Winter Bloomers Part 2
Episode
Mac & Alana celebrate her birthday by taking a deep dive into the great Generation X vs. Millennial debate.
Friday, January 26 at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Jenni Tronier, Mick Alderman & Toddy Adams with David Auburn’s drama “Proof” at the Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach. Dr. Jeannine Jordan on the multi media performance at Grace Episcopal Church in Astoria, part of Pipe Organs of the PNW Coast,…
Moon Names
“Imagining Our Parents Before We Were Born”: What do you know about the life of either of your parents before you were born? The three contemporary poems featured on this episode suggest the poets knew just a few facts, perhaps derived from family lore. Then they speculated or fabricated the rest to achieve some coherent…
Mac & Alana had a guest cancel, so they break into the emergency-program-topics-box and discuss name origins for each state.
In this debut episode of The Preservationists, host Astronemis Ray speaks with students, past and present, from the Clatsop Community College Historic Preservation & Restoration program, about classes, workshops, and careers in historic preservation. Episode one features a graduate of the Historic Preservation Program, Joshua Gifford & Kristi Jenkins-Smith a current student of the program….
Winter bloomers
Mac & Alana welcome Astoria City Manager Scott Spence for a tantalizing conversation that includes Top Hats, Molasses, Government, and Public Service.
Friday, January 12th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Painter & Printmaker Nicholas Knapton with “Conversations with Gavi”, an exhibition of diverse works created in Astoria & Berlin; at Imogen Gallery in Astoria. Lower Columbia Preservation Society’s VP Astronemis Ray and AA Jaime Lump with an update on LCPS, including…
Mac & Alana talk about all the things turning 100 in 2024. Plus, Mac sings and Alana gives him the look.
Michael McCusker offers perspectives on Donald Trump’s run for president, and takes a look at stats on global warming.
King Tides
A conversation with Rebecca Kraft about gender, personality, and what it’s like when fathers are absent.
Host Marianne Monson speaks with American author and journalist Randall Sullivan
Friday, January 5th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Encaustic Painter Elise Wagner with her pop up exhibit ’20 Years in Wax’ at CCC Royal Nebeker Art Gallery. Writer, Filmmaker Flax Glor on his class ‘Writing About Film’ at Clatsop Community College. Musicians Len Bergman, Allyson Fabela…
Donna Quinn interviews two psychotherapists about the concept of conscious aging and how it can help respond to the challenges of getting older. Longtime friends Katelyn Staecker and Jerry Rousseau exchange their ideas about the results of clinical studies, the experience of aging and how community affects the lives of our elders. This special version…
Michael McCusker shares poetry to ring in the new year, and shares a story about music, children, and world peace.
Braising, Greek food & Linda’s coffee art apron
Mac & Alana try to boost their ratings by hosting three adorable special guests to ring in the New Year.
Friday, Dec 29th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: CCC Historic Preservation Program Founder and Instructor John Goodenberger with Ales & Ideas lecture “Searching for Astoria’s Pauper Cemetery” at Fort George Lovell Showroom. Indigo Artist and Weaver Iris Sullivan Daire and son M. Tully Daire, currently a Student and Weaver…
Join Mac & Alana for a very special Christmas show. Guess which one gives coal out to their family?
Michael McCusker discusses the kind of New Year’s resolutions that could help preserve our democracy in a crucial election year.
Rainy day outdoor activities
“Some Horses, Some Oxen”: Four poems are featured on this show, three about horses and one about oxen. All of the horse poems tell us as much about the speaker as they do about the horses, and the final poem details a most curious Christmas folk belief. What are all these animals thinking? The poems…
Mac & Alana prepare for the big Frances E. Willard Day celebration. What? YOU aren’t celebrating?!
Mac & Alana welcome Tiffany Hessel, with Bergerson Tile, for a high energy chat about creativity, growing up locally, storeroom showers, and even Buffalo Bill Cody.
Mac & Alana go down a rabbit hole looking for a fun story about the Grange. . .and end up talking about the Doughboy Monument. Plus, Mac is confused by the Civil War.
Mac & Alana talk turkey, Hospice, Italian Immigration, grocery stores, and growing up on Clatsop Plains with Katie Bulletset
It will probably get ugly when Mac & Alana talk about Father Charles Coughlin