Friday, August 6th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Julia Gingerich of Sparrow Dance Company and Jennifer Crockett with the Liberty Theatre Block Party. Artist and musician Jennifer Goodenberger with a new body of work at Astoria Art Loft First Saturday Art Walk. Kassia Nye, executive director…
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Host Donna Quinn interviews author and teacher Marianne Monson, founder and President of The Writer’s Guild of Astoria. They talk about all things Writer’s Guild, the poetry contest happening now and the upcoming exciting reading by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jericho Brown at the Liberty Theatre on November 5.
On the next Story Told, living in the year 76 NA, standing for ‘nuclear age,’ Michael reads the contemporary “Mushrooms in August.” Additionally, Dr. Robert Brake tells the American people to “Put ‘Em Up!” and lastly, a tribute to the Astorian Charles Scott Parker
A Conversation about Local, Favorite Restaurants.
Long Island.
Your beloved hosts Merianne and Linda discusses a wide variety of topics: Fettuccini Alfredo, grilled watermelon, the merits of cilantro stems, puppy energy, and everything in between.
A conversation with author and designer Michael Arseneault about his new book “Storytelling”, a collection of stories and pictures about historical places on the Oregon Coast.
On the next Story Told, a double diatribe on two American symbols: the vote, and the flag. And from Michael Schaffner, “I’m a reenactor. Critical race theory helps me bring history, good and bad, to life.”
Cougars.
Mac & Alana welcome Courtney Bangs to talk about the Clatsop County Fair, goats, and fair food. Tune in and find out who ate a bug-cookie!
Teaching and learning. Most of us spend years of our lives in school. Teachers are a primary influence in our lives. We learn much at school, but just as much from other experiences in our lives. Who taught or mentored you? How did a teacher change your life. For teachers, what prompted you to get…
Friday, July 23rd at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: Oil painter Carrie Williams & woodblock printmaker Karina Andrews, 2 of the 55 artists taking part in the Astoria Open Studios Tour. Cascadia Chamber Opera director Bereniece Jones-Centeno & Board secretary++ Lauri Krämer Serafin on CCO’s performance of Menotti’s comic…
A crew of historic preservation students spent the past two weeks working on a century-old, women-owned commercial building in Astoria, Oregon. The project, funded by the TAWANI Foundation, is part of an effort to get more women involved in the preservation trades. Joanne Rideout reports. Photo: Students get a lesson in period window restoration as…
On the next Story Told, Michael McCusker sings a dead bird’s song in telling an abridged history of the North Coast Times Eagle. Additionally “My Mother in Hot Summer,” “Cabbages in the Garden,” “The Sage,” “Picking Pears,” “The City of Sorrows,” and “The Soft Rain” all by Walt Curtis of unofficial Oregon poet laureate fame.
Wings over Willapa.
What do Richard Donner, Mac’s Dad, the Flavel House garden & grounds, and Witches all have in common? Somehow, Mac & Alana manage to chat about all of them on the big show this week.
Friday, July 16th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman hosts: INDIE Award Winning Novelist Alan E. Rose with “As If Death Summoned” at KALA’s First Person: Authors Talk in Astoria. Singer/songwriter/musician Leigh Jones as Eugenia Riot, performs at Pickled Fish and the Shelburne Pub on the Long Beach Peninsula,…
On the next Story Told, all about the Bastille, featuring from Catherine Bridget Snow “Liberty and the Bastille,” and from Michael McCusker “The First and Eternal Freedom.”
A biography of Ahmad Rashad – a Portland native, a University of Oregon football star, an NFL-Pro Bowler, and a sports broadcasting icon.
A biography of Charles Jordan – Portland’s first Black city commissioner, and a longtime director of Portland City Parks.
A biography of Lyllye Reynolds-Parker – an educator and one of Eugene’s most important civil rights champions.
Summer birding with Madeline.
Mac & Alana welcome Vince Huntington, retired Physical Therapist and Medical Administrator, to chat about his career in Montana, Alaska, and Oregon and his more recent volunteer work. Mac geeks out on a wild-west melee, Alana’s daughter is on an anti-smoking crusade, and we all wonder why Richard Dawson was kissing everyone on the Family…
Friday, July 9th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Jim Fitzgerald, large format film photographer & carbon transfer printer with a solo show @ Lightbox Photographic Gallery in Astoria; plus Members Showcase Exhibit. Proprietor Jane Brumfield and featured painter Ruth Hunter in a solo show of abstracted…
On the next Story Told, “Democracy Begins at Home,” by Michael McCusker. Additionally, from Annette Gordon-Reed, “Between Juneteenth and the 4ᵗʰ of July.” Finally Dr. Robert Brake exclaims “So Much for the Heros.”
On the next Story Told, Michael McCusker prepares for 2021’s liberty month beginning with a screed written on the first American terrorists titled “Sons of Liberty.” Additionally, a ponderance on “The Assumption of Freedom,” and to conclude, Dr. Robert Brake claims “We Have No Right to Vote.”