Arts and Culture

Review of PIFF's "Watching the Rhino"

We're heading into the final phase of the Portland International Film Festival, which closes this coming Saturday, the 21st. Two of tonight's films are a fair representative of the scope of PIFF. First is Milking the Rhino (6:30 at the Broadway 3), David E Simpson's docume... Read more

Whitebird Dance and Arts Econ Stimulus package

Airs at: Tue, 02/17/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Dmae Roberts talks with the founders of Whitebird Dance, Walter Jaffe and Paul King join us to fill us in on the rest of the season including the Trey Mcintire Project. And in the second half of the show we have another feature story from Frank Reynolds about the economic ... Read more

"Perfection" and "Facets of Africa" at IFCC +Cascade Fest of African Film

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Host/Producer Dmae Roberts talks with Drammy-award-winning Actor/Director Brenda Phillips about "Perfection" by Helen Hill. Joined by her actors Josh Bellville and Andrea White, we learn about the little known history of forced sterilizations in Oregon. Also Adrienne Flag... Read more

Bill Foster and Portland International Film Festival

Airs at: Thu, 02/05/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Host/Producer Dmae Roberts talks with Bill Foster, executive director of Northwest Film Center who gives us some best picks with film clips of the Portland International Film Festival. Featured films include Coraline, the animated stop-action film made in a studio in Hillsb... Read more

Behind the Screen: African Film Fest and Coraline premiere

Airs at: Wed, 02/04/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Behind the Screen

Behind the Screen is a new radio program covering independent filmmakers along with local screenings and festivals. In this pilot episode, Toni Tabora-Roberts gets a preview of the Cascade Festival of African Films from co-director Mary Holmstrom, and S.W. Conser talks wit... Read more

Henry Selick: Coraline's 'Other Father'

Airs at: Wed, 02/04/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Words and Pictures

Stop-motion animator Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) spent more than three years bringing the Neil Gaiman story Coraline to the big screen. On the eve of Coraline's world premiere at the Portland International Film Festival, Selick sits down with S.W. Conser ... Read more

Black History Month Musings

Airs at: Mon, 02/02/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

Co-hosts Hosts Emma Ford and Patricia Welch share books and Black History Month local activities . Also discuss the significance of this month to African-Americans. Read more

Portland Opera's "Turn of the Screw"

Airs at: Mon, 01/26/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Host/Producer Dmae Roberts features "Turn of the Screw” written by Henry James is one of the most haunting classic novels of the 19th century. Portland Opera is mounting a magnificent production with music by Benjamin Britten on Feb. 6th complete with a chamber orchestra an... Read more

Art Spiegelman: Breakdowns

Airs at: Mon, 01/26/2009 at 12:00am

Produced for: Words and Pictures

For the first time in three decades, Pulitzer prize-winning graphic novelist Art Spiegelman (Maus) has gathered his early groundbreaking comics into one volume. The new edition of Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! includes a new graphic memoir opening a w... Read more

"Frankie and Johnny" with Antonio Sonera and Fertile Ground Festival with Trisha Panco

Airs at: Thu, 01/15/2009 at 4:00pm

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Dmae Roberts talks with Antonio Sonera, director of "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" by Terrence McNally at CoHo Productions. In the second half, Trisha Panco fills us in on all the events at the Fertile Ground Festival which includes world premieres all over Port... Read more