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Comics Take on the News & meet Megan's stepdad

Airs at: Mon, 05/26/2025 at 10:00pm - Tue, 05/27/2025 at 12:00am
Produced for Comics Take on the News
On Monday 26th at 10pm listen live while 1 host, 3 comics, 1 sound engineer all breakdown (probably) while trying to figure out what is going on in the news. Or maybe it will be a totally normal news show - unlikely. This month on Comics Take on the News comedian features... Read more

Pink Tiger Games Brings the Positivity

Airs at: Tue, 05/20/2025 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Winner's Bias
James and Nate chat with Amy Baio of Portland-based Pink Tiger Games. We talk about how she got her first game design, making the prototype and knowing when to stop,  connecting with artists, and making "sweet, kind games to connect people." Amy will be launching a Kicks... Read more

Oregon Book Awards winner Kimberly King Parsons, author of We Were the Universe (re-broadcast)

Airs at: Thu, 05/22/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Jonesy
Last summer, we interviewed Kimberly King Parsons for her novel We Were the Universe, which had just been released by Knopf. Here we are, almost a year later, and Kim and the novel were just honored with the Oregon Book Awards’ Ken Kesey Prize for Fiction. While Jonesy h... Read more

Terry LaBan

Airs at: Thu, 05/08/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Terry LaBan is a comics writer and artist whose titles have included Unsupervised Existence, Cud Comics, and The Dreaming.  He’s collaborated with some of the top names in the alternative and mainstream comics industries, and he teamed up with his wife Patty to create... Read more

Brickhouse Games Returns!

Airs at: Tue, 05/06/2025 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Winner's Bias
Rick and Mary Hou of Brickhouse games come back after the release of their game, Northwest, to discuss the trials and tribulations of fulfilling a crowd-funding campaign, the expansion to Northwest, and launching a new campaign in the world of Trump's tariffs. Read more

Comics Take on the News - After that song we all love x3

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2025 at 10:00pm - Tue, 04/29/2025 at 12:00am
Produced for Comics Take on the News
  The comics on this month's Comics Take on the News have traveled all over the earth doing comedy - at least in video form. They are sure to have some interesting, albiet less than greatly, informed Takes on Portland and the news.Tune in on Monday at 10pm to join us.  ... Read more

Nina Paley - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 04/24/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Animator Nina Paley is one of the most independent of filmmakers.  Her two feature films, Sita Sings the Blues and Seder Masochism, tackle patriarchal themes in religious narratives, and reimagine them from a feminist point of view. A fierce advocate of copyright abo... Read more

The Youth Collective Takes On Nature

Airs at: Wed, 04/23/2025 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for The Underground
The Youth Collective talks poisonous animals, the best trees, blue-ringed octopi, St Teresa Marso, Steve Irwin, and, of course, Ric "Nature Boy" Flair. This is all rounded out with some nature-themed music sets and nature sounds. Read more

More Alarms At Night by James Thurber

Airs at: Mon, 03/16/2020 at 11:00pm - Tue, 03/17/2020 at 12:00am
A humourous rememberance by New Yorker writer and cartoonist James Thurber of his growing up in Columbus, Ohio at the start of the 20th Century. One night, young James can't fall asleep as he is fixated on recalling the name of a certain town in New Jersey that has two w... Read more

Nature

Produced for The Underground
This months, the Youth Collective is taking some steps outside and covering their favorite things in nature. They've got segments ranging everything from Nature noises to the deadliest plants and animals on the planet, deep dives on Steve Irwin and beautiful trees, and p... Read more