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MILES DAVIS' 90th Birthday Special

Airs at: Sat, 05/28/2016 at 12:00am - 6:00am
Produced for:  The Outside World
TUNE IN FROM MIDNIGHT TIL 6:00 AM and join COUSIN JIMI, UNCLE AV CLUB,  RANGER ROWLF COULSON, CHEF PETER, DR. KIPILMAN and probably other Miles devotees who drop by for our annual birthday celebration. Miles Dewey Davis III was born in Alton, Illinois (just across the Missi... Read more

Honoring the life and art of Prince Rogers Nelson (part 2)

Airs at: Thu, 05/26/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
To cover the vast amount of work Prince Rogers Nelson has done on this earth, it's going to take a full year (at least).  We still wanted to do something with the minimal amount of time we have though, so we are spending this week looking at just a few of the MANY songs he ... Read more

Vanessa Renwick and the Oregon Department of Kick Ass

Airs at: Thu, 05/26/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Film Show
  Vanessa Renwick is the founder of the Oregon Department of Kick Ass and a member of the experimental film collective Peripheral Produce.  The Portland Art Museum is currently featuring an multi-channel video and sound installation by Vanessa titled Next Level Fucked Up, ... Read more

Seeing Red by Lina Meruane

Airs at: Thu, 06/30/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  In Lina Meruane's Seeing Red, fiction and autobiography intertwine.  An intense, visceral novel about the relation between the body, illness, and human relationship by one of Chile’s brightest young authors.  “Lina Meruane’s prose has great literary force: it emerges fro... Read more

Philip Kan Gotanda - Traveling Master

Airs at: Tue, 05/24/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae features veteran playwright Philip Kan Gotanda. She first talked to him three years ago when he came to do a talk at Reed College. Now he's a Traveling Master for the Dramatists Guild Fund and will be teaching a class called "Challenges of Writing From a Racial and Cul... Read more

Vanport Mosaic Festival

Airs at: Tue, 05/17/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae features the Vanport Mosaic Festival that celebrates and remembers an important time and community in Portland history. She'll talk  with festival co-artistic directors S. Renee Mitchell, Damaris Webb and Laura Lo Forti.  Damaris is the director/producer of Cottonwood ... Read more

Sounds Unsound early May 2016

Airs at: Sun, 05/15/2016 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Sounds Unsound
music, noise and other sounds to caress your ear and disturb your mind...   Read more

Lemonade, Black Womanhood, & Self-Love (A digital roundtable)

Airs at: Fri, 05/13/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Hosts Pamela Santos and Tessara Dudley invited fierce Black artists & writers from diverse gender identities to talk about Beyonce's film and visual album Lemonade and the "thinkpiece" explosion that surrounded the release. Tune in at 6pm to hear this discussion of Lemonade... Read more

Crossing East Radio Series

Airs at: Mon, 05/30/2016 at 10:00am - 6:00pm
Nearly ten years ago, MediaRites Productions debuted Crossing East, (Our Stories, Our History, Our America), the first and to date only Asian American/Pacific Islander history series on public radio. This series produced by Dmae Roberts, Sara Kolbet and producers around the... Read more

Portland's Animation Industry

Airs at: Thu, 05/12/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  The Northwest Animation Festival has quickly grown to become the largest animation festival in the country, showcasing features and short films from around the world while focusing on local industry and talent.  During this year's festival, we're joined in the studio by ... Read more