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Buzzy Donahue: KPTZ DJ and free-form radio royalty

Airs at: Thu, 05/12/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Buzzy Donahue, a deejay on our sister community radio station, KPTZ in Port Townsend, Washington. Buzzy is radio royalty. Her dad is the legendary Tom “Big Daddy” Donahue who pioneered free-form radio back in San Francisco in the late 1960s. I... Read more

Lloyd Kaufman

Airs at: Thu, 05/12/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Thousands of film industry crew members and actors have learned the ropes working for Lloyd Kaufman and his independent studio Troma Entertainment.  The low-budget movies that Lloyd has directed and produced include Class of Nuke ‘em High, Sergeant Kabukiman, and four di... Read more

Oil For Kisses #18 - MOSH0666, An Earache Records History

Airs at: Sat, 05/07/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for Oil For Kisses
OFK #18 showcases the pioneering extreme music label Earache Records, where innovators such as Napalm Death, Morbid Angel, Godflesh, Entombed, Carcass, Nocturnus, Cathedral, Old, Naked City, Terrorizer, Bolt Thrower, Brutal Truth and many, many more got their start and thru... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 9, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 05/09/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole which includes the following segments: Peace in Ukraine: Can peace be achieved in Ukraine? Both Russia and the U.S. bear responsibility for that war. Bill Resnick and John Feffer discuss the forces, here and international... Read more

The Fog of War: Ray McGovern on the battle of disinformation over Ukraine

Airs at: Wed, 05/04/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Wednesday Talk Radio
  Today's guest, Ray McGovern, has been fighting U.S. disinformation on its foreign policy, wars and military since leaving the CiA, where he worked as an analyst from 1963 to 1990, and in the 1980s chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the President's Daily... Read more

Clinton Street Theater's Next Century

Airs at: Thu, 04/28/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Portland's Clinton Street Theater is a fabled community space and the oldest single-screen cinema west of the Mississippi river.  It's been fiercely independent for over a hundred years, bucking trends that have taken down huge corporate theater chains. Aaron Colter and... Read more

Shawn Levy, author of In On The Joke: The Original Queens of Stand-Up Comedy

Airs at: Thu, 04/28/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Shawn Levy, author of the new book In On The Joke: The Original Queens of Stand-Up Comedy, which charts the rise of women comedians from Moms Mabley’s start in black vaudeville in the 1920s, to the breakthrough mainstream success of Phyllis Di... Read more

18 - A Screenwriter's Story with Gary L. Goldman

Airs at: Fri, 06/24/2022 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for The Ghost of Hollywood
  Screenwriter and Producer, Gary L. Goldman, sits down with Poxy and Ragan to revisit his work on films such as Big Trouble in Little China, Total Recall, and Minority Report. Gary discusses his early days working with Director, Louis Malle, and Producer, Larry Gordon, at... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 25, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 04/25/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Battle for a Clean Portland Harbor: Local struggles for climate justice are today probably the fastest growing and most dynamic parts of this country's environmental movement. Ri... Read more

Smelter Wars, Part One

Airs at: Mon, 04/25/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
For our regular segment Another World Is Possible, Norm Diamond talks with Ron Verzuh, author of the just released book, Smelter Wars. The smelter in question is just across the Canadian border along the Columbia River, and the book covers the history of worker organizing t... Read more