{"id":562,"date":"2012-04-30T01:10:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T08:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=562"},"modified":"2012-04-30T01:10:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T08:10:23","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s1e18-historic-detente-with-andy-bowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S1E18: Historic D\u00e9tente with Andy Bowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-563\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Andy_Bowers_1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/2012\/04\/Andy_Bowers_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down at NPR West in Culver City with Andy Bowers, Executive Producer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/podcasts.html\"><em>Slate<\/em>&#8216;s podcasts<\/a> and fourth-generation Angeleno. They discuss his status as a &#8220;secret Angeleno&#8221;; 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 joy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/hey_wait_a_minute\/2005\/11\/nobody_bikes_in_la.html\">biking in Los Angeles<\/a>; the city&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2012\/feb\/14\/opinion\/la-ed-bikelane-20120214\">troubled downtown bike lanes<\/a> and what they emblematize about local civic projects; what problems arise when you try to get anything accomplished in a city with 88 distinct municipalities; <em>Roger Rabbit<\/em>, <em>Chinatown<\/em>, and the allure of mythical Los Angeles malice; whether or not you can really move into a Woody Allen movie; his youth in Los Angeles and his return which converted the city from an adolescent one into an adult one; the various placements and interpretations of Los Angeles&#8217; great east-west divide; his time at National Public Radio bureaus in London and Moscow, and the accessibility of those cities&#8217; cultural institutions; his time producing <em>Day to Day<\/em>, and the loss of public radio&#8217;s old eclecticism; podcasting as radio&#8217;s skunkworks, especially in this podcasting Mecca of southern California; podcast listeners connecting with hosts even more than with content; and why Stephen Metcalf stirs so many people up, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from <em>Notebook on Cities and Culture\u2019<\/em>s feed <a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/webpage\/s1e18-historic-d-tente-with-andy-bowers\">here<\/a> or on iTunes <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Photo: Steve McFarland)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down at NPR West in Culver City with Andy Bowers, Executive Producer of Slate&#8216;s podcasts and fourth-generation Angeleno. They discuss his status as a &#8220;secret Angeleno&#8221;; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook-on-cities-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}