of future roots, where the very old meets the very new, […]
Colin Marshall sits down at NPR West in Culver City with Andy Bowers, Executive Producer of Slate‘s podcasts and fourth-generation Angeleno. They discuss his status as a “secret Angeleno”; what it takes to introduce microphones into entertaining conversations without things getting tiresome; the difference between podcasts as podcasts and podcasts as imitation radio; discovering the […]
Colin Marshall takes a trip to the 99¢ Only Store and beyond with Billy Vasquez, better known as the 99 Cent Chef. They discuss the store as a prime venue for peoplewatching (whether the people dress in their Sunday best or in pink-striped miniskirts); the appeal of midcentury Googie diner architecture; how he drove out […]
Colin Marshall sits down in West Hollywood with Michael Silverblatt, host of the literary interview program Bookworm from KCRW in Santa Monica since 1989. They discuss how he’s managed to host a book show for so long “in Los Angeles, of all places;” the near-racist tradition of New York writers savaging Los Angeles in the […]
Colin Marshall walks through Larchmont with Molly McAleer, co-founder of HelloGiggles and writer for CBS’ Two Broke Girls. They discuss the definition of internet fame, especially when one’s internet debut comes in a photo funneling a beer; whether moving to Los Angeles after graduating from the disappointingly party-free Boston College counts as a betrayal of […]
Colin Marshall sits down in downtown Los Angeles with Pico Iyer, writer about place — both our dreams of it and its realities. They discuss his new book The Man Within My Head; how best to introduce Graham Greene’s The Quiet American to new readers; how he started a book on being a pleasantly bewildered […]
Colin Marshall sits down in Atwater Village with comedy writer and music video director Scott Jacobson, who has written for programs like The Daily Show, Squidbillies, and Bob’s Burgers, and made videos for artists like Nick Lowe, Superchunk, and The National. They discuss the comedic style of George Herriman’s Krazy Kat and whether a place […]
Colin Marshall sits down in Westwood with William Flesch, professor at Brandeis University and author of Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction. They discuss José Saramago’s way with obscure Biblical episodes; literary Darwinism and its discontents; why and how we get concerned with what happens to fictional characters at all; […]
Colin Marshall sits down in Larchmont with comedy writer Megan Ganz, who’s written for the Onion and Important Things with Demetri Martin, and now writes for NBC’s Community. They talk about easing her transition from New York to Los Angeles with the Coen Brothers’ Barton Fink; Los Angeles as an unfurnished apartment to New York […]
Colin Marshall sits down in Santa Monica with Wade Major, senior film critic at Boxoffice, co-host of IGN’s Digigods, and regular participant on KPCC’s Filmweek. They discuss what Sucker Punch represents the coagulation of; whether it is a greater crime for Zack Snyder to make Zack Snyder movies sincerely, or for Zack Snyder to make […]