Notebook on Cities and Culture: Episodes
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down in Santa Monica with <a href="http://lesliehelm.com/">Leslie Helm</a>, former Tokyo correspondent for <em>Business Week</em> and the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, editor of <i>Seattle Business</i>, and author of <i>Yokohama ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Los Feliz, Los Angeles with <a href="http://www.josephmailander.com/">Joseph Mailander</a>, who since 1981 has written fiction and poetry as well as political and cultural analysis in the city. His new collection is <i>Days Change at Night: Notes from Los ...
<p><span size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down in Los Angeles' Franklin Hills with Jeff Weiss, music writer for the <em>LA Weekly</em> and many other publications, editor of <a ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Pasadena with journalist Patt Morrison, best known for her "<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-columnist-pmorrison,0,1429581.columnist">Patt Morrison Asks</a>" column in the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, her years hosting <em>Life and Times</em> and <em>Bookshow ...
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down in Glassell Park with comedian and man of cinema <a href="http://thatchrisgore.tumblr.com/">Chris Gore</a>, who has talked movies on such television shows as <i>The X Show</i>, <em>The New Movie Show with Chris Gore</em>, and <em>Attack ...
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down above Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles with Tyson Cornell, proprietor of <a href="http://www.rarebirdbooks.com/">Rare Bird Books</a> and <a href="http://www.rarebirdlit.com/">Rare Bird Lit</a>, former longtime Director ...
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City's Colonia Condesa with <a href="http://gabrielajauregui.net/">Gabriela Jauregui</a>, writer, poet, and co-founder of the publishing collective <a href="http://surplusediciones.org/">sur+</a>. They discuss her childhood ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City's Colonia Condesa with Juan Carlos Cano and Paloma Vera, founders of the architecture and urbanism practice <a href="http://www.canovera.com/">CANO | VERA</a>. They discuss how everything in Mexico City's built environment exists "behind," being interesting ...
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City's Colonia Roma with Nicholas Gilman, author of the book and blog <em><a href="http://goodfoodmexicocity.blogspot.com/">Good Food in Mexico City: Fondas, Food Stalls, and Fine Dining</a></em>. They discuss the culinary importance ...
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City's Colonia Roma with novelist and essayist Brenda Lozano, author of the <em>Todo Nada</em> and <a href="http://www.letraslibres.com/autores/brenda-lozano">contributor to </a><em><a href="http://www.letraslibres.com/autores/brenda-lozano">Letras ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City's Colonia Condesa with <a href="http://www.kurthollander.com/">Kurt Hollander</a>, photographer, filmmaker, magazine editor, and author of <em>Several Ways to Die in Mexico City: An Autobiography</em>. They discuss his microbiologically informed view of life; ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Mexico City's Colonia Roma with Diego Rabasa, co-founder of <a href="http://www.sextopiso.com/">Sexto Piso</a> press. They discuss why this might make for the most exciting moment in Mexican, or even Spanish-language, literature; Mexico's past era of invincible intellectual ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Echo Park, Los Angeles with <a href="http://www.japanamericabook.com/">Roland Kelts</a>, lecturer at the University of Tokyo, co-editor of the literary journal <em>A Public Space</em>, and author of the book <em>Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop Culture Has Invaded the U.S.</em> ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Silver Lake, Los Angeles with Vincent Brook, teacher at UCLA, USC, Cal State Los Angeles, and Pierce College, and author of books on Jewish émigré directors and the Jewish sitcom as well as the new <em>Land of Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles</em>. ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Westwood, Los Angeles with <a href="http://www.kevinsmokler.com/">Kevin Smokler</a>, author of <em>Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven't Touched Since High School</em>. They discuss what makes him think of Holden Caulfield as a Bing user; why we ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Santa Monica with Clive Piercy, founder and principal of design studio <a href="http://www.airconditionedla.com/">air-conditioned</a> and author of the photo book <em>Pretty Vacant</em>, an appreciation of Los Angeles "dingbat" apartments. They discuss Reyner Banham's enduring ...
<p><span class="Apple-style-span"> Colin Marshall sits down in Nishinomiya, Japan with translator, writer, and former <em>Kansai Time Out</em> editor Christopher Stephens. They discuss whether higher Japanese skills get a foreigner more suspicion; the nearby presence and touristic effects ...
<p>Colin Marshall sits down overlooking greater Kyoto on Mt. Ogura with Stephen Gill, poet, BBC radio scriptwriter, and executive director of <a href="http://www.ptogura.org/">People Together for Mt. Ogura</a>. They discuss the mountain's place in a traditional Japanese poetry card game; how, after scores ...
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down in Los Angeles' Koreatown with filmmaker Rob Montz, director of <em><a href="http://www.juchestrong.com/">Juche Strong</a></em>, a short documentary about North Korea and its propaganda. They discuss reaching the same age as Kim Jong-un ...
<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Colin Marshall sits down near Nara, Japan's Tōdai-ji temple with artist, critic, and teacher <a href="http://flavors.me/standardgrey">Christopher Olson</a>. They discuss his thoughts, as a Winnipegger born and raised, on Guy Maddin's <i>My Winnipeg</i>; the ...