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Sounds Unsound on 10/22/23

Airs at: Sun, 10/22/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for Sounds Unsound
another episode of Sounds Unsound, where we delve into new releases. Read more

Previewing the 2023 Portland Fermentation Festival with Liz Crain and Heidi Nestler

Airs at: Tue, 10/17/2023 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for Evening News, News In Depth
The annual Portland Fermentation Festival, affectionately known as “Stinkfest”, is back this year after a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic. The Festival returns for the 11th time, since its start in 2009, this Thursday, October 19th from 6 to 9PM at Ecotrust's Irving ... Read more

Film at 11 keeps up its Halloween "treat cred" with this episode for Friday 20 October 2023

Airs at: Fri, 10/20/2023 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for Film at 11
This week we take a deeper dive into the 1932 horror film, White Zombie, which matthew reviewed last week. Read more

Film at 11 continues to scare you with more horror options for Friday, 27 October. 2023

Airs at: Fri, 10/27/2023 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for Film at 11
This week we include: • The new Criterion Blu-ray of Don't Look Now. • Matthew on some classics by Mario Bava, Planet of the Vampires and Hercules in the Underworld. • Jeff Godsil on Murder by the Clock and The Vampire Bat   Read more

Halloween We Dare You To Listen In The Dark Special

Airs at: Mon, 10/16/2023 at 11:00pm - Tue, 10/17/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for Gremlin Time
To night a chilling story by Robert E. Howard, set in the Gothic South. Two young men on a vacation seek shelter in what they think is an abandoned old mansion. Only to find something evil and murdrous hiding in the dusty, cobweb filled hallways. Comsidered by many to be on... Read more

Music to help blow the leaves off the trees

Airs at: Mon, 10/16/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns will music for a fall afternoon. Read more

La Matatena: Su Majestad; Superzero; Wunderlich Ausang

Airs at: Fri, 10/13/2023 at 10:00pm - Sat, 10/14/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for La Ruleta

"That Way Madness Lies" with filmmaker Sandra Luckow

Airs at: Wed, 10/11/2023 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for Evening News, News In Depth
Yesterday, October 10th, was World Mental Health Day. So it’s a fortunate coincidence our In Depth guest today is filmmaker Sandra Luckow. Sandra, along with her family, was personally affected by mental illness. And she turned that experience into one of the most moving an... Read more

Signe Baumane

Airs at: Thu, 10/12/2023 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Independent animator Signe Baumane has directed multiple short films and two feature films, Rocks in My Pockets and My Love Affair With Marriage.  Now touring the Pacific Northwest, My Love Affair With Marriage follows the misadventures of Zelma, whose 23-year quest for ... Read more

William T. Vollmann on his new two-volume collection Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness

Airs at: Thu, 10/12/2023 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome William T. Vollmann, author of Shadows of Love, Shadows of Loneliness, a new two-volume collection of his visual art, including photographs, drawings, prints, and paintings, from 1980 to 2022, published by Unnamed Press and Rare Bird Books. In... Read more