History

Bill Plympton's Oregon Roots

Airs at: Thu, 08/08/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Bill Plympton has spent four decades going against the grain of the animation industry, self-financing his short films and features and drawing each frame with pencil and paper.  Nominated twice for Academy Awards and taking home a Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival,... Read more

Pickathon!

Airs at: Fri, 08/02/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
+++++++++++++++++++++++++ Exploring the Music and the Delights that will be happening out on Pendarvis Farm, out in Happy Valley for this year's Pickathon!   What started as a fundraiser for KBOO back in 1999 has grown in to a world class one of a kind experience that mus... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 5, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Socialists and the Democrats: How should socialists relate to the Democratic Party in electoral seasons and quieter times? Bill Resnick debates with Peter Solenberger, who’s counseled ... Read more

Paper Cranes

Airs at: Mon, 08/05/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Hiroshima Day is commemorated around the world annually in honor of survivors of the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 and Nagasaki three days later on August 9th. This day serves as a reminder of the ongoing threats of nuclear weapons and nuclear power as ... Read more

Killing Salmon to Lose Money

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on May 6, 2024   The Willamette River Basin once supported tremendous salmon runs. Today, less than 10,000 wild Chinook salmon return each year to the Upper Willamette River basin, approximately a 97% reduction of the historic estimates. An... Read more

Eddie Muller - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 07/11/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation with Film Noir Foundation Founder Eddie Muller, we spend an extra 20 minutes finding out about the importance of gritty urban stories in American culture and the race to rescue overlooked films from the landfill. Eddie Muller is a film pres... Read more

Sidney Morrison, author of Frederick Douglass: A Novel

Airs at: Thu, 07/25/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's show, we welcome Sidney Morrison, author of Frederick Douglass: A Novel from Portland’s Hawthorne Books. Sidney’s book is a fictionalized account of the life of Frederick Douglass, a former slave who became instrumental in ending slavery in the U.S., and who many... Read more

The Great River: The Making & Unmaking of the Mississippi

Airs at: Mon, 07/22/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For thousands of years Native peoples made their homes in the Mississippi watershed, that spans nearly half of what is now the United States. They respected the “great river” and lived peaceably alongside it. But when European settlers arrived they upended Native lives and ... Read more

Film Noir and New Hollywood

Airs at: Thu, 07/11/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Eddie Muller is the Founder and President of The Film Noir Foundation.  He's a film preservationist, a festival programmer, a San Francisco Literary Laureate, and the host of Noir Alley on the Turner Classic Movies channel.  Eddie is bringing the Noir City Film Festival ... Read more

David Ciminello, author of The Queen of Steeplechase Park

Airs at: Thu, 06/27/2024 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome David Ciminello, author of the new novel The Queen of Steeplechase Park, from Portland’s Forest Avenue Press. David’s a Lambda Literary Fellow and recipient of a Table 4 Writers Foundation Grant. His short fiction has appeared in the Lambda Aw... Read more