2022 FisherPoets Gathering Selects: Episode 2 of 2.

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…

ARTS – Live & Local! March 11, 2022

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…

2022 FisherPoets Gathering Selects: Episode 1 of 2.

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…

The Human Beat March14 2022

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…

ARTS – Live & Local! March 04 2022

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…

A Story Told, February 17 2022

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?”