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URGENT - Strong push to eliminate federal funding for public media

An urgent update from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB): "Despite the events surrounding NPR this week, our challenge remains the same: protecting federal funding for local public broadcasting stations. It is critical that we use the coming 48 hour... Read more

Big Show coming up on March 10th

This week Tillicum Wawa"Voices of the People" will present a show with two diverse but important topics. We will hear from Trish Jordan, director of Redlodge, a transitional housing program for Native women exiting the penal system. Also on the show will be a former habita... Read more

Catching up on movies already open (3/7/11)

The Adjustment Bureau Director: George Nolfi With: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie, John Slattery, Terence Stamp Loosely adapted from Philip K. Dick’s paranoid oeuvre, the story is part Matrix (the good first film) and part love story.  David Norris (Damon) is a r... Read more

policing women and privatizing care

Audio here  March 8th 2011 is the one hundredth anniversary of International Women's Day, but American women could use more than a day to call for our rights and solidarity. The recent wave of GOP legislative attacks on choice is summed up by Katha Pollit in the Natio... Read more

KBOO Mardi Gras Concert

Come celebrate Mardi Gras with KBOO at the Mt Tabor Theater on March 4th. This is a fundraiser for KBOO, so come on out and make a night of it. Where: Mt Tabor Theater, SE 48th and Hawthorne Cost: $7 When: March 4th at 9PM Steam it here: www.audioglobe.com This will be a mas... Read more

Aaron Katz's Cold Weather, part of PIFF, at Cinema 21

Cold Weather director: Aaron Katz I'm only going to use this word once here, and only as a necessary corrective: Aaron Katz is not a "mumblecore" filmmaker. I'm not even sure that label means anything anymore, but evidently some secret law demands that it appear in every... Read more