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C&B 10

Airs at: Mon, 01/28/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for The Melting Pot
  This week on The Melting Pot we touch base with a Benefit that has been going on for a decade called "COVERS and BLANKETS 10" Well hear from the founder Christian Parkinson about its inception, evolution and what you can do now and throughout the year. Stay up to date wi... Read more

David Lin Interview

Airs at: Thu, 11/15/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Between Us
David Lin is a Chinese American businessman in Corvallis, OR. In 2012, he commissioned a mural on the side of his business that highlighted Chinese abuses in Tibet. That act prompted threats on his life by Chinese agents, coercion by Chinese authorities and diplomatic discu... Read more

Paul Bracken Interview

Airs at: Thu, 11/15/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Between Us
Paul Bracken is an academic at Yale University with a warning; nukes are back. In his book, "The Second Nuclear Age," Bracken says profileration, political instability overseas, an outdated American arms control policy and improved technology is making the possibility of a ... Read more

Jon Schwartz Interview

Airs at: Thu, 11/15/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Between Us
New York Times writer Jon Schwartz and his wife Jean suspected that their son Joe might be a little different from other toddlers.  By the time his wife was hiding his sister's Barbies so Joe wouldn't take them to school, they knew their son was probably gay.  Thus began th... Read more

New CDs in music library September 19, 2012

  Beats Antique Contraption v. II Antique Cars And Trains We Are All Fire Fake Four Cat Power Sun Matador David Byrne and St Vincent ... Read more

Occupy Portland Radio Air Broadcast 08/15

Airs at: Wed, 08/15/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Occupy Portland Radio
"End the Camping Ban" Vigil Block Party at Alicia Jackson's Police Piece: Foreclosure in North Portland "Occupy This Album" Lindsey Walker Interview & Music Read more

48 Hour Film Project

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for The Monday Sampler
The 48 Hour Film Project will be happening this weekend here in Portland. 25 groups will have a genre selected for them at random and then will have 48 hours to write a script, video record actors, in costume and make up,  performing it, and then the raw footage will be edi... Read more

trek in the Park Interview

Airs at: Mon, 08/06/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett came by the studio to fill us in on Trek in the Park, live performances of scripts from the original Star Trek TV series present in Cathedral Park each Saturday and Sunday throughout August at 5pm. We talked about the performances, the audience... Read more

Writers on Craft: Anthony Doerr

Airs at: Mon, 05/21/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Writers on Craft
Anthony Doerr is the author of four books, The Shell Collector, About Grace, Four Seasons in Rome, and, most recently, Memory Wall. Doerr’s short fiction has won four O. Henry Prizes and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The Anchor Book of New Americ... Read more