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The Holy Crowley Hour on 8/26/19

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2019 at 11:00pm - Tue, 08/27/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Holy Crowley Hour
On this month's edition of The Holy Crowley Hour, we return to those thrilling days of yesteryear. To be more specific, the Golden Age of Radio. We welcome guests Dennis and Rhonda Wright, the folks behind the Radio Days Theater of the Mind Museum in Sutherlin, Oregon. The ... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Portland painter Amy Bernstein

Airs at: Tue, 08/27/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday Aug. 27, 2019 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Amy Bernstein. [pronounced BERN-steen] Bernstein is an abstract painter and critic for the art magazine PORT and is soon to begin a one-year MFA in Art at Oxford University in England.   Bernstein's... Read more

In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps

Airs at: Thu, 10/10/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Rob Schlegel has a voice you’d follow into the dark woods, knowing full well it’s hard, awful, daily, plain, living truth you’re running toward. The speaker in this book is a heartbreaker of a storyteller—a synesthesiac of mixed feelings, bad news, and wordsmithery. I fe... Read more

Home Remedies

Airs at: Thu, 09/19/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Xuan Juliana Wang’s remarkable debut introduces us to the new and changing face of Chinese youth. From fuerdai (second-generation rich kids) to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, her dazzling, formally inventive stories upend the immigrant narrative to reveal a new e... Read more

The Trojan War Museum

Airs at: Thu, 09/05/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “Ayşe Papatya Bucak's stories are wide-ranging and capacious, formally playful, and moving.  They speak on behalf of women who are subject to fate and the tides of history. They speak of overcoming, of falling prey, of overcoming again.  They convey history's full force,... Read more

Mala at CoHo Productions

Airs at: Tue, 08/27/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae talks features CoHo Productions' season opener Mala by Melinda Lopez. She talks with co-producers Anna Nicholas and Brian Shnipper who is also director and Julana Torres who performs the title role of Mala in this solo play about a Cuban American daughter taking car... Read more

Squirrels Know on 08/23/19

Airs at: Fri, 08/23/2019 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Squirrels Know
This episode is focused and inspired by the seriously and alarmingly devastating fire in our precious and invaluable Amazon Rainforest. This year has been a major blow to Mother Earth with this fire, which is decimating sacred land day by day. It can't get any worse than th... Read more

This week's movies! at Film at 11

Airs at: Fri, 08/30/2019 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
As August comes to a close, the Film at 11 team looks at the last remaining releases of summer, and looks forward to some of the better sounding titles of fall and the "awards season."  Read more

Women and Secrets: Film at 11

Airs at: Fri, 08/23/2019 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
This week the Film at 11 team concentrates on some recent films that survey women and the secrets they keep or the secrets they expose, in Vita and Virginia, about the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville-West(Gemma Arterton)  and literary icon Vi... Read more

Phoenix Oregon

Airs at: Thu, 08/22/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Gary and Anne Lundgren are a directing/producing pair from Ashland whose latest independent feature Phoenix, Oregon is a comedic look at mid-life struggles in the rural Northwest.  Since wrapping up production in Klamath Falls, Oregon, the couple have been touring the fi... Read more