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Love Letters to Kilfinane

Airs at: Sat, 02/29/2020 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
Selections from the 2017 and 2019 HearSay International Audio Arts Festival in Kilfinane, County Limerick, Ireland Every two years, a mountain village of seven hundred people in Western Ireland hosts over 400 festival-goers for the HearSay International Audio Arts Festival... Read more

Love Letters to Kilfinane: Selections from the HearSay International Audio Arts Festival

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
This Saturday morning from 12-3am, Threshold Shift presents a three-hour long sonic adventure into the world of the 2017 and 2019 HearSay International Audio Arts Festival in Kilfinane, County Limerick, Ireland. For more information, visit the episode page. Contributors in... Read more

Melting Pot with sub host Yorik Jones

Airs at: Tue, 02/18/2020 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  The Melting Pot
Yorik Jones sub hosts this week's "Melting Pot". Tune in for an apopcalyptic tour of "World Beat", plus a special audio tribute to some of my personal Black American heroes in honor of Black History Month. Plus it'll sound real good... Read more

Make Valentine’s Day Great Again

Airs at: Sat, 02/15/2020 at 12:00am - 3:00am
  Dateless again, but that's no biggie, join Lady Danger, in the lovely RIP CITY Hardcore, Pogo, Gogo, poetry, Hiphop, Radioplay, electronic stuff, missed connections and more..... Today isn't for love, it's for the revolution  US League of Women Voters 1920 : The League ... Read more

Poets Take on the Presidents

Airs at: Mon, 02/17/2020 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Talking Earth
Unique takes on US Presidents by poet and artists Harold Johnson and Leanne Grabel. Harold’s new book presents thumbnail placards for each President’s portrait in the National Gallery as if a slave or black man was writing it- a mugshot of words and actions. Leanne picks up... Read more

Alex Krupkin Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Alex Krupkin is registered on the FEC.gov website as a candidate for President of the United States.  He talked with Don Merrill about why self-segregation needs to be the wave of the future, how the US is like a cellular body on the brink of a new evolutionary change, and ... Read more

Larry Horn Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Larry Horn is a moderate Republican and one of 15 Oregon residents who is running for President of the United States.  He talked with Don Merrill about why we need to reduce of use of social (or as he calls it, "anti" social) media, how he connects Nazi experiments with "Fa... Read more

Bob Niemeyer Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Bob Niemeyer is running for the Oregon House District 35 seat in 2020.  When I last interviewed him in 2016, he was criticizing the Oregon legislature for what he called some of its "stupid" behavior.  Four years later, he now feels that behavior is uncontrollable, like tha... Read more

Tina Jayne Hahn Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Tina Jayne Hahn is a candidate for President of the United States.  She is one of approximately 14 Oregonians who are registered on the FEC.gov website.  She talked with Don Merrill about why a single unified tax should replace all other taxes, the importance of free and na... Read more

Mark Roberts Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Mark Roberts is a candidate for the US House in District 2.  He talks with Don Merrill about pennance for explosive comments regarding first Lady Melania Trump in 2018 (and subsequent changes to his web and social media presence), his determination to serve his constituents... Read more