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On tonight's episode of Talking Earth, host Walt Curtis interviews New Orleans musician Dusty Santamaria from Walt's front porch.  Topics include life in New Orleans, voudoun and life under quarantine.  Dusty also plays several new songs.  Dusty Santamaria moved to New Orle... Read more

Once again it's Halloween and summer is coming to an end. Tonight, Fortunato presents a pair of scary radio dramas. First, from the series Beyond Midnight, comes The Green Vase by Michael McCabe. A writer seeking solitude buys an old house where he gets more than he bargane... Read more

The Hanford Reservation is one of the most polluted places in the world. For over 40 years, the United States produced plutonium there for nuclear weapons, and released hundreds of billions of gallons of liquid chemical and radioactive waste into the soil and groundwater. N... Read more

On Tuesday Oct 19, 2021, at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Christine A. Richardson, the Costume Director for Portland Opera. Richardson talks about designing and sewing the costumes for Puccini’s opera “Tosca” which opens on October 29, 2021 and plays for three perfo... Read more

    Thacker Pass, or Peehee mm’huh, is sacred land to the Northern Paiute and Western Shoshone, and critical wildlife habitat. It is the site of a proposed lithium mine by Lithium Americas, a Vancouver, Canada-based company. They want to mine 5,000 acres using an open pit... Read more

A conversation with Raj Patel, Anna Lappe, and Bill McKibben about food, climate change, and combatting climate anxiety. This converstation was presentented by the Kent Memorial Library’s Morris Lecture Series on September 9.   Bill McKibben is an author and founder of 3... Read more

If police are the problem, what’s the solution? Geo Maher's new book, A World without Police, offers concrete strategies for confronting and breaking police power, as a first step toward building community alternatives that make the police obsolete. Surveying the post-prot... Read more

Join us on the Cascadia Coffeehouse this Friday morning as we hear new music from Billy Strings, Asheville-based singer-songwriter Anya Hinkle, Eliza Gilkyson, Lisa Bastoni, Charlie Parr, Zoe & Cloyd and others.  We'll also hear live music from Pharis & Jason Romero and fav... Read more

This week, we take a literary look at the screen, with Joe Witt and Stephen Hood of Belmont Books on Dune and The French Dispatch, plus some comments on The Last Duel and Halloween Kills, while  Jeff Godsil appraises Billy Wilder's masterpiece The Private Life of Sherlock H... Read more