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KCRW DJ Chris Douridas’s December 2010 on-air recovery from a rainy-night Hotel Cafe crash
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Richard Horgan on FishbowlLA, December 2010 In mid-December 2010, KCRW DJ Chris Douridas paused mid-set on his weekly New Ground show to tell listeners he had been in a car accident the night before — on the way home from Hotel Cafe’s tenth-anniversary party. The…
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KCRW UpClose’s October 2010 Matthew Weiner and Alan Ball events at NPR West
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Tina Dupuy on FishbowlLA, September 2010 In late September 2010, KCRW and NPR announced the next two installments of UpClose — their live-event series staged before an intimate audience at NPR West in Culver City. The October 12 event paired The Treatment host Elvis Mitchell…
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Janice Min’s first THR hire was Kim Masters — and the show is still going
By Owen Reyes · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2010) · Wayback archive → The single hire that announced Janice Min’s intention to remake The Hollywood Reporter wasn’t a deputy editor or a publisher — it was Kim Masters, brought in as Editor-At-Large with her KCRW show kept intact. Sixteen years later, that show is…
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I’d like to thank the Academy, and NPR’ — a 2007 Oscar-week thought experiment
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Greg on FishbowlLA, January 2007 In late January 2007, ahead of that year’s Academy Awards, FishbowlLA ran a light Oscar-week thought experiment imagining what an ordinary person might say given the acceptance-speech limelight. The piece was a piece of FBLA-NPR-collaboration whimsy. Then The piece was…