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Amanda Clem interviews Melanie Flood

Airs at: Tue, 05/05/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at 11:30am Amanda Clem interviews Melanie Flood—artist, gallery owner, and educator.   https://www.melanieflood.com/ https://www.instagram.com/melanie.flood/   Melanie Flood Projects https://www.melaniefloodprojects.com/ https://www.instagram.co... Read more

From the Black Book Talk Vault: Dr. Thabiti Lewis, Ballers of the New School : race and sports in America

Airs at: Thu, 05/07/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
 Ballers of the New School is one of the first and best books to come along that effectively explains contemporary athletes and the public response to them. It challenges the well-worn narrative of sport as America's most significant site of racial progress by scrutinizing ... Read more

ArtsWatch's Bob Hicks - Looking Ahead

Airs at: Tue, 05/05/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae talks with Bob Hicks, two-time Pulitzer nominated veteran journalist/editor at The Oregonian and senior editor of Oregon ArtsWatch, about the current state of the arts in Portland and throughout the country. After seven weeks of shelter-at-home because of the COIVID... Read more

Rose City Book Pub owner talks pandemic relief funding for small business

Airs at: Thu, 04/30/2020 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
Many small businesses are closed here in Portland during the COVID-19 pandemic. And, without paying customers, they’re struggling to stay afloat.  That list includes one of our favorite small businesses, Rose City Book Pub, which opened in November 2018 with the original, ... Read more

Film at 11, on May 1 2020: another blast from the past

Airs at: Fri, 05/01/2020 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Here's another repeat, our second show, while hoping this ends soon.  Read more

Midnight Collages from Kill Ugly Radio

Airs at: Tue, 04/28/2020 at 12:00am - 3:00am
12:00AM: Kill Ugly Radio Part One: The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick Mediascape collage of the life, times and fiction (and fictionalized life and times) of the visionary science fiction author Philip K. Dick. Sources: Films: The Penultimate Truth of Philip K. Dic... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews art collector Nungies in her home in Portland

Airs at: Tue, 04/28/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews art collector Nungies in her home in Portland. She talks about seven works that visualize the connection between psychoactive plants and sacred and psychedelic themes. This is the show for anyone interested... Read more

Remember To Wash Your Hands

Airs at: Mon, 04/27/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
The Sampler is back for the last Monday in April. We will present another story by James Thurber, read to us by Katherine Dunn, "More Alarms At Night". It seems that the Thurber family is always getting up to some strange things in the middle of the night. A follow up story... Read more

Tino Contreras "Éxitos" 3 LP Set

Airs at: Sun, 04/26/2020 at 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  La Voz Del Sabor
This is a fantastic 3 LP Set released in 1968 by Musart with drummer TIno Contreras. He is now 96 years old and going stong!! Read more

"Fools," Kate Gray

Airs at: Mon, 04/27/2020 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  The Occasion
The theme for April is "Fools," and this month's show features Kate Gray, who is the author of For Every Girl: New & Selected Poems and Another Sunset We Survive, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and followed her chapbooks, Bone-Knowing, winner of the Gertrude... Read more