Friday, August 25th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Bereniece Jones-Centeno, Artistic Director of the Cascadia Chamber Opera, is joined by Director Brendan Hartnett and Cast member Deac Guidi from the CCO Festival 2023’s production of Don Giovanni. Managing Director Kelly Ragsdale with the 2023/2024 season at the…
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Michael McCusker features a piece of writing by Beth Sauders titled “The U.S. History of Child Labor.”
Birds, Baths, and Open Sand
Ancient Chinese Poetry: This show features the work of two poets. Do they express concerns many of us think about in the 21st century? Do they suggest how to adjust certain of our attitudes? All the poems are from A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, translated by Arthur Waley (Knopf, 1919). (Many poems by these same authors…
Kurt Rummell joins Mac & Alana for a lively conversation that touches on a little of everything. . .growing up locally, fishing, and hospital food.
With the nuclear clock advancing to ninety seconds to midnight, Michael McCusker unveils a piece of writing by Chuck McLaughlin titled “The Crime of Nuclear War.”
Banana Slugs
Friday, August 18th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Theater, Film & Television veteran George Dzundza directs Agnes of God presented by Rising Tide Productions at the NCRD Playhouse in Nehalem; Board member & Publicist Sue Neuer joins him. Bereniece Jones-Centeno, Co-founder & Artistic Director of the Cascadia Chamber…
Michael McCusker features Dorothy Horowitz with her piece “A Baseball Fan Fights Cancer.”
Nestlings and Fledglings
Roger Rocka interviews staff and volunteers at the Clatsop County Animal Shelter
Host Dayle Olson interviews Sydney Stevens, author and historian of Oysterville.
Mac & Alana discuss the Russian American Fur Company. Plus, Mac over analyzes his recent trip to Florida
Friday, August 11th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Poet, Clay sculptor, Psychotherapist Willa Schneberg with her exhibit BOOKISH @ AVA; as well as her poetry collection THE NAKED ROOM. Host of Skinnamarink & Bedtime Stories Debbie Twombly continues KMUN’s 40th anniversary celebration with a kids/family concert featuring…
Michael McCusker delivers a program almost exclusively about Nuclear War. Including (but not limited to) “Forgotten Bomb, Forgotten City,” by Greg Mitchell. “Amid the Lovely and Lethal Remains,” by Ken Olsen. And on the 78ᵗʰ anniversary of the American nuclear attacks against Japan, Hiroshima’s mayor claims “Nuclear deterrence is folly.”
Enigmatic Epiphytes
In this two-part episode, your host Steven Amaya first speaks with Andrew Morgan again about being a stay-at-home father, one year after their initial interview. Then Steven speaks with Dads at the Astoria Sunday Market on Father’s Day.
Astoria City Councilor Liz Adams joins Mac & Alana. Wait a minute. . .is she a politician?
Friday, August 4th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Coordinator Diana Thompson on the annual Water Music Society’s JAZZ & OYSTERS @ the Port of Peninsula, WA. Cannon Beach History Center & Museum’s Andrea Suarez-Kemp & Liz Scott with the 20th annual COTTAGE TOUR. Writer, Poet, Speaker Cliff Taylor with…
“Talk of Our Towns” Host Donna Quinn focuses on the Astoria Regatta Festival happening August 9-12. Since 1894 Astoria Regatta has celebrated all things Maritime with boat races, parades, Coast Guard demonstrations and more. This year’s theme is “A New Wave”. Donna’s guests are Michelle Murray, Vice President Astoria Regatta Association and Leah Boles, 2022…
Michael McCusker delivers rapid fire material! Including: “Putin is preparing for a major war,” by Jack Walls. “The Last Days of Mankind,” by Karl Kraus. “Why War Is Never a Good Idea,” by Alice Walker. “How to Write a Poem About Singing,” by Tracy McCusker. And a tribute to the recently passed Sinéad O’Connor, written by Una Mullally.
Rethinking Lawns
Teresa interviews Britt Boles, local indigo doula, about the crop’s history and varied uses.
Mac and Alana are joined by Rebecca Coplin, Providence Seaside Hospital Chief Executive. We may report on traffic conditions in Seaside.
Michael McCusker reads material from the New Yorker magazine. The headline is “Finally, the Trump Case We’ve Been Waiting For,” and Susan B. Glasser is the article’s author. Additionally, from the New York Times, “Democrats Try a Novel Tactic to Revive the Equal Rights Amendment,” written by Annie Karni.
Saturday, August 5th events at Willapa National Wildlife Refuge
“Inanimate Objects”: Have you inherited an inanimate object that carries emotional weight? Have you bestowed a name on your bicycle or your car? The poems featured in this episode respond in a variety of ways to inanimate objects. Leigh Stein, “What Happens If You Click It,” from What To Miss When (NY: Soft Skull Press, 2021). Richard…
Justin Grafton joins Mac & Alana. Growing up local, construction, cameras, and urinals are all on the menu tonight.