Podcasts about reading frenzy

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Something snapped within Ariel and she went on a READING FRENZY!

Shane de Leon is an artist, musician, and owner of Kirks’ Grocery. Born in Billings, MT. As a musician, Shane has performed over 1500 shows in 12 countries and at least 40 states as a solo performer or with one of his many bands, including his current band, Miss Massive Snowflake. As a visual artist, he has exhibited his work at The Art Institute in San Diego, and at The Goodfoot, Reading Frenzy, and Stumptown in Portland, OR. He has exhibited internationally in Varese, Italy at Villa Faraforni and Sancho Panza. As a venue and art space owner that is deeply rooted in community, he truly is a curator of creativity for the city of Billings.   Find Shane and all of his creative doings here: www.kirksgrocery.com https://shanedeleon.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/sdeleons1/about/?ref=page_internal https://www.facebook.com/missmassivesnowflake/  

War Cartoonist Joe Sacco on How Portland's Housing Crisis Is Like a Refugee CrisisYou might find and unusual comic stuffed in your mailbox or slipped under the door in the coming weeks. Titled "Rent Crisis," it's by the award-winning Portland journalist and artist Joe Sacco. He’s spent his life creating wry black-and-white comics about people who live in war zones like Palestine, Bosnia, and Chechnya, but his latest project focuses on a conflict closer to home. Sacco’s friends with Chloe Eudaly, who owns the independent bookstore Reading Frenzy and is running for a seat on Portland’s city council, and this six-page comic came from a day they spent traveling around Portland interviewing people who are struggling to pay the rent.Physical Education Works Up a Sweat - 6:46Some issues have to be worked out on the dance floor. Which is one reason four Portland performers — keyon gaskin, Allie Hankins, Lu Yim, and Takahiro Yamamoto — came together to form Physical Education. What began as four friends getting together for a meal evolved into a published reading list, open meetups, workshops, performances, and now a year-long residency at the Pacific Northwest College of Art's Center for Contemporary Art and Culture. Comic Bri Pruett - 14:21Portland comic Bri Pruett is a tireless performer. She has made a name for herself for taking on everything from her Clackamas childhood to her own body with fearlessness and wit. August Wilson's Widow on Portland Playhouse's Staging of His Autobiography - 22:41The late August Wilson was hugely influential in shaping the narratives of black life in theaters. His “American Century Cycle” is a series of ten plays about African-American life over the course of the 20th century — one per decade. Portland Playhouse, under the direction of Brian Weaver, is methodically working its way through the Cycle, creating a whole new audience for Wilson in Portland. And this fall, Portland Playhouse is offering another sample of Wilson’s work that few audiences nationwide have seen: his one-man, autobiographical show “How I Learned What I Learned,” through Nov. 6. Think Out Loud spoke with Wilson's widow, Constanza Romero, a Seattle-based, Tony-nominated costume designer, about the life and work of her late husband. Aunt Jemima, Buckwheat, and Don’t Shoot — Painter Arvie Smith on Why None of This Is New - 30:26When you see Pacific Northwest College of Art Professor Emeritus Arvie Smith’s vivid, explosive paintings at the Portland Art Museum later this month, you might think they were created last week. But to know Smith’s decades-spanning work is to realize that there’s nothing new about what happened in Minneapolis and Baton Rouge this month. He tells us about his art and life, which is book-ended on one end by the Jim Crow South and on the other by smart phone videos capturing the shooting of black Americans by police.Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky Chases Slenderman to the Internet's Darkest Corners - 37:02In 2014, two Wisconsin girls attacked one of their friends with a knife. They said they did it to please Slenderman, an internet boogeyman often depicted as a tall, faceless villain in a dark suit. Slenderman is a work of fiction — he was invented as part of a web contest to create a new horror figure — but that hasn’t stopped him from capturing the minds of children across the country.The award-winning Portland filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky spent 18 months following the trial of the two girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier. The result is the documentary “Beware the Slenderman.” opbmusic Session: Okkervil River - 42:03For almost two decades, Okkervil River has been the main artistic outlet for songwriter Will Sheff. The band had some critical success, but Sheff became unhappy with the creative direction of the past few years. Instead of dissolving the band and starting over from scratch, though, he made an unconventional decision. He kept the band name, but made a hard reset.

