Arts/Culture

Autumn Settles in

Airs at: Mon, 11/01/2021 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
As the temerature cools and the leaves are blown from the trees The Sampler returns with more music and suprises. Today we'll check in with John Goodman in Los Angeles about the resent Writers of the Future Achievement Awards. Read more

Bill Griffith - Beyond Zippy

Airs at: Thu, 10/28/2021 at 11:30am - 12:30pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  In this followup to our 2019 interview with underground comics legend Bill Griffith, we talk more about his remarkable 50-year career as an underground artist, helping kickstart the underground comics movement of the 1960's with his mashups of pop culture and surrealism,... Read more

Art Talk Bus Stop: October Youth TBA Special

Airs at: Wed, 10/27/2021 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Art Talk Bus Stop
This month we turn the microphones around on the students. They share their experiences with arts education, and we enjoy a TBA Festival report from Reynolds High School alum and artist Viktoria Moskalenko. Produced by Erica Thomas @ericameryl Design: worksprogressagency.c... Read more

Interview with Kurtis Blow on the Hip Hop Nutcracker

Airs at: Mon, 10/25/2021 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for Evening News, News In Depth
  A fusion of classical and hip-hop, Tchaikovsky’s 129-year-old ballet is reimagined as a holiday dance spectacular in The Hip Hop Nutcracker, hitting the road for a seventh season, with a stop at Portland’s Keller Auditorium.  The production features hip hop pioneer Kurt... Read more

Amanda Bullock previews the Portland Book Festival

Airs at: Thu, 10/28/2021 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Jonesy
Today on Jonesy, we preview the upcoming Portland Book Festival with Amanda Bullock, Director of Public Programs at Literary Arts. The festival, which started out in 2005, has become an annual tradition here in Portland. And our preview with Amanda has become an annual trad... Read more

Gregory Grenon

Airs at: Tue, 10/26/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Art Focus
 Aurora Josephson Interviews Gregory Grenon about his personal revolution and moving out west in 1976, working at Landfall Press and teaching himself how to paint on reverse glass, in the first episode of the Outsider’s Corner on Art Focus.  Read more

A Scary Story for The End of Summer!

Airs at: Mon, 10/25/2021 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Classic Hollywood Movie Actor Robert Taylor stars in this eerie radio play "The House in Cyprus Canyon", orginally broadcast in 1946. Also starring , Cathy Lewis and Hans Conried. A young couple are setting up in a new house. They discover that one closet can't be opened by... Read more

29 Cañonazos Bailables - Vol. Afrocaribe

Airs at: Sun, 10/24/2021 at 4:00pm - 6:00pm
A tour between the Colombian Caribbean coast and the Caribbean Islands, with layovers in Nigeria, Gambia, and Senegal. Tune in to have a great time dancing to Champeta, Cumbia, Porro, Reggaeton, Hip Hop, Salsa Merengue, and Soukous! Read more

Wider Window Poetry with Assorted Poets

Airs at: Mon, 11/01/2021 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for Wider Window Poetry
A variety of poets reading their own work. Read more

Afrobeats, Reggae and Marimba music

Airs at: Sun, 10/24/2021 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
Welcome to our special marathon, from our musical hearts to your blessed audience!! Let's start with some modern sounds of our African ancestry. We are travelling from the Pacific coast of South America on the marimba, then hopping across the Caribbean on the reggae wave, a... Read more