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On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichCan you Taste the Hate?!This is a throwback to a project that host Andy Gurevich and producer Mike DiNapoli put together when creating a spin off podcast called POTCAST OREGON. In solidarity of all our friends this Pride month it seemed like the right time to share this little nugget of podcast gold. Can you Taste the Hate?
2022-06-0802 min
1: Erica's ListOn the Block with Douglas Rushkoff Podcast: On the Block Radio with Andrew Gurevich (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: On the Block with Douglas RushkoffPub date: 2016-06-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWinner of the Media Ecology Association’s first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Dr. Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other’s values. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens, technol...
2018-02-021h 36
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Tom KrattenmakerBeen a while since we've been with you, lovelies. The world continues to end. Or is it just continuing to transform itself? This show has always been about borders. About intersections. About the boundaries out on the edges of the Self where subject and object, self and other, start to blend. Now, it seems more than ever, we need to engage the great, maligned and feared "other" rather than succumbing to the constant barrage of media that seeks to make us minimize and simply dismiss that which isn't "Us." Our guest this episode is a person that seeks to...
2017-09-121h 53
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Joel BakstJoel David Bakst is a teaching rabbi and scholar of Talmud and Kabbalah who, while living in Jerusalem for 20 years, studied and taught in Orthodox yeshivot. Raised in a Southern California Conservative Jewish home, Joel became a ba'al teshuva (newly religious) at the age of 20 bringing full circle his lineage from a long line of rabbis. Both his grandfather and uncle were Orthodox rabbis, his great grandfather was chief rabbi of St. Louis, MO and his great, great grandparents made aliyato Eretz Yisrael and are buried on the Mount of Olives. He is the 8th generation of Rabbi Avraham Ragoler...
2017-05-282h 31
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Dan MerchantDan is many things including a radio host and the former voice behind "Sheila and Dan" in the morning at KINK.FM He's also an Emmy and Iris award winning television writer/producer/director who's working on SyFy's zombie hit Z Nation. Over the top, hilarious and scary, Z Nation is bringing fun and mercy to the zombie apocalypse with a fresh and surprisingly reflective approach to the current zombie craze. In 2009 Dan made his debut as a feature film director with the theatrical release of his documentary, Lord Save Us From Your Followers.The critically acclaimed film was the...
2017-03-302h 01
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block Radio with Andrew HarveyAndrew Harvey is Founder Director of the Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability. Sacred Activism is a transforming force of compassion-in-action that is born of a fusion of deep spiritual knowledge, courage, love, and passion, with wise radical action in the world. The large-scale practice of Sacred Activism can become an essential force for preserving and healing the planet and its inhabitants. Andrew was born...
2017-03-072h 32
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with David F. WalkerDavid F. Walker is an award-winning comic book writer, author, filmmaker, journalist, and educator. His work in comic books includes Shaft (Dynamite Entertainment), winner of the 2015 Glyph Award for Story of the Year, Power Man and Iron Fist, Nighthawk, Fury, Secret Wars: Battleworld(Marvel Comics), Cyborg (DC Comics), The Army of Dr. Moreau (IDW/Monkeybrain Comics), and Number 13 (Dark Horse Comics). In 2015, he wrote the novel Shaft’s Revenge, the first new novel starring private detective John Shaft in nearly 40 years. He is also the creator of the critically-acclaimed YA series The Adventures of Darius Logan.
Recognized as a leading sc...
2017-02-052h 37
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Rick StrassmanDr. Rick Strassman was born in Los Angeles, California in 1952 (although presumably he wasn't a doctor at that point, at least not a credentialed one). As an undergraduate, he majored in zoology before transferring to Stanford University, where he graduated with departmental honors in biological sciences in 1973. He attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York, where he obtained his medical degree with honors in 1977. Dr. Strassman took his internship and general psychiatry residency at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center in Sacramento, and received the Sandoz Award for outstanding graduating resident in 1981. After...
2017-01-012h 40
It's All HappeningEpisode 72 - Andrew GurevichThe final IAH podcast of 2016 brings you the great Andrew Gurevich. Andrew is as good a social, cultural historian/philosopher as they come. Our talk covered the vast landscapes of rising and falling ideologies, why looking at our past is important, social media and how to be a better inhabitant and of course a recap of latter day 2016 and how we got here. I hope to do more podcasts with Andrew as he really is a model for well rounded wise and balanced thinking. INTRO RANT: 2016 and the rise of confusion WELCOME: Our new sponsor...
2016-12-311h 15
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with John VoelzJohn Voelz is a tamed rebel, artist, songwriter, painter, musician, writer, pastor, and aggravator. His love of all things creative in tandem with a severe angst towards mediocrity and religiosity has given him a unique platform as a voice in the church--local and worldwide. He is currently The pastor/curator at Lakeside Church in Folsom, California. He is also one of my oldest friends in the world. I have not known a man who is more invested in those riches which do not succumb to moth and rot than John. He is the embodiment of a supernatural grace that seeks...
2016-12-233h 44
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Reema ZamanReema Zaman says this about her work: "Why else do we write or read but to invoke a loving voice in the dark, to alleviate our loneliness, to forge solidarity, to make sense of our inherent, stunning madness?" Reema was born in Bangladesh, raised in Hawaii and Thailand, and moved to the US to attend college. She has a BA in Women's Studies, a BA in Theater, and a minor in Religion. After graduation, she worked as an actress and model in New York for 8 years. Now, she writes narrative nonfiction, is a life-coach and writes for "Dear Reema," where...
