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It's that time again

Airs at: Mon, 06/10/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
, The Sampler crew returns to help you cope as summer draws closer here in Portland. Work, sickness and mysterious disappearances have limited today's hosts to Just Jess and Fortunato. Due to the recent passing last week of rock and jazz legend Dr John, we ended up playing ... Read more

Memorial Day Road Trip Special to the dark side of Astoria

Airs at: Mon, 05/27/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
TODAY AT 2PM - The Sampler crew hits the road for Memorial Day as Fortunato, Just Jess, and Godiva Lee  drive to Astoria for emergency repairs to our Haunted Van. According to our own "Fan Girl At Large", Godiva Lee, the only place to fix it is at a mystic repair shop call... Read more

Interview with biographer Alan K. Rode on his new book on film director Michael Curtiz

Airs at: Mon, 05/20/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Featured TODAY will be a phone interview with Alan K. Rode, the author of a new biography of one of the great Hollywood film directors, Michael Curtiz. And DND Mystery Theater. Plus more music and lively talk, so TUNE IN!!! Read more

Buscando America on 05/14/19

Airs at: Tue, 05/14/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for Buscando America
En este episodio conoce a Lua, cantautora andaluz radicada en Madrid. Daniela del Mar nos habla del proyecto artístico Letra Chueca Press. La actriz peruana Patty Alvitez nos habla de The Wolf at the Door una nueva producción del Teatro Milagro.  Read more

Peter Bagge - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 05/09/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  In this extended online-only conversation, we hear many more rollicking stories about Peter Bagge gained fame as the "grunge cartoonist" during the alt-comics boom of the 1990's, launching such titles as Hate, Neat Stuff, Apocalypse Nerd, and Sweatshop.  He took over th... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Laura Mueller about Northern Lights, a ceramics show at the Portland Japanese Garden

Airs at: Tue, 05/14/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Art Focus
On Tuesday May 14 at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Laura Mueller [pron. MOO-ler] about Northern Lights, a ceramics show at the Portland Japanese Garden which runs through May 27. Mueller talks about how ceramics in the northern Japanese region of Hokkaido de... Read more

The EVOLVE Experience

Airs at: Tue, 05/14/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Stage and Studio
  Dmae presents an encore broadcast of an interview with Kevin Jones, artistic director of The August Wilson Red Door Project which is presenting a new production called The EVOLVE Experience. This work combines gripping and timely monologues from of Hands Up about racial ... Read more

Music and Mystery and Space....OH MY!!!

Airs at: Mon, 05/13/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Back for May The Sampler Crew returns to help you get your work week started! Old Fortunato, Just Jess, DK Holm and Godiva Lee will present music and talk. Also featured today will be new installments of The KBOO DnD Mystery Theater, and listeners' favorite, Space Patrol. Read more

Exhalation

Airs at: Thu, 07/04/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Between The Covers
  “Like such eclectic predecessors as Philip K. Dick, James Tiptree, Jr., Jorge Luis Borges, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, China Miéville, and Kazuo Ishiguro,  Ted Chiang has explored conventional tropes of science fiction in highly unconventional wa... Read more

Bob James

Airs at: Fri, 05/03/2019 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm