Arts/Culture

Wider Window Poetry with Stephanie Adams-Santos

Airs at: Mon, 03/07/2022 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Produced for: Wider Window Poetry

Airs at: Mon, 02/21/2022 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: The Monday Sampler

The Sampler returns with more music. Read more

Black Cultural Workers and Radical Politics

Airs at: Mon, 02/21/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Black artists of music, song, theater, fiction and poetry have a long association with radical left politics. During the 1940’s and 50s, the socialist sympathies of Black artists like Paul Robeson, Lorraine Hansbury, and Alice Childress turned them into targets of the FBI,... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 21, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 02/21/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Alice Childress, Paul Robeson and Lorraine Hansberry; Illustration by Jonathan Aprea via Wikimedia Commons, NYPL Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Who will own the sun and wind? Today across the planet two fa... Read more

Elizabeth McCracken, from Boston to Austin

Airs at: Thu, 02/17/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

Fiction writer and memoirist Elizabeth McCracken joins us to discuss her latest short story collection, The Souvenir Museum (which is long-listed for the National Book Award in fiction), as well as her novels and thoughts about good writing. Whether writing nonfiction abou... Read more

Buscando America on 02/15/22

Airs at: Tue, 02/15/2022 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Produced for: Buscando America

Art by Bemma Akyeampong. Programa musical dedicado al Black History Month con temas de la Orchestra Baobab, Amadou y Mariam, Afrocubism, Manu Dibango y más. Read more

Film at 11 takes on an impossible mission this week at 10:30 am, Friday, February 25

Airs at: Fri, 02/25/2022 at 10:30am - 11:00am

Produced for: Film at 11

Today we take a look at no less than three recent Criterion Collection films, Hirokazu Kore-eda's 1998 After Life, Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind, with Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone, and The Celebration, Thomas Vintenberg's quasi-dogme epic, each one a variation on fa... Read more

Sun Ra: When Angels Speak of Love, God is More Than Love Can Ever Be, Celestial Love.

Airs at: Mon, 02/14/2022 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Produced for: A Different Nature, All Thrills No Frills: Volume 1, Valentine's Day Music Specials

Airs at: Mon, 02/14/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Last week, Jan Haaken spoke with director AJ Wone about his new documentary DiaTribe, which screened at the opening night of the Cascade Festival of African Films. The film is a loving tribute to Portland-based Oby Addy, Ghanaian drummer and educator who died in 2012. The f... Read more

Remembering Quanice “Moose” Hayes & Sylvia Dollarson

Airs at: Mon, 02/14/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

February 9 marked the fifth anniversary of the murder of 17-year-old Quanice “Moose” Hayes at the hands of Portland Police The event was marked by hourly online screenings of the film Silent Voices, : The film was written by Moose’s grandmother Donna Hayes. We bring audio f... Read more