Arts/Culture

Radiozine on 12/22/08

Airs at: Mon, 12/22/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Ed Goldberg speaks with Tom Moon, author of "1,000 Recordings To Hear Before You Die," a list to read and argue about. Tom Moon has been writing about pop, rock, jazz, blues, hip-hop and the music of the world since 1983. CD-1440 Read more

Between the Covers

Airs at: Mon, 12/22/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ed Goldberg interviews local author Jill Kelly, whose memoir of alcoholism and recovery is called Sober Truths: the Making of an Honest Woman. Kelly's demons did not go quietly when she put the bottle down. Loneliness, anxiety, distrust of others-they were all still th... Read more

Art Focus on 12/17/08

Airs at: Wed, 12/17/2008 at 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
Eva Lake hosts a tribute to Portland photographer and curator Terry Toedtemeier, who died last week. Guests include his widow, Prudence Roberts, gallery owner Jane Beebe, and John Laursen, co-author of the book, Wild Beauty, with Toedtemeier.  Terry Toedtemeier was the Por... Read more

The Amazing Bruce Bickford

Airs at: Mon, 12/15/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
For more than 40 years, maverick stop-motion animator Bruce Bickford has been constructing dreamlike landscapes and bringing them to life, gaining notoriety in the 1970's as the fertile mind behind the Frank Zappa films Baby Snakes and The Amazing Mister Bickford. The subje... Read more

Studs Terkel RIP

Airs at: Wed, 12/17/2008 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Circle A Radio
Studs Terkel, one of our radio heros, died October 31, 2008 at his home in Chicago. He was 96. We spend this hour with personal tributes, but mostly with Studs own work, ranging from interviews he did for WFMT, and for his many Oral History books, as well as interviews wher... Read more

Dr Deborah Smith Pollard, "When the Church Becomes Your Party"

Airs at: Tue, 11/04/2008 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Dr. Deborah Smith Pollard discusses her work, "When Your Church Becomes Your Party," an examination of  contemporary gospel music. What distinguishes this book from other gospel music scholarship is its marriage of elements from the church, the academy, and the medium of r... Read more

One Two One Two Zulu

  --->   4th Sundays from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM. Hip Hop from all corners and blocks.... One Two, One Two ZULUUUUU!!! Grimrock: Turntablist from Portland, and member of the Universal Zulu Nation Oregon Chapter (45th Parallel Zulus) and other guest Read more

From the Black Book Talk Vault: Jewell Parker Rhodes discusses "Yellow Moon"

Airs at: Thu, 07/06/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Last month we interviewed Kelly McWilliams, author of Your Plantation Prom Is Not Okay. She credited her mother's example as a great influence on her writing.  We interviewed her mother, author Jewell Parker Rhodes, 15 years ago, so we're delighted to rebroadcast our 2008 ... Read more

On the Road with America's Poor: An interview with Kath Weston

Airs at: Wed, 09/24/2008 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
  On the Road with America's Poor: An Interview with Kath Weston How far can you get on two tacos, one Dr. Pepper, and a little bit of conversation? What happens when you're broke and you need to get to a new job, an ailing parent, a powwow, college, or a funeral on the ot... Read more

UPA Retrospective

Airs at: Mon, 08/25/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
Words & Pictures celebrates 65 years of the UPA animation studio with rare audio clips and stories from the people who were there.  Guest Jack Heiter helped animate Mister Magoo, Roger Ramjet, and the forgotten 1960's classic Gay Purr-ee; and animation historian Tee Bosusto... Read more