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Aminder Dhaliwal - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 11/11/2021 at 11:30am - 12:45pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  As the Portland Book Festival recovers from the Covid pandemic, we welcome the return of Aminder Dhaliwal, whose new book Cyclopedia Exotica grew out of a serialized online comic, just like her earlier book Woman World. Aminder has worked as a storyboard director for the... Read more

Shawn Levy, author of A Year in the Life of Death

Airs at: Thu, 11/11/2021 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
Today on Jonesy, we welcome Shawn Levy, author of the new book of poems A Year in the Life of Death, from Portland’s University of Hell Press. Inspired by an obituary for Adele Mailer in the New York Times, Shawn decided to write 100 poems based on obits published in the Ti... Read more

Dystopias new and old are the order of the day this week on Film at 11, for Friday 12 November, 2021

Airs at: Fri, 11/12/2021 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Among new movies is  Britta Gordon on El planeta, and Jeff Godsil describing Cecil B. de Mille's The Sign of the Cross, with Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time re-visiting The Man in the White Suit, and in the book corner, a new monograph on Tarkovsky's Stalker.      –––––––... Read more

David Hattner previews Portland Youth Philharmonic's 98th season opener

Airs at: Thu, 11/04/2021 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
Many of the in-person events we look forward to every year in Portland were canceled last year, or went online, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately, we have a very effective vaccine now, and hope for the future of live events. Several of my favorites, maybe yours too,... Read more

Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience

Airs at: Tue, 11/02/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday November 2, 2021, Joseph Gallivan interviews Fanny Curtat about “Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience,” which opens at the Oregon Convention Center on November 19. “Beyond Van Gogh” leads viewers through giant projections and animations of Vincent Van Gogh’s... Read more

Newbery Honor-winning author Renée Watson discusses The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

Airs at: Thu, 11/04/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
      In the Authors Note,  Watson and Hannah-Jones state their intention to “show that Black Americans have their own proud origin story, one that does not begin in slavery, in struggle, and in strife but that bridges the gap between Africa and the United States of America... Read more

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

Buscando America on 10/26/21

Airs at: Tue, 10/26/2021 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En esta transmisión escuchamos al Dr. Emilio DeBess , la Dra. Ruth Zúñiga Psicóloga y a Vicky Falcón Vázquez de Oregon Health Authority OHA en Español con avisos importantes sobre como cuidarnos en estos días festivos de Halloween y Días de Muertos y sobre como sobre llevar... Read more