2016-12-182h 27
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with David Jay BrownDavid Jay Brown holds a master's degree in psychobiology from New York University (1986), and a B.A. in psychology from the University of Southern California (1983). He is the author of two science fiction novels, Brainchild (New Falcon, 1988) andVirus (New Falcon, 1999), and is co-author of two volumes of interviews with leading-edge scientists and artists--Mavericks of the Mind (Crossing Press, 1993) and Voices from The Edge (Crossing Press, 1995). He is also the author of The New Science of Psychedelics: At the Nexus of Culture, Consciousness, and Spirituality . David's interviews have been translated into Japanese (Hachiman, 1995), Italian (Gruppo Futura, 1997), and Czechoslovakian (East Hauz, 1999). He...
2016-12-101h 41
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Fernando ViciconteArgentina-born Fernando Viciconte came of age musically in L.A. fronting the popular hard rock band Monkey Paw. He moved to Portland, OR, in 1994 and released Season in Hell, a downbeat collection of country rock. Almost immediately, he became a Northwest musical institution. In 2001, Fernando founded his own label and released Dreams of the Sun and Sky, a gorgeous collection of gauzy, narcotic tracks with Latin and country-folk accents. The Oregonian named this album a top ten release of 2001. In 2006, Fernando returned from a hiatus from music and he delivered his most critically received record to date: Enter to Exit...
2016-12-041h 47
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Max DashuMax Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives in 1970 to research and document women's history from an international perspective. She built a collection of 15,000 slides and 20,000 digital images, and has created 150 slideshows on female cultural heritages across human history. (For titles and descriptions, see the online catalog.) Read some of the enthusiastic responses to these dynamic presentations here. Her work bridges the gap between academia and grassroots education. It foregrounds indigenous women passed over by standard histories and highlights female spheres of power retained even in some patriarchal societies. For over 40 years, Max Dashu has presented hundreds of slide talks at...
2016-11-272h 35
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Paul DevereuxPaul Devereux is: A Founding Co-editor of Time & Mind - Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture; A Research Affiliate at the Royal College of Art; A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; A Senior Research Fellow at the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL) group at Princeton; And an Honorary Member of the Scientific and Medical Network. He's also a friend and one of the world's leading researchers in the emerging field of archaeo-acoustics. But Paul started out as a painter, having a degree in Fine Art. He participated in numerous group exhibitions in Britain such as John Moores, Liverpool...
2016-11-132h 23
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with The Dinner & Bikes TourWell, well, well. What's been up in your lives, lately, America? Any news you'd like to discuss? This week, we bring you a conversation with the members of The Dinner and Bikes Tour. The Dinner & Bikes is a month-long tour of the U.S. to bring people together to eat delicious food and get inspired about bicycle transportation. Here's what happens at a Dinner and Bikes event: As the audience arrives, they serve themselves from chef Joshua Ploeg's seven-course gourmet vegan and gluten-free buffet spread. While the audience is eating, local advocates discuss their work and local issues and initiatives...
2016-11-082h 41
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Karen TateAs an independent scholar, speaker, radio show host, author, and social justice activist, Karen Tate's body of work blends her experiences of women-centered multiculturalism evident in archaeology, anthropology and mythology with her unique academic and literary talents and travel experience throughout the world. Her particular emphasis is on the roles of women and the study of comparative religions and ancient cultures in a modern or reconstructed context, bringing the ideals and awareness of the Sacred Feminine into the mainstream consciousness. Tate's work has been highlighted in the Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times and other major newspapers. She is interviewed regularly...
2016-11-062h 11
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Emily BinghamEmily Bingham is a writer, rope instructor, model, and professional pervert. As a writer she strives to weave fantasies that will turn-on her readers. As a rope instructor she works to bring new skills into the bedroom of her clients so they can make their fantasies come true. It's all about desire in both of the worlds she inhabits. Recently she combined her two greatest passions into one unique and exciting book: Diary of a Rope Slut. As a kinkster, teacher, model, and writer Emily's love affair with words has been going on since as long as she could hold...
2016-10-281h 46
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Caleb StephensCaleb Stephens is a therapist and activist in Lawerence, Kansas. He is the founder of Identifight, which he describes as "created to exemplify self-identity, encouragement, resilience, mental-health, activism, value, Hope, Truth, Justice, and empowerment." Caleb has been an active participant in the Black Lives Matter Movement (BLM-LFK): protesting police brutality towards people of color and the rising tide of indifference among the larger population at these atrocities. Recently, he spoke at a City Council meeting in Lawrence, Kansas. And then his life got really interesting. He is a new kind of social justice warrior that is rewriting the script on...
2016-10-201h 43
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Dr. Catherine SvehlaDr. Catherine Svehla is a cultural mythologist, storyteller, artist, and activist with a PhD in Mythological Studies. She draws on her knowledge of mythology and psychology to bring the story to life and share insight into the contemporary meaning of the tale. She uses myths and stories as the catalyst for conversation, group discussion, and shared reflection. Her goal is to teach as well as entertain, and to provoke thought as well as laughter. Among other projects, she runs the Mythic Mojo project that seeks to create a mini-revolution in consciousness by helping individuals explore the mythic dimensions of their...
2016-10-141h 33
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Chuk BarberPlaying drums since he was eleven years old, Chukinho has had sticks in his hands for over 40 years. A student of legendary jazz drummer, Hal Blaine, Chukinho was a grounding member in many garage bands in the early 60s. He founded the Virginia/North Carolina-based premiere jazz group "Heroes" in the late 70s. Moving to New Orleans in 1986, he co-founded "Casa Samba," New Orleans' first Samba School. After many trips to Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, Bahia, to hone his skills, Chukinho was picked from a handful of non-Brazilian born "bateristias" to accompany the World Champion Brazilian Soccer Team on...
