Arts/Culture

JAW Turns 20!

Airs at: Tue, 07/24/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Dmae features the 20th annual JAW: A Playwrights Festival (short for Just Add Water). She'll talk with festival director Rose Riordan and playwright Clarence Coo whose play The Birds of Empathy will receive a staged reading. We'll also talk with Promising Playwright M... Read more

The Holy Crowley Hour

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 07/24/2018 at 12:00am

Produced for: The Holy Crowley Hour

Welcome to the Holy Crowley Hour, brought to you this month by the National Rifle Association. At the NRA, our mission is to protect your 2nd Amendment right to kill pretty much anyone who isn’t white, Christian, and barely literate. The NRA, where our motto is, and alwa... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour July 23rd 2018

Airs at: Mon, 07/23/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes Portland Rising and Portland Association of Teachers is bringing Nicole McCormick, a leader of the WV teachers strike, to Portland to talk about the strike, lessons learned. Bill Resnick talks with Nicol... Read more

High On Cooking On High

Airs at: Wed, 07/18/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Free Culture Radio

Ngaio Bealum is a very funny person, which is a good thing because he works as a comedian. Ngaio is also a journalist and progressive political activist. His new show on Netflix, Cooking On High, brings together two important parts of any culture: food and drugs. On this... Read more

Certain American States

Airs at: Thu, 08/16/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

One of Granta’s Best Young American novelists, Catherine Lacey, the Whiting Award-winning author of The Answers, showcases her literary style in short fiction with Certain American States, a collection of stories about ordinary people seeking—and failing to find—the e... Read more

Be With

Airs at: Thu, 07/26/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Forrest Gander’s first book of poems since his Pulitzer finalist Core Samples from the World: a startling look through loss, grief, and regret into the exquisite nature of intimacy "Utterly naked and bereft, elegies, apologies, could-have-beens, Gander grieves and wo... Read more

The Shape of Speed

Airs at: Tue, 07/17/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

The concept of streamlining has fascinated people for generations. Beginning in the 1930s and extending until the outbreak of the World War II, automotive designers embraced the challenge of styling and building truly streamlined cars that were fast and fuel-efficient... Read more

Retired...or ReWired. Episode 20: Series Review

Airs at: Wed, 07/25/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Retired...or ReWired?

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Meet Behind Mars by Renee Simms

Airs at: Thu, 09/06/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

"I feel like I can't tell one story about a giant mustard penis because it's not about a mustard penis only, but about all of these incidents together, in context, and through time." So begins the title story in Renee Simms's debut short story collection, Meet Behind ... Read more

Air Traffic by Greogory Pardlo

Airs at: Thu, 08/02/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Gregory Pardlo's father was a brilliant and charismatic man--a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But when he loses his job following the famous air traffic controllers' strike of 1981, he succumbs to addiction and exhausts the ... Read more