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Gregg Bielemeier, Lyndee Mah about their dance concert + Robin Lane of "Do Jump Theatre"

Airs at: Tue, 12/02/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for Stage and Studio
 Dmae Roberts talks with Gregg Bielemeier and Lyndee Mah about Skinner, Kirk + Bielemeier dance concert Dec. 3-7th at the Portland Opera Studio Theatre presented by Whitebird Dance.  And Robin Lane of Do Jump's "Home for the Holidays" is featured in the second half.  That s... Read more

Comics and Animation Wizard Michel Gagne

Airs at: Mon, 11/24/2008 at 12:00am
Produced for Words and Pictures
Words & Pictures travels north to Bellingham, Washington, to visit Canadian comics and animation wizard Michel Gagne, whose work runs the gamut from the abstract jazz-inspired film Sensology to concept design for Disney and Pixar.  Gagne's bewildering take on the Dark Knigh... Read more

Dmae Roberts talks with Benjamin Parzybok about Couch: A Novel

Airs at: Tue, 11/11/2008 at 12:00am
Produced for Stage and Studio
Dmae Roberts focuses on the writers studio and talks with Benjamin Parzybok about his debut book, Couch: A Novel published by Small Beer Press.  Benjamin Parzybok is the creator of Gumball Poetry, a (now defunct) journal published through gumball machines, the Psychic Book ... Read more

Tears of Joy's The Jungle Book and Devon Allen of Thom Pain

Airs at: Tue, 11/04/2008 at 4:00pm
Produced for Stage and Studio
Dmae Roberts talks with Puppeteer Shuhe and Director Emily Alexander of Tears of Joy Theatre's "The Jungle Book." In the second half Devon Allen brings back the Pulitzer Prize nominated  "Thom Pain (Based on Nothing) by Will Eno.   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

Action/Adventure Theatre's "Fall of the House" and Artists Repertory Theatre's "Speech and Debate"

Airs at: Tue, 10/28/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for Stage and Studio
Dmae Roberts talks with Tamara Carrol, Aubrey Jensen and Miranda King of Action/Adventure Theatre about their four-installment production of "Fall of the House" a serialized theatre piece.  And in the second half, Jon Kretzu of Artists Repertory Theatre joins via phone to t... Read more

Voices of Northwest Cartoonists

Airs at: Mon, 10/27/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
Words and Pictures presents a compilation of Pacific Northwest cartoonists reading from their works.  Guests include Carol Lay, Charles Burns, Jim Woodring, Bob Rini, David Malki, and John Callahan. 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

"Day of the Dead" at Milagro Theatre and "Pterodactyle" at Theatre Vertigo

Airs at: Tue, 10/21/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for Stage and Studio
Host Dmae Roberts talks with Director Phillip Cuomo of Milagro Theatre about his production of " La Carpa del MaestroP:  El Dia de los Muertos" Day of the Dead celebration.  In the second half, Tom Moorman of Theatre Vertigo talks about "Pterodactyls" by Nicky Silver, a pla... 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