2016-10-082h 19
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Willy VlautinBorn and raised in Reno, Nevada, Willy Vlautin started playing guitar and writing songs as a teenager and quickly became immersed in music. It was a Paul Kelly song, based on Raymond Carver's Too Much Water So Close to Home that inspired him to start writing stories. Vlautin has published four novels: THE MOTEL LIFE (2007), NORTHLINE (2008), LEAN ON PETE (2010), and THE FREE (2014). He is the winner of multiple awards, including the Oregon Book Award and the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. Vlautin founded the band Richmond Fontaine in 1994. The band has produced nine studio albums to date, plus a handful...
2016-09-301h 22
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Dr. Bruce DamerBruce Frederick Damer is a Canadian-American multi-disciplinary scientist, designer, and speaker. He works in evolutionary biology researching the question of the origin of life and the exploration and economic development of space. He also has a practice in the design of innovative software systems interfaces and a passion for collecting and curating historical archives in computing history and leading figures of the counter-culture. Dr. Damer performs as a storyteller on a range of subjects under the moniker science + vision = hope. He began performing in 2003 and is featured at venues such as Burning Man, and the Esalen Institute. He also performs...
2016-09-232h 09
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Pam HoustonPam Houston's most recent book is Contents May Have Shifted, published in 2012. She is also the author of two collections of linked short stories, Cowboys Are My Weakness and Waltzing the Cat, the novel, Sight Hound, and a collection of essays, A Little More About Me, all published by W.W. Norton. Her stories have been selected for volumes of Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Awards, The 2013 Pushcart Prize, and Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the winner of the Western States Book Award, the WILLA award for contemporary fiction, The Evil Companions Literary Award...
2016-09-161h 39
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Bob WalterRobert Walter is an editor and an executive with several not-for-profit organizations. Most notably, he is the executive director and board president of the Joseph Campbell Foundation (JCF), an organization that he helped found in 1990 with choreographer Jean Erdman, Joseph Campbell's widow. In 1979, Bob began to work on several projects with Campbell, who subsequently named him editorial director of his Historical Atlas of World Mythology. Following Campbell's death in 1987, Bob served as literary executor of Campbell's estate, completing Volumes I and II of the Atlas and supervising its posthumous publication. With JCF publishing director David Kudler, he continues to oversee...
2016-09-102h 54
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block Radio with Blacque ButterflyA Portland treasure and a voice of passion, wisdom and profound insight, Darlene Solomon-Rogers aka Blacque Butterfly is an entertainer, activist and event host. Her love for the arts has allowed her to explore several layers of her calling. Be it spoken word, motivational speaking, singing, theater or event promoting she has "allowed the Creator to use her ministry to inspire others to follow their calling." Blacque Butterfly is a native Oregonian, born and raised in NE Portland. She is the author of "Black girl can I comb your hair." She has also released a spoken word CD entitled Collide...
2016-08-311h 29
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Reverend Billy Taleneverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir is a New York City based radical performance community, with 50 performing members and a congregation in the thousands. They are wild anti-consumerist gospel shouters and Earth loving urban activists who have worked with communities on four continents defending community, life and imagination. Over the last 15 years of their "church," they describe the Devils that plague us as Consumerism and Militarism. In this time of the Earth's crisis - they are especially mindful of the extractive imperatives of global capital. Their activist performance and concert stage performance have always worked in parallel. The activism...
2016-08-261h 01
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Dimitri MugianisBorn in Detroit, to a politically leftist Greek American family, Dimitri Mugianis began writing poetry, music, and also using drugs at a very early age. As a teenager, Dimitri formed a band called The Leisure Class. After several years of local success, the band moved to New York City in 1983. There, Dimitri found a home at the Chelsea Hotel, and quickly developed close friendships, notably Beat legends Herbert Huncke and Gregory Corso. His relationship with cocaine, heroin and methadone would last over 20 years. By 2002, Dimitri had a daily habit of $150-200 worth of heroin, plus cocaine and 100 milligrams of methadone...
2016-08-201h 48
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Ramez NaamFuturist, scifi author and former Microsoft executive Ramez Naam has some definite ideas about where we are heading as a species. And it might be in a different direction than you think. Ramez was born in Cairo, Egypt, and came to the US at the age of 3. He's a computer scientist, futurist, angel investor, and award-winning author. He spent 13 years at Microsoft, where he led teams developing early versions of Microsoft Outlook, Internet Explorer, and the Bing search engine. His career has focused on bringing advanced collaboration, communication, and information retrieval capabilities to roughly one billion people around the world...
2016-08-121h 34
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block Radio with Dorothy AllisonDorothy Allison grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, the first child of a fifteen-year-old unwed mother who worked as a waitress. Now living in Northern California with her partner Alix and her teenage son, Wolf Michael, she describes herself as a feminist, a working class story teller, a Southern expatriate, a sometime poet and a happily born-again Californian. The first member of her family to graduate from high school, Allison attended Florida Presbyterian college on a National Merit Scholarship and studied anthropology at the New School for Social Research. An award winning editor for Quest, Conditions, and Outlook—early feminist an...
2016-08-051h 24
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Kelly CarlinKelly Carlin has always been curious about the big questions of life. Watching her father, George Carlin, be an iconoclastic comedy legend certainly didn't hurt too. Like him she loves to use humor to question the status quo, and she loves to seek out the unique angle into any subject she tackles. But unlike him, she brings a more personal and emotional tone to her work. With her personal story, pathos, emotion and psychological insight she reveals the joy and challenges that comes with trying to live an authentic life. As a child, Kelly explored her own creativity by writing...
