Ken Jones

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... Read more

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 ... Read more

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... Read more

We lost our good friend Sam A. Mowry a few months ago. Sam was a towering figure here in Portland, as an actor, both on stage and behind the microphone, a director, and a giant of radio theater, especially in his role as Artistic Director of the group he founded, Willamette... Read more

The annual Portland Book Festival is our city’s biggest literary event, and one of the most popular on the entire West Coast. This year’s festival takes place Saturday, November 2nd, just a few days away, and features on-stage discussions with over 80 authors, pop-up readin... Read more

On today's show, we welcome Michael Keefe, author of the new novel All Her Loved Ones, Encoded from Running Wild Press. Michael’s short fiction has appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, Thin Air Magazine, Summerset Review, among other journals. He’s also the Events Coordinato... Read more

On today's episode, we welcome Dian Greenwood, author of the new novel Forever Blackbirds, from Travelers Moon Press. Dian has published essays in the online magazine The Big Smoke, and is a contributor to the anthology 2020: The Year of the Asterisk from University of Hell... Read more

We’re living through a time of almost constant stress and anxiety, with school shootings, the ravages of climate change, religious and ethnic intolerance, and, perhaps overshadowing all that, the upcoming election here in the U.S., just a month away, which presents an exist... Read more

Since I started doing radio shows, I’ve featured storytellers. Those who tell their stories on the printed page or on a stage, through pictures or video, or entirely through sound, as we do on the radio. And in all that time, one of the very best has been Portland Story The... Read more

On today's episode, the first in our new hourlong timeslot, we welcome Scott Nadelson, author of the new novel Trust Me, from Portland’s Forest Avenue Press. Scott’s books include the novel Between You and Me, the memoir The Next Scott Nadelson: A Life in Progress, and six ... Read more