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Film at 11 takes on contemporary issues this week on Friday 9 June, 2023

Airs at: Fri, 06/09/2023 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Jeff Godsil on the play adaptation Proof, from 2005, Natalie Lasko on The Happening, and in the DVD corner, the new Criterion Blu-ray of Targets, Peter Bogdanovich's thriller with Boris Karloff, from 1968.   –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-   Targets Crit... Read more

Kelly McWilliams: Your Plantation Prom is Not Okay

Airs at: Thu, 06/01/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in Louisiana, which they’ve transformed into one of the South's few enslaved people’s museums. Together, while grieving the recent loss of Harriet’s mother, they run tours that help keep the memory of the... Read more

More Crazy Fun on the Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 05/29/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns with music and radio adventures. Read more

PSU Graduation shows

Airs at: Tue, 05/30/2023 at 11:00am - 11:45am
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, May 30, 2023, at 11.15am (note the early start) Joseph Gallivan interviews five artists and one professor about the work at Portland State University’s Masters and Bachelors of Fine Art program. At the show at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, Joseph ta... Read more

Once again, Film at 11 becomes medieval for Friday, 2 June 2023

Airs at: Fri, 06/02/2023 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
This week, we have Jeff Godsil on Orson Welles's Macbeth, Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time on Full River Red, Britta Gordon on Dark Divide, and we revisit Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal via the new Criterion Blu-Ray of the film.    ---------------------------------------... Read more

Torso Law; Eunucos

Airs at: Fri, 05/26/2023 at 10:00pm - Sat, 05/27/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
Here's an interview with María Velásquez   https://www.musiquemachine.com/articles/articles_template.php?id=168    abd a track with Richard Ramírez   https://richardramirez.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-featuring-torso-law?fbclid=IwAR3IkcSYJPm6OWu4NXK9U8_6ZAcmyuqhZRT_ksLDIN... Read more

Terence Blanchard and Damien Geter

Airs at: Thu, 05/25/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Musician and composer Terence Blanchard is a two-time Academy Award nominee for his work with Spike Lee, and a seven-time Grammy winner for his jazz albums and soundtracks.  He's played trumpet and piano with Lionel Hampton as well as Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and ha... Read more

Music and Crazy Fun on The Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 05/22/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns with more episodes  of the long running radio serial The Adventures of Superman, starring Bud Collier. But also lots of music for a lovely Monday afternoon. Read more

Joshua James Amberson, author of Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes

Airs at: Thu, 05/25/2023 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Joshua James Amberson, author of the new book Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes, from Portland’s Perfect Day Publishing. Joshua’s writing includes the novel How to Forget Almost Everything, a series of chapbooks from Two Plum Press, and the l... Read more

Mark Andres

Airs at: Tue, 05/23/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, May 23, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Mark Andres about his show “Saudade” [ pronounced sau-DA-ji ] which is on now at Augen Gallery through May 27. Andres talks about his use of shadow and silhouette, how he has partly changed his mind abo... Read more