Archive for January, 2011

5 Books to Read AFTER Harry Potter

So you finished reading the Harry Potter series and you made sure to watch all the movies – but don’t go back to the grind thinking your tryst into the imagination of your youth is over.  There’s a whole genre of this stuff to keep you in child-like wonder for months to come!  Sarah Lorenz, our GM’s beloved high school semantics and English teacher, has compiled a list of books that will make your lunch hour fantastic (literally).
Of her list, Sarah tells us that: (more…)

5 Things to Love in Venice Beach

by KCRW’s The Treatment guest, Lucy Walker

We just wanted to give the 5 Things blog a different voice for a hot minute, and so we’ve asked a former guest from KCRW’s The Treatment to provide us with her 5 favorite things about Venice Beach. Get to know director, Lucy Walker (Countdown to Zero, Devil’s Playground, Blindsight) and Venice Beach a little better by checking out 5 things to love in Venice Beach, and check out her visit with Elvis Mitchell on KCRW’s The Treatment. (more…)

5 Steps To Becoming an Independent Radio Producer

By Bob Carlson, host of KCRW’s UnFictional

Many of the memorable stories that you’ve heard on KCRW airing on programs like The World, Studio 360, Marketplace, or All Things Considered were created by talented radio producers not affiliated with any one radio station or network. Often times, these are the stories that leave you sitting in your car in the driveway, needing to hear the end. A lot of these stories come from producers working in big cities, but some of the stories with the most distinctive point of view come from people in places like Salt Lake City, Bozeman, Montana, or Woods Hole, Massachusetts. (more…)

5 Essential Books about Los Angeles

By Kevin Roderick, Editor of LA Observed

2010 was a good year for additions to the canon of books about greater Los Angeles – the city itself, plus the metropolis of ten million or so people that live in that sea of lights you see flying into LAX at night. History, architecture and the back story of those people are themes that run through this year’s books. For the discerning Angeleno, here are five books that would add some luster to any shelf. (more…)