The community weighs in with their answer to the question: What two words do you hope will describe the coming year 2021. And Jon Stewart wins the icebreaker contest for who is your favorite late night TV host.
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Merianne Myers and Linda Perkins get their aprons on and talk about the hilarious chaos of a 2020 Thanksgiving, and more!
Mac & Alana are joined this week by local celebrity, historian, preservationist, long-distance runner, world traveler, alligator wrestler, and all-around Man-About-Town: John Goodenberger. John entertains us with two pioneer tales you won’t soon forget.
Friday, Dec 4th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Tom Cocklin, directer of Riverbend Players live virtual fundraiser ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and Tom Campbell, board member of Fulcrum Community Resources cosponsor of the performance. Columbia River Symphony Conductor Cory Pederson & first violinist Angela Calvin Pederson with…
LOCAL NEWS: A look at high COVID rates in Pacific County Pacific County has one of the highest rates of covid infection in Washington and overall its rate is more than twice as high as that of Clatsop County. However new figures released late yesterday show infections have peaked, at least for now. KMUN’s Jacob…
Donna Quinn hosts a conversation with two Oregonians engaged in a David & Goliath struggle with Idaho Power over a high voltage transmission line proposed over five counties in Eastern Oregon. Her guests are La Grande, Oregon residents Fuji and Jim Kreider, co-founders of Stop B2H, a 501c3 non-profit non-political grassroots coalition.
On the next Story Told, Michael acknowledges World AIDS Day amongst what may later be known as World COVID Day in “Petition of Prejudice.” Also, by Dr. Robert Brake “My Not so Fond Farewell of Trump,” and finally a few mourning words about Jim Wilkins and Carlos Anaya.
What has 2020 taught you about race?
Host Jessica Schleif interviews Astoria fiber artist, natural dyer, and baker Iris Sullivan Daire about fiber arts and the beauty offered to us by plants.
On this episode of An Adventure in History, Mac and Alana talk about. . .milk. Somehow, it is still the best show ever.
This Thanksgiving, on the next Story Told, a diversion from the traditional pilgrimage celebration, in which America gives thanks that it’s been given back it’s democracy in “Donald Trump is Leaving Behind Blueprints to End Democracy,” by Timothy Egan. Additionally, in memoriam, “Auld Lang Syne” for Mathew Joseph Snyder.
A discussion about native and indigenous culture, history and issues during Thanksgiving week.
A biography of Mary Jane Holmes Shipley Drake – one of Oregon’s the first African Americans to live nearly their entire life in Oregon and was the matriarch of a large family of early Black residents.
An Adventure in History.
Friday, Nov 20th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Executive director Jennifer Crockett on The Liberty Theatre’s first Virtual Gala. Alyssa Evans, editor of the Coast Weekend on the CW Book Club starting with Swedes in Oregon; and more.
On the next Story Told, Greta Thunberg responds to what may be the most important question of this generation and the last – Is there any candidate on the right or left who gets the severity of the climate? Her response: No, in “Beauty and the Beast.” Additionally, a list of “Freedoms According to the Right,” by Charles Hillestad….
Do we create the narrative, or does the narrative create us?
Host Teresa Retzlaff talks with Nehalem farmer and florist, Sarah Zwissler of Neahkahnie Blooms, about her journey and process in operating a cut flower garden on the Oregon coast.
Friday, Nov 13th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Painter and Tattoo artist Aaron Toledo showing at Imogen Gallery. Rob Russell, Bay City Arts Center president and KAYN radio station manager, with news from both.
A biography of William Badger – a Gearhart business owner and the first Black city councilor in Oregon.
On the next Story Told, a brief history of The Vietnam Veterans Against The War, including the defecationing of the Pentagon, titled “Winter Soldiers.”
Graham Nystrom hosts an election reflection.
Roger talks about next week’s reopening of the Astoria Warming Center in the face of COVID-19, with Executive Director Kathleen Sullivan, Center Manager Cheryl Paul, and board president Rick Bowers.
The Tillicum Foundation Annual Member Meeting is an opportunity to hear messages from the KMUN staff and Board, Board candidate messages, programmer and volunteer awards, Directors’ Award and election results. It’s been quite a year! Welcome to our new Board Members Kathleen Sayce and Todd Lippold, as well as returning Board Members Sarah Lu Heath…
Friday, Nov 6th at 3 pm, ARTS – Live & Local! host Carol Newman speaks with: Two guests from the 33rd annual Stormy Weather Arts Festival in Cannon Beach: Official Festival poster artist Hazel Scaling Schlesinger showing at Northwest by Northwest Gallery. Artist & Cannon Beach Gallery director Scott Johnson with an overview of…
A biography of Hannah and Eliza Gorman – Benton County’s first Black residents and landowners.
Host Donna Quinn reads inspiring poetry and prose, offering tips on how we can calm ourselves during times of intense stress.
On the next Story Told, with an uncalled election left hanging in the air Michael reads “Divided We Fall,” and in a letter to The Astorian newspaper, plus an excerpt from Albert Einstein, an argument for socialism simply titled “Why Socialism.” Additionally, “The Fury Against Trump Has Begun a Democratic Awakening,” by Fahad Manjoo, and lastly, in a possible premature catharsis…