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Fall Grows Colder on Film at 11, for Friday, for Nov. 6 2020

Airs at: Fri, 11/06/2020 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for Film at 11
This week the team has an array of films to get you through the colder months, including Britta Gordon on the film and BFI book on Lynne Ramsey's Ratcatcher, Gremlin Time's Matthew on the influence of the James Bond films,  Jeff Godsil on The Doors, and more reviews, includ... Read more

Mr. Jones's Neighborhood 10/23/20

Airs at: Fri, 10/23/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
On today's show, we celebrate our city's biggest literary event of the year -- the Portland Book Festival. This year, as with just about every event other than superspeader campaign rallies, the Festival is going virtual. Instead of one big day, it will take place over seve... Read more

Buscando America on 10/20/20

Airs at: Tue, 10/20/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for Buscando America
  A 528 años de la guerra de exterminio indígena, en esta emisión hablamos sobre  la toma de las instalaciones del Instituto Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas en CDMX y  sobre el comunicado el Concejo Indígena y Popular de Guerrero - Emiliano Zapata. En `Corazón del Sur ´ ... Read more

It Did Happen Here

In the 1980s, before gentrification, before Portlandia, Portland, Oregon was a sleepy city that existed outside of the national spotlight.  Skinheads had always been part of the local punk scene. In the late 1980s, punks and skins started being recruited by national white s... Read more

Space Patrol returns to fight The Indestructible Germ

Airs at: Mon, 10/19/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Back by popular demand, another adventure featuring Commander Buzz Cory and the Space Patrol! A pair of desgruntaled  medical researchers have developed a deadly virus which they plan to unlease on Venius City as revenge against the famous scientist who'd failed to recogniz... Read more

YAN SHU II Motor Sessions Live LENUT LE Soñeus

Airs at: Mon, 10/19/2020 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for A Different Nature
  Yan Shu II Motor Sessions Live. Recorded live during the Butoh Dance Company "Yan Shu" Tour in Mexico City in 2002 at Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Anahuacalli Museum and at Teatro de las Vizcainas. Yan Shu: Moro Motor: Sergio Espinoza, Mariano Espinoza, Alejandro Vargas, Germ... Read more

More 2020 hooorrooor on Film at 11, Friday 30th October 2020

Airs at: Fri, 10/30/2020 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for Film at 11
This week in anticipation of the year's scariest day of the year, we have Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time on Mario Bava's anthology film  Black Sunday, and our L.A. correspondent Jeff Godsil on the seminal ghost story,  The Uninvited. Also on hand is Britta Gordon on a selec... Read more

Space Patrol verses The Indestructible Germ!

Airs at: Mon, 10/19/2020 at 2:00am - 4:00am
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Space Patrol returns to the Monday Sampler with another exciting adventure with Commander Cory and Cadet Happy. An evil scientist plans to unlease a deadly plague on Venius City! Also, DK Holm drops by with a quick film review. As well as another line up of great music. Thi... Read more

Allie Brosh - Solutions and Other Problems

Airs at: Thu, 10/22/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Allie Brosh is the creator of the comics blog Hyperbole and a Half and the author of the book collection of the same name, which unexpectedly shot to number one on the New York Times bestseller list in 2013. Her long-awaited second book Solutions and Other Problems arriv... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Jeannie Kenmotsu of the Portland Art Museum,

Airs at: Tue, 10/20/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Art Focus
On Tuesday October 20, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Jeannie Kenmotsu, the curator of Japanese art at the Portland Art Museum, about the show “Japan’s Women Printmakers” which is on now through April 2021 at the museum. Kenmotsu talks about how a group of p... Read more