Recent Audio

Sean talks with Ben and Heidi from Chasing Ebenezer about singing lessons, home recording and finding a sense of belonging. We discuss the music on their Outcast and Refugees album, the exploration of Middle Eastern music and song writing. Read more

We're back for another month! Just Jess and Fortunato welcome back film critic DK Holm to play music and talk about current movies and tv shows. And, for your listening pleasure, we present a radio adaptation of the Alfred Hitchcock film "The 39 Steps". But this version sta... Read more

As North America veers away from oil and coal, so-called natural gas is being promoted as a green bridge fuel to a renewable future. Such is the reasoning behind massive gas projects being proposed for the Pacific Northwest, such as the world's largest methanol refinery in ... Read more

    Bill Resnick and Alex Zielinski, city hall reporter and police watcher for the Portland Mercury, discuss police autonomy, their escape from civilian control, as well as their much closer relations to the alt right than to the left, and how this ominous threat can be r... Read more

  Field Mole Desiree Hellegers brings excerpts from the January 16 townhall on a proposal for Portland to once again withdraw from the Joint Terrorism Task Force or JTTF. A vote will be held on the proposal this coming Wednesday at 2 p.m. at City Hall. Background on the h... Read more

    Text: It is with great pleasure that I talk with you this morning about a splendid novel by a good friend and fellow Old Mole, Patricia Kullberg. I’m not sure how this novel slipped by me in 2015, but it did. While at lunch with another Portland feminist and leftist,... Read more

  Text: According to the ideology that passes for common sense in a capitalist society, there is a bright line between organized crime and “legitimate” business. But they’re not really so different. Here’s how Megan Day reveals their similarity in a piece a few days ago i... Read more