Mac and Alana discuss Bram Stoker and Dracula. . .and in useless trivia you never knew you wanted to know: Mac reveals the real names of “the Professor” and the “Skipper” on Gilligan’s Island.
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Friday, September 23rd at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: The Literary Guild presents Marianne Monson & Dede Montgomery reading from their new books at Winekraft. Chris Villiers on his exhibit at The Lightbox Photographic Gallery in Astoria. Bereniece Jones-Centeno on Cascadia Chamber Opera & Zingaresca concerts at The Charlene Larsen…
On the next Story Told, a splendid tribute to Larry Ziak, which was published anonymously to the Astorian newspaper. Also, in dedication to Ed and Verna Hellberg, “The Price of Fish,” by Michael McCusker. Finally, a piece of poetry by Juanita Huebner titled “Cedar.”
Host Teresa Retzlaf discusses dry farming with her guest, Amy Garret of the OSU Extension Small Farms Project.
Play Day
Merianne Meyers and Linda Perkins live for fall food musings
Mac and Alana chat with Steve Rens about life in the Coast Guard. We’re pretty sure Mac asks some lame questions about boats.
Friday, September 16th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Karin Temple brings her Peace Labyrinth to Grace Church in Astoria w/live music. Laurie Case Wilhite tells of her experiences and book ‘Paddle to the Pacific’ at the Fort George Brewery. Charla Hathaway presents “Naked at My Age” featuring…
Join host Donna Quinn in a special Fall Pledge Drive “State of the Station” edition with guests KMUN Program Director Emma Geddes and News Director Katie Frankowicz. Donate online at kmun.org or call 503-325-0010 during business hours.
On the next Story Told, Michael McCusker explains “The trouble with viewing 9/11 and the pandemic through a wartime lens,” written originally by Lila Nordstrom and Sarah Senk.
Merianne Meyers and Linda Perkins go live for a special Pledge Drive edition of Food Talk
This month’s “Around Our Schools” program focuses on Work Based Learning experiences for Tongue Point Job Corps students. Sara Meyer interviews Carla Pitts and Michelle Padgett, both Work-Based Learning Specialists, about how they find appropriate work sites, how they develop the program with employers, and how students prepare for their work-based learning experiences. Many local businesses are…
Bald Eagle
It’s Pledge Drive on KMUN, that short period each summer when we ask for your support for this community driven radio station. We don’t interrupt KMUN programs with commercials and we depend on our listeners to help make ends meet. The Human Beat is one of several public affairs programs on KMUN, where you get a deeper understanding…
Mac and Alana share Nellie Flavel’s account of the San Francisco Earthquake. Plus, Special Guest appearances by Roman Vondriska, Casanova, Khrushchev, the Monkees, and Hopalong Cassidy.
Friday, September 9th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman with: Artist Iris Sullivan Daire curating & coordinating ‘Indigo Matrix’ an exhibit with twenty artists at Astoria Visual Arts. Elise Wagner in her first solo show at Imogen Gallery in Astoria; with ‘Marking Time’ of encaustic collagraph printmaking. Director Ryan Hull with ‘D…
On the next Story Told, Michael Kazin claims “On Labour Day, Democrats and Unions should recall their shared history.” Also, dredged from the archives, Michael McCusker shares an original, fictional interview of Mikhail Gorbachev in “Gorbi and I go for a walk.”
Host Teresa Retzlaff talks with Ketzel Levine about her work with the Wonder Garden at the Hoffman Center for the Arts in Manzanita.
River Otters
Linda and Merianne talked about trying new chicken recipes, special show/time/thank you gifts for Pledge Drive.
Mac and Alana welcome retired law enforcement officer Roman Vondriska who shares some stories about OJ Simpson, a white Bronco, and Rodney King. Also appearing on the menu tonight: underwear, giant condoms, and safe driving tips for driving in the snow.
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…
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…
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.”
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…
Pelicans.
Mac and Alana pay special tribute to Larry Ziak, long time Clatsop County Historical Society employee and loyal listener to the radio show.
Streaked Horned Lark
Mac & Alana discuss the fourth best made-in-Oregon movie ever: Stand By Me