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The Sampler presents 3 Skeleton Key starring Vincent Price

Airs at: Mon, 10/15/2018 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Joining Fortunato and Just Jess today will be playwrite Georgina Escobar, to discuss the presentation of her play "Alebrijes" at the Milagro Theater on the 18th. Also,  a member of the band Steel Wheels, will drop by to tell us of their upcoming   performance at The Old Chu... Read more

Ghost Hunter

Airs at: Mon, 10/08/2018 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
The Sampler returns for another month of crazy fun with Just jess and Fortunato. Starting today we will have the first in a month long series of scary radio dramas. Today we feature an episode of Suspence entitled Ghost Hunter, staring Ralph Edwards as a brash DJ who, as a ... Read more

Halloween Special featuring The Shadow People

Airs at: Mon, 10/29/2018 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Joining Fortunato and Just Jess today will be film critic DK Holm to review the new season of Dr. Who, as well as some other tv shows. Joining the crew in studio will be the organizers of the upcoming Swashbucklers Ball, happening Nov. 3rd. Calling in, Sampler crew member G... Read more

The Cat Man read by Katherine Dunn

Airs at: Mon, 10/22/2018 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
We continue with our month long presentation of scary stories with one of Fortunato's classic episodes of Gremlin Time recorded back around 1980., The Cat Man by Byron Leggett, and read by Katherine Dunn. A successful writer seeking solitude on his own island regrets that h... Read more

Tuesday Night! Oct 9 Hear and There: A KBOO 50th Celebration of the Environment and Sound

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  KBOO Celebrates its 50 Years of Sound, Science and Environmental Awareness In a Unique Immersive Sound and Site Collaboration with OMSI Tuesday October 9, 7:30PM OMSI’s Kendall Planetarium In honor of KBOO and OMSI's long-standing commitment to education and environment... Read more

Women in Jazz at Oregon Coast Jazz Party Preview

Airs at: Wed, 10/03/2018 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  Jazz in the Afternoon
Women are in the news - and an amazing number have made, and are making, their mark in jazz. Because there is no way this subject can be treated thoroughly in a 2-hour show, this will be a random sampler of outstanding such performances, many of them seldom-or-never-heard ... Read more

Buscando America on 10/02/18

Airs at: Tue, 10/02/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Javier Sierra habla sobre el escándalo sobre abuso sexual en el Tribunal Supremo del País. José Luís Espinoza nos habla del proyecto de Sisters of the Road, un esfuerzo en Down Town Portland para erradicar el abuso y la opresion en todas sus formas.  Read more

Coming Home: Return of the Alutiiq Masks

Airs at: Tue, 10/20/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae Roberts presents "Coming Home: Return of the Alutiiq Masks" Dmae Roberts presents and encore edition of the half-hour version of Coming Home: Return of the Alutiiq Masks, originally a one-hour radio documentary that interweaves oral history interviews, Alutiiq music... Read more

Fox & American Fictionary

Airs at: Thu, 10/18/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Dubravka Ugresic, a novelist and essayist Susan Sontag called a "writer to follow and cherish," has been living in exile in Amsterdam since the Yugoslav wars of the early 90s.  Labeled a traitor and a witch when she vocally critiqued the rising ethno-nationalism of both ... Read more

Live in Studio: DANBERT NOBACON! PIÑÉN!

Airs at: Wed, 10/17/2018 at 10:00pm - Thu, 10/18/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Life During Wartime
From Twisp, WA by way of Chumbawamba comes DANBERT NOBACON! He'll play first! Then, from Barcelona, Spain comes PIÑÉN! The DIY space in London described them like this: "Hardcore Radikal from Barcelona. This two piece pick up where FIRMEZA 10 left off. Their ideas and the... Read more