Arts/Culture

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Climate and Capitalism

Airs at: Mon, 10/16/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Thom Becker shares excerpts from two articles on climate change and capitalism: Climate change and capitalism: We can’t confront one without facing the other by Conor Lynch and Climate Denialism Is Literally Killing Us By Mark Hertsgaard. Then Thom and Bill play and com... Read more

100 years of October, 36 years of Reds

Airs at: Mon, 10/16/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Thom Becker offers a reading from Nikos Kazantzakis about the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Then Movie Moles Joe Clement and Jan Haaken discuss the 1981 film Reds, directed by Warren Beatty, which focuses on the story of American journalists John Reed and Louise Bryant as ... Read more

The War on Women #Me Too Edition

Airs at: Fri, 10/20/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Something amazing has happened, the lid is starting to peel off the repression of of exactly what is sexual harassment  and what is acceptable behavior in the face of it. Woody Allen says he's afraid of a "witch hunt", what an interesting term, some women like actress Mayim... Read more

Urban Wine Culture: A Full Pour

Airs at: Wed, 10/18/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
A new generation of winemakers is moving wine culture and the wine industry into the 21st century. Portland is home to many of these urban wineries, which are located in basements, garages, warehouses, and other spaces around the city. On this edition of Free Culture Radio ... Read more

Portland Jewish Hour

Airs at: Sun, 10/22/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Portland Jewish Hour
Local Jewish singer-songwriter-educator Beth Hamon performs tracks from her newly-released CD, A Sliver in the Sky, live in-studio.  Read more

Local Group to Deliver Aid to Puerto Rico--Event this Saturday

Airs at: Tue, 10/17/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Puerto Rico is still suffering the consequences of Hurricane Maria and the somewhat haphazard government aid efforts. Ninety percent of the island is still without power, and clean water is near impossible to find, not to mention fuel to boil questionable water. A group of... Read more

Partly

Airs at: Thu, 11/16/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Rae Armantrout’s poetry comprises one of the most refined and visionary bodies of work written over the last forty years. These potent, compact meditations on our complicated times reveal her observant sensibility, lively intellect, and emotional complexity. This generou... Read more

Ep.10 A Soup for the Spirits

Airs at: Thu, 10/19/2017 at 12:15pm - 1:15pm
Produced for:  Peace, Love and Soup
Oct. 2017 - Bienvenidos... A Paz, Amor Y Sopa!!! On this super-sized Soup for the Spirit episode, we will be celebrating Dia de Los Muertos a little early, with heartfelt personal stories about departed loved ones written and read by these devoted listeners:     Bell   b... Read more

Famous Monsters by Kim Newman

Airs at: Mon, 10/16/2017 at 11:00pm - Tue, 10/17/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
For our Halloween Show we'll  re air Red Ryder's presentation of "The Terror of Cat Island" by Byron Leggett. A writer buys himself an isolated island in the South Pacific so he can focus on his writing. Unfortunately he brings a few too many cats with him.  Fortunato will ... Read more

Hot Topics

Airs at: Sun, 10/15/2017 at 7:45pm - Sun, 10/22/2017 at 7:45pm
Produced for:  This Is How We See It
Join us as I talk about all the new changes that have occurred in my life.  What does the 1st Amendment say?  Man kills wife and blames it on the medicine he was taking.  Read more