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Paige Hook Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Paige Hook is a democrat running for the Oregon House 17 seat.  She talked with Don Merrill about how her district needs new leadership as a way to finally get rural counties a seat at the big boy table, why gun legislation and gun safety are not mutually exclusive, and why... Read more

Midnight Collages from Kill Ugly Radio

Airs at: Tue, 04/28/2020 at 12:00am - 3:00am
12:00AM: Kill Ugly Radio Part One: The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick Mediascape collage of the life, times and fiction (and fictionalized life and times) of the visionary science fiction author Philip K. Dick. Sources: Films: The Penultimate Truth of Philip K. Dic... Read more

Patrick Castles Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Patrick Castles is a republican who is running for the seat in Oregon House District 38.  He talked with Don Merrill about why diversity training reminds him of communist re-education camps ordered by the ruling elite of Vietnam after the war, why he blames undocumented adu... Read more

Julia Hill Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Julia Hill is a democrat who is running for the Oregon House District 39 seat.  She talked with Don Merrill about how her international experience with the Peace Corps and Doctors without Borders could help Oregon deal with this current and future disasters., why her love o... Read more

Charles "Chip" Davis Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Charles "Chip" Davis is a democrat who is running for the Oregon House district 19 seat.  He talked with Don Merrill about how his district is ready for a democrat despite being held by republicans for more than a decade, what is lacking in the dialogue between liberals and... Read more

Margo Logan Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Margo Logan is a republican who is running for Oregon 's 44th House district.  She talked with Don Merrill about why she has been a member of many other parties on both sides of the political spectrum, why she doesn't see much hard evidence for either a pandemic or climate ... 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

Murders In The Rue Morgue read by Katherine Dunn

Airs at: Mon, 04/20/2020 at 11:00pm - Tue, 04/21/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
We will present two mysteries tonight. First the very first modern detective story, 1841's "The Murders In The Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allen Poe Tonight's version will be read to us in abridged form by Katherine Dunn. In our second half, an episode of the classic radio series ... Read more

39. Quiet Flows the Willamette

Airs at: Wed, 04/08/2015 at 10:45am - 12:45pm
    What if society had gone completely off the rails? What if Trump had succeded in becoming the Grand High Potentate of the USA? What if he had actually known the left-of-center community radio station, KBOO-FM in Portland, Oregon, had broadcast some critical comments a... Read more

Buscando America on 04/14/20

Airs at: Tue, 04/14/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En esta emisión escucharás unas conversación con la cantante Audry Funk desde NYC, epicentro de la pandemia de CIVID19.  En la Sesión  9  de Voces ke Luxan,  Karen Torrente habló con Pabla san Martin escritora y partera tradicional sobre la  situacion social que  se vive en... Read more