Arts/Culture

2025 Pickathon is almost here

Produced for: KBOO

Big Names and Local Bands are ready to slay at 2025 Pickathon Big-name bands at Portland’s most unique music festival, 2025 Pickathon, include Portugal. The Man, Taj Mahal, Ocie Elliott, Julien Baker & Torres, and Haley Heynderickx. But Pickathon (July 31–Aug. 3 at Pen... Read more

Once Upon a Time

Airs at: Fri, 09/12/2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Produced for: Once Upon a Time

Arella DeAndre Christianson (born April 23, 1991) is an American filmmaker and musician whose work delves into the poetic dimensions of the human soul. Drawing on themes of dreams, memory, and metaphysical transformation, his films construct evocative, introspective nar... Read more

William T. Vollmann on The Lucky Star (re-broadcast)

Airs at: Thu, 09/11/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am

Produced for: Jonesy

One of our greatest American novelists, William T. Vollmann, has a new novel coming out early next year. And it’s a big one in every way. Bill is known for massive works of both fiction and non-fiction, but the new novel, A Table For Fortune, is his longest. I mean like ... Read more

Nancy Helsmworth

Airs at: Tue, 09/09/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

On Tuesday, September 9, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan talks to artist Nancy Helsmworth about her paintings in the three-woman show Riparian Reflections, which is on now at Gallery 114 through Sept. 27, 2025. Helsmworth’s paintings focus on the water, sky, rocks an... Read more

More James Bond if you can stand it for Friday 5 September 2025

Airs at: Fri, 09/05/2025 at 10:30am - 11:00am

Produced for: Film at 11

Ben joins again for a survey of the franchise's "Bond girls" Read more

Late Summer Listening

Airs at: Mon, 09/08/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: The Monday Sampler

Starting today, a three part presentation of a 2010 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Ian Fleming's popular 1959 spy novel Goldfinger. Lt. Commander James Bond, Toby Stephens, is assigned to look into the activities of a wealthy gold dealer, Auric Goldfinger, Sir Ian McKellan.... Read more

Previewing the 2025 Portland Writers Picnic

Airs at: Thu, 09/04/2025 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm

Produced for: Evening News, News In Depth

Portland is blessed with an incredible literary community. Could be for a wealth of reasons -- our independent book stores, the perfect-for-reading weather, the world-class coffee, and annual traditions like the Portland Book Festival. All attractive for those engaged in... Read more

From the Black Book Talk Vault: Renee Watson and "The 1619 Project: Born on the Water"

Airs at: Thu, 09/04/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

As attempts to ignore, refute, or even remove African-Americans' contributions to the American record, we at "Black Book Talk" continue to affirm Black history and culture as expressed through our literature. To this end, we rebroadcast our November 2021 conversation ... Read more