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December 27th - Playlist Spotlight

Bridget B. here, I really enjoy, listening to and playing for you, international music, which I strive to convey in the first hour of An Evening of Afrotainment.  My professional work as an event producer has taken me to many countries and I always take pause to inhale the ... Read more

Hard Knock Radio

  We feature in-depth interviews and profiles with elected officials, community leaders, activists, Hip Hop artists and musicians. We give voice to community concerns and offer a unique forum to explore issues relevant to the hiphop/urban community. We've covered a variety... Read more

Trans Youth: Issues of Gender Variant Kids & Teens II

Airs at: Mon, 10/20/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Gender Blender
    The second half of the show started with Athens Boys Choir's “The Mourner's Prayer”. Athens Boys Choir—aka the mad rhyming spoken word poet Katz based out of Athens, Georgia began touring in 2003. Now the self-produced, solo perfomer, who identifies as a pansexual trans... Read more

Trans Youth: Issues of Gender Variant Kids & Teens I

Airs at: Mon, 10/20/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Gender Blender
Gender Blender 's co-hosts, Rebecca Nay and Jacob Anderson-Minshall interview Jenn Burleton, founder and executive director of TransActive Education & Advocacy and Cris Beam, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of TransParent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgende... Read more

Guys and Dolls interview on Stage and Studio

Airs at: Thu, 10/09/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
 Dmae Roberts talks with Robert Mammana who plays Sky Masterson and John Plumpis who plays Natan Detoit in the classic musical "Guys and Dolls" at Portland Center Stage.  Read more

Jumped In With Both Feet

Well, I sat in the hot seat last weekend, Saturday, September 27, as I hosted my first music show; filling in for Deena...thanks to Brooke, my partner in crime that night, I wouldn't have gotten through that first hour without you...thanks again.  I'm hoping I can develop a... Read more

Boat Delivers Medecine Against Israeli Blockade

Airs at: Tue, 07/29/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  The Free Gaza movement is a group of international and Palestinian activists working to open the Gaza Strip, an area which is currently under siege by Israeli military forces.The group is currently in Cyprus loading medical supplies onto fishing ships. On Tuesday, they wi... Read more

Wanna Go Dancin'?

Airs at: Fri, 02/08/2008 at 4:00pm
Shane Scheider reads from the tip of the tongue his poem entitled, Wanna Go Dancin'?  You can catch Shane performing his spoken word about Portland and playing music in such projects as Cexfucx, Death Worth Living, Fiasco - Free Improvisation, Mudbow, Portland Bicycle Ensem... Read more

Stage and Studio presents Too Much Coffee Man Opera by Shannon Wheeler and Sometimes a Great Notion at Portland Center Stage.

Airs at: Mon, 04/07/2008 at 5:00pm
On this special membership drive edition of Stage and Studio, Dmae Roberts talks with with Shannon Wheeler & Stacey Murdock from Too Much Coffee Man and Aaron Posner from Somtimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey. And KBOO's SW Conch offers us his behind the scenes look at Too ... Read more

Stage and Studio presents Actors and Activists George Takei and Margaret Cho from the Crossing East series.

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2008 at 5:00pm
On this special membership drive edition of Stage and Studio, Dmae Roberts talks with Actors and Activists George Takei and Margaret Cho from the Crossing East Asian American History series which won the George Foster Peabody award in 2006. George and Margaret talk about... Read more