Arts/Culture

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Music for the Season

Airs at: Mon, 06/16/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato presents a couple of hours of music and stories. Featured today will be an excerpt from the the show business autobiogaphy Dean & Me: A Love Story by Jerry Lewis. Read more

Excerpts from Dean & Me: A Love Story by Jerry Lewis

Airs at: Mon, 06/16/2025 at 11:00pm - Tue, 06/17/2025 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
The story of the rise and then break up of the biggest comedy team of all time, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Co-written by James Kaplan, Jerry Lewis looks back on his early career with comedy pardner Dean Martin. Who both went on to succssful careers on their own.  Withi... Read more

Ann Telnaes and Laura Nix

Airs at: Thu, 06/12/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Ann Telnaes has won the Herblock Prize, the Reuben Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for her political cartoons.  Recently, she left the Washington Post after 16 years when the paper spiked her cartoon depicting billionaires bowing down to Trump.  Now Ann is at the center... Read more

Breaking the Iron Wall on the Lower Willamette River

Airs at: Mon, 06/16/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The Willamette River is a confluence of social, ecological, economic and historical significance and yet we continue to struggle to protect the very place that sustains us. But we are beginning to see a crack in the iron wall that has ruled the lower Willamette, created ... Read more

Entertainment

Airs at: Fri, 06/13/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
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Willamette Radio Workshop presents 3 radio plays

Airs at: Thu, 06/12/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today’s episode, we play three very timely radio dramas from our friends at Willamette Radio Workshop. The first, The Fall of the City, was written for radio by Archibald McLeish and first broadcast on the Columbia Workshop Radio Series, April 11, 1937. The cast featu... Read more

No bad luck with Film at 11 today, as we look at Some Like it Hot

Airs at: Fri, 06/13/2025 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Today we take an in depth look at Billy Wilder's Some Like it Hot, via a new BFI Film Classics monograph on the title.  Read more

Portland Art Museum's American and European rehang

Airs at: Tue, 06/10/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, June 10, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Lloyd DeWitt on the Portland Art Museum's American and European reinstallation. DeWitt talks about making new connections and juxtapositions between American and French Impressionists, how portra... Read more

Katherine Morgan/Grand Gesture Books

Airs at: Thu, 06/05/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Katherine Morgan is the energetic owner of  Portland's first all-romance bookstore.  Her enthusiasm for the genre is sincere and contagious.  Perhaps that's why this Black-woman-owned business, located on 10th Avenue, right across from Multnomah County's Main Library, ca... Read more

The Mother (and Father) Of All Episodes

Airs at: Tue, 06/03/2025 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Winner's Bias
Nate and James welcome perhaps the most special and greatest radio guests of all time, Nate's parents! Ginny and Jeff Capp talk about playing games as a family and what it's like to play games they've never heard of to accommodate Nate's whims. Read more