2016-07-291h 55
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Howard Bloom"I know a lot of people. A lot. And I ask a lot of prying questions. But I've never run into a more intriguing biography than Howard Bloom's in all my born days." --Paul Solman, Business and Economics Correspondent, PBS NewsHour Howard Bloom has been called "next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein,[and] Freud," by Britain's Channel4 TV , "the next Stephen Hawking" by Gear Magazine, and "The Buckminster Fuller and Arthur C. Clarke of the new millennium" by Buckminster Fuller's archivist. Bloom is the author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the...
2016-07-201h 41
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Barbara J. KingBarbara J. King is Chancellor Professor of Anthropology at the College of William & Mary. In addition to her new book on animal grief, she has authored Being With Animals (Doubleday 2010), Evolving God (Doubleday 2007), The Dynamic Dance (Harvard University Press 2004), and a number of other books. A reissue of Evolving God is due out in 2017. Dr. King has studied monkeys in Kenya and great apes in various captive settings in Africa and the US. Her research has advanced the thesis that humans and animals have deeper emotional relationships than previously thought. She takes the work of our friend and colleague Dr...
2016-07-151h 45
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Jen Pastiloff TaleghanyJennifer Pastiloff Taleghany, Beauty Hunter, Is The Founder Of The Manifest-Station, a website that uses writing, yoga, social media and activism to save and change lives. With millions of followers, Jen is a true champion of change, and a voice for compassionate transformation in a world that so desperately needs more of both. She is a writer and yoga teacher living with her husband in Los Angeles when she's not on an airplane. She travels the world with her unique workshop: The Manifestation Workshop: On Being Human-a hybrid of yoga, writing, sharing out loud, and occasionally a dance party. It's...
2016-07-081h 50
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Zach LearyYou may have heard of Zach's dad. He almost single-handedly started a little thing called the counterculture. But here at OTBR, we are not star fuckers. We do not obsess over the cult of celebrity. We DO, however, want to know about engaging stories of creativity and transformation. We ask how people have taken the life they have been given and turned it into something meaningful and beautiful for themselves and for others. We are not our parents, but we are, in some sense, the collective experience, the collective victories AND failures, of our ancestors. We stand in a trajectory...
2016-07-012h 00
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Frank J. MilesFrank J Miles is a pandisciplinary artist based in New York City: a visual artist, an artistic philosopher, a social sculptor who studied at Columbia University, and a former speechwriter for President Bill Clinton. His work is about atheism, death, competition, bonding, density and utopia. The creator of Communitas, his next step is an MFA PhD program overseas in art and philosophy. Communitas is an essential part of his art practice. It is: a downtown Manhattan creative think tank and salon; a pandisciplinary arts collective; a future global arts movement and civilization Communitas is a symposium of the occurrent arts...
2016-06-232h 13
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Douglas RushkoffWinner of the Media Ecology Association's first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Dr. Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens, technology and media commentator for CNN, digital literacy advocate for Codecademy.com and a lecturer on media, technology, culture and economics around the world. His new book, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, argues that we have failed to...
2016-06-171h 36
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Bryan RillBryan Rill is many things. He is the president of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness: a group of academics that study the nature of consciousness from an anthropological perspective. He is a leader in the field of conscious design. He also has ties in the worlds of robotics, biomimicry, quantum physics, shamanism, electronica and cultural anthropology. But this is not the primary reason we brought him on the show. Several years ago, Bryan suffered a horrible accident that left him without the ability to use most of his brain. He has, quite literally, rebuilt himself from the ground...
2016-06-101h 39
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the block with Rios De la LuzRios De La Luz is a force to be reckoned with. An outsider coming at you from the very center of her experience, she tells stories of her xicana heritage that are as wild and diverse as the day is long. Rios is a queer xicana/chapina living in Oregon. She is brown and proud. She is always working on decolonizing her mind and being louder. She is in love with her bruja/activist communities in LA, San Antonio and El Paso. She is the author of, The Pulse Between Dimensions and The Desert via Ladybox Books. Her work has...
2016-06-041h 18
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Garth GreenwellGarth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You. He is also the author of a novella, Mitko, which won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Debut Fiction Prize and a Lambda Award. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, he holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was an Arts Fellow. His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, A Public Space, StoryQuarterly, and VICE. He lives in Iowa City, where he holds the Richard E. Guthrie Memorial Fellowship at the University of Iowa. He...
2016-05-211h 30
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Kerry CohenKerry Cohen is a psychotherapist, specializing in sex and relationships, writing faculty at The Red Earth Low-Residency MFA, and the author of Loose Girl, Dirty Little Secrets, Seeing Ezra; the young adult novels Easy, The Good Girl, and It's Not You, It's Me; Spent, an anthology of 30 astounding essays concerning women and shopping; and The Truth of Memoir. Kerry has been featured on Dr. Phil, Good Morning America, the BBC Saturday Live, and many more television and radio shows. She has published in The New York Times Modern Love column, the Washington Post Outlook, Brevity.com, and many more journals...
2016-05-211h 56
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Gurucharan Singh KhalsaGurucharan Khalsa, PhD, LPC (khalsa@chapman.edu) Gurucharan is an expert in the design and delivery of applications of meditation and controlled breathing. He is the author of several texts on yoga and meditation including the recent "The 21 Stages of Meditation"- read and used as for meditation training worldwide. He is currently Research Professor in Contemplative Science and Transdisciplinary Dialogue at Chapman University. He works with the Fish Interfaith Center and the Institute of Quantum Studies to explore the nature of consciousness and human potential using meditation and the insights of science. He continues a broad based consulting and...
