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Nina Paley - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 04/24/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Animator Nina Paley is one of the most independent of filmmakers.  Her two feature films, Sita Sings the Blues and Seder Masochism, tackle patriarchal themes in religious narratives, and reimagine them from a feminist point of view. A fierce advocate of copyright abo... Read more

Beating Back Big Coal

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  In the wake of the Trump administration’s attempts to revive Big Coal, we rerun a 2018 dialogue between Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Joe Clement about John Sayles' 1987 film Matewan. The interview aired in the wake of the 2018 West Virginia Teachers strike, during which... Read more

Budget Cuts, Portland Police and the Labor Movement

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
A discussion with Portland's union rank-and-file. Kristian Williams, author of "Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America" and forthcoming "Policing the Progressive City" about Portland, leads the discussion.   The cops are worried about Portland City Council. The... Read more

Elaine Pagels, author of Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus

Airs at: Thu, 04/24/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's show, we welcome Elaine Pagels, author of the new book Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus from Doubleday. Elaine is the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Her previous books include Why Religion? ... Read more

Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life

Airs at: Thu, 04/17/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Dan Nadel is an author and curator whose books include It’s Life As a I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940-1980; The Collected Hairy Who Publications; and the recently published Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life, which follows the career and personal life of undergro... Read more

Full Interview | Tracy Molina Discusses Protest Arrests, Police Mistreatment, and the Dangerous State of the County Jail

Airs at: Tue, 04/15/2025 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
  Tracy Molina, also known as Cozca, is a veteran and activist who has faced arrest at numerous protest actions in Portland dating back to 2018. In this interview, she discusses some of those incidents and the actions of police and prosecutors, including violent arrest ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 21, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 04/21/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Assault on the Environment: One of the first executive orders issued by Trump in January was a Whitehouse paper titled "Unleashing American Energy." It promises to restore Am... Read more

Deportation Nation, Part One

Airs at: Mon, 04/21/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Luisa Martinez pursues a wide-ranging discussion with immigration lawyer Daniel Kanstroom about the ideology, history and political economy of immigration in the United States. In part one, they take up the political economy of labor migration, the historical antecedents... Read more

Imago Theatre's Salome

Airs at: Thu, 04/10/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  For well over a century, Oscar Wilde's Salome has been the subject of controversy.  Banned from the British stage for decades, the play has gone on to inspire a wild array of stage and screen adaptations. Now, Imago Theatre Artistic Co-Director Jerry Mouawad is bringin... Read more

Oil For Kisses #47 - Roadrunner Records... What Happened?!

Airs at: Sat, 04/05/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Oil For Kisses
Once at the forefront of extreme metal, Roadrunner Records (see also R/C and Roadracer) was founded in Holland in 1980 and slowly moved through the 80's building quite a brand for releasing quality and timely metal, with bands as notable as Mercyful Fate, Pestilence, Obi... Read more