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Episode Three

Airs at: Fri, 11/27/2020 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  The Ghost of Hollywood
  On this episode of The Ghost of Hollywood, Poxy and Ragan discuss the 1983 Black Comedy, The King of Comedy.         Read more

Episode Two

Airs at: Fri, 11/13/2020 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  The Ghost of Hollywood
    On this episode of The Ghost of Hollywood, Poxy and Ragan discuss the 1950 Noir Masterpiece, Sunset Boulevard, and Matt C plays all kinds of crazy digital punk tunes!         Read more

Pilot: Episode One

Airs at: Sat, 10/31/2020 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  The Ghost of Hollywood
  On this episode of The Ghost of Hollywood, Poxy and Ragan discuss the 1951 Sci-Fi classic, The Thing From Another World, and celebrate the Halloween Season.             Read more

Jonathan Hill - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 11/12/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation, illustrator, educator, and author Jonathan Hill joins S.W. Conser for an extra 20 minutes of discussion during the 2020 Portland Book Festival. Jonathan shares more stories about his artistic influences, family adventures, mission to inspi... Read more

Mexican Society of Contemporary Music. Voices of the Flute, Marielena Arizpe

Airs at: Mon, 11/16/2020 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature
Two albums by the Mexican Society of Contemporary Music produced in 1973 and 1974 with compositions by Héctor Quintanar, Francisco Savin, José Luis González, Manuel Enríquez, Mario Lavista and Leonardo Velázquez and the record Voices of the Flute with compositions by Mario ... Read more

Stuffed and Happy, Film at 11 looks at some post-Thanksgiving Movies, Friday, 27 Nov., 2020

Airs at: Fri, 11/27/2020 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Lots of movies to consider this week, with Britta Gordon on Manfred Kirchheimer's Stations of the Elevated, a "city symphony" collage about elevated subway trains in NYC, Jeff Godsil on Antonioni's masterpiece L'aventura, Gremlin Time's Matthew on Broadway Danny Rose, and ... Read more

Wider Window Poetry: Ken Yoshikawa

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2020 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Wider Window Poetry
Featured guest Ken Yoshikawa reads from Quiver and Monster Colored Glasses. Extra poems by Cedar Sigo. Read more

Rainy Day Listening with Music and Film Reviews

Airs at: Mon, 11/16/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Taking it easy today on The Sampler. Fortunato has put together another selection of fine music to enjoy with a hot drink on this rainy day. (Which will sound good even if it is not raining. ) Also dropping by will be DK Holm and Jeff Godsil from KBOO's Film @ 11 to review ... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Thomas Orr

Airs at: Tue, 11/17/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday November 17, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Thomas Orr about his show Transitory Refuge and Other Questions which runs now through November 18 at Eutectic Gallery in North Portland. Orr talks about taking a breather during the panicky pandem... Read more

Anti-Racism author Kenrya Rankin

Airs at: Thu, 11/12/2020 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
With Joe Biden’s victory in last Tuesday’s presidential election, a new administration takes charge in January, and they’ll be facing some pretty big challenges. Along with COVID-19, climate change, and the battered economy, the unmasking and encouragement of racism and whi... Read more