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Craig Thompson - Ginseng Roots

Airs at: Thu, 05/22/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Craig Thompson burst onto the comics scene in 2003 with his graphic memoir Blankets, which won multiple Harvey, Eisner, and Ignatz awards.  Blankets was followed up by the travelogue Carnet de Voyage, and the graphic novels Habibi and Space Dumplins. Now, Craig is ba... Read more

Karen A. Frenkel | Family Treasures Lost and Found

Airs at: Mon, 05/19/2025 at 11:00pm - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Open Air
All Holocaust survivor stories are precious because of the unlikely odds of escaping the Nazi’s comprehensive onslaught, but many have never been investigated, told, or understood. In the new book, FAMILY TREASURES LOST & FOUND, journalist Karen A. Frenkel (a co-author ... Read more

BLM History

Produced for:  Radiozine
First, Elizaha talks about Martin Luther King JR and his life's work. We discuss the impact of MLK's death on America.  Next, Gabby talks about the celebration of Black History Month. Gabby emphasizes the need to come together and lift each other up rather than bring ea... Read more

Terry LaBan

Airs at: Thu, 05/08/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Terry LaBan is a comics writer and artist whose titles have included Unsupervised Existence, Cud Comics, and The Dreaming.  He’s collaborated with some of the top names in the alternative and mainstream comics industries, and he teamed up with his wife Patty to create... Read more

Arctic Passages

Airs at: Mon, 05/12/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
While many of us are worrying about how the melting polar ice caps are a warning of climate catastrophes ahead, for others melting ice is turning historical dreams of a navigable Arctic into reality and reshaping rivalries at the top of the world.  On this episode of Lo... Read more

Once Upon a Time

Airs at: Fri, 05/09/2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Once Upon a Time
Casey Lowe, also known by some as their artist name kc lo, is a Portland, Oregon based artist whose mediums include mixed media drawing, painting, and poetry. Their visual subjects include expressive figure, self-portraiture, minimal line work, and a queer aesthetic and ... Read more

Nancy Townsley, author of the new novel Sunshine Girl

Airs at: Thu, 05/08/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's show, we welcome Nancy Townsley, author of the new novel Sunshine Girl from Heliotrope Books. Nancy’s work has appeared in Newsweek, Hippocampus, The Big Smoke, Nailed magazine, the Timberline Review, Elephant Journal, and several anthologies. Sunshine Girl is... Read more

Nina Paley - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 04/24/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Animator Nina Paley is one of the most independent of filmmakers.  Her two feature films, Sita Sings the Blues and Seder Masochism, tackle patriarchal themes in religious narratives, and reimagine them from a feminist point of view. A fierce advocate of copyright abo... Read more

The Youth Collective Takes On Nature

Airs at: Wed, 04/23/2025 at 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  The Underground
The Youth Collective talks poisonous animals, the best trees, blue-ringed octopi, St Teresa Marso, Steve Irwin, and, of course, Ric "Nature Boy" Flair. This is all rounded out with some nature-themed music sets and nature sounds. Read more

Beating Back Big Coal

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  In the wake of the Trump administration’s attempts to revive Big Coal, we rerun a 2018 dialogue between Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Joe Clement about John Sayles' 1987 film Matewan. The interview aired in the wake of the 2018 West Virginia Teachers strike, during which... Read more