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Art Talk Bus Stop: Episode 6 with Patricia Vázquez Gómez

Airs at: Wed, 07/22/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Art Talk Bus Stop
Patricia Vázquez Gómez Patricia Vázquez Gómez works and lives between the ancient Tenochtitlán and the unceded, occupied, stolen and colonized lands of the Chinook, Clackamas, Multnomah and other Indigenous peoples. Her art practice investigates the social functions of art... Read more

Hello. This is Jane. by Judith Arcana

Airs at: Thu, 07/23/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Judith Arcana, author of the new book of stories Hello. This is Jane, published by Oregon’s Left Fork Press. Judith writes poems, stories, essays, and books. Her work includes a biography of Grace Paley – titled Grace Paley’s Life Stories – the po... Read more

The Lady Eve with Barbara Stanwyck

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2020 at 11:00pm - Tue, 07/21/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight we present the radio adaptation of  what is considered the best romantic screwball comedy, Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve. Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland and Charles Coburn star in this Lux Radio Theater production based on Sturges' screenplay. Also, an episode of Sus... Read more

More Music for Mid Summer

Airs at: Mon, 07/20/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato is set up in his patio and has lots of music to share. Read more

Shrapnel Maps

Airs at: Thu, 07/16/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Writing into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict, Philip Metres’ fourth book of poems, Shrapnel Maps, is at once elegiac and activist, an exploratory surgery to extract the slivers of cartography through palimpsest and erasure. A wedding in Tou... Read more

Mid-Summer Movies on Film at 11, July 17, 2020

Airs at: Fri, 07/17/2020 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Though the movie theaters are not yet open, it seems as if there are more movies than ever via streaming and subscription services. This week we get caught up on a few of them, considering The Outpost. Also on hand are Britta on Bless Their Little Hearts, a documentary prod... Read more

Tracy Cameron Francis

Airs at: Tue, 07/14/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae talks with Tracy Cameron Francis, theatre and interdisciplinary director as well as the artistic director of Boom Arts. She is perhaps the only Egyptian-American director in Portland. Boom Arts is collaborating with Risk/Reward and XRAY. FM to present PAVEMENT:
park... Read more

Jan Eliot - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 07/09/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Jan Eliot got her start in the 1970's drawing for alternative newspapers in and around Eugene, Oregon, her weekly comic strips Patience and Sarah and Sister City focusing on the then-novel (for the funny pages) concepts of single moms and blended families.  In the 1990's... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Sherrie Wolf about her new show Memento

Airs at: Tue, 07/07/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday July 7, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Sherrie Wolf about her new show Memento, on now at Russo Lee Gallery in Portland. Wolf talks about her realistic still life paintings which often feature assemblages of richly textured drapery, shiny m... Read more

HILOZOIZMO, Miguel Ángel Pérez Becerra, OXOMAXOMA Romo, Álvarez, Meza

Airs at: Mon, 07/06/2020 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature
We dedicate this show in memory of Miguel Ángel Pérez Becerra and his family, who died last week victim of COVID19. He was a founder member of Hilozoizmo and Oxomaxoma, participating on Oxomaxoma's first two cassettes and on Hilozoizmo's cassette and performances.  A teach... Read more