On today's episode, we welcome Jeremy Braddock, author of the new book
Firesign: The Electromagnetic History of Everything as Told on Nine Comedy
Albums (University of California Press). Jeremy is a literary scholar and
cultural historian specializing in the history of mode...
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We’re joined live in the studio today by Gemma Whelan, Portland-based and
Irish-born writer, director, and educator. After leaving Ireland for the
U.S., Gemma settled in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she directed more
than 60 stage productions and was founding artistic ...
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On today's episode, we welcome Sarah Neidhardt, author of the memoir Twenty
Acres: A Seventies Childhood in the Woods, from The University of Arkansas
Press. The book recounts Sarah’s experience growing up as part of a
back-to-the land family in a small, isolated town in th...
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This is our first show of the new year, 2025, a year many of us are
approaching with some trepidation, if not outright dread. When I sat down to
plan the episode, I was feeling uninspired and rudderless, not knowing how to
continue, or even if I should continue. But in the ...
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On today's episode we welcome Nui Wilson, Frances Lu Pai Ippolito, and Gigi
Little, collaborators on the new picture book A Tree of My Own, from
Portland's Qlin Press.
Nui Wilson is the book’s author. She’s a Karen woman who was born and
raised in Western Thailand. She mov...
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For many of us, the holiday season means multiple viewings of Charles
Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and there’s no shortage of films, and
stage productions, to choose from. We’re especially favored here in
Portland with a version that comes directly from Mr. Dickens himself,...
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Christmas is coming a little earlier than usual to Jonesy. A lot of us are
going through difficult times, and we can all use a little Christmas spirit.
What better way than our own holiday tradition, re-airing Willamette Radio
Workshop’s “A Radio Christmas Carol”, which I h...
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Thanksgiving’s coming up next week and that means the start of the holiday
season. Retail stores will have you thinking it started in July, but it
really only feels like Christmas when the networks start showing our favorite
holiday films -- “Miracle on 34th Street”, A Chri...
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On today's episode, we welcome Penny Allen, author of the new novel This
Rescue Thing. Penny is best known as a filmmaker, whose roots as a Portland
activist led to her writing, directing, and producing her first two
features: Property, a Sundance Festival prize winner, in ...
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Portland Youth Philharmonic, America’s longest running youth orchestra,
enters its second century this weekend. The opening concert for PYP’s
historic 101st season takes place this Saturday, November 9th at Portland’s
Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
The program, conducted b...
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