Arts/Culture

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Portland Youth Philharmonic continues historic run with diverse roster of composers

Airs at: Thu, 03/05/2020 at 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  The Portland Youth Philharmonic continues its historic 96th season, on Saturday, March 7th at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland.  To preview the concert, KBOO's Ken Jones spoke with the Philharmonic’s Musical Director, David Hattner about what attendees can e... Read more

Celebrating Women's History: a Look Back, 3/05/2020

Airs at: Thu, 03/05/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
  Black Book Talk revisits interviews by and about iconic women.  Some are well-known, others not so much.  The voices of Dr Maya Angelou (speaking and singing), Ilyasah Shabazz (Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz' middle daughter) and Rosemary Reed Miller (biograher of African-Am... Read more

Music and talk with film critic DK Holm

Airs at: Mon, 03/09/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns with some music for your Monday afternoon. Stopping in will be film critic DK Holm to talk about some interesting telvision shows and DVDs to watch. Read more

Girl Be Brave: 100 Days to Chart Your Course

Airs at: Wed, 02/26/2020 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Open Air
When Cheryl Hale discovered a note from her grandmother, written in a family Bible and ending with the phrase "girl be brave", she found the inspiration she needed to push through her fear and chart a course for her life. In 2016 Hale launched the Girl Be Brave movement, on... Read more

In Memoriam

Airs at: Mon, 03/02/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick remembers our old comrade Clayton Morgareidge, replaying two of his recent commentaries for the Mole: “Capitalism as Organized Narcissism” and “The Place of Art in a Green New Deal.” They both begin with a scathing critique of our current economic arrangements,... Read more

Weird Portland United

Airs at: Wed, 03/04/2020 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Good Vibes Only
Weird Portland United is a non-profit organization which envisions a Portland devoid of barriers where citizens feel free to take risks, find success through living to their full creative potential, and take pride in their unique way of doing things. WPU discovers, promote... Read more

Buscando America on 03/03/20

Airs at: Tue, 03/03/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En esta emisión hablamos con Ivonne Ramírez autora de Ellas tienen Nombre,  un proyecto de monitoreo y mapeo que muestra los feminicidios en Ciudad Juárez de 1993 a la fecha. La performancera Rocío Boliver habla sobre su proyecto Entre la Vejez y la Menopausia. En la 2da ... Read more

Reinhardt's Garden

Airs at: Thu, 04/02/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “Jacov Reinhardt and his faithful assistant roam South America in a quixotic search for the essence of melancholy—an enterprise that makes Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, their rough contemporary, come off as a levelheaded pragmatist. To follow Reinhardt, fueled by amounts... Read more

Weather

Airs at: Thu, 03/19/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “Novelists don’t need to dream the end of the world anymore—they need to wake up to it. Jenny Offill is one of today’s few essential voices, because she writes about essential things, in sentences so clipped and glittering it’s as if they are all cut from one diamond.”–J... Read more

My Red Heaven

Airs at: Thu, 03/12/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  "A superb evocation of a specific time and place—Berlin, 10 June 1927—that captures the intellectual ferment, the descent into decadence, and rise of Nazism during the Weimar Republic. With historically precise detailing and grimly gorgeous imagery, Lance Olsen portrays ... Read more