From 2007: Talking media, and magazines in particular, is great sport for me, so imagine my delight when Lisa Granatstein agreed to an interview. Lisa is the managing editor of Mediaweek (now part of Adweek). She’s a brand name in media coverage. Earlier in her career, Lisa was a reporter for Time magazine and an associate editor of its technology spin-off, Time Digital. She’s also worked at US News & World Report, Conde Nast Traveler Online, and she was a stringer for The New York Times metro desk.

From 2010: Alaina Huffman is a double-dipper.When it comes to commanding the hearts and minds of fanboys—and, no doubt, fangirls—the world over, Huffman holds not one but two roles of substantial interest in the TV sci-fi/comic book universe. On The CW’s long-running “Smallville” series—you know, where Clark Kent is no longer a Superboy, but not quite a Superman—she is the Black Canary—the fishnet, leather-clad blonde Green Arrow has stashed on his balcony.

From 2010: It’s a big night for the show’s supporting cast—for no one more so than Grizz Chapman, about whom we’ve made two shocking discoveries: 1) The actor who plays half of Tracy’s entourage undergoes dialysis three times a week for kidney failure, and; 2) His character and Tina Fey’s have a secret, sexual past.

From 2012: On “Worst Week,” Hayes MacArthur played Bornheimer’s perfect brother-in-law – perfectly conniving that is. And on “Perfect Couples,” they were the husbands in two of three couples presented on the show, which was clever, innovative and given up on way too soon. Damn you, network programmers!

From 2009: “The Wicked Wit of the West,” as Groucho called Irving Brecher, lived a long and productive live, starting out writing one-liners for Milton Berle in the 1930s, two Marx Brothers films, punching up the humor in "The Wizard Of Oz," writing and convincing Judy Garland to star in "Meet Me in St. Louis," creating the long running radio and TV sitcom, “The Life of Riley,” and writing the original film version of "Bye Bye Birdie" for Dick Van Dyke and Ann-Margaret.

From 2012: So much has happened in the two years since "30 Rock" star Kevin “Dotcom” Brown first dropped by Mr. Media and said my cool black comedian nickname going forward could be F.O.D. Friend of Dotcom. Unfortunately, no matter how many people I paid to introduce me that way wherever I went, it never caught on. In fact, when Big Kev brought his comedy club tour to Tampa last year and invited me to see the show and hang out after, even he forgot to call me “F.O.D.”

From 2010: Even as Tracy Jordan became more defined as "30 Rock" developed in its first season, the roles of his entourage, Grizz Chapman and Kevin "Dotcom" Brown, were refined and grew distinguished. The twin towers found their niche as brilliant supporting characters, one or the other often defining a scene with a shrug, an eye roll or a gentle quip. They, unlike Tracy—played by Tracy Morgan, of course—were in on the joke with the rest of us.

From 1984: On today's show, I'm reaching back in my archives to April 3, 1984 to share a telephone interview I conducted with seven-time Grammy Award winning jazz singer Al Jarreau. Al passed away in 2017 just short of his 77 birthday; I am sharing this now on what would have been his 78th, March 12, 2018. He was a sweet, gentle soul and a man whom my then roommate, Kathy Harrison, thought was one of the handsomest men in the world. -- Bob Andelman

Rick Smolan, is the co-author of a new coffee table book of searing photography and no equivocating essays called The Good Fight: America's Ongoing Struggle for Justice. It depicts the injustices and victories over injustice experienced by African Americans, Native Americans, Jews, Muslims, women, the LGBTQ community, Latino Americans, Asian Americans and the disabled. I don't know about your American community, but that seems to cover everybody I know.

From 2007: You may be familiar with David Simon’s work. A former Baltimore Sun crime reporter, he is the writer that the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce no doubt loves to hate, having co-authored (with Edward Burns) the Baltimore-based book, "The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner City Neighborhood," and the subsequent HBO series, The Corner, as well as "The Wire," "Treme," and "Homicide: Life on the Street."