Arts and Culture

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

Ubu Hour on 04/02/18

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 04/03/2018 at 12:00am

Produced for: Ubu Hour

The final Ubu Hour was last month, but here's one of the radio plays that started it all, Alfred Jarry's Ubu Cocu, as done by the Ubu Hour... This aired sometime during the 101 Hour DADA festival on KBOO in 2008, 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

Bunkie Spills by Bradley K. Rosen

Airs at: Mon, 04/02/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Host Ken Jones talks with Bradley K. Rosen, author of the novel Bunkie Spills, which chronicles one very long and eventful day in the life of a group of Los Angeles teenagers in 1976. The book was selected as a Powell’s Bookstore Staff Top Five Pick for 2017. Bradley’s wor... Read more

SuperButch!

Airs at: Thu, 04/12/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

Portland alt-comics heavyweights Barry Deutsch (Hereville) and Becky Hawkins (French Toast Comix) have teamed up to create SuperButch, the adventures of a lesbian superhero and the citizens whose lives she transforms. Set in the 1940's when many gay Americans led double... Read more