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What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad

Airs at: Thu, 07/21/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
On today's episode, we speak with Omar El Akkad about his novel What Strange Paradise, recently released in paperback. Called “an instant classic” by the New York Times, What Strange Paradise is the searing story about one boy’s perilous journey toward safety in a desperate... Read more

Wider Window Poetry with Samiya Bashir

Airs at: Mon, 07/04/2022 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Wider Window Poetry
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Back by popular demand, our special episode on Tarkovsky's war drama Ivan's Childhood, for Film at 11 on Friday, June 17, 2022

Airs at: Fri, 06/17/2022 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
From time to time here at Film at 11 we like to focus on one particular film, and one of our most popular episodes concern this war film by Andri Tarkovsky. In this repeat, this time around we also include a reading in Russian of the poem by Tarkovsky's father that figures... Read more

Kelsey Birsa

Airs at: Tue, 06/14/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, June 14, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Kelsey Birsa about her show Living Room which is on through July 2 at Blackfish Gallery in the Pearl District. Birsa talks about painting from photos and screen grabs during the pandemic, her rediscovery of camping, and ... Read more

More Adventures with the Space Patrol

Airs at: Mon, 06/13/2022 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Featured today, Retrofuturistic adventures with Commander Buzz Corey and Cadet Happy of The Space Patrol. On today's episode, The Hole In Empty Space, a mysterious object, that seems to swallow anything it comes in contact with,  has appeared near the orbit of Venus. This s... Read more

SuperButch - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 06/09/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Portland alt-comics heavyweights Barry Deutsch (Hereville) and Becky Hawkins (French Toast Comix) have teamed up to create SuperButch, the adventures of a lesbian superhero and the citizens whose lives she transforms.  Set in the 1940's when many gay Americans led double... Read more

Liz Prato, author of Kids in America: A Gen X Reckoning

Airs at: Thu, 06/09/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, our guest is Liz Prato, author of the new essay collection Kids in America: A Gen X Reckoning. Liz’s previous books include Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege: Essays on Hawaii, which was a New York Times Top Summer Read and a Finalist for the Oregon B... Read more

Players and other "things," this week on Film at 11, for Friday 24 June, 2022

Airs at: Fri, 06/24/2022 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Jeff Godsil on Robert Altman's Hollywood satire The Player, Matthew of KBOO'S monthly Gremlin Time on the Howard Hawks version of  The Thing From Another World, and in the book corner, two recent monographs on John Carpenter's version of The Thing, one from the Devils Advoc... Read more

Another all Hitchcock episode of Film at 11, for June 10, 2022

Airs at: Fri, 06/10/2022 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Alfred Hitchcock is a filmmaker whose work yields so many ideas, observations, and lessons in filmmaking. This week Jeff Godsil revisits his war film Foreign Correspondent, while Matthew of KB00's Gremlin Time looks at his experiment with 3-D in the thriller Dial "M" for Mu... Read more

Pre Summer In PDX

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2022 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Schools out, and we're celebrating roses. Warm days and high overcast. It's not warm enough to go swimming but it is great weather to sit on the back porch and listen to music.  Read more