Talk of Our Towns November 6th, 2025

TOOTS topic for Thursday, November 6 is “The Grace of Grief” and my guests are Noah Rubinstein and Katelyn Staecker. Noah and Katelyn will be facilitating a 3-day Workshop and Ritual for Those Living with Grief and Loss at the Netel Grange in Astoria over the weekend of Friday, November 14. Therapists Noah Rubinstein, LMHC and Katelyn…

ARTS – Live & Local! October 24th, 2025

ARTS – Live & Local! Guest Host Patrick Webb Brad Pletzyk and Sean Davis, Founders of Rogue Cell with the premiere of their documentary “Backroads and Battlefields” at the Liberty Theatre. Deac Guidi with Cascadia Chamber Orchestra on CCO’s Halloween Pint Sized Opera at Pacifick Distillery in Astoria. Co-Founder, Publisher, Editor Dinah Urell on the…

A Story Told – October 30th, 2025

Michael McCusker is at his storytelling best, as he share his autobiographical account of a harrowing series of events he experienced in Vietnam in 1966. Entitled, “Happy Birthday, Mother,” this graphic look at the real costs of war will stay with you long after you’ve heard it.

Poems for Company – October 27th, 2025

“Remembering the First World War”: Our first poem details the life of a veteran who managed to survive the carnage and reflects on–or tries not to reflect on–his specific experiences during the war.  The next two poems depict civilians beginning to come to terms with their memories of the suffering shared throughout England.  Edmund Blunden,…

A Story Told October 23rd, 2025

On this week’s A Story Told, Michael McCusker talks about how recent unusual behavior on the part of President Trump raises questions about his fitness to govern. And, he shares a story about the discovery of a previously unknown chapter of the famous novel, “On the Road,” by Jack Kerouac.Â