ARTS - Live & Local!

Friday, June 6th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Live Music with the HORSENECKS – Gabrielle Macrae and Barry Southern & the HACKLES – Kati Claborn and Luke Ydstie, to be joined by a bevy of local musicians for “Fallen Heroes”, a tribute to musicians who died in 2025; at...

Friday December 5th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Sam Dinkowitz, Writer, Director, Actor with “Holidazed: A Spectravagasm Christmas” at The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria. Leila Collier and Lloyd Bowler on “Light in the Darkness”, the Astoria Scandinavian Heritage Association’s ceremony of remembrance at Nordic Heritage Park. Greg Neitzel,...

Friday November 28th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Ceramic Artist Randy McClelland on his solo show “Hafu Potter – Random Yokai” at the Cannon Beach Gallery; and “Local Materials” at the Hoffman Gallery in Manzanita which he curated. Vocalist Aleesha Serrita Nedd with her new Jazz Trio; Bradford Blight...

Friday November 21st at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Committee Chair Dan Foss and Dancers Athena Farrow & Zoey Thorne with the 50th Anniversary of Little Ballet Theatre’s “The Nutcracker” at Astoria H.S. Printmaker, Ceramicist, Painter, Professor Ben Killen Rosenberg on his exhibit “Haphak” at CCC Royal Nebeker Gallery. Poet,...

Friday November 14th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Poets & Prose Writers James Dott & Robert Michael Pyle launch their new books from Watershed Press at the Larsen Center in Astoria. Actors David Sweeney, Tim Schwieger & Barb Jernigan with “A Carol for Tiny Tim” at the Coaster Theatre...

Friday November 7th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Director Susi Brown, Playwright Rick Gray with Jason & Brandy Hussa in “Marley’s Last Chance” by ART – Astoria Readers Theatre at KALA Performance Space. Curator Cliff Taylor and Producer Liz Harris with “Indigenous Visions” an exhibit & chapbook of Native...

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ARTS – Live & Local! Guest Host Patrick Webb Brad Pletzyk and Sean Davis, Founders of Rogue Cell with the premiere of their documentary “Backroads and Battlefields” at the Liberty Theatre. Deac Guidi with Cascadia Chamber Orchestra on CCO’s Halloween Pint Sized Opera at Pacifick Distillery in Astoria. Co-Founder, Publisher, Editor Dinah Urell on the...

Marianne Monson is the substitute host for this episode of ARTS – Live & Local! She interviews a rotation of guests on art, music, culture and local events. Guest details to follow. 

Carol Newman interviews a rotation of guests on art, music, culture and local events. Guest details to follow. 

Friday October 3rd at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Chair Diane Marshall with the 40th Anniversary Concert of the Water Music Festival at the Chinook Event Center in WA. Philosopharian Seth Tichenor with a myriad of community offerings: Wit & Wisdom; Chinese Philosophy; and Community Philosophy classes on Aesthetics all...

Friday September 26th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: An Evening of FisherPoets: Writer, Photographer Patrick Dixon with “Mending Holes”, his first full length collection of poetry; and Historian, Folklorist, Musician Hobe Kytr at KALA in Astoria. Play Director & Board Member Ryan Hull and Executive Artistic Director Danyelle Tinker...

Friday September 19th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Writer, Editor, Educator Heather Douglas and Painter & Gallery Owner Kirista Trask with the inaugural Astoria Zine Festival at Cambium Gallery. Singer Minntah Haefker and Drummer, Producer, Founder Brent Follis with Minntah & Friends Seasonal Jazz Series at Cargo in Astoria....

Friday September 12th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Painter Darren Orange with “Prismatic Pareidolia”, his 5th Solo Exhibit at Imogen Gallery in Astoria. Sunday Afternoon Live’s Board Member Candy Nichols and Julie Overby with Season 22’s first concert, Good Co, at the Raymond Theatre in WA. Jen Dixon, Director...

Friday September 5th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Poet & Coordinator John Ciminello with Poet Florence Sage on the ten week ENCORE Local Author Series featuring published poets & authors at Astoria Senior Center. Director Suzanne Harold on the Grand Reopening Celebration of the Astoria Public Library after a...

Friday, August 29th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Saxophonist, Journalist, Author RJ Marx on his lecture ‘Seaside Riots 1963’ at the Seaside Library; his Jazz Fundamentals class at CCC; and music performances in Clatsop Co. Historian, Preservationist, Author John Goodenberger with his upcoming book on the Flavel Family of...

Friday, August 22nd at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Judith Altruda, Betsy Millard & Winona Mail on the exhibit “What is Native Art? Eugene Landry and the Creative Spirit” at the Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum in Ilwaco. Musicians and Sisters Starla and Cate Gable at the Music Vespers Service at...

Friday, August 15th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Bereniece Jones-Centeno, Artistic Director of the Cascadia Chamber Opera, with Stage Director Brendan Hartnett and Stacey Murdoch, Paige Cook & Brandon Michael in CCO Festival’s production of “La Boheme” at the Larsen Center in Astoria. Poet Marj Hogan, Writer’s Guild of...

Friday, August 8th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Director/Producer Alejandra Lopez Nestor, Filmmaker/Editor Jasmine Garcia Delossantos & Host Liz Harris with Raices Clatsop Documentary Premier & Exhibit in the Anita Building in Astoria. CCO Artistic Director & Co-founder Bereniece Jones-Centeno with Mezzo Soprano Lisa Nelson & Baritone Zachary Mar...

Friday, August 1st at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: Director Deanna Duplechain and Stage Manager & Sound Designer Jaime Britton with Sarah Ruhl’s “For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday” at The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria. Marble Sculptor M.J. Anderson with “Inextinguishable”, her exhibit on our age old relationship...

Chelsea Rose, Director of Southern OR University Lab of Anthropology, on the Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project: Uncovering and Maintaining Chinese-American History in Oregon presented by Dr. Jennifer Fang at Obelisk Brewery in Astoria. Artists Luisa Mack & Gregory Gorham with “Oysterville, Pearl of the Peninsula”, an exhibit by eight artists in diverse mediums at Marie...

Friday, July 18th at 3pm ARTS – Live & Local! Carol Newman & guests: ED Danyelle Tinker & MC+ Nancy Montgomery with Performathon, twelve hours of creative offerings at The Ten Fifteen Theater in Astoria. Artists & Board Directors Kitty Paino & TJ Lev on the Annual Judged Show & 75th Celebration of Trail’s End...