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Reclaiming The Brood, this week on Film at 11, Friday May 22, 2020

Airs at: Fri, 05/22/2020 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Film at 11 is stil back, and this week with a full plate. There is a lengthy discussion of David Cronenberg's early film The Brood which is now the subject of an 800-page book by comic book artist and writer Stephen Bissette, while Friend-of-the-Show Britta encourages liste... Read more

Mr. Jones's Neighborhood 5/22/20

Airs at: Fri, 05/22/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
On today's show, we welcome Ty Curtis, Oregon born-and-bred singer/songwriter/guitarist, to the neighborhood, coming to us all the way from his home in Austin, Texas. This is Ty's fourth guest appearance on the show, usually to preview the annual Portland Waterfront Blues F... Read more

Jorge Reyes

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature
Jorge Reyes started his career with Al Universo and continued with Nuevo México in the mid 70's; then he was part of Chac Mool, recording four albums before a successful solo career, mixing traditional rock instruments and Pre-Hispanic, a type of music called Etno-Rock (Eth... Read more

Sherlock Holmes and the Murder In Wax

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
The Monday Sampler presents, in our second hour, another Sherlock Holmes Adventure starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, from their long running radio series. London is rocked by a series of murders of young women in Hamsted Heath. Called in to assist the investigation, ... Read more

Hurricane Season

Airs at: Thu, 05/28/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  "Brutal, relentless, beautiful, fugal, Hurricane Season explores the violent mythologies of one Mexican village and reveals how they touch the global circuitry of capitalist greed. This is an inquiry into the sexual terrorism and terror of broken men. This is a work o... Read more

The Night Run of the Overland

Airs at: Mon, 05/18/2020 at 11:00pm - Tue, 05/19/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
From the Golden Age of Railroad Fiction comes tonight's story "The Night Run Of The Overland" by Elmore Elliot Peake. With steam train engineer Fox laid up with a fever, it falls to his wife Sylvia, who has assited him on many trips in the cabin of the Overland Express, to... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Jennifer Gray in her studio in Silverton Oregon

Airs at: Tue, 05/19/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday May 19, 2020 at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Jennifer Gray in her studio in Silverton Oregon. Gray is an oil painter who has mastered many subjects in 21 years as a self-sufficient painter, including nudes, wildlife, waterscapes and her latest com... Read more

Nordic Noir on Film at 11, Friday May 15, 2020

Airs at: Fri, 05/15/2020 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Film at 11 returns with a new episode. This one includes news about Agnes Varda, the state of movie watching, and a round-up of current streaming and DVD movies. Also, The Monday Sampler's Fortunato makes a guest appearance.  Here is the Willamette Week interview with Dan H... Read more

Shary Flenniken - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 05/14/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Shary Flenniken is one of the most influential figures in the history of underground comics.  Her comic Trots & Bonnie burst onto the pages of the National Lampoon in the early 1970's, and with its mix of radical politics, coy sexuality, absurd situations, approachable ... Read more

Bubblegum by Adam Levin

Airs at: Thu, 05/14/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Adam Levin, author of the new novel Bubblegum, from Doubleday. Adam’s work includes the novel The Instructions and the story collection Hot Pink. He's been a New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award winner, a recipient of a National Endow... Read more