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Christopher Marley's Exquisite Creatures Revealed

Airs at: Tue, 01/28/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
  On Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2024, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Christopher Marley, who will discuss his show Exquisite Creatures Revealed, at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry until Feb 17, 2025.    Marley talks about arranging insects, sea creatur... Read more

Jazz en México: La Histórica Grabación de 1954. Estrellas del Jazz

Airs at: Fri, 01/24/2025 at 10:00pm - Sat, 01/25/2025 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
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Barbara Ford on Activism and Art

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  We hear excerpts from an interview Desiree Hellegers conducted with the Portland activist, writer, artist Barbara Ford in 2017 about her history of activism as part of the Thin Green Line is People History Project, a digital archive of Pacific Northwest fossil fuel resis... Read more

For Friday, Jan., 24, 2025, we reprise a theme episode from June 2023 on '70s cinema

Airs at: Fri, 01/24/2025 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
After a quick tour of some big screen releases, Jeff Godsil revisits Mishima, and Matthew revisits A Run For Your Money.   Read more

Ryan Alexander-Tanner on Muhammad Ali

Airs at: Thu, 01/23/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Ryan Alexander-Tanner is a comics artist and illustrator who’s led comics workshops for kids and adults, and worked with writers and non-profit organizations for projects that he calls “illustrated narratives.”  He's collaborated with professor and activist Bill Ayers on... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for January 27, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel hosts this episode, with these segments: Big Tech and Big War: Laurie Mercier speaks to Roberto J. González, a professor of anthropology at San José State University, about how Silicon Valley is transforming the Military-Industrial Complex. Some of Gonzalez’s ... Read more

Notes Toward a Nuclear-Free Future

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Gil Scott-Heron, Karen Silkwood, and the 1979 No Nukes Album: For those who came of age in the 1970s and 80s, political awakening to the dangers of nuclear power came as much via pop culture as it did from watching the nightly news. The 1979 triple album No Nukes: The MU... Read more

Playtesting With Ned Damon

Airs at: Tue, 01/21/2025 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Winner's Bias
Nate and James welcome Ned Damon, the Portland Local Playtest Organizer with Break My Game. He gives local board game designers a chance to have their games played with a critical eye so they can improve their designs. Ned also has a podcast about the trading card game Star... Read more

Carlos Beltlán: Presencias; La Fauna Nociva

Airs at: Mon, 01/20/2025 at 7:45pm - Tue, 01/21/2025 at 10:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature
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Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods with author Sarah Neidhardt and her mom Wendy McPhee

Airs at: Thu, 01/23/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Sarah Neidhardt, author of the memoir Twenty Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods, from The University of Arkansas Press. The book recounts Sarah’s experience growing up as part of a back-to-the land family in a small, isolated town in th... Read more