Arts/Culture

The Well Read Red

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Today the Well-Read Red contrasts two essays about pandemics. Both draw on the same historical and literary sources, but derive utterly different conclusions from them. Our Well Read Red finds this fascinating and asks why Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author, an... Read more

Another World is Possible

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

With this segment we inaugurate a new feature. In the first installment, Norm discusses some of the questions that arise in thinking about social and economic alternatives and how utopian and dystopian literature illuminate these. As illustration, Patricia Kullberg reads fr... Read more

Reinvention - Laura Lo Forti of Vanport Mosaic

Airs at: Tue, 05/12/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Dmae talks with Laura Lo Forti, co-director of Vanport Mosaic who took on the challange of reinventing a month-long festival of live events in Portland into a virtual one online. Through May 30th, The Virtual Vanport Mosaic Festival features poets, storytellers, dancers,... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for May 11, 2020

Airs at: Mon, 05/11/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Today’s Old Mole is hosted by Norm Diamond. Norm starts things off with a personal credo about what the Mole stands for. The show continues with the following segments: Another World Is Possible: With this segment we inaugurate a new feature. In the first installment, N... Read more

Alfa Gunga Din, Zaratustra de Alejandro Jodorowsky y Los Divinos Placeres de Rafael Corkidi

Airs at: Fri, 05/08/2020 at 10:00pm - Sat, 05/09/2020 at 12:00am

Produced for: La Ruleta

This Friday evening we have prepared from our own collection three rare recordings. We will start with Alfa-Gunga-Din, from 1968, under the direction of Alexandro Jodorowsky, which includes versions of songs by Gilberto Gil, Bacharach, Purcell, Bach Hendrix and the Beatle... Read more

Through the Looking Glass: another Film at 11 repeat for Friday May 8

Airs at: Fri, 05/08/2020 at 10:30am - Sat, 05/09/2020 at 11:00am

Produced for: Film at 11

We're reviving this special Stonewall episode of Film at 11 with Steffen Silvis, Next week, we hope to have a new episode, even if recorded with a built in computer mike. Read more

A Fortune for Your Disaster

Airs at: Thu, 05/21/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

“A Fortune for Your Disaster proves that, if you pay attention, Black people have defined and still define themselves for themselves amid roses and dandelions, cardinals and violets, the blues of music and police uniforms, prayer and swagger, Kehinde Wiley paintings and... Read more

Hannah Lillith Assadi and Achy Obejas on Take Us To A Better Place

Airs at: Thu, 05/07/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Host Ken Jones talks with Hannah Lillith Assadi and Achy Obejas, contributors to the story anthology Take Us To A Better Place, published by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. You can download a free copy of the ebook at https://www.rwjf.org/fiction. Hannah Lillith Assadi... Read more

Amanda Clem interviews Melanie Flood

Airs at: Tue, 05/05/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

On Tuesday, May 5, 2020 at 11:30am Amanda Clem interviews Melanie Flood—artist, gallery owner, and educator. https://www.melanieflood.com/ https://www.instagram.com/melanie.flood/ Melanie Flood Projects https://www.melaniefloodprojects.com/ https://www.instagram.co... Read more

From the Black Book Talk Vault: Dr. Thabiti Lewis, Ballers of the New School : race and sports in America

Airs at: Thu, 05/07/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

Ballers of the New School is one of the first and best books to come along that effectively explains contemporary athletes and the public response to them. It challenges the well-worn narrative of sport as America's most significant site of racial progress by scrutinizing ... Read more