Arts and Culture

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Pool Closed for the Season....but the Sampler still brings the Fun!!

Airs at: Mon, 09/09/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Thunderstorms are rolling in, the leaves are changing colors, so the KBOO pool is closed for the season. However, the Sampler crew has some great guests and music to continue the fun start to your week! Lorka Scher comes by to chat about and play some tracks from her latest... Read more

Mr. Jones's Neighborhood 8/30/19

Airs at: Fri, 08/30/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
On this very special episode of Mr. Jones's Neighborhood, we celebrate Portland's independent bookstores. In the age of Amazon, we are blessed to have so many. It's a big reason we're one of the most literate cities in the U.S., with one of the most talented and supportive ... Read more

Sound, Design and Sacred Geometry

Airs at: Sat, 08/31/2019 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
[Show Transcript] Hello and welcome back to Threshold Shift where we give the mic to nature and amplify Earth. I had the opportunity in April to work at the HearSay Audio Arts Festival in Kilfinane, Ireland and, while we’re still working on gathering sounds from those four... Read more

Buscando America on 08/27/19

Airs at: Tue, 08/27/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Cientos de africanos sobreviven sin comida y agua esperando una resolución con su trámite de asilo y refugio en Tapachula Chiapas. Un reporte de Irineo Mujica de Pueblo Sin Fronteras sobre las protestas que se han suscitado en la estación migratoria Siglo XXI.  Javier Sierr... Read more

Still By The Pool!

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
The Sampler Crew continues to hang out poolside for another Monday afternoon. Joining us will be Dan Halsted and his wife Chantell from the Hollywood Theater. They will talk with us about an up coming showing of the late actor Rip Torn's cult classic "Payday", as well as th... Read more

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