A conversation about joy and gratitude.
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Friday, June 11th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Chairperson and Vocalist Dida DeAngelis tells all about Lower Columbia Q Center’s celebration of Astoria PRIDE. Artist Stan Peterson with “Out on a Limb” wood sculpture opening at Imogen Gallery for Astoria Art Walk. Ally Bruser and Thandi Rosenbaum…
On the next Story Told, as much about women’s rights as can be packed into a half hour, including, but not limited to, “Leaving abortion to the states makes them agents of oppression,” by Ruth Marcus, and also, “The Virgins of Spring,” by Michael McCusker.
Linda and Merianne announce the winners of the Covid Cooking Haiku contest!
Ok kids, class is in session. Local education legend Leila Collier is on hand to grade Mac & Alana. Alana gets an “A” for coming prepared, asking excellent questions, and being so charming. Mac gets an “F” for comparing the British Museum with the Clatsop County Historical Society and for needlessly plagiarizing from Vegas Vacation.
Friday, June 4th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Helena Graves and Cheryl Capellen with the North Coast Chorale’s concert “A Belated 30th Anniversary” live at the Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts. Artist Steph Littlebird, curator of “Phot Choch” featuring an all-Indigenous collection of traditional and…
A biography of America Waldo – a former slave and the matriarch of a northwest Black pioneer family.
A biography of Carrie Halsell Ward – the first Black graduate of Oregon State University.
Host Donna Quinn speaks with Shelby Meyers, Executive Director of the Astoria Sunday Market. They talk about all things Astoria Sunday Market including longtime and new vendors and the evolution of the market during CoVid times.
Part 2 of Mental Health, focusing on trauma and available treatment methods.
On the next Story Told, Michael takes a look at the “U.S.A. Today.” Additionally, a piece from Andrew Gawthorpe titled “Republicans are trying to rewrite the history of the capital attack. Don’t let them,” and from Coral Murphy Marcos “Five Oregon counties plot to move to Idaho to be with conservative friends.” Finally, poetry from the late, and great, Allen Ginsberg, “Falling Asleep…
Wanda the Wolverine.
A Woman, two Rabbis, and a Priest walk into a bar in Denver. . .Kassia Nye, the Executive Director of the United Way of Clatsop County, join Mac & Alana this week for a very special show. Bonus Feature: find out what a “hookless fastener” is!
Friday, May 28th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Tenor Guitar Foundation president Harriet Balmer on the 11th annual Tenor Guitar Gathering virtually in the TGG capital of the world, Astoria OR.. Artist and director of the Cannon Beach Gallery Scott C. Johnson on “Beauty Deconstructed”, AIR, Summer…
On the next Story Told, Michael gives memoriam to the original Memorial Day, before it moved into its current role as a convenient three day weekend in “Recruiting Tomorrow’s Dead.”
A conversation about mental health and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Natural Lawns
On this episode of AIH, Mac & Alana discuss Thomas Jefferson naughtiness, the history of Sears, Russ Warr & the founding of Talking Tombstones, and the riveting tale of Mac’s fridge. All this, plus a musical refrain.
Friday, May 21st at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Art professor & Royal Nebeker Gallery director Kristin Shauck and Jurist Deanna Antony on the 2021 CCC Annual Art Student Show. Lisa Nelson, Director of the Astoria Conservatory of Music, the premier school of music on the North Coast,…
On the next Story Told, Michael takes “Pause to mark ‘Brown v. Board of Education’ and it’s lessons for our time,” by Colbert I. King. Additionally, simply put by Eugene Robinson, “Ignoring climate change hasn’t made it go away.” Finally, poetry by Carolyn Dunn, and a dream about an Eastern-European boy.
Light pollution and migration.
Mac & Alana chat with David Frei. . .you know him from years of hosting the “Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show” and the “National Dog Show.” But, did you know his connections to Seinfeld, therapy dogs, Oregon football, and even Richard Nixon? Better tune in to our Best Show Ever.
Friday, May 14th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Astoria Art Loft owners and artists Jo Pomeroy-Crockett & Jeannette Davis on the exhibit by the Knappa Art, Acrylic and Photography 4-H Group. Director Katherine Lacaze and actors Kestley & Aria in Astoria H.S. virtual production of The…
Out of chaos came The Order, otherwise known as the ‘Aryan Resistance Movement.’ On the next Story Told, Michael delves into the ancient, atrocious, and American issue of white supremacy in “The Propaganda of the Deed.”
This month, Around Our Schools interviews three faculty from Clatsop Community College. They are Teena Toyas, Julie Brown, and Pat Keefe. The discussion includes information about the breadth of classes they teach, how they maintain their credentials, a description of new academic support programs, and personal stories of student success.
Spring Migration.
For more than 40 years, Economist Ernie Niemi has investigated and described the relationship between the natural environment and local economies, in Oregon and elsewhere. Niemi, President of Natural Resource Economics, spoke before North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection recently about some of the economics of logging in Oregon. He discussed logging profits, taxes, jobs,…
Skyler Archibald, Director of the Sunset Empire Parks & Recreation District, joins Mac & Alana for a conversation about pools, new buildings, and chance meetings with the love of your life while riding bikes as a kid.