2016-05-121h 57
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with the Obo Addy Legacy ProjectObo Addy was one of a kind. The Ghanaian master drummer, bandleader, and teacher who made Portland his home for over 30 years, passed away in 2012, but his influence in Portland and the Pacific Northwest continues. Having spawned a love for African music in musicians and listeners alike, Obo's greatest contribution was his tireless work in the region's schools --providing exposure to African music and culture for generations of children. By the time he died he had performed for over 1 1/2 million people in the United States. And taught tens of thousands of children about the beauty and significance of Ghanaian cultural...
2016-05-041h 27
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Jess WalterA former National Book Award finalist and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Jess Walter is the author of six novels, one book of short stories and one nonfiction book. His work has been translated into 30 languages, and his essays, short fiction, criticism and journalism have been widely published, in Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Harper's, Esquire, McSweeney's, Byliner, Playboy, ESPN the Magazine, Details and many others. Jess came to Portland as part of my college's Mouths of Others literary reading series. We had a chance to sit down and talk about his unorthodox path to...
2016-04-291h 21
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Domi J. ShoemakerDomi J. Shoemaker is the creator and curator of the legendary Burnt Tonguereading series in Portland, Oregon which features some of the best writers in the region and highlights Tom Spanbauer's Dangerous Writing groups. Domi recently received their MFA from Pacifica University and is also an integral part of the creative team for Lidia Yuknavitch's Corporeal Writing workshops. Domi is also a gender-fluid, differently-abled, ball of wonder and spark and bite. They do not fit easily into any one box. Domi forces us to look as much at ourselves as we do at them for the answers to who we...
2016-04-151h 41
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Mitchell JacksonA native of Portland, Oregon, Mitchell Jackson is the author of The Residue Years, a novel set in inner northeast Portland neighborhoods in the 1990s. Based on Jackson's own life, the novel tells the story of Grace, a mother battling crack addiction, and Champ, her son, who sells the drug that has ravaged his family and his neighborhood. The Residue Years, which was Multnomah County Library's Everybody Reads selection for 2015, just won the prestigious Whiting Award, with a prize of $50,000. Jackson teaches at NYU and Columbia and is also the author of Oversoul, a collection of stories and essays. Mitchell...
2016-04-081h 09
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Justin PanneckWe met this guy at an academic conference two years ago and was blown away by his razor wit, deep insight, Buddha-like compassion and academic prowess. His presentations weave together cultural analysis, anthropological analysis, psychological insights and piercing humor to reveal deep truths about human nature and culture and the complex dialectic between the two. We sat down a while back to discuss his journey into the shadow and his emergence back into a world alive with spirit, meaning and truth. And how he is working to translate those realizations into his work as a psychologist and an academic. Dr...
2016-04-021h 38
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with S. Renee MitchellHappy Easter and Spring Equinox folks! We are so pleased with the way the Winter season went and are hard at work on Spring 2016! We have some amazing shows lined up for you in the coming months. For today, please enjoy this resurrected episode from our archives with the ineffable S. Renee Mitchell. See you again live next week! With over 25 years of experience as the most widely read newspaper columnist in the American West, S. Renee Mitchell left a successful career in journalism to pursue a calling as an artist, author, poet, playwright and community activist. Nominated twice for...
2016-03-281h 55
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Tom SpanbauerWhat can a single human being hope to achieve in one lifetime? How do know our lives have mattered? Is it in the work we do, the people we touch, the love we allow ourselves to experience? To write about an authentic life, to write dangerously, is to strip away the artifice and the pretense and get to the bloody, sinewy truth of it all. The rhythm we chase is that of our own songline: a beating heart, a sideways glance, an empty seat at the dinner table. All reveal the same spaces of fragility and transformation which make us...
2016-03-171h 25
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Patti DavisNOTE: This interview was recorded before the death and funeral of Nancy Reagan. So please give Patti Davis the privacy and respect she deserves during this difficult time. | The first child of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Patti Davis, has lived anything but the conventional life of the child of a conservative political family. Throughout the 1970s, Patti rejected her parents' conservatism, living with a member of the rock band the Eagles and participating in the nuclear freeze movement. After years working as an actress, Patti tried her hand at writing. In 1986, she published A House of Secrets, an undeniably autobiographical...
2016-03-081h 29
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Tiffany ShlainTiffany Shlain is on a mission. The Emmy-nominated filmmaker, speaker, and Webby Awards founder has received over 70 awards and distinctions for her films and work, including being named by Newsweek as "one of the women shaping the 21st Century." Shlain's films encourage us all to think about where we're headed in our increasingly connected world. Like future On the Block Radio guest Douglas Rushkoff, she explores how technology is shaping us in new, and often unexpected, ways. She has premiered four films at Sundance, including her acclaimed feature documentary Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology, which The New York...
2016-03-021h 19
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Sean DavisSean Davis is not a politician. But he is running to be the next mayor of Portland, Oregon. In a year of political outsiders and upside down campaign logic, he just might have a shot. Sean is an Iraqi War veteran, a Purple Heart recipient, and an accomplished author, artist and volunteer firefighter. He is also the Post Commander at the American Legion Post 134 in the Alberta Arts district in NE Portland. Sean believers art can save lives, because it helped to save his. The guy is a friggen' force of nature. Sean sees human need and suffering and throws...
