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Team Choey

Join Ender Black on a conversation with teen social media stars Team Choey, as part of their Follow Your Dreams Tour in Portland and Seattle. We discuss the world of social media, fame, art, experiences, good times and takeaways from their interactions with hundreds of supp... Read more

An Idiot's Field Guide to US Public and Tribal Land Management

Airs at: Sat, 03/31/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  To make some of this information easier to get to (less scrolling than on the episode page) here it is in a hopefully more digestible format. You can hear a somewhat impromptu interview about these topics here. All opinions expressed were my own. For clarification, there... Read more

California Calling by Natalie Singer

Airs at: Mon, 04/09/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Natalie Singer, author of the new memoir California Calling: A Self-Interrogation, published by Portland’s Hawthorne Press. Natalie’s work has been published in a number of journals, magazines, and newspapers, including Literary Mama, the Washingto... Read more

Lullaby Road by James Anderson

Airs at: Thu, 04/05/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with James Anderson, author of the new novel Lullaby Road, and actor and activist Cosme Skywalker Duarte. James is a native of the Pacific Northwest, born in Seattle, raised in Portland, and a graduate of Reed College. He founded Breitenbush Books, a pu... Read more

This Land is Our Land

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  For those who missed the Friday night airing of Threshold Shift, the audio is now streaming. Hear the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante and perspectives from... Read more

Buscando America on 04/03/18

Airs at: Tue, 04/03/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En este programa, desde la Cd. de México Jose Luis Santillan entrevistó a Areli quien es parte de la campaña Luis Fernando Libre. También trasnmitimos un paisaje sonoro de Griselda Sánchez Lluvia Obsidiana, elaborado por los niños y niñas del taller Voces del Tren en la Sa... Read more

Counternarratives

Airs at: Thu, 04/19/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “In Counternarratives, John Keene undertakes a kind of literary counterarchaeology, a series of fictions that challenge our notion of what constitutes “real” or “accurate” history. His writing is at turns playful and erudite, lyric and coldly diagnostic, but always compl... Read more

Up Up Down Down

Airs at: Thu, 04/12/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  "Cheston Knapp’s Up Up, Down Down has the uncanny, welcome ability to make so-called mainstream or dominant culture—white, masculinist, Christian, frat boy, and so on—appear newly strange, and newly open to analysis. He has the eye and ear of an anthropologist, a joyousl... Read more

3 Indigenous playwrights

Airs at: Tue, 04/03/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae features three Indigenous, female playwrights whose plays are being produced by the three top theatre companies in Oregon this spring. We'll hear about Manahatta by Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee) at Oregon Shakespeare Festival Mar. 28 - Oct. 27. And we'll feature in-stu... Read more

La Ruleta presents Tay and The Janglahdahs and Chonk!

Airs at: Fri, 04/13/2018 at 10:00pm - Sat, 04/14/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
Join Sean The Bus Driver as he takes you on yet another painted bus ride on a Friday night across time and space with live talent from Oakland, California, Tay and The Janglahdahs Tay and Gregg host a monthly event in Berkeley called Bay Area Arts Mixer on the Third Thursda... Read more