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John Frame - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 06/14/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation with artist and animator John Frame, we learn more about his design work for Charles Gounod's Faust, a co-production of Portland Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago.  John talks about his fascination with the centuries-old characters of Doct... Read more

Vera Starbard + Our Voices

Airs at: Tue, 06/19/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae features Alaska Native Playwright Vera Starbard and her play Our Voices Will Be Heard that was first produced at Perseverance Theatre and adapted into a radio play by Native Voice One. The play focuses on the journey of a mother and daughter and infuses Alaska Na... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Daniel Peabody about the sculptor Lee Kelly

Airs at: Tue, 06/19/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, June 19, 2018, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Daniel Peabody about the sculptor Lee Kelly, whose show Lee Kelly: Six Decades is on now at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery Peabody talks about how Portland legend Kelly, age 86, still does much of his own ... Read more

Valley Of The Lost by Robert E. Howard

Airs at: Mon, 06/18/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 06/19/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Valley of the Lost, a short story by Robert E. Howard, is one of the first weird westerns that combines elements of  fantasy adventure within the setting of the wild west.  John Reynolds is the last surviving member of his family , after a deadly ambush due to a longstan... Read more

What The Festival?! Retrospective

Airs at: Fri, 06/15/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
  We were extremely blessed to have 6 phenomenal years of What The Festival here in the NW, such an incredibly ingenious and innovative event, there had been NOTHING like it before and nothing will ever come close to replicating this uniquely immersive and entertaining ... Read more

Tonight I'm Somone Else

Airs at: Thu, 07/19/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Chelsea Hodson probes her own desires to examine where the physical and the proprietary collide. She asks what our privacy, our intimacy, and our own bodies are worth in the increasingly digital world of liking, linking, and sharing. Starting with Hodson’s own work ex... Read more

Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War

Airs at: Thu, 06/21/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  A revelatory and necessary read on one of the most destructive wars of our time . . . In great personal detail, Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple poignantly capture the tumultuous life in Syria before, after, and during the war—from inside one young man’s consciousnes... Read more

Motherhood

Airs at: Thu, 06/14/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international acclaim and made How Should A Person Be?... Read more

John Frame - Faust and Mephistopheles

Airs at: Thu, 06/14/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Sculptor, composer, and animator John Frame last talked with S.W. Conser in 2012, when the Portland Art Museum hosted his exhibition Three Fragments of a Lost Tale.  Now, Frame has returned as production designer for Charles Gounod's Faust, a co-production of Portland... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Steve Poltz

Airs at: Wed, 06/06/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
If you’d like a break from the whole Rose Festival thing this weekend, globetrotting singer/songwriter Steve Poltz will be in Portland to play the Old Church on Sunday, June 10th. Steve’s been recording and performing solo, just him and a guitar, since 1998. But he star... Read more