Latest Content for Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris hosts this Episode of the Old Mole which includes Bill Resnick talks with Frank Ackerman on the costs of curbing climate change to manageable levels v. the costs of continuing on the current path. Frank Ackerman is an economist who has written extensivel... Read more

Jan Haaken interviews Tracy Francis, Coordinator of the Cascade Festival of African Films. The festival runs through the first week of March, with that week also focused on women filmmakers. They discuss the history of the festival, upcoming films and events, and the con... Read more

Denise Morris considers the likelihood that Michelle Alexander could be our next Supreme Court Justice. Alexander is the author of the critically acclaimed "The New Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of color-blindness" (which Old Moles have covered HERE and HERE an... Read more

  Denise Morris hosts this show, largely about the struggle and culture of Africans and African Americans, and we hear: Bill Resnick talks with Frank Ackerman on the costs of curbing climate change to manageable levels v. the costs of continuing on the current path. ... Read more

Jan Haaken and Denise Morris unpack the complicated cultural and critical response to "Formation", a song and music video released by Beyonce Knowles days before her Super Bowl half-time performance of it. They consider the content of the song and video, the politics of ... Read more

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George Levi (Cheyenne artist), Brent Learned (Arapaho artist),and Katie Anderson (director of Clark County Historical Museum in Vancouver) join the Old Mole’s Laurie Mercier to discuss the exhibition, “One November Morning — the Sand Creek Massacre,” now at the Clark Co ... Read more

Larry Bowlden reviews The Other Typist, a debut novel by Suzanne Rindell. It is about a young woman hired as a typist by the New York Police Dept. in the 1920s. Riddell has much to say about the expectations on women of that time, and how the typewriter brought women int... Read more

On last week's Old Mole Variety Hour, Bill Resnick talked with Maria Svart, director of the Democratic Socialists of America, about the increasing acceptance among voters of Socialism. This week we air Svart's comments on the relationship of socialism to climate change.  Read more

Bill Resnick is our host on today's show and we hear --  1. Educator and writer Jodi Sokolower talks with Bill about sex positive and LGBTQ friendly sex education. 2.  Laurie Mercier talks with Native American artists about a new art exhibit about the Sand Creek Mass... Read more