Arts/Culture

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Crazy Fun

Airs at: Mon, 03/18/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Just Jess, DK and old Fortunato are back with more crazy fun to help start out your week! We'll play part 2 of radio drama, The Red Headed Woman, starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez. Then we reminisce on artists that have come on the show throughout the years, like Jaime L... Read more

Back For March

Airs at: Mon, 03/11/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
A new month and a new line up of Samplers. Just Jess, DK and old Fortunato are back with more crazy fun to help start out your week. For March, The Sampler will present radio dramas featuring some well known actresses. To start off with, we present an episode of Suspense st... Read more

Portland Jewish Hour

Airs at: Sun, 03/10/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Portland Jewish Hour
Music by and about women to celebrate International Women's Day Read more

Lizzie Borden Audio #1

Airs at: Mon, 04/01/2019 at 8:00am
Produced for:  Lizzie Borden Audio
An introduction to the Lizzie Borden crime and the zany cast of characters seen through the eyes of novelist and Borden scholar, Florence King with her 1992 National Review Magazine"A WASP Looks At Lizzie Borden." Funny and acerbic, the essay is infused with the actual tria... Read more

Poetry and Science

Airs at: Fri, 03/08/2019 at 9:00pm - 10:30pm
Poetry and sound with Judith Arcana of Poetry and Everything, Tiel Ansari of Wider Window Poetry, and Nikki Martin of Threshold Shift. We'll be exploring the intersections between poetry and sound, words and representation, art and science on this International Womxn's Day.... Read more

#METOO IN #PDXMUSIC

Airs at: Fri, 03/08/2019 at 2:00pm - 2:30pm
Host Heather McCoy talks to  Olivia Awbrey about her recent article in Vortex magazine titled "#metoo in #pdxmusic" Read more

Femmes Sing Murder Ballads

Airs at: Fri, 03/08/2019 at 2:30pm - 3:00pm
DJ Erin plays murder ballads sung by womxn/femme identifying people.  Read more

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

Airs at: Thu, 03/07/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
  In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee borrowed $100 from her brother to run a "Numbers" racket out of her tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in o... Read more

Amanda Clem interviews artist Nicolo Gentile

Airs at: Tue, 03/05/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
  Nicolo Gentile is an artist living, working, and working out in Portland, Ore. He has been the Artistic Director of GoodSport since May 2014. As a queer athlete, his practice investigates identity and gender construction in relation to the idealized human form, sport, bo... Read more

Episode 3: Loren Chasse & Branic Howard

Airs at: Tue, 03/05/2019 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Anything But Ordinary
Sarah Tiedemann recently spent time with Loren Chasse and Branic Howard, learning about their collaboration for “Habitat” - a sonic adventure performance commissioned by Third Angle. What is the line between composer and sound artist? When are industrial sounds beautiful? A... Read more