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Joseph Gallivan interviews art collector Nungies in her home in Portland

Airs at: Tue, 04/28/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews art collector Nungies in her home in Portland. She talks about seven works that visualize the connection between psychoactive plants and sacred and psychedelic themes. This is the show for anyone interested... Read more

Remember To Wash Your Hands

Airs at: Mon, 04/27/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
The Sampler is back for the last Monday in April. We will present another story by James Thurber, read to us by Katherine Dunn, "More Alarms At Night". It seems that the Thurber family is always getting up to some strange things in the middle of the night. A follow up story... Read more

Tino Contreras "Éxitos" 3 LP Set

Airs at: Sun, 04/26/2020 at 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  La Voz Del Sabor
This is a fantastic 3 LP Set released in 1968 by Musart with drummer TIno Contreras. He is now 96 years old and going stong!! Read more

"Fools," Kate Gray

Airs at: Mon, 04/27/2020 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  The Occasion
The theme for April is "Fools," and this month's show features Kate Gray, who is the author of For Every Girl: New & Selected Poems and Another Sunset We Survive, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and followed her chapbooks, Bone-Knowing, winner of the Gertrude... Read more

Makirush, LLT, Carlo, Rebeld'd Punk, Metal Mexicano, Sub Lux

Airs at: Fri, 04/24/2020 at 10:00pm - Sat, 04/25/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
   Menonite rock Makirush with the album Babushka, LLT with Ficción Remixes, Carlo with Toma lo que Quieras, Mexican Heavy Metal and Portland's Sub-Lux. Read more

Episode 7: Darrell Grant & Alexander Gedeon

Airs at: Thu, 04/23/2020 at 3:30pm
Produced for:  Anything But Ordinary
  When we recorded this episode of the Anything But Ordinary podcast with critically acclaimed composer and jazz pianist Darrell Grant and experimental opera director, songwriter, and performer Alexander Gedeon a few months ago, the world looked very different, and we were... Read more

Marjane Satrapi - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 04/23/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Marjane Satrapi is the artist and writer behind such graphic memoirs as Persepolis, Embroideries, and Chicken with Plums, and is the co-director of the animated feature film version of Persepolis.  She grew up in Tehran during the revolution that toppled the Shah and led... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Theo Downes-Le Guin of Upfor Gallery about Danielle Roney’s show Frequencies of Opacity

Airs at: Tue, 04/21/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday April 21, 2020 in a special one hour show from 11:00 a.m. to noon PST Joseph Gallivan interviews Theo Downes-Le Guin of Upfor Gallery about Danielle Roney’s show Frequencies of Opacity. Le Guin talks about how Roney translated recorded voices of undocumented Amer... Read more

Mr. Jones's Neighborhood 4/24/20

Airs at: Fri, 04/24/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
On today's show, we welcome Chelsea Bieker, author of the new novel Godshot, from Catapult Press. Chelsea is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Foundation Award and her fiction and essays have been published in Granta, McSweeney’s, Catapult magazine, Electric Literature... Read more

Parts Per Million by Julia Stoops

Airs at: Thu, 04/23/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Julia Stoops, author of the novel Parts Per Million, from Forest Avenue Press. Julia is a recipient of Oregon Arts Commission Fellowships for visual arts and literature, and was a resident at the Ucross Foundation in 2016. She holds dual degrees in... Read more