ARTS – Live & Local! August 8th, 2025

Friday, August 8th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Director/Producer Alejandra Lopez Nestor, Filmmaker/Editor Jasmine Garcia Delossantos & Host Liz Harris with Raices Clatsop Documentary Premier & Exhibit in the Anita Building in Astoria. CCO Artistic Director & Co-founder Bereniece Jones-Centeno with Mezzo Soprano Lisa Nelson & Baritone Zachary Martin…

KMUN news team lands award

The KMUN news team has landed a first place spot in the Society of Professional Journalists’ Region 10 “Excellence in Journalism” award, in the small newsroom category, for a story News Director Katie Frankowicz wrote last year about horse racing at the Tillamook County Fair. You can also read the story at kmun.org/news

ARTS – Live & Local! August 1st, 2025

Friday, August 1st at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Director Deanna Duplechain and Stage Manager & Sound Designer Jaime Britton with Sarah Ruhl’s “For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday” at The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria. Marble Sculptor M.J. Anderson with “Inextinguishable”, her exhibit on our age old relationship…

Poems for Company – July 28th, 2025

“Exile and Return”: What is it like to try to enter and exit Middle Eastern countries, especially Palestine?  Today’s poems offer glimpses, even before the most recent spasm of violence that ripped it apart in October 2023.  Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, “Upon Arrival” and “Immigrant,” from Water and Salt (Red Hen Press, 2017).  Mosab Abu Toha, “Things You…

ARTS – Live & Local! July 25th, 2025

Chelsea Rose, Director of Southern OR University Lab of Anthropology, on the Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project: Uncovering and Maintaining Chinese-American History in Oregon presented by Dr. Jennifer Fang at Obelisk Brewery in Astoria. Artists Luisa Mack & Gregory Gorham with “Oysterville, Pearl of the Peninsula”, an exhibit by eight artists in diverse mediums at Marie…