Author Archive
Ashley Richardson’s Secondhand Sounds profiled in The KCSBeat
This week in the Independent's column on KCSB, The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall profiles programmer Ashley Richardson and her Monday-evening festival of Americana Secondhand Sounds:Ashley Richardson remembers reading Robert Frost at her childhood dinner table. Far from a youthful literary rebellion against the conventions of domestic dining, these [...]
Poodle Radio on film: a car collector fights the forest service and bicycles help the world
First on this week's Poodle Radio, the radio program of the Santa Barbara Independent, Colin Marshall talks to three Santa Barbara filmmakers with documentaries in this year’s Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Michael and Tina Love have made Last Man in Paradise, the story of Paradise Road cabin resident and prolific vintage car [...]
Poodle Radio on the Best of the Film Festival and the Challenges of Lois Capps
First on this week's Poodle Radio, the radio program of the Santa Barbara Independent, Colin Marshall talks to Executive Editor Nick Welsh about his cover story on Representative Lois Capps, who’s gone from notoriously nice to well-known Democratic “800-pound gorilla.” The story deals with the arc of her political career as well as the [...]
The KCSBeat listens to the best of Poodle Radio’s first year
This week in the Independent's column on KCSB, The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall highlights the finest broadcasts in the first year of Poodle Radio, the show of the Santa Barbara Independent:The current version of Poodle Radio, official radio program of the Indy, first broadcast on January 16, 2010. Maybe that’s not quite the right word; while the [...]
Korean film critic Darcy Paquet on The Marketplace of Ideas this Sunday
This week on The Marketplace of Ideas, Colin Marshall talks to Darcy Paquet, film critic and author of New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves. Since 1999, Paquet has maintained the web site Koreanfilm.org as the premiere destination for Anglophone lovers of Korean cinema, which has experienced an unprecedented explosion of creativity and artistry [...]
The KCSBeat listens to the station’s finest casts
This week in the Independent's column on KCSB, The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall finds delightful oddities in KCSB's digital audio library of promos, station identifications, and public service announcements:Carts were like regular audio cassettes in that they contained a reel of tape onto which you could record a song, a commercial, a public service [...]
Book critic David L. Ulin on The Marketplace of Ideas this Sunday
This week on The Marketplace of Ideas, Colin Marshall talks to book critic and former Los Angeles Times book editor David L. Ulin. He's also the editor of several anthologies of Los Angeles writing and the author of The Myth of Solid Ground. His latest book The Lost Art of Reading examines changes in his own and others' style of engagement with [...]
Radio Causeway: Drs. Madin & Warner on Fishing of Predators on Coral Reefs – Dec 14, 2010
Drs. Elizabeth M.P. Madin and Robert Warner stop by Radio Causeway to discuss their team's recently published paper in the December 2010 issue of The American Naturalist titled, Fishing Indirectly Structures Macroalgal Assemblages by Altering Herbavore Behavior. The article discusses the effects the fishing for predators has on coral reef [...]
Radio Causeway: Evan Caleb Yearsley, drummer for Blues Diva, Candye Kane – Dec 7, 201
Evan Caleb Yearsley, drummer for the Blues Foundation Awards Nominee, Candye Kane spends some time with Radio Causeway to discuss SuperHero, tour, and more. Evan is also involved with United By Music, a non profit organization that supports talented people with intellectual and physical disabilities and gives them the chance to perform blues [...]
The Left Lane profiled in The KCSBeat
This week in the Independent's column on KCSB, The KCSBeat, Colin Marshall sits in on The Left Lane, Chelsea Lauwerein's Sunday-afternoon session of surf and psychedelic rock:“I was never one of those teenybopper, Britney Spears types,” she remembered. “I was always like, ‘I want to listen to The Doors!’ Pop is always so peppy. Sometimes [...]