Doing the hard work never sounded so good. We turn to some veteran creatives this week for the antidotes to antic times.Drive-By Truckers' "American Band" Takes On A Mad World - 1:48Ever since coming together in Athens, Georgia, in 1996, The Drive-By Truckers have reinvented southern rock and its assumptions about identity and tradition. While the band has seen plenty of personnel changes over the years, the heart of the Truckers' sound is the musical partnership between Mike Cooley and Patterson Hood. The band played their entire new album, "American Band," for a lucky audience in the OPB studio, and talked about some of the stories and recent events that drove the song-writing. Contest Time: Flash Fiction From Tin House's Master Book Of Plots -14:54Portland/New York publisher Tin House is re-publishing an astonishing writers’ tool from 1928, called “Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots.” Author William Wallace Cook detailed some 1,462 plots to help struggling writers. Tin House held a national contest a few years ago with the first re-publication, and they’re doing it again this month to celebrate the paperback. For five weeks, beginning October 19th, Tin House will post a new plot each Wednesday, and writers will have until the following Monday to write a 500-word story based on it. The five winners will read their stories on State of Wonder, and we'll announce the grand prize winner. PAM's Big New Modern Building -20:40The Portland Art Museum announced a splashy capital project to build the Mark Rothko Pavilion between its existing two buildings. This $75 million expansion and endowment will be dedicated to painter and one-time Portlander and art museum student Mark Rothko. Equally exciting: Rothko's children have offered to loan rotating major works by the modernist master over the next 20 years.PNCA President Don Tuski on Challenges Facing the College - 21:52The new President of PNCA had barely been on the job two months when the college announced the suspension of its Critical Theory and Creative Research MFA program. Think Out Loud spoke with Tuski about why the move was made just days before classes were scheduled to begin. Tuski also addresses the need to boost student enrollment, the benefits of an art education, and his approach to making the most of PNCA's new home at 511 Broadway. Artist Malia Jensen on "Ground Effects" -27:31It's been great having contemporary artist Malia Jensen back in town. Since her return from an eleven-year stint in New York, she's shown work at Reed College's Case Works, Wieden + Kennedy, and collaborated with the dance ensemble Body Vox. Jensen's practice crackles with ideas and wit, delivered with a high level of craftsmanship. We talk to her about her October exhibition, “Ground Effects,” on view at Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland.Chloe Eudaly and Steve Novick Cross Swords On Housing -36:46The race for Portland City Council is heating up. Steve Novick, previously an environmental lawyer and political advisor, is seeking another term. Challenger Chloe Eudaly is an owner and co-founder of the ‘zine and bookstore Reading Frenzy. Ceramics Meets Rock & Roll at the LH Project -38:45Located at the base of the spectacular Wallowa Mountains, the LH Project has been called the Shangri-la of ceramics. Jakob Hasslacher founded the residency to bring world-class artists to one of the West's most stunning landscapes, but one group that's especially close to his heart returns year-after-year: veterans.Art Beat Serves Up Chris Antemann's Forbidden Fruit -48:17Ceramicist Chris Antemann has developed a gorgeous, eye-popping style of porcelain figures that shatter the dainty, mannered image of Neoclassical porcelain. Her alliance with the legendary German porcelain manufacturer, Meissen, has pushed her onto an international stage and a wider world of collectors.

In this episode we'll hear from the February 28th live show where Phil Busse interviewed current city council candidate and founder of Reading Frenzy on Mississippi Avenue, Chloe Eudaly. They spoke about her background in activism, the reasons why she is currently running for a seat on Portland's council and the ways in which nonprofits and government interact to strive to make our city a better place to live for all. In the second half of the show Phil speaks with Mac Prichard of Prichard Communications, a Portland company that provides communications to social changemakers across the country to help make the world a better place. They have supported numerous nonprofits over the years and Mac Pritchard explains to us why, especially for nonprofits it is vital to have a strategic plan for communications and marketing to reach their organizational goals.

This spring we're sharing a series of candidate interviews regarding Portland's future and the arts.City council candidate Chloe Eudaly has seen a lot change in the arts community since she opened her bookstore, Reading Frenzy, in 1994. Listen in as she catches us up on that history and gives us a peek into her vision for the future of arts and culture in Portland. 2:32 - Portland's future and how arts & culture play into it. “If we don't have affordable housing for our low-income residents, for our workforce, for our artists and creatives, we are not going to have a vibrant cultural landscape left.”5:50 - Do you think RACC is doing a good job?“When I opened my bookstore in 1994, there were grants available for people like me…and those dollars have by-and-large gone away…I do feel that the city has really neglected this grassroots, kind of unacknowledged category of cultural workers.” 07:40 - On why small scale arts institutions are important:“My pivotal cultural experiences did not happen at well-funded arts institutions, they happened at all-ages music venues, at quirky little bookstores, at cafes that had galleries in the back.”09:00 - On how the 80's and 90s inform her current thinking about expanding arts and cultural access across Portland:“What was essential at the time for all of these really interesting, quirky, slightly improbable businesses—like mine or like the X-Ray [Cafe]—was cheap rent. Cheap relative to wages. That's really disappearing and I fear for what our cultural landscape will look like in a few years if we do nothing.”14:27 - On strategies to improve residential real estate problems in Portland:“I'd love it if the city and PDC could figure out a plan to assist with the succession of ownership within low-income families because that house is many people's most valuable asset.”23:23 - On the changes in the close-in SE industrial district:“The tech industry doesn't need that neighborhood. I think the maker's community has a much more compelling argument for their need to stay in that area, and they are being displaced.”24:50 - Is there a creative class war developing between artists and creative tech workers? As an elected official would you try to take sides or broker a peace?“I'm more concerned with preserving existing communities and creating affordable spaces than I am with accommodating people coming in with a lot of capital.”27:18 - On what can be done to ensure that public dollars in Portland are reaching everyone and not just white, middle-class audiences:“I think it's a real challenge to create equity in the arts community when we don't have it in housing, and we don't have it in schools, and people are being forced out to the edges of the city where there is little-to-no cultural programming going on.” 29:00 - On the Arts Tax:“Whatever problems I might have with the tax, knowing that every kid [K-5] in Portland public schools is getting arts education goes a long way toward smoothing those concerns over.” “I'd like to see the exemption raised…a graduated tax based on income, and I would like see more money going towards access....I do not support sending people to collections over the Arts Tax.”31:30What would you do to influence the city's built environment. Tell us about one place in the city that's an example of something to work on or something to celebrate. "North-Northeast Portland is one of the areas most impacted by gentrification and displacement.""I have to wonder what African-American residents have to come back to."

