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Beyonce, Formation, and the Politics of Race in Pop Music

Airs at: Mon, 02/22/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken and Denise Morris unpack the complicated cultural and critical response to "Formation", a song and music video released by Beyonce Knowles days before her Super Bowl half-time performance of it. They consider the content of the song and video, the politics of rac... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 15, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 02/15/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick is our host on today's show and we hear --  1. Educator and writer Jodi Sokolower talks with Bill about sex positive and LGBTQ friendly sex education. 2.  Laurie Mercier talks with Native American artists about a new art exhibit about the Sand Creek Massac... Read more

Book Review: "The Other Typist"

Airs at: Mon, 02/15/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Larry Bowlden reviews The Other Typist, a debut novel by Suzanne Rindell. It is about a young woman hired as a typist by the New York Police Dept. in the 1920s. Riddell has much to say about the expectations on women of that time, and how the typewriter brought women into a... Read more

Steve Phillips Interview

Airs at: Wed, 02/03/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Steve Phillips is the author of the new book, "Brown is the New White", a critical discussion on changes that are coming to the American body politic in advance of the population shift from majority white to "other than white" by 2044. He talks with Don Merrill about Berni... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for February 1, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 02/01/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Norm Diamond hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick and David Finkle, talking about a recent Syrian Peace Summit. Clayton Morgareidge offers a reading about "snow days under socialism" Larry Bowlden reviews Terra Konklins, "The House Girl". Norm offers s... Read more

Book Mole: The House Girl

Airs at: Mon, 02/01/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Larry Bolden reviews Tara Conklin's "The House Girl", a story split between the present day and the days of slavery. Larry commends it for not just being a cleverly constructed story, but deeply researched and informative about the realities of abolitionist struggle. Read more

Abortion Rights Movement Today

Airs at: Mon, 01/18/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken interviews Carole Joffe., professor at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health and author of path-breaking books on the abortion rights movement and anti-choice politics. She gives her take on the State of the Abortion Rights movement (playing on Obama's ... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for January 4, 2016

Airs at: Mon, 01/04/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Joe Clement hosts this edition of the Old Mole. On it we hear  1.  Part Two of Bill Resnick's interview with Mike Houck and Kaitlin Lovell about Portland's Climate Action Plan; 2.  Medea Benjamin's list of ten really good things that happened in 2015 (read by Tom Becker); ... Read more

Movie Moles: "Carol"

Airs at: Wed, 01/06/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Movie Moles Frann Michel and Denise Morris review Carol, the latest feature from director Todd Haynes (perhaps best known for the Douglas Sirk homage Far From Heaven); Carol is  currently playing in Portland at the Hollywood Theatre.   Carol, directed by Todd Haynes, is bas... Read more

Century Of Lies for January 3 2016

Airs at: Sun, 01/03/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week: a conversation with Cyndee Clay, executive director of HIPS-DC (formerly Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive), a "by-and-for" outreach and harm reduction organization based in Washington, DC. Read more