2016-02-261h 34
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Paul LevyPaul is a pioneer in the field of spiritual emergence, as well as an innovator in the field of dreaming (both night dreams as well as waking dreams). A Tibetan Buddhist practitioner for over 30 years, he has intimately studied with some of the greatest spiritual masters of Tibet and Burma. He is the author of The Madness of George Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis, as well as Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse. His newest book, Awakened By Darkness, is an exploration of his relationship with his abusive father and how it initiated the beginning of his shamanic shift...
2016-02-171h 30
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Melissa Dodson | Grief RitesHappy Valentine's Day. Put down the box of Russell Stover candies and listen up. It's time to talk about death. There's no better way to celebrate love than to honor the fact that we eventually lose the ones we love. Or do we? On the Block Radio is a show about transformation. More specifically, we are a show about how people face intense experiences in their lives and transform them into meaning, beauty and purpose. There is no bigger transformation than that of death. To confront our own deaths, the sages of every religion teach, is the key to unlocking...
2016-02-133h 11
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Mo DaviauMo Daviau (pronounced DAH-vee-oh) was born in 1976 to a very unusual couple in a widely disliked city in California. A graduate of Smith College and the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan, she now lives in Portland, Oregon, with her stuffed crocodile. Her new novel, Every Anxious Wave, is the coolest time travel/90s indie rock novel you haven't read yet. A wild romp of a love story across time, interweaving astrophysics and indie rock, it follows the exploits of two friends who discover a wormhole in their closet and use it to sell time travel packages...
2016-02-061h 39
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Mikey SiegelScience is increasingly recognizing what spiritual and religious traditions have been advocating for thousands of years: through focused self-awareness we can fundamentally change our conscious experience. The keys to accessing profound joy and contentment in this world lay not in our external circumstances, but in our relationship to ourselves. Numerous peer reviewed studies on mindfulness and meditation are proving the profound benefits reaped by these long-time practices. Is there a modern enlightenment, in harmony with the media and technology that seems to constantly externalize our attention, and increase our sense of separation from ourselves and others? Can we create new...
2016-01-281h 35
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Adrian Mack & Keisha ThorpeI first met Adrian and Keisha when I entered the PhD program in Transformative Studies at CIIS in San Francisco back in 2013. I had to leave the program almost immediately due to financial aid problems (making me the shortest lived doctoral candidate since Elvis got his honorary degree) but they continued on and have begun implementing what they had been learning in exciting, innovative ways. They are co-teaching a class at the Emergent Studies Institute which explores the linkages between social justice movements and the creative muse via the artistic outlets of music, literature, film, images and performance art, beginning...
2016-01-221h 46
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Shawn LevyShawn Levy watches movies. Lots of them. Probably more in a year than you will in a lifetime. And in between watching movies he writes about them. A lot. He has also penned seven full books and is hard at work on his eighth. His latest, DeNiro: A Life, is based on Levy's unprecedented access to De Niro's personal research and production materials and explores the legendary actor's process with Levy's characteristic wit and unparalleled film IQ. From 1992 until 2013, he wrote for The Oregonian, serving as Film Critic from 1997 to 2012. Prior to that, he was Senior Editor of the late...
2016-01-122h 31
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Mark RussellMark Russell is hilarious. Mark Russell is irreverent. Mark Russell believes that GOD IS DISAPPOINTED IN YOU. So much so that he wrote a book about it with the same title. He is also the author of the very popular DC reboot of the comic Prez which is about a teenage girl who becomes the President of the United States. Mark uses humor in ways that bring us closer to the things he is satirizing. His books about religion, including the upcoming Apocryphal Now, explore the complexity of religious faith in ways that both celebrate the deep wisdom and transformative...
2016-01-071h 41
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Bo RinaldiWhen we started On The Block Radio, we made a list of all of the people we knew or knew about whose lives represent the very best of what transformation and elevated consciousness could be in the world. So far, we have been fortunate to have had many of those people on the show. Today, we add another name to that list. Bo Rinaldi is many things, but easy to define is not one of them. He has already managed to cram more into a single lifetime than many of us could in three lives. An entrepreneur, angel investor, and...
2016-01-011h 26
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Stanley KrippnerWell, we end the year with the Gandalf of paranormal research. Stanley Krippner has over 50 years of experience as one of the world's most recognized humanist psychologists. He has authored hundreds of peer-reviewed articles and a few dozen books on topics including dream research, shamanism, indigenous cultures, and consciousness studies. His newest book, The Voice of Rolling Thunder, is a firsthand account of a controversial and enigmatic medicine man whose life and work influenced people from Buckminister Fuller to Mickey Hart of The Grateful Dead. Stanley is a deep well of wisdom and story. A celebrated academic with a heart...
2015-12-231h 33
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Jerry McGillMost of us have a hard enough time staring our deepest fears directly in the face. But imagine having your deepest fear shoot you in the back at the age of 13, leave you paralyzed for life, and then walk off into the night, never to be heard or seen again? And imagine then, after a lifetime of struggle, writing a book to the person who shot you. An open letter that ultimately forgives the person for what they did, but not before taking them on a journey through a life of loss, grief, humor and hard-fought redemption. This is no...
2015-12-181h 27
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Sister Outsider PoetrySister Outsider Poetry is an award-winning duo representing some of the top performance poets in the world, Dominique Christina and Denice Frohman. Their tour marks the first time that two Women of the World Poetry Slam Champions have paired up. They have appeared on 10 national poetry slam finals stages and have seven championships collectively. Inspired by the life and work of Audre Lorde, they write and perform their "otherness" into the center and use spoken word as a tool for social change. What they bring to a performance will either rip you wide open or stitch you back up, depending...
