Friday, February 3rd at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Director Thomas Ryan and actors Frank Jagodnik, Margo McClellan, Toddy Adams, Bryan Churchill with “Guilty Conscience”, a murder-mystery at The Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach. CCC Art Department Chair Kristin Shauck and Ryan Prochaska, head of the Historic Preservation Program, with…
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On the next Story Told, Michael McCusker kicks off Black History Month with, what else, but a black-intensive program, featuring an article that reads “Florida is offering an advanced lesson in anti-blackness,” by the writer Karen Attiah. Also, “Yale honors black girl, 9 years old, wrongly reported to police over insect project,” written by Ramon Antonio Vargas.
Refuge Policy
Mac & Alana discuss violence at the Capitol. Alana is fascinated by Groundhog Day. Plus, is Mac an ogre?
Friday, January 27th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Sadie Mercer, from Maggie’s On The Prom, on the Pacific Story Slam in Seaside, Astoria and Long Beach, WA. Lindsey Aarts on her solo show at RiverSea Gallery with work from her Astoria Visual Arts residency.
On the next Story Told, Michael McCusker provides an Orwellian lens to view (The Mahatma) Mohandas Ghandi.
Peregrine Falcon
“Dogs in Homer, Homer’s Dog, Other Dogs.” What truths about dogs did Homer know nearly 3000 years ago? If Homer lived with a dog, what did this dog think of the epic poet? The poems in this episode address these and other canine-related questions in intriguing ways. Homer, snippets from The Iliad, Books 22 and 23; a passage…
Mac and Alana have a fun chat with Bert Little. The Jetty, tug boats, the Navy, and a great story about Crabfest are all on the menu today.
Friday, January 20th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Actors Slab Slabinski & Jacque Denton and Director William Bill Ham with ‘Simple Salmon ’23: Subtitle Undetermined’ at The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria. Artists Anna Kaufman & Denise Monaghan, daughter & mother, present & former artists-in-residence at Astoria…
Michael McCusker shares a piece of writing originally in KMUN’s The Current, by microphone immortal Joanne Rideout. The title is: “Turning Toward the Light.” And, from J.N. Nielson, “The morning after the end of the world.”
Teresa hosts by herself this week, talking all things seeds: how to source them, ways to experiment, and troubleshooting what to grow in your garden’s specific conditions.
King Tides
Mac & Alana discuss Prohibition. . .so put away your hootch
Friday, January 13th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Artist & Educator Jo Pomeroy-Crockett, co-owner of Art Loft and Dots ’N Doodles in Astoria, with an update on both. Writer, Dancer, Performance Artist Susan Grace Banyas, author of The Hillsboro Story, is featured at Warrenton Community Library After…
An outright partisan program featuring “There are no moderate House Republicans,” written by Jennifer Rubin, supplemented by original writing from Michael McCusker. Also, effective January the first, “Legal Use of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms Begins in Oregon,” written by Andrew Jacobs. Finally a tribute to Jack London, from McCusker.
Snowy Owl
Roger Rocka shares his interview with local historian Carlton Appelo, who passed away in 2019.
Host Marianne Monson interviews guest writer Elisa Carlsen of Astoria.
Mac & Alana realize their lives are not really hectic at all after chatting with “Janitor Josh”
Friday, January 6th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Nancy McCarthy with ‘Hemingway at the Beach’ and more at the Cannon Beach Library. India Downes-Le Guin, Executive Director of the Hoffman Center for the Arts in Manzanita, with a full update. Director Edward James & performer Terri…
This weeks Talk of Our Towns discusses the upcoming Columbia River Shipwreck Conference at Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria which takes place on February 4, 2023. Guests will be Chris Dewey, Shipwreck Archaeologist and Bruce Jones, Deputy Director of the Columbia River Maritime Museum.
Semi-coherent but original musings compiled for the new year by Michael McCusker. Also, from Jim Dott, “How Anna’s Hummingbirds Conquered Winter.” Finally, Colbert I King claims that there’s “No resolutions for me.”
This is a special program put together by the up-and-coming journalists and critics at the West Exchange School in Astoria, Oregon. Thank you to Sarah Cobb and the rest of the W.E. newsroom for their hard-hitting articles, reviews, and jokes! This program was produced by Emma Geddes, along with interviewer Skyler Butenshon and music director…
Teresa and Jessica discuss what people can do, and not do, for their gardens in this windy, icy winter season.
Winter Wildlife Habitat
Linda and Merianne talked about, faulty kitchen appliances, the brilliance of bar towels and Linda’s cookbook problem.
Mac & Alana ring in the new year with a list of stuff turning 100 in 2023. . .and somehow Mac manages to mention Cracker Jacks, Ferris Wheels, and a serial killer
Friday, December 30th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Madeline Matson, Executive Director of the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco on ‘The Heart of the Museum: The Aura of Objects’. Poets Robert Michael Pyle and Florence Sage share new and seasonal poems. Jim Dott reads his…
Michael McCusker ends 2022 with a collection of refined ruminations in “The Millennium Is Us.” Also, by the late Dr. Robert Brake, “The Politics of Kindness.”