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Mac and Alana discuss masks, volunteering at the Flavel House, a new exhibit at the Heritage Museum, the Spruce Goose, bunny rabbits, and still have time for Martin Luther King, Jr.
Friday, March 18 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: David Sweeney and Jeremiah Williams in “ART” by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton & directed by Karen Bain at The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria. Running March 18th-26th Barbara Anne Gaidosh, long time Folksinger, plays Astoria, Long Beach…
Alana is back and we welcome special guest Janet Bowler. Nordic Park, Walter Cronkite, the Friday Music Club, and more are on the agenda. Mac almost reveals the secret link between the Troll and Santa.
Selected performances from the 2022 FisherPoets Gathering, held virtually. Performers included: Tele Aadsen, Katrina Porteus, Duncan Berry, Keith Wilson, Kat Murphy, and George Wilson. Scroll down to listen. Click here for the full-length recordings and selections from previous years on Brad Wartman’s FisherPoetry Podcast. For additional information on the FisherPoets Gathering, links to unedited video…
On the next Story Told, mostly untitled but not unoriginal material from Michael McCusker, with an addition by Gabrielle Canon, being, “US West Megadrought is worst in at least one thousand two hundred years.” As a final garnish to the program, poetry by Tracy McCusker.
Friday, March 11 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Photojournalist Amiran White & Chinook Nation Councilwoman Jane Pulliam on ntsayka ilii: our place, an interpretive exhibit at Astoria Visual Arts. Warrenton Community Library director Kelly Knudsen and Author Diana Kirk with Library After Dark. Cascadia Chamber Opera…
Selected performances from the 2022 FisherPoets Gathering, held virtually. Performers included: Naphtali Fields-Forbes, Pat Dixon, Maggie Bursch, Wilfred Wilson, Toni Mirosevich, and Henry Hughes. Scroll down to listen. Click here for the full-length recordings and selections from previous years on Brad Wartman’s FisherPoetry Podcast. For additional information on the FisherPoets Gathering, links to unedited video…
Teresa Retzlaff talks with KMUN’s News Director, Katie Frankowicz, in this special Spring Pledge Drive edition of In Season.
Host Teresa Retzlaff interviews Carla Cole, the Natural and Cultural Resource Program Lead at the Lewis & Clark National Historic Park, about her work at one of our region’s many beautiful natural spaces.
Special FT for PLEDGE DRIVE!! Why we love KMUN.
Welcome to the Human Beat! I’m Roger Rocka. The City of Astoria is engaged in a process intended to provide some affordable housing downtown, in the area bounded by Duane, Exchange, 11th and 12th streets. Some additional units would be used by Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare to provide housing and treatment for their clients. The City is engaged in exclusive…
On the next Story Told, M.L. Graham’s “Ground Zero,” along with original musings on the topic of nuclear war from Michael McCusker. Also, Cole Arthur Riley breathes a sigh of relief in “Back History Month is over. Thank goodness.” Finally, “Road to Country,” a poem by the recently passed Claudia Harper.
Judi Lampi is on hand to correct Mac on the pronunciation of “Sauna.” Plus, filling in for Alana is special co-host Stephanie Meadows.
Today we hear from Katy Killough and Stanette Klatt, Science teachers at the Astoria Middle School where 380 6th, 7th, and 8th graders are taught by dedicated educators.
Skip Hauke was as “Astorian” as they come. Tonight, a special tribute to Skip as we share clips from our interviews with him in 2010, 2017, and 2019. You made our community a better place Skip. Thank you from all of us.
Native Plants
The problem with sheet pan dinners and Linda gets a new cookbook
Friday, March 4 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Printmaker Stirling Gorsuch with “Coastal Lexicon” at RiverSea Gallery in Astoria. Painter Phyllis Taylor, featured artist at Trail’s End Art Gallery in Gearhart. NOCS & North Coast Chamber Orchestra Conductor Cory Pederson & Board member Pamela Fleming with…
Friday, February 25 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Christy Martin & Aodh Og O’Tuama as Four Shillings Short in concert at the Larsen Center in Astoria. Ashley Mundel directs the Astor Street Opry Company Teen Company in Clue: On Stage. Dr. Chelsea Vaughn, Curator of Collections…
Donna Quinn interviews Joanne Rideout, host of the Ship Report, and long time staff member of KMUN. Joanne started as a volunteer Bedtime Stories reader, and over the past two decades has worked various tenures as both News Director and Station Manager. As of this spring, she has retired from her staff position at…
On the next Story Told, for the 35ᵗʰ Women’s History Month, Michael McCusker features an excerpt from Helen Hill’s “Family Values.” Also, Robert Reich diagnoses that “Putinism is Breeding in the Heart of the Republican Party.”
Living With Coyotes
Friday, February 18 at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Patrick Dixon releases his memoir ‘Waiting to Deliver’ – Alaska fishing in stories, poems and photographs. Amy Carleton with Coast Craft Cooperative offers a Wasco Weaving Workshop @ Anita in Astoria. Bill Dodge with his long history as an artist &…
On the next Story Told, an original, untitled screed by Michael McCusker, and as a sendoff to Black History Month, “American Carnage,” also by Michael. Additionally, by Esau McCaully, “Black History Month is About Seeing America Clearly.”
Green Crabs.
Recipes we wouldn’t make again, “What about crock pot cooking?” and Linda goes apron shopping.
Warrenton Police Chief Matt Workman provides a deep analysis comparing Nebraska with Oregon. Mac & Alana also learn all about Vernonia.
On the next Story Told, Jonathan Capehart asks the question “What about Black students’ ‘discomfort’?,” in repsonse to white discomfort regarding America’s slaving past. And from the late Thich Nhat Hanh, “At War with Ourselves.” Finally from Todd Gitlin, who also recently passed, “Does the Arc of the Moral Universe Still Bend Toward Justice?”
Red Shouldered Hawk