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Original Lost Hour Soundtrack.

Airs at: Sat, 05/29/2021 at 10:00pm - Sun, 05/30/2021 at 12:00am
The Last Hour has been approved by The Boo Program director!  as a “pop up program” ! That means as much quality mixing that I can get away with will be aired!! But your ears never spared.  This first program is an onslaught of non stop electronic madness, softness, sadness,... Read more

Fim at 11 returns to the homeland this week, on 11 June 2021

Airs at: Fri, 06/11/2021 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
This week Britta Gordon  discusses Ulrike Ottinger's new essay documentary Paris Caligramees, while Jeff Godsil reports on the 1932  Scarface, Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time  looks at the 2014 film from Mali, Timbuktu written and directed by Abderahmane Sissako. And, in the... Read more

A Frenzy of Film, this week on Film at 11, June 4, 2021

Airs at: Fri, 06/04/2021 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
This week Jeff Godsil discusses Alfred Htchcock's controversial  Frenzy. We also look at two new biographies,  Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise by Scott Eyman (Simon and Schuster), and Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend, by Mark Glancy (Oxford), the new DVD of Nig... Read more

Buscando America on 05/25/21

Airs at: Tue, 05/25/2021 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En este programa escucharás una conversación con Betto Arcos Periodista radial, DJ, profesor y promotor musical basado en Los Ángeles. Desde 2008, es un colaborador habitual de NPR y la BBC. Hablamos sobre su más reciente libro Historias musicales del Barrio Cósmico / Music... Read more

The Last Hour

The Last Hour can pop up anytime, and you'll never really see the last hour coming at you until it just plain rocks your socks off. Now you are lying safely in bed and you say. "Hmm. It was an ok day today, and it was a long one so I'll just lay down here and check out the ... Read more

Music For An Easy Monday Afternoon

Airs at: Mon, 05/24/2021 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato is taking it easy on his back patio while presenting another music filled Monday Sampler Read more

Exquisite Scrolls: Collaborative Drawings for the Pacific Northwest College of Art

Airs at: Tue, 05/25/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, May 25, 2021, at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artists Malia Jensen and Nan Curtis about Exquisite Scrolls: Collaborative Drawings for the Pacific Northwest College of Art. These are 13 scrolls, ten feet long, each the work of eight mostly Portland arti... Read more

Portland Jewish Hour 5/23/21

Airs at: Sun, 05/23/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Portland Jewish Hour
Folks of every brand of religion believe that they espouse peace, but do not always live up to it.  Even atheists that 'only believe in science' have committed human atrocities and failed to get along.  When I look at my own religion, I see that the yearning for peace is st... Read more

George Johanson

Airs at: Tue, 05/18/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday May 18, 2021, Aurora Josephson continues her series of studio visits during the pandemic. Johnson talks to 92 year old painter George Johanson, who discusses the metamorphosis that can happen after working on an unfinished canvas after five years, how the pandemi... Read more

More Music on the Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 05/17/2021 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns to make your afternoon easier. Read more