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Converge 45

Airs at: Tue, 08/15/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, Aug 15, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Christian Viveros-Fauné and artistic director Portland artist Derek Franklin about Converge 45, a city wide arts festival staring August 24. Will art save Portland? The pair talk about the idea of a bie... Read more

Music for Mid Summer Crazy Fun

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
The Sampler returns with more music, Read more

Peter Brötzmann: Machine Gun, 1968; Balls, 1970; Live in Germany, 1974

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2023 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature
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Boogie Pachanguero presents....... Disco Fever

Airs at: Fri, 08/11/2023 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Boogie Pachanguero
Welcome to the night fever! The air is hot and it is time to dance. The caravan is bringing you a disco expose, to bring you back in time and thrust you into future, through that thumping drive that this only that disco beat knows how to bring out. Get those roller blades,... Read more

Technical difficulties give us a chance to re-air our special Jeff Godsil episode of film at 11 for Friday 11 August 2023

Airs at: Fri, 08/11/2023 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
 It's an All-Jeff episode as we re-air our recent episode with our own Jeff Godsil, who looks at Wuthering Heights, and then revisits Raging Bull. But first, Jeff explains how he tracks down his pictures. Read more

History Mystery and Odyssey

Airs at: Thu, 08/10/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Portland's reputation as a hub for independent animation gains new stature in a documentary from British filmmaker Martin Cooper.  In History, Mystery, and Odyssey, Martin profiles six iconic Portland animators: Rose Bond, Chel White, Joanna Priestley, Jim Blashfield, Jo... Read more

Dian Greenwood, author of About the Carleton Sisters

Airs at: Thu, 08/10/2023 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Dian Greenwood, author of the new novel About the Carleton Sisters from She Writes Press. After studying both writing and counseling psychology in San Francisco, Dian now lives and writes here in Portland, and works as a family therapist. Whic... Read more

Bogart, Bacall and Pee Wee

Airs at: Mon, 08/07/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Returning for another Monday afternoon Fortunato has lined up a lot of music for today.Also featured with be a couple of performances by the recently passed Paul Rubins as Pee Wee Herman. And another episode of Bold Venture with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. In this ad... Read more

Aristeo: Grabaciones nunca transmitidas: Peldaños 1984, en Vivo en el Tec, la Plaza de Toros y el Teatro Cuahutémoc de Nogales y La Danza y La Lluvia

Airs at: Fri, 08/11/2023 at 10:00pm - Sat, 08/12/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
Nuevas grabaciones encontradas y otras nunca transmitidas con Fernando Ochoa en la batería y otras con Heriberto Montes de Oca en la guitarra eléctrica, así como una del grupo Estímulo en La Plaza de Toros de Nogales Sonora abriéndole a los Dug Dug’s; una nueva descubierta ... Read more

Kent Ford and the "The Portland Black Panthers"

Airs at: Thu, 08/03/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
  Portland is  widely regarded as a liberal bastion, and yet the 2010 census found it to be “America’s whitest major city.” Longstanding racial tensions led to the formation of a local branch of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s.  Based in the city’s Albina Distric... Read more