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Horse

Airs at: Mon, 11/28/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Horse, a 2022 novel by Geraldine Brooks about a great American racehorse and, more importantly, the turning tide of legalized slavery in 1850s America. Journalist turned novelist Brooks brings all of her prodigious talents to this superb hist... Read more

Analog Media - Comics and Comix

Airs at: Thu, 11/10/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Ian Sundahl, Tim Goodyear, and Emily Nilsson are deeply committed to the preservation of physical media — film, video, comics, and underground newspapers. Ian is a cartoonist, filmmaker, curator, and the co-publisher of the Vision Quest free comics newspaper.  His long-... Read more

David Hattner on Portland Youth Philharmonic's 99th Season

Airs at: Thu, 11/10/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
99 years is a long time, for people and orchestras, no matter how popular and well established. So when one or the other reaches that milestone of longevity, it’s cause for both astonishment and celebration. And that’s what we’ll be doing on today’s show for a very popular ... Read more

Federal Recognition of NW Tribes

Airs at: Mon, 11/07/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Celilo Wyam activist Lana Jack and Chinook Vice Chair Sam Robinson speak about the Celilo Wyam and Chinook struggles for federal recognition at an Indigenous Peoples Day event  moderated by Lakota-Cheyenne Mole Roben White. The panelists reflect on the stakes in the struggl... Read more

Dubya Re-Dub

Airs at: Tue, 11/08/2022 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  Vinyl Pajama Party
Return with us, won't you ? To a (somewhat) simpler time. It was election day November of 2004, and this was on your radio... Read more

21 - Behind the Camera with Zoran Popovic

Airs at: Fri, 12/09/2022 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  The Ghost of Hollywood
Alright wall crawlers, it’s time for Season Three right here on The Ghost of Hollywood. To kick things off, Zoran Popovic will join Poxy & Ragan on the show to discuss his career as a cinematographer along with his recent work on movies such as The Munsters, Standoff, Bad ... Read more

Folk Espresso - Gales of November

Airs at: Mon, 11/14/2022 at 5:30am - 7:00am
Produced for:  Folk Espresso
Join hosts Jack Bohl, Gordy Euler and Jonathan lay for the annual Gales of November program. The show features songs of storms and shipwrecks, ranging from the Pacific Northwest, to Newfoundland and beyond, and of course the Great Lakes. Oregon coastal stories in song inclu... Read more

Are more Black books being challenged?

Airs at: Thu, 11/03/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones (2019)  - Banned as part of broad efforts to stamp out "critical race theory” in schools.  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou (1969)  -  Challenged frequently and banned, ostensibly for vulgarity and sexually explicit materi... Read more

Full Interview | Co-Chairs of the Police Accountability Commission

Airs at: Tue, 10/25/2022 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
  This is the full interview with PAC Co-Chairs Faythe Aiken, Lovisa Lloyd and Seemab Hussaini. It was recorded Sunday, October 23, and the edited air date version (with more background information) can be found here.   ### Read more

October 25, 2022 | Interview with Police Accountability Commission Co-Chairs

Airs at: Tue, 10/25/2022 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
  This month we spoke with the co-chairs of the Portland Police Accountability Commission's fact-finding phase. The PAC is a 20-member all-volunteer group that is tasked with creating the new police accountability system demanded by voters in 2020. The fact-finding phase i... Read more