Author Archive
The KCSBeat returns to the graveyard schedule
This week in the Independent's column on KCSB, The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall tunes in once again to the hours between midnight and 6 a.m. in search of the most fascinating radio experimentation this station has to offer:Monday, 2 a.m. Who could resist a show called Beethoven by the Beach? KCSB having had few classical programs in recent years, I [...]
Poodle Radio on adventurous outdoor film and innovative senior communities
First on this week's Poodle Radio, the radio program of the Santa Barbara Independent, Colin Marshall talks first to Seana Strain, tour coordinator of the 35th Annual Banff Mountain Film Festival, which has brought the best of this year’s crop of outdoor, extreme sports, and environmental films to the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara. Then in [...]
Rebecca Redman’s Jody Fester’s Army profiled in The KCSBeat
This week in the Independent's column on KCSB, The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall profiles programmer Rebecca Redman and her female-driven punk and hardcore hour Jody Fester's Army, as well as her previous on-air projects:“There hasn’t been a KCSB show like this,” she said. “Women are underrepresented in the punk scene. Punk is sometimes [...]
Novelist, critic, and modernism enthusiast Gabriel Josipovici on The Marketplace of Ideas this Sunday
This week on The Marketplace of Ideas, Colin Marshall talks to Gabriel Josipovici, author of many novels and critical essays involved with the aesthetics and techniques of modernism. In his latest book, What Ever Happened to Modernism?, he traces modernism's roots further back in history than perhaps any other scholar of modernism has done [...]
Radio Causeway: Ritz Sound! Gibb Schreffler, PhD – Feb 22, 2011
The Ritz Sound System rolls into Radio Causeway! Gibb Schreffler PhD is an ethnomusicologist and an Adjunct Lecturer in Punjabi Language in the Department of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Dr. Schreffler is also the man behind the Ritz Sound System. Specializing in Jamaican music/reggae, Ritz Sound System will share some [...]
Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum on The Marketplace of Ideas this Sunday
This week on The Marketplace of Ideas, Colin Marshall talks to Jonathan Rosenbaum, former Chicago Reader film critic, advocate of international cinema, and author of books on Orson Welles, Abbas Kiarostami, and Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man. In his latest, Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition, he examines the way serious [...]
KCSB Reads: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
As UCSB Reads celebrates its 5th year, KCSB will be hosting a series of on-air readings of Rebecca Skloot's award-winning book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The book tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor Southern tobacco farmer whose cells transformed modern medicine, though neither Lacks nor her descendants were made aware of her [...]
Poodle Radio on S.B. black history and high school filmmaking
Poodle Radio on S.B. black history and high school filmmaking. First on this week's Poodle Radio, the radio program of the Santa Barbara Independent, Colin Marshall talks first to Christine Simms, longtime Santa Barbara resident and one subject of Senior Editor Matt Kettman's story on Black History Month. Then, Indy intern Avery Hardy brings in [...]
Radio Causeway: Rob Fredericks of Common Ground Santa Barbara – Feb 8, 2011
The South County Co-Leader of Common Ground Santa Barbara and the Deputy Executive Director for the Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara, Rob Fredericks stops by Radio Causeway to talk about the efforts of Common Ground Santa Barbara's Registry Week, which begins February 27th. Registry Week will locate homeless in the county and [...]
Conversational Reading blogger and Quarterly Conversation editor Scott Esposito on The Marketplace of Ideas this Sunday
This week on The Marketplace of Ideas, Colin Marshall talks to critic Scott Esposito, blogger of Conversational Reading, editor of The Quarterly Conversation, and marketing coordinator at the Center for the Art of Translation. A lover and promoter of today's most interesting fiction, Esposito writes about fiction at the intersection of the [...]
