Arts and Culture

The Burned Piano

Airs at: Tue, 04/30/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, Jan. April 29, 2024, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Bonnie Melzer and musician Jennifer Wright about The Burned Piano, which is on show at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.  They talk about the antisemitic firebomb th... Read more

Music for a Cloudy Day

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Lots of Jazz and Rack'n Roll for an overcast Monday in the Rose City. Read more

Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 04/25/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  As part of the 20th anniversary commemoration of Words and Pictures, we revisit our October 2018 conversation with Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore.  Ezra and Ben grew up loving comics and science fiction, and have expanded both genres to address pressing issues of ... Read more

Kesha Ajose-Fisher, author of No God Like the Mother (re-broadcast)

Airs at: Thu, 04/25/2024 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
Jonesy has a cold today and it appears to be contagious. So we’re re-broadcasting a favorite episode from last year. It’s an interview with Kesha Ajose-Fisher, author of the story collection No God Like the Mother from Portland’s Forest Avenue Press. Kesha was my first inte... Read more

For Friday May 3, Film at 11 surveys more films, books, and streaming old and new

Airs at: Fri, 05/03/2024 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
  Mona returns to discus more TV shows, movies, and a new book. • Film The Fall Guy   • Film Abigale   • TV show  Mary & George   • TV show Dead Boy Detectives   • Book Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions     Read more

Margot Voorhies Thompson

Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Margot Voorhies Thompson. Thompson talks about her show Letters from a Remote Landscape which is on show at Russo Lee Gallery through April 27.  Thompson talks about her love of going into the Sout... Read more

For Friday, 26 April, 2024, we get some details look at two films from Jeff, and at Rushmore

Airs at: Fri, 04/26/2024 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
    • Jeff on Ghost World.   • Jeff on The Fog of War.   • The new British Film Institute monograph on Wes Anderson's Rushmore.   ________________________________________________________     Famously, film writer David Thomson dismissed Wes Anderson in one short se... Read more

Tessa Hulls - Feeding Ghosts - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 04/11/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation with Feeding Ghosts author Tessa Hulls, we spend an extra 20 minutes digging into the story of her family's struggles and of a graphic memoir nine years in the making. Feeding Ghosts is a sprawling saga of survival and madness and love, seen... Read more

Queery

Dive into the spectrum of queer music as we explore known and unknown artists across time and genre; from the history of early twentieth century blues and jazz to modern pop, folk, electronic, indie music and more. Queery showcases music created by members of the 2SLGBTQIA+... Read more

Music for Spring Cleaning on the Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 04/15/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Another Monday afternoon, another week and more music on the Sampler. Featured on today's show, King Curtis, Tina Turner, The Mills Brothers, Stan Getz Blossum Dearie, Anat Cohen, Sergio Mendes and Brazill '66, Samatha Fish, Rufus Thosmas, Oscar Peterson, Tom Jones, Laura N... Read more