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Remembering Roxy

Airs at: Mon, 10/30/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Denise Morris and Jan Haaken reflect back on the legacy of Roxy LeRoy Neuhart--partner of Darcelle XV and co-owner of the longest surviving drag club in the United States. Roxy--beloved by many activists in Portland--died this past week at the age of 82. He was featured ... Read more

100 years of October, 36 years of Reds

Airs at: Mon, 10/16/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Thom Becker offers a reading from Nikos Kazantzakis about the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Then Movie Moles Joe Clement and Jan Haaken discuss the 1981 film Reds, directed by Warren Beatty, which focuses on the story of American journalists John Reed and Louise Bryant as ... Read more

Psychoanalyzing Mother! Earth

Airs at: Mon, 10/02/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Jan Haaken talks with psychoanalyst Bob Samuels about Darren Aronofsky's new film Mother! Aronofsky describes the film as a dreamscape as well as an allegorical story of destructive male narcissism. Haaken and Samuels discuss the images in the film and how we might thi... Read more

Movie Moles: Detroit

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Denise Morris and Jan Haaken review Kathryn Bigelow's "Detroit", which dramatizes events surrounding the 1967 12th Street Rebellion in Detroit. The consider what the film has to say about black life, black political movements, and the origins of social unrest. They also con... Read more

Movie Moles: "Moana"

Airs at: Mon, 08/07/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Joe Clement and Jan Haaken review the 2016 Disney film, "Moana." The film tells the story of its tituluar character, a Polynesian teenage princess who reclaims her people's long-repressed identity as deep-sea voyagers. Against her father's protests, she leaves the island to... Read more

Movie Moles: "Get Out"

Airs at: Mon, 04/03/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Movie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discuss the new film by Jordan Peele that mixes the plot of "Guess Who's Coming for Dinner" with the genre of horror. They recommend it. Correction: The review cited as by Roger Ebert was written by Brian Tallerico and appeared on... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour on 03/20/17

Airs at: Mon, 03/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Left and the Law: Immigration and Travel Bans

Airs at: Mon, 03/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker talk about the two federal courts last week that challenged Trump's revised anti-Muslim travel ban and what some describe as a consitutional crisis. They also take up how these recent legal challenges shape current border politics. Read more

Left and the Law: Obama Commutations

Airs at: Mon, 01/23/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

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Jan Haaken and Mike Snedecker talk about Obama's commuting of the sentences of political prisoners Chelsey Manning and Oscar Lopez Rivera this week, as well as commutations of other high-profile prisoners. Read more