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A People's History in Comics

Airs at: Mon, 07/28/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
Words & Pictures welcomes guest Mike Konopacki, a labor cartoonist who collaborated with author Howard Zinn and historian Paul Buhle to create a comics version of Zinn's A People’s History of American Empire.  S.W. Conser talks with Konopacki about the power of images to ra... Read more

072308 Movie Talk

Airs at: Tue, 07/22/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for Movie Talk
Movie Talk with Ed and D.K. reviewing the latest movies Read more

David Malki ! on Words & Pictures

Airs at: Mon, 07/21/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
David Malki ! talks about and performs readings from  his popular webstrip "Wondermark" and his book from Darkhorse comics titled  "Beards Of Our Forefathers" featuring new humorous essays and colleced strips from Wondermark.com Read more

Exploring Mixed Race with three actors at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for Stage and Studio
Special edition of Stage and Studio For the last year, Dmae Roberts has been working on a documentary about Mixed Race artists and discussions of race through the arts.  The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has long been on the forefront of multicultural plays and color-blind ca... Read more

From the Black Book Talk Vault: J California Cooper, Robert Phillips, Gloria McMurtry share their favorites

Airs at: Thu, 06/04/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Black Book Talk
In this Summer Reads program, author J California Cooper, Reflections Coffee & Books co-owner Gloria McMurtry, local leader Robert Phillips and archeologist Paris Williams offered a bright and varied palette of summer reading favorites. Read more

Jennifer Gately: Contemporary NW Artists Awards

Airs at: Wed, 06/25/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for Art Focus
Host Julie Bernard speaks with Jennifer Gately, Curator of Northwest Art at the Portland Art Museum, about the Contemporary Northwest Artists Awards, which replaced the Oregon Biennial this year.  Read more

New plays at JAW: A Playwrights Fest and the Spotlight project at Artists Repertory Theater.

Airs at: Tue, 06/24/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for Stage and Studio
PORTLAND THEATRE HAS A LONG TRADITION OF NURTURING NEW PLAYS AND PLAYWRIGHTS… THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, TWO DIFFERENT THEATRE COMPANIES IN PORTLAND PRESENTS GREAT OPPORTUNITIES TO SEE NEW WORK… PORTLAND CENTER STAGE CELEBRATES ITS 10TH ANNIVERSARY –JAW: A PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL… ... Read more

Perry Bible Fellowship: Cartoonist Nicholas Gurewitch

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Words & Pictures visits the Stumptown Comics Festival and talks with award-winning web cartoonist Nicholas Gurewitch, creator of the outlandish and wildly popular comic strip The Perry Bible Fellowship. Read more

06-12-08 Art Focus

Airs at: Wed, 06/11/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for Art Focus
Julie Bernard speaks with Alexa Pengelly and Bob LePore about online art auction. Read more

"James and Claire: A Transgender Story" by Thanh Tan

Airs at: Mon, 06/16/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for Stage and Studio
Dmae Roberts presents "James and Claire: A Transgender Story" by Independent Producer Thanh Tan ” -- an original, world premiere radio documentary for Pride month. Dmae and Thanh worked together on a mentorship through the Association of Independents in Radio (airmedia.o... Read more