Portland is home to many authors who started out by self-publishing their work in zines, and went on to have work published by bigger publishers, or by becoming publishers themselves. This program will bring together some of these authors, as well as other creators, entrepreneurs, and connectors in the local zine community, to discuss how Portland’s economy and culture enable innovation and access in publishing. Recorded live at Multnomah County Library US Bank Room, February 7, 2015.  Audience: Adult Programming Featuring: Chloe Eudaly, Reading Frenzy bookstore proprietor Nicole J. Georges, writer, illustrator, comics instructor at California College of the Arts, and advice columnist at Bitch magazine Tonya Jones, organizer and editor of the Portland Women of Color Zine A.M. O'Malley, writer, Program Director & Certificate Program Director at the Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC) Kevin Sampsell, writer, publisher of Future Tense Books and curator of the small press section at Powell’s Books François Vigneault, artist and writer, cofounder and organizer of Linework NW comics festival

Listen in as The Doubleclicks, a geeky two-sister band, perform four songs, and four authors read parts of their reported features from The Magazine: The Book at our last live book event in Portland, Oregon. The event was held at Reading Frenzy, and features John Patrick Pullen, Alison Hallett, Chris Higgins, and Elly Blue. Sponsors & patrons We're sponsored this week by Cards Against Humanity, which just launched a site where you can buy directly from them, including their Bigger Blacker Box and their 2012 and 2013 holiday packs, the profits from which are donated to charity. Show notes Chloe Eudaly owns the bookstore Reading Frenzy. It raised over $50,000 via Kickstarter to move its store after losing its downtown lease and then having a space fall though. If you visit Portland, you have to stop by. Andy Baio is one of the fellows behind the XOXO festival, and is in the middle of fundraising the return of Upcoming, a site he co-developed, sold to Yahoo, and recently bought back. John Patrick Pullen read from "Beacon of Hope." Alison Hallett read from "What Lies Beneath." Elly Blue read from "Hub and Spoke." And Chris Higgins read (the footnotes) from "Playing to Lose." The Doubleclicks performed four songs for us: "Worst Superpower Ever," "Oh, Mr. Darcy," "Impostor," and "Velociraptor." They were guests on this podcast in February 2014.

The comedy-in-comics discussion continues with a trek through the strange genius of Michael Kupperman’s Tales Designed to Thrizzle. Joining Matt and Brett is a longtime sketch comedy writer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City, Damian Chadwick. Picasso: His Astonishing Life Johnny Silhouette Sidafexil childish revenge Baby Poop'n'Tell Cousin Grandpa Unnecessary Foreplay pubic hair stencils The Buzz Aldrin Mysteries Fabulous Nut Bra Uncle Billy’s Drunken, Bitter Guide to the Animal Kingdom To read Tales Designed to Thrizzle, either get the single issues on Comixology in black and white, or buy the collection in color on Amazon or Comixology. Follow @damianchadwick on Twitter, and if you’re in the Portland area, check out Reading Frenzy. Music: “Who Have I Become?” by Best Coast "Damian Chadwick / Tales Designed To Thrizzle #1-4 (2005-2008)" originally appeared at http://mattandbrettlovecomics.com/podcast/2014/tales-designed-to-thrizzle.html

Sean Tejaratchi, creator of the zine Craphound, an internationally known zine of clip art, and Chloe Eudaly, founder of Reading Frenzy, an independent press emporium in Portland,Oregon, discuss the creative scene in Portland during the 1990s that lead to the creation of their zine and bookstore. You can also watch and listen to a streaming slidecast of this presentation. When you get to the link, scroll down to get to the presentation labeled "Zinesters Talking." Target Audience: Adult Date of Event: October 24, 2009