West Exchange School News Magazine, Winter 2022

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…

Poems For Company, December 26 2022

What do you think of the remarks by the old people you know?  Do they offer wisdom?  Do they complain?  Are they forward-looking?  Are they funny?  The seven poems featured on this episode offer a variety of responses.  William Matthews, “Grandmother Talking,” from Search Party: Collected Poems, ed. by Sebastian Matthews and Stanley Plumly, Houghton Mifflin…

ARTS – Live & Local! December 16 2022

Friday, December 16th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests:   Jazz Singer, Songwriter, Composer Lauren Kinhan in concert at the Coaster Theatre in Cannon Beach; with Executive Director Patrick Lathrop on the 2023 Season.   Kelly Ragsdale, Managing Director of the Columbia Theatre in Longview WA, on Finnegan Blue’s Irish Christmas &…

A Story Told – December 15th, 2022

A smattering of articles, poetry, and commentary, such as Paul Waldman’s “Truth can defeat ‘gaslighting,’ but not always.” Gaslighting being Merriam-Webster’s 2022 word of the year. Also, Jeremy Plester asks “Could hemp be a key tool in the fight against climate change?” Finally “Tribute: The Goddess of Liberty,” by Michael Horowitz.

ARTS – Live & Local! December 09 2022

Friday, December 9th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests:   Featured Watercolor Artist Noel Thomas at the RiverSea Gallery for their 25th Anniversary; with Poet Patricia Staton Thomas.   Singer/Songwriter/Musician Kathryn Claire with “Winter Songs”  in concert in Nehalem, Ilwaco & Astoria.   Violinist, Teacher & Cofounder of the Columbia River…

ARTS – Live & Local! December 02 2022

Friday, December 2nd at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests:   Poet Florence Sage with her new book of poetry “What to Do with Night”.   Bruce Williams reads from Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s autobiography.   North Coast Chorale Director Dr. Vincent Jones-Centeno and President ChrisLynn Taylor with their concert “Colors of Winter”.

Poems For Company, November 28 2022

How do we respond to the birds in our community?  What do they tell us about ourselves?    This show features eight poems: Emily Dickinson, “A Bird Came Down the Walk”; Isaac Rosenberg, “Returning, We Hear the Larks”; Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, from the opening of 3.5; W. B. Yeats, “The Wild Swans at Coole”; Greg Delanty, “On…