2015-12-111h 17
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOTB Teaser | Ep.14 | Sister OutsiderThis week's guests are two of the most celebrated slam poets in the country. Tune in to hear them discuss art, poetry and the political power of language.
2015-12-0601 min
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Dr. Christopher Ryan | Hour 2Dr. Christopher Ryan is a big personality with even bigger ideas. I first met Dr. Ryan when he came to speak at my college as a part of our speaker series, The Mouths of Others in 2013. I, like the rest of the world, was intrigued by the premise of his New York Times bestselling book Sex at Dawn. For the three of you who haven't read it (spoiler alert), the book brilliantly examines the archaeological, anthropological and evolutionary evidence regarding the origins and functions of human sexuality. It also challenges some long-held beliefs about the supposed "natural" supremacy of life-long...
2015-12-021h 08
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Dr. Christopher Ryan | Hour 3Dr. Christopher Ryan is a big personality with even bigger ideas. I first met Dr. Ryan when he came to speak at my college as a part of our speaker series, The Mouths of Others in 2013. I, like the rest of the world, was intrigued by the premise of his New York Times bestselling book Sex at Dawn. For the three of you who haven't read it (spoiler alert), the book brilliantly examines the archaeological, anthropological and evolutionary evidence regarding the origins and functions of human sexuality. It also challenges some long-held beliefs about the supposed "natural" supremacy of life-long...
2015-12-021h 17
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOTB Teaser | Ep.13 | Dr. Christopher RyanSpecial date and time -- Episode 13 drops on Monday 12-7-2015 The 1st hour of the conversation can be heard on Dr. Ryan's show, Tangentially Speaking. www.chrisryanphd.com/tangentially-speaking
2015-11-2902 min
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Octavia's BroodThis week, we had the opportunity to sit down with part of the creative team behind the award-winning science fiction anthology, Octavia's Brood. The anthology features visionary, speculative fiction written by activists and organizers. We spoke with co-editors Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown about the inspiration for the book: the legendary sci-fi writer Octavia Butler. We also discussed how science fiction/speculative fiction can help us both diagnose the structures and institutions that perpetuate injustice, and envision a better way forward together. Contributor David Walker joins us to speculate on why "The Walking Dead" doesn't have more black people...
2015-11-2658 min
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Tamara RubinSeveral years ago, Tamara Rubin's two sons were poisoned with lead from unsafe painting practices used by a contractor working on her home. Both children continue to face challenges from the entirely preventable illness. Tamara has since become an internationally recognized, award-winning* lead-poisoning prevention advocate and documentary filmmaker. In 2008 she began her personal advocacy site, mychildrenhaveleadpoisoning.com. In 2011 she founded the nonprofit Lead Safe America Foundation and began working on the film MisLEAD.
2015-11-171h 13
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Cindy SheehanActivist, author and all around pain in the ass for the status quo, Cindy Sheehan had her world turned upside down when she learned that her son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004. Since then, Cindy has become one of the strongest, most personal and persistent voices in the movement against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, I believe she has done more to reinvigorate and galvanize the anti war movement than any other single individual in the last 10 years. She camped for months in front of the Bush family compound in Crawford, Texas and was joined by...
2015-11-1057 min
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOTB with Cindy Sheehan | Teaser | Episode 10Promo for On the Block (OTB) radio - Episode #10 | This week activist Cindy Sheehan stops in to talk about her walk as well we discuss what it's like to be hated by so many celebrities. | New Episodes Drop every Sunday at 5pm PST | FMI go to our website | www.OntheBlockRadio.com
2015-11-1002 min
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with S. Renee Mitchell | Hour 2With over 25 years of experience as the most widely read newspaper columnist in the American West, S. Renee Mitchell left a successful career in journalism to pursue a calling as an artist, author, poet, playwright and community activist. Nominated twice for the Pulitzer, Renee left an indelible mark on the world of journalism before stepping out into this new phase of her life. She is a celebrated spoken word artist, a painter, an inspirational speaker, a woman's advocate and an all around tornado of art, creativity and activism. Renee has shared the stage with greats such as bell hooks, Erykah...
2015-11-0356 min
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with S. Renee Mitchell | Hour 1With over 25 years of experience as the most widely read newspaper columnist in the American West, S. Renee Mitchell left a successful career in journalism to pursue a calling as an artist, author, poet, playwright and community activist. Nominated twice for the Pulitzer, Renee left an indelible mark on the world of journalism before stepping out into this new phase of her life. She is a celebrated spoken word artist, a painter, an inspirational speaker, a woman's advocate and an all around tornado of art, creativity and activism. Renee has shared the stage with greats such as bell hooks, Erykah...
2015-11-031h 02
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOTB Teaser | Ep.9 | S. Renee MitchellFull episode live at 5pm PST | Sunday 11-8-2015 Renee has been described as a "Creative Revolutionist" who explores the issues of gender, race, poverty, art and identity in her diverse work. She has also been called a "creative healing griot, who nurtures hope, empowerment and inspiration." I think she is an artistic doula who helps people give birth to their own creative power. In this episode, we discuss what it's like to be a person of color in a neighborhood, school or job, and what drives her to keep transforming suffering into beauty and art. Full episode live at 5...
2015-11-0101 min
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Shawnte OrionShawnte Orion hosts monthly poetry readings in Arizona. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Barrelhouse, Gargoyle Magazine, Georgetown Review, New York Quarterly and many other journals. He has been invited to read at bookstores, bars, universities, hair salons, museums, and laundromats. His first book The Existentialist Cookbook was published by NYQBooks.
