Friday, January 28 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Artists Sally Lackaff & Roger Hayes on life and the arts in their new hometown of Detroit, Michigan. Jennifer Crockett, Liberty Theatre ED, on The Brosius Academy, acting and stagecraft classes for youth and adults; plus full steam ahead…
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On the next Story Told, “Vote for Life and Liberty Pt. II,” by Michael McCusker. Also, in a similar vein, by E.J. Dionne Jr., “Giving up on voting rights now would be unconscionable.” Robert Brake chimes in and states “‘Oh Beautiful’ is my kind of America.” Finally, poetry from Jim Dott, and a eulogy-tribute to longtime Astorian artist Michael DeWaide. …
“Porcupine”
What’s your game? Astoria High School Athletic Director Howard Rub is on hand to tell Mac & Alana about his career and accomplishments. Better listen in and cheer him on!
Friday, January 21 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Harriott Balmer, president of the Tenor Guitar Foundation, on TGG12 and all things Tenor Guitar. Speaker, Writer and Holocaust survivor Ruth Lindemann with her latest book, “We Chose Survival – A Memoir of My Early Life”.
On the next Story Told, the final of two parts in Michael McCusker’s original dystopian short story; a mixture of Orwell’s authoritarianism and Robert Heinlein’s warnings of theocracy to make “Evangelica 5440.”
“Winter Shore Birds”
Mac & Alana share some more stories from local Clatsop County citizens serving in the Pacific in World War II. Plus, Alana forgets a special anniversary, Mac reveals his favorite Monkee, and why he doesn’t like Popeye.
Friday, January 14 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Author Tina Ontiveros with her award winning memoir ‘rough house’ & Nancy McCarthy on the Cannon Beach Library’s NW Authors Series and upcoming events. Artist Marcia Wilson with her exhibit at Bay City Arts Center focused on nature & animal portraiture….
On the next Story Told, the first of two parts in Michael McCusker’s original dystopian short story; a mixture of Orwell’s authoritarianism and Robert Heinlein’s warnings of theocracy to make “Evangelica 5440.”
Clatsop County held an online press conference about COVID trends and testing. The County is bracing for an Omicron surge. By Joanne Rideout [Scroll down to listen, script below] Judy Geiger is vice president of patient care services at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria. Judy Geiger: “We’ve seen an uptick in COVID but it’s staying…
“Go Outside”
On the north side of Commercial Street in Astoria – between 10th and 11th streets – is a building housing the Beacon Clubhouse and Filling Empty Bellies. The two organizations are filling gaps in the community – meeting vital needs – but they serve and attract homeless people and that has caused concern from some neighbors….
Dr. Chelsea Vaugh, Clatsop County Historical Society Curator, discusses two temporary exhibits at the Heritage Museum: “Blocked Out: Race and Place in Making of Modern Astoria” and an exhibit about the 1922 Fire that destroyed downtown Astoria. Plus, Mac picks on Florida.
Friday, January 7 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Painter blis, aka Kristen Nekovar, artist-in- residence, with ‘the mess and the minutiae’ at Astoria Visual Arts. Printmaker and art educator Miki’ala Souza with ‘Ao’, her second solo show at Imogen Gallery.
Host Donna Quinn conversates with Katelyn Staecker, Astoria based Internal Family Systems Therapist and Trainer. Their theme is “Moving into the New Year with Grace and Gratitude.”
On the next Story Told, Politifact’s 2021 lie of the year: “Lies about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and its significance.” Also, Michael congratulates Joanne Rideout on her countless years of KMUN service, and mourns her retirement.
Hosts Teresa Retzlaff and Jessica Schleif talk deep winter, uncharacteristically cold and snowy coastal weather, and the process of letting go when nature makes its own decisions.
Winter Blooms
World Peace Cookies plus new, favorite salad dressings
Mac & Alana kick off the New Year with resolutions, a driving lesson, oleomargarine, and things turning 100 this year.
Friday, December 31ST at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Clay artist David Campiche, Painter Rhonda Grudenic and Photographer/Writer Dwight Caswell with “Seeking the Sacred” at RiverSea Gallery. Musician & Sound engineer Nevada Sowle with the art of a life of music.
Friday, December 24th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Astoria School of Ballet’s founder and director Margaret Wall with the ‘Gift of Dance’ program and more. Fisher, Writer and Poet Dave Densmore on his writings, aspirations, life.
On the next Story Told, from the KMUN vault, an excerpt of the final Words Words Words program, hosted by Dire Day, as transcribed and read by Michael McCusker. And in closing for this year, “Resolutions for 2022,” which are, exactly the same as the previous resolutions
Clatsop County hospitals are bracing for yet another Covid-19 surge. That’s due to the Omicron variant. KMUN’s Jacob Lewin has this report: [Scroll down to Listen:] Oregon Health Sciences University’s top forecaster is projecting that Omicron covid hospitalizations will soon surge to 17-hundred per day statewide, up from a peak of 12-hundred with the delta…
Antlers.
Mac & Alana welcome Sari Hartman to “Interesting Things That Happened in the Past”. . .the name of the show when it airs in Finland. Sari shares memories of growing up in Astoria as a Finnish immigrant.
Host and farmer Teresa Retzlaff interviews gardener and artist Linda Cochran about her work with native plants on the northwest coast, from a beautifully curated garden on Bainbridge Island to Port Ludlow on the Olympic Peninsula.
On the next Story Told, a Christmas-adjacent program featuring Santa Claus, who’s recently been suspected of smuggling cocaine across the boarder from the North Pole in “Snowtime for Santa.” Also, an excerpt from “The Complete Kwanzaa: Celebrating Our Cultural Harvest,” by Dorothy Winbush Riley. And finally, by Michael McCusker, “Born to be a Rebel.”
Season Wishes