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  Places to find food for those who lost SNAP benefits: (Compiled via Willamette Week, The Portland Mercury, Oregon Live, KGW)   OREGON FOOD BANK Searchable database of places providing hot meals, boxes of groceries, and other goods. Search by zip code Expect to call a... Read more

Folk Music "Early in the Mornin'"

Airs at: Wed, 11/12/2025 at 5:30am - 7:00am
Produced for Pastures of Plenty
The show opens with early morning music, as if you don’t know it’s early when you’re listening.  Believe me, I know about this. I record at home and don’t rise early.  If it weren’t for the station archives, I would never hear the beginning of any of our morning folk mus... Read more

The last fruits of the season; dividing rhubarb; get thee some leaves

Airs at: Wed, 11/12/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for The Dirtbag
Host Glen Andresen and co-pilot Jim Gilbert present a show recorded just a few days before this airing. Jim has some interesting information on how he and Lorraine do taste tests and how "winners" and "losers" are determined -- that is, which ones make it to the next rou... Read more

Brandon Hoang, author of the YA novel Gloria Buenrostro Is Not My Girlfriend

Airs at: Thu, 11/13/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Brandon Hoang, author of the YA novel Gloria Buenrostro is Not My Girlfriend, from Macmillan Publishing. The book was a finalist for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrator’s Golden Kite Award and was named as one of the Youn... Read more

Double Groove - With The Beatles

Airs at: Fri, 11/14/2025 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for Double Groove
Tune in to explore the Beatles second album “Meet the Beatles”. We’ll hear the originals of the songs the band covered, songs and artists that influenced their early work and I’ll throw some unusually tracks and facts your way. Read more

Everything Looks Better with Cows Around

Airs at: Sat, 11/15/2025 at 6:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Swing 'n' Country
Cowboy music is at the heart of this episode of Swing’n’Country. After a recent encounter with a small herd of Texas Longhorns between Salem and Grand Ronde, I think cows are pretty cool.  So in this show, my favorite song is Corb Lund’s "Cows Around".  The song was requ... Read more

Queer Lil Musings

Airs at: Sat, 11/15/2025 at 10:00pm - Sun, 11/16/2025 at 12:00am
Produced for Queery
This month, we're focusing on introspection. Put on the cozy clothes. Grab a pen and some paper and settle in to write your heart out to these queer artists. "I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there."  -Audre Lorde Lo... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for November 17, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 11/17/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  War is not green, and sailing for an end to genocide: Frann Michel hosts this episode featuring these segments:   War is Not Green Aaron Kirshenbaum and Laurie Mercier discuss  CodePink’s “War is Not Green” campaign, which is seeking to pressure mainstream environmen... Read more

Orson Welles Returns as Harry Lime

Airs at: Mon, 11/17/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Featured today is an episode of The Many Lives Of Harry Lime, "Greek Meets Greek"(1950), starring Orson Welles. While in The Port of Piraeus, Greece to acquire some "art", Harry is quarentined in his hotel room with the measles. Still, he is drawn into a perplexing and d... Read more

Interview with Marilynne Eichenger

Airs at: Thu, 11/20/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Between The Covers
What makes someone become an activist?  Tune in to Between the Covers on November 20th at 11:00 am for an interview with Marilynee Eichenger. Marilynne is the author of two non-fiction books, The Lives of Museum Junkies-the Story of America’s Hands-On Education Movement... Read more