Arts/Culture

2025 Pickathon is almost here

Produced for:  KBOO
Big Names and Local Bands are ready to slay at 2025 Pickathon Big-name bands at Portland’s most unique  music festival, 2025 Pickathon, include Portugal. The Man, Taj Mahal, Ocie Elliott, Julien Baker & Torres, and Haley Heynderickx.  But Pickathon (July 31–Aug. 3 at Pen... Read more

Derf - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 01/08/2026 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this 75% longer conversation with graphic novelist Derf Backderf, we dive deeper into Derf's origins as a student journalist; his immersion in Ohio's underground music scene, which inspired the book Punk Rock and Trailer Parks; and his popular alternative comic The... Read more

Portland Japanese Garden

Airs at: Tue, 01/13/2026 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, January 13, 2026, at 11.30 a.m., Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Carolyn Supinka about the show Designing Nature, which is on now at Portland Japanese Garden through February 23, 2026. The show explains the six distinct styles of Japanese gardens that deve... Read more

Gremlin Time

Airs at: Mon, 01/19/2026 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/20/2026 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
All Listeners need to be tucked into bed before tuning in. Read more

The Weather Outside is Frightful

Airs at: Mon, 01/26/2026 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortuno linesup 2 hours of music to for grownups. Dancing Allowed Read more

It's Winter In America

Airs at: Mon, 01/19/2026 at 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Tune in after the MLK Special for an all music program hosyted by Fortunato.  Read more

The Monday Sampler Returns for a Winter Afternnoon

Airs at: Mon, 01/12/2026 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Settle in as host Fortunato presents 2 hours of music for grownups. Featuring, among others, a great line up of guitarists including  Grant Green, John Scofield, Santana, Martin Sewell, Hank Marvin, David Grissome and Kurt Rosenwinkle. Among the featured vocalists will b... Read more

The Spiders: Back (1971); Sergio Mancera: Películas (1993); Lucifer (1974)

Airs at: Fri, 01/09/2026 at 10:00pm - Sat, 01/10/2026 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
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Derf: Remembering Kent State and Jeffrey Dahmer - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 01/08/2026 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  With the deployment of National Guard troops once again in the news, we revisit our August 2021 conversation with graphic novelist Derf Backderf. Derf's graphic novel Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio won the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work.  Inspired by the ... Read more

Book Mole: Low April Sun

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  2025 marked the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by white supremacists that killed 168 people. The novel Low April Sun by Constance E. Squires, reviewed by writer and photographer Matt Witt, is set against that atrocity and show... Read more