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Review of Morning Glory, now open (11/10/10)

Morning Glory Director: Roger Michell With: Rachel McAdams, Diane Keaton, Harrison Ford, Jeff Goldblum, Patrick Wilson, John Pankow In the first episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mary interviews with Lou Grant.  Grant has a frozen smile all through it, then tells her ... Read more

02/27/14 episode of Pandæmonium

02/27/14 episode of Pandæmonium is up Chapter XII: Jejune Knackish Libertinage episode information playlist download Read more

Stage and Studio Membership Edition May 5th

On tomorrow's (Tues, May 8th 11-1130am) membership edition of Stage and Studio, I'll be featuring Artists Repertory Theatre's "Three Sisters" which got a new adaption from Pulitzer Finalist Tracy Letts. I'll be talking with the always brilliant Jon Kretzu and two sisters... Read more

New Music in the KBOO Library

Yvonne Washington with Gary Norian - Trust in Me 2CELLOS (Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser) - 2CELLOS Arnold McCuller - Soon As I Get Paid Disappear Fear - Get Your Phil Joe D'Amico - Asleep in My Shoes JC Stylles - Exhilaration & Other States Pat Donohue - Nobody's Fault Guy Cla... Read more

Food For Thought And Action: Springboard Social Innovation Forum

Listen to Radiozine on Tuesday, November 11th at 10:00 a.m. My guests will be Amy Pearl, Executive Director of Springboard Innovation and Katherine Ball, Organizer of the Social Innovation Forum. Springboard Innovation, a Portland-based nonprofit, sponsors the forum as pa... Read more

Movies opening this weekend (Dec. 17, 2010)

The Hollywood Theater is showing a new print of Mon Oncle, a film by the sublime French actor/director Jacques Tati.  When I heard that it was the English-language version I worried, until I recalled that there is virtually no dialog in the film anyway. What there is, is... Read more

More Orange

For the 23 June 2014 Old Mole Variety Hour, Iven Hale and I review season two of Orange is the New Black. Alas, season two has the problems we noted in season one, and lacks some of the compensating virtues. It continues downplaying the problem of sexual violence, for in... Read more

30 years gone

 So CBS News Sunday Morning, in honor of its 30th birthday, conducted a poll using the same questions used by the CBS News/New York Times poll (and some other sources) 30 years ago. Some of the results were pretty interesting.     WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR NEWS?  CBS/NYT L.A. ... Read more

New! Talking Earth online Anthology: Poems by A. Molotkov, Chris Ridenour, John Sibley Williams

Water   Each lake is a pinhole poked from a larger map of land.   Each nameless roadside creek                                      is born of curious scissors.                                        I am sorry,                                      cartographer of my life.... Read more

New Releases May 5, 2012

Jay, Darren & The Delta Souls    Drink My Wine    Self-released    Blues [urban] Eady, Jason    AM Country Heaven    Underground Sound    C&W various artists    Plantation Gold [2 CDs]    Omni Recording Corp.    C&W Blockhead    Interludes After Midnight    Ninja Tune    E... Read more