State of Wonder is turning one year old. We're going to revisit some of our favorite moments from our first 52 weeks of broadcasting. Image credit: "Binocular" by Bill Hoppe 00:55: Author Ann Patchett on our shared name. 03:50: Vinyl fiends get their wax on at Discog‘s Crate Diggers record swap. 10:50: Musicians with Oregon East Symphony make the most of getting snowed in while in Pendleton. 19:50: Rebecca Gates analyzes the ways revenue streams are changing in the music industry. 29:30: High sc...
Oct 31, 2014•53 min
Oct 31, 2014•7 min
Last weekend's Portland Retro Gaming Expo showcased Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, of course. But it also featured new "homebrewed" games for decades-old systems.
Oct 24, 2014•6 min
1:30: New “homebrew” games for old video game systems 7:40: Author James McBride on identity and success 18:40: Part 2 of our conversation with R.E.M.’s Peter Buck 23:50: Wallace Stegner on the similarities between autobiography and fiction 32:55: When jazz bassist Andre St. James met the legendary Rahsaan Roland Kirk 38:45: Nancy Ives tells us about the terrifying audition process at the Oregon Symphony 48:15: Hiroshi Ogawa’s ceramic art
Oct 24, 2014•53 min
With platinum-selling R.E.M. records in the rear-view mirror and some gloriously weird vinyl records out on the Mississippi Records imprint, Buck talks about his evolving sound, and working with our guest curator, Corin Tucker.
Oct 24, 2014•13 min
The remastered boxset. It’s a rite of passage for nearly every great band. But what exactly is remastering? Image credit: Nacho Torres / Creative Commons
Oct 21, 2014•6 min
Guest Curator Corin Tucker looks back on the Sleater-Kinney catalog, and helps us get at what's changed for musicians in Portland from the mid-90s and today.
Oct 18, 2014•51 min
Daniel Peabody of Elizabeth Leach Gallery talks about the Portland Art Museum's outgoing Chief Curator.
Oct 11, 2014•3 min
Roger Hart remembers his friend Paul Revere Dick, founder of Paul Revere and the Raiders.
Oct 11, 2014•5 min
Fast friends for years, Tracy and Louis Pain talked to us about their good friend Linda Hornbuckle. Louis and Linda played together in various line-ups for years. They first met in Paul DeLay's band, No Delay. Linda was asked to step in when Paul DeLay served a sentence in prison. Fellow bandmate Peter Dammann has organized a relief concert to defray medical expenses for Linda Hornbuckle's family. Full info on that is at this link. https://www.facebook.com/LoveForLindaHornbuckle...
Oct 11, 2014•4 min
Oct 11, 2014•3 min
The Bend Film Festival is taking place this weekend. The festival has a new executive director at the helm. And for the first time, festival goers will be able to see films on the Warm Springs reservation, including one by a 23 year old tribal member.
Oct 10, 2014•4 min
0:00-6:10: Paul Revere Dick and Linda Hornbuckle Pass Away 6:10-11:20 Central Oregon Arts Summit And Bend Lodging Tax 11:20-17:25: Bruce Guenther Leaves Portland Art Museum 17:25-20:35: 40 Years of Photography at Blue Sky Gallery 20:35-24:55: Bend Film Fest Expands to Warm Springs Under New Director 24:55-28:50: James Broughton Biopic Featured in Astoria Film Fest 28:50-32:05: Jack Ohman's New California Life and Career 32:05-end: Credits and Corin Tucker Preview...
Oct 10, 2014•35 min
An extended conversation with David Mitchell, who sat down with us to discuss his new work, his writing influences, parenting a child who has autism, growing up with a stammer, and the spiritual themes that inform his work.
Oct 03, 2014•49 min
00:00 EDJ 03:15 Design Week 14:05 Project Pabst 16:50 David Mitchell 27:50 Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial 32:40 Furniture Porn
Oct 03, 2014•36 min
Mark Takiguchi dishes about his new show at Worksound International, the manufactured world of home decor catalogues, and why it took him three years to find the perfect couch. His paintings will be up through the end of October.
Oct 03, 2014•7 min
Carl Alviani of Ziba Design, John Vieira of Nemo Design, and Sarah Mirk of Bitch Media talk about design that works in Portland, and the interplay between urban design and public dialogue. Members make these conversations possible. Are you in? https://secure.opb.org/contribute/
Oct 02, 2014•11 min
-Museum curators battle to choose a new work for Portland Art Museum’s collection. -Joshua Wolf Shenk takes on the myth of the solitary genus and the true power of creative pairs. -Hari Kondabolu tackles race and class in his stand-up routine. -The Donkeys bring a summery, San Diego feel to their music. -A fight scene takes place in near pitch dark in Northwest Classical Theatre Company’s "Wait Until Dark." -Milagro Theater‘s "Words that Burn" dramatizes the WWII experiences of “the Pied Piper o...
Sep 26, 2014•53 min
Northwest Classical Theatre Company is in the midst of the show, Wait Until Dark, which includes a rather involved fight scene. We spoke with Clara Hillier and Sam Dinkowitz about staging this on a wet stage, in the dark, with a knife. Easy peasy, right?
Sep 26, 2014•5 min
Our sit-down with Brooklyn's Hari Kondabolu. We can categorically say he's the only comedian we've ever talked to with a masters in human rights from the London School of Economics. And he's awesome. Shows in Portland Sept 26th and 27th. (photo credit: Mindy Tucker)
Sep 26, 2014•24 min
Author Lois Leveen talks about re-imagining the most famous play in English. Her new novel, Juliet's Nurse, views Shakespeare's play through the perspective of a character typically plays for laughs. What follows is a story loaded with subtext about class, family relations, and the grief of losing a child. More info about the book here: http://loisleveen.com/index.php/juliets-nurse
Sep 26, 2014•8 min
The low-down on Literary Arts' acquisition of Portland's festival of books.
Sep 22, 2014•4 min
David Walker, Sean Jordan, and Jason Lamb talk about where they were when Spike Lee's epic 1989 film came out, and it's come to mean to them over the years.
Sep 20, 2014•21 min
Francisco Fernandez de Miguel is using pre-Columbian art to study the neuroscience of how we perceive art.
Sep 19, 2014•4 min
Salsa music and dance is becomming more popular in the U.S. and Portland, "All the Sex I've Ever Had" brings seniors on stage to talk about sexuality, and Katie Lane has legal advice for freelancers in comics.
Sep 19, 2014•17 min
Monica Drake teaches artists how to write in common English, Run-On Sentence captures the West in song, and a neurobiologist uses ancient murals to find out how our brain sees art
Sep 19, 2014•15 min
Bruce Guenther, chief curator at the Portland Art Museum, retires. Hollywood Theater shows Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing," and hosts a race discussion. And "Dreamscape" brings the topic of officer involved shootings of minorities to the stage.
Sep 19, 2014•19 min
Talking with this week's guest curators, Kelly Sue DeConnick and Matt Fraction, about how creators are finding new paths to their audience, they suggested we check our Mike Doughty's method. Doughty. He's an indie rock survivor with a fantastically broad view of how to distribute his songs and writing.
Sep 13, 2014•6 min
Sep 13, 2014•5 min
Sep 13, 2014•4 min
