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Juneteenth, George Floyd and Black Resistance

Airs at: Mon, 06/19/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Sky Wilson interviews Kent Ford, co-founder of the Portland Black Panthers, longtime community activist, public intellectual, and People’s historian, who helped organize the Memorial Fred Hampton People’s Health Clinic and organized and volunteered for years at the Panther’... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 12, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 06/12/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Freedom of Expression/Limitations/Censorship: Image courtesy of Max Pixel and licensed under Creative Commons Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which features the following segments: Mourning, resilience, and resistance: The Story of the Celilo Wy’am: As a fo... Read more

Mourning, resilience, and resistance: The Story of the Celilo Wy’am

Airs at: Mon, 06/12/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
As a follow up to our May 22 show, we hear the second half of a reading by Celilo Wy-am activist Lana Jack, Celilo Wyam activist from her short memoir “We are Here: The Story of the Celilo Wy-am is one of mourning, resilience and resistance,” which appears in the Spring edi... Read more

It Did Happen Here hosts and producers talk about their project and event on Tuesday, June 6th, 7pm

Airs at: Mon, 06/05/2023 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Tonight, join Mic Crenshaw, Celina Flores, Moe Bowstern and Jonathan Mozzochi in Studio 2, as they talk about It Did Happen Here, the book, the podcast and their upcoming event on Tuesday, June 6th, 7pm at Powell's City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St, Portland, OR 97209   ... Read more

Crafting Pinocchio

Airs at: Thu, 06/08/2023 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  The Portland Art Museum's new exhibition "Crafting Pinocchio" takes visitors inside the world of Guillermo del Toro's Academy Award-winning version of Pinocchio, created largely in Portland with local stop-motion animators. Pinocchio Co-Director Mark Gustafson and Animat... Read more

Ship Shapes

Airs at: Tue, 06/06/2023 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  Vinyl Pajama Party
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Kelly McWilliams: Your Plantation Prom is Not Okay

Airs at: Thu, 06/01/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in Louisiana, which they’ve transformed into one of the South's few enslaved people’s museums. Together, while grieving the recent loss of Harriet’s mother, they run tours that help keep the memory of the... Read more

26 - The Simpsons with Al Jean

Airs at: Fri, 06/09/2023 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  The Ghost of Hollywood
  Comedic writer, Al Jean, visits with Ragan & Poxy to discuss his work writing for The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Alf, & his career as a Writer & Producer for the sitcom, The Simpsons.         Read more

Oh Gee Pee Oh Gee on 05/21/23

Airs at: Sun, 05/21/2023 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Oh Gee Pee Oh Gee
  Music for the moment and considering concepts of grounding while wishing a happy birthday to Sondra "Blinky" Williams, Rayven Channelle, Leo Sayer, Fats Waller, Mattias Bärjed, and Kevin Shields. Read more

Joshua James Amberson, author of Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes

Airs at: Thu, 05/25/2023 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Joshua James Amberson, author of the new book Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes, from Portland’s Perfect Day Publishing. Joshua’s writing includes the novel How to Forget Almost Everything, a series of chapbooks from Two Plum Press, and the l... Read more