ARTS – Live & Local! September 02, 2022

Friday, September 2nd at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts:    Musicians & sisters Starla & Cate Gable close out the Oysterville Church Vespers featuring women singer-songwriter tunes.   Painter Lezlie Amara Piper with her exhibit ‘Synesthesia’ at KALA in Astoria.   Director of Oregon Black Pioneers Zachary Stocks on the Oregon…

Talk of Our Towns, September 01 2022

Host Donna Quinn interviews Oregon based nature writer and author Marina Richie.  Her new book, “Halcyon Journey … In Search of the Belted Kingfisher” has just been published by Oregon State University Press. Marina writes blogs, articles and poetry, teaches classes, is on the Board of the Greater Hells Canyon Council… and much more.  Together…

A Story Told, September 01 2022

On the next Story Told, Michael McCusker deliver’s an original screed based on a repressed 1979 article from The Progressive Magazine. That article is titled “The H-Bomb Secret. How we got it – why we’re telling it.” Michael calls it “The People’s Bomb.” Also, from the brilliant and mad penmanship of R. Louis Richards, “Clearcut Feeling.”  

ARTS – Live & Local! August 26, 2022

Friday, August 26th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts:    Television, Film and Broadway performer George Dzundza with Rising Tide Productions’ Edward Albee’s “Seascape” at NCRD in Nehalem.   Artist, woodworker, outdoorsman Trevor Crosta creating Topo Trail Maps on show at Manzanita News & Espresso.   Nel St. John with glam psyche rock band…

ARTS – Live & Local! August 19, 2022

Friday, August 19th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts:    Founder, Director & Vocal instructor Lisa Nelson with Sarah Cohen, director of the new Dance Program at the Astoria Conservatory of Music.    Caroline Bricheux and Agnes Field with ‘Celebrating the Art of Jim Fink’ at Studio 11 in Astoria.

A Story Told, August 18 2022

Salman Rushdie earns the ultimate literary award: a politically and religiously motivated death sentence, in, “My Dinner with Salman Rushdie,” written by Eugene Robinson. Also, happy birthday to the station’s own Michael McCusker, PSU’s David Horowitz, unofficial poet laureate Walt Curtis, and Shanghaied in Astoria godmother Judy Niland.

Around Our Schools, August 09 2022

This month’s Around Our Schools program provides information about the Tongue Point Job Corps Center, Seamanship Program. Sara Meyer interviews Captain (and Seamanship Director), Len Tumbarello about the incredible opportunity students have to become mariners. Student, Justin Alacron, add his experiences to the interview.

ARTS – Live & Local! August 05, 2022

Friday, August 5th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts:    Heather Douglas from The Alliance for Equity in Education funded by CCC & The Meyer Memorial Trust hosts Designer, Maker, Problem solver Damion Triplett with his zine Their Our Story, personal reflections for the BLM movement; at the AVA Gallery….

Talk of Our Towns, August 04 2022

“How Can We Help?”   In today’s world, we are swamped with a constant tsunami of disturbing images and news of pain, suffering, and conflict through 24/7 access to tv, radio, social media, blogs, texts, and tweets.  Many of us tune out in response to feeling overwhelmed and powerless to do anything about the myriad problems…

House Select Committee on Climate Crisis Field Hearing, August 03 2022

This hearing examines the challenges facing Oregon’s coastal communities and ecosystems due to the climate crisis and opportunities for the federal government to help state, local, and Tribal partners build resilient, climate-ready coasts. The committee received testimony from: Dr. Elaine Placido, Executive Director, Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership. Placido is a veteran of the Coast Guard and…