miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 14 years ago
Colin Marshall talks to Yunte Huang, poet, professor of English at UC Santa Barbara, and author of Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History. In the book, Huang combines a personal narrative of his research into American literature’s most belo...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 14 years ago
Colin Marshall talks to Kevin Kelly, co-founder of and “Senior Maverick” at Wired magazine. In addition to his copious online writing on technology and culture, he’s published such books as New Rules for the New Economy and Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, the Economic Wo...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 14 years ago
Colin Marshall talks to literature professor, psychotherapist, and cultural critic Mikita Brottman, author of The Solitary Vice: Against Reading. In the book, Brottman challenges a host of conventional wisdom and received ideas about the value of reading, especially the reading of "high" literature....
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 14 years ago
AHPS Precipitation (Percent of Normal) For 30 Days Ending November 1, 2010. October was an unusually wet month in coastal Southern California. Many areas recorded more than an inch above normal rainfall, and some as much as 3 inches above normal. In a month where around 0.5 inch is c...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 14 years ago
Colin Marshall talks to documentary filmmaker Nicholas Sherman, director of Soundtracker: A Portrait of Gordon Hempton. Hempton, one of the world’s best-known field recordists, has dedicated his life to traveling the United States and the world to create “sound portraits” of distinctive places. In S...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 14 years ago
In October 2010, the Center for Transit-Oriented Development published a report exploring the role community development finance institutions could play in promoting equitable transit-oriented development. This document is an initial effort to frame the context of TOD and equity, and to enco...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 14 years ago
Colin Marshall talks to film critic David Sterritt, chairman of the National Society of Film Critics and former longtime critic at the Christian Science Monitor. Sterritt’s books, from titles on Jean-Luc Godard and Alfred Hitchcock to more recent ones on B-movies and even the television sitcom The H...
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AHPS Precipitation Totals For the 7-day Period Ending 10/07/10 12z Just a week after Downtown Los Angeles (USC) set a new all time temperature record of 113°F, an unseasonably strong cutoff upper level low set up shop over Southern California, cooling temperatures and producing...
Pierce College / Pierce College - 14 years ago
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines is demanding answers Friday after coaches and teachers failed to cancel a high school cross country meet during extreme heat Thursday afternoon. https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/14984641/2010/10/students-heat-cortines-...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 14 years ago
Colin Marshall talks to John Rabe, longtime public radio personality and host of KPCC’s Off-Ramp, a weekly examination of Southern California and especially Los Angeles. The show’s interviews and field pieces provide, as Rabe puts it, a “pointillist” aural portrait of the city and its surrounding ha...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 14 years ago
Composite Precipitation for Eight Moderate to Strong Transitional La Ninas (Mouse Over Image is Composite Precipitation for 16 La Ninas) Updated October 6, 2010. Replaced 1975 with 2007 in composite of climate division precipitation for eight transitional moderate to strong La Nina...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 14 years ago
Reconnecting America, Enterprise and the National Housing Trust have released a collection of case studies examining what cities are doing to ensure that affordable housing isn't lost as cities pursue transit-oriented development. "Preserving Affordable Housing Near Transit: Case Studies from...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 14 years ago
Colin Marshall talks to Mark Frauenfelder, editor of Make magazine and co-founder the zine which has become the massively popular blog Boing Boing. His latest book, Made By Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World, is the story of his quest to fully customize his life by building, maintainin...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 14 years ago
Colin Marshall talks to blogger, entrepreneur, and liver of the unconventional life Chris Guillebeau. Having written his blog The Art of Non-Conformity: Unconventional Strategies for Life, Work, and Travel for “a small army of remarkable people” since 2008, he’s now the author of a book which expand...
miscellaneous / miscellaneous - 14 years ago
Colin Marshall talks to Jesse Thorn and Adam Lisagor, creators of the new men’s style web series and blog Put This On, which explore all facets of the art of “dressing like a grown-up.” Thorn is also the host of Public Radio International’s The Sound of Young America as well as the comedy podcast Jo...