ARTS – Live & Local! April 14 2023

Friday, April 14th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests:   Director Susi Brown and actors Cherry Kocemba & Rhonda Warnack with “Enchanted April” at The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria.   Curator Agnes Field and Artist Lezlie Piper, one of four artists, with “Divine Beacons” at Astoria Visual Arts.  …

The Human Beat – April 10, 2023

To celebrate Women’s History month in March, the American Association of University Women in Clatsop County held a dinner at the Golden Star Restaurant to “Honor the Honorables.”   Judge Paula Brownhill was the first female judge in Clatsop County. She was later joined by Judge Cindy Matayas and Judge Dawn McIntosh to form the…

A Story Told – April 6th, 2023

An Attempt to Discuss Taxation,” by Michael McCusker, as well as Nancy Hoffman’s piece: “The Privilege of Being Taxable.” Also on this program, Deborah E. Mikula and Loren Kogali ask “Have we forgotten what a public library is for?” Additionally, a poem by Rick Ranya titled “Astor Library,” and in conclusion, one last poem, this time by Tracy McCusker, and it’s called “Cracks”

ARTS – Live & Local! March 31 2023

Friday, March 31st at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Dr. Vincent Centeno, Conductor of the Cascadia Chamber Opera Chorus, and CCO Board member, Lauri Kramer Serafin, with “A Celebration of Gilbert & Sullivan”, at the Larsen Center in Astoria. Dr. Margaret Frimoth, founder of The Healing Circle – VOCA, with…

Poems for Company – March 27th, 2023

“Unrequited Love,” Part One: Poets respond in a variety of ways when their strong desires for another are not returned: from anger to bewilderment to resignation.  Over time, a number of episodes of Poems for Company will focus on this theme.  Today’s show features these poems: Sappho, Poem # 94, translator Michael R. Burch (thehypertexts.com/Sappho Longer Poems in Translations by Michael R. Burch.htm), read with…