2015-10-261h 09
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Mark SchultzMark Schultz is an Olympic gold medalist, a pioneer in MMA fighting and the subject of the book and film Foxcatcher. His brother, Dave Schultz, was one of the greatest Olympic wrestlers of all time and was murdered in the prime of his life by the billionaire madman John DuPont. Mark's story is recounted in the book Foxcatcher, which was made into an Academy Award-nominated film in 2014 starring Steve Carrell as John DuPont, Channing Tatum as Mark Schultz and Mark Ruffalo as Dave Schultz. Mark is a bright, disciplined and confident guy. He rose to the top of his profession...
2015-10-221h 27
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Stephan Schwartz | Hour 1Stephan Schwartz is one of a kind. For 40 years he has been studying the nature of consciousness, particularly that aspect independent of space and time. Schwartz is part of the small group that founded modern Remote Viewing research, and is the principal researcher studying the use of Remote Viewing in archaeology. Using Remote Viewing he discovered Cleopatra's Palace, Marc Antony's Timonium, ruins of the Lighthouse of Pharos, and sunken ships along the California coast, and in the Bahamas. He also uses remote viewing to examine the future. He is the author of more than 130 scientific papers in a number of...
2015-10-151h 04
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Stephan Schwartz | Hour 3Stephan Schwartz is one of a kind. For 40 years he has been studying the nature of consciousness, particularly that aspect independent of space and time. Schwartz is part of the small group that founded modern Remote Viewing research, and is the principal researcher studying the use of Remote Viewing in archaeology. Using Remote Viewing he discovered Cleopatra's Palace, Marc Antony's Timonium, ruins of the Lighthouse of Pharos, and sunken ships along the California coast, and in the Bahamas. He also uses remote viewing to examine the future. He is the author of more than 130 scientific papers in a number of...
2015-10-141h 02
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Stephan Schwartz | Hour 2Stephan Schwartz is one of a kind. For 40 years he has been studying the nature of consciousness, particularly that aspect independent of space and time. Schwartz is part of the small group that founded modern Remote Viewing research, and is the principal researcher studying the use of Remote Viewing in archaeology. Using Remote Viewing he discovered Cleopatra's Palace, Marc Antony's Timonium, ruins of the Lighthouse of Pharos, and sunken ships along the California coast, and in the Bahamas. He also uses remote viewing to examine the future. He is the author of more than 130 scientific papers in a number of...
2015-10-1456 min
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Kimberly DarkIn the Spring of 2014 the college where I work hosted our first Interdisciplinary mini-conference on "Writing Sexualities." This several-day event featured Kimberly Dark, an internationally known writer and performer in Gender and Sexuality, and Christopher Ryan, also internationally known for his work in Sociology, Psychology and Human Sexuality, and author of the best-selling book Sex at Dawn. (Regular listeners to this show know Dr. Ryan and his work quite well, I'm sure. We will air his portion of this event in the coming weeks). The speakers also each lead a workshop open to students, faculty and the community. I was...
2015-10-051h 10
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Brian & Wendy FroudThe mother of Yoda and the master of Faerie art. Brian is a world-renowned faerie artist whose books have sold millions of copies around the world. Wendy was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award as a woman in the special effects industry. They both were creative consultants on The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. They are also funny, endearing and full of a kind of archaic wisdom that I hope carries on throughout the life of this podcast. In this episode, we discuss Jim Henson, George Lucas, the archetypes of consciousness, the soul of art and how their son...
2015-09-271h 41
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with David Gonzalez | Part 2Singer, songwriter, musician, artist, playwright and elder of the old ways. David Gonzalez is primarily a storyteller. A world class storyteller to be accurate. He has performed everywhere from Broadway to the Kennedy Center, and has appeared in front of over 5,000 audiences in his career. He has a PhD in Music Therapy and is currently working with farmers in the Central Valley of California to use art, storytelling and music to explore the complex cultural experiences of the people who feed us, often without our thanks. Here we discuss art as service, his Puerto Rican and Cuban roots, the magic...
2015-09-201h 04
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with David Gonzalez | Part 1Singer, songwriter, musician, artist, playwright and elder of the old ways. David Gonzalez is primarily a storyteller. A world class storyteller to be accurate. He has performed everywhere from Broadway to the Kennedy Center, and has appeared in front of over 5,000 audiences in his career. He has a PhD in Music Therapy and is currently working with farmers in the Central Valley of California to use art, storytelling and music to explore the complex cultural experiences of the people who feed us, often without our thanks. Here we discuss art as service, his Puerto Rican and Cuban roots, the magic...
2015-09-201h 01
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Lidia YuknavitchLidia Yuknavitch writes about sex, violence and art. And she does so in a way that will undo you. She breaks language down to the level of the quantum to expose entangled flashes of violence and transformation. You will never be the same after reading her work. She's built a devoted fan base throughout the Pacific Northwest as an author and teacher. And the rest of the world is catching on. Finally. Her book The Chronology of Water changed the way memoir was written and sent shockwaves through the literary world. Her newest novel The Small Backs of Children begins...
2015-09-111h 43
On the Block Radio with Andrew GurevichOn the Block with Adam KlugmanAdam Klugman is the son of the late actor Jack Klugman. But he is so much more than that. He is the former host of "Mad as Hell in America" and the founder of "Mad as Hell Doctors" that travelled the country in 2008 to promote single payer healthcare. I used to sit in awe and listen to his radio show, especially his now legendary opening monologues. Adam is a passionate, engaging and empathetic presence. I couldn't think of a better guest to kick off the show. Here we discuss living in his father's shadow, the perils of a life of...
2015-08-311h 45