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Looking for some of the stellar press Live Wire! shows have garnered? Look no further. Click on any of the PDFs to download the full story. To set up an interview with one of Live Wire's loquacious cast, crew or creators, please contact Stephen Cassell at Cassell Communications 503-449-6718 or stephen@cassellcommunications.com. Live Wire!: The radio variety show that’s so much moreBrian Kimmel, http://blog.traveloregon.com/magazine/, 12/01/2011Portland’s creative spirit takes center stage with Live Wire!, a radio variety show like no other. Showcasing writers, storytellers, musicians and artists of all stripes, the show is taped live at the Alberta Rose Theater and airs on KOPB FM 91.5 on Saturday nights at 7 p.m. (You can also listen any time via podcast.) A recent evening included rocking indie pop stars Blind Pilot, Mad as Hell in America host Adam Klugman, and poet Anis Mojgani along with Live Wire’s regular comedic crew — The Faces for Radio Theater. You’ve got to see it to believe it: It’s, it’s … Live Wire! alt.radio.variety.fun.fun.fun! It’s, It’s… Live Wire!Faddah Wolf, portlandstagereviews.com, 11/25/2011Portland’s Own Live Wire! Radio makes good on public radio syndication and gives a modern edge to traditional radio variety. It’s … it’s … Courtenay Hameister!Joanne Zuhl, streetroots.wordpress.com, 06/23/2011Courtenay Hameister has a great job. It just scares her a little. Most of us know her as the host, head writer and associate producer Live Wire! Radio, on OPB radio Saturday nights. But Hameister is also a prolific essayist, writing humorous pieces for specific events or on random, but important observations, and she is perpetually working on compiling her essays and musings into a book. She helped write the successful and quirky “Road House the Play,” with creator Shelley McClendon, and created, with Marc Acito, the reading series “True Stories.” She has written and produced short films through the film collective Cinema Syndicate, and is a regular on the Cort and Fatboy podcast, on which, she admits, she ends up talking about sex a lot. Carrie Brownstein Talks 'Portlandia' in PortlandMelissa Locker, IFC Now, 01/06/2011And now, live across the nation . . .Jason Vondersmith, Portland Tribune, 09/23/2010Live Wire! Radio is a hit in Portland. Maybe it could be a hit nationally. The Best Show You’re Probably MissingDaniel Borgen , http://blogout.justout.com/, 09/13/2010Last Friday, Live Wire!, Portland’s infamous one-hour radio variety show, set up camp in its new home, the stunning–and yet somehow quaint–Alberta Rose Theater. Just Out was on hand to check out the new digs, chat with the talent, and watch the cast and crew tape the show. Live Wire! typically films two programs in one night, so those in attendance get to soak up over three hours of (damn funny) sketch comedy, interviews, and live music each night. Live from Wordstock: LiveWire Radio’s Wordstock ExtravaganzaKate Williams, Willamette Week Online, 10/12/2009
Instead of trying to sum up the awesome insanity that was the LiveWire Wordstock Extravaganza in a couple short paragraphs, I’d like to instead gift you with a few choice excerpts from the show. In Character with Tyler Hughs: A conversation with an interesting PortlanderPeter Korn, PortlandTribune.com, 04/23/2009Tyler Hughs’ girlfriend thinks he’s funny. His 5-year-old son isn’t quite so sure, according to Hughs, who is a writer and announcer for locally produced vaudevillian radio show Live Wire!, heard on public radio stations across the country. But kids are always a tough audience, as Hughs learned about 20 years ago. Plugging into 'Live Wire!Lisa Grace Lednicer, The Oregonian, 03/12/2009Inauguration Day 2009: You were probably at the office when you saw the news clip of Barack Obama dancing with Michelle. You looked up from your computer, saw his tux, noticed her white dress. Maybe you smiled -- what a great-looking couple! -- and got back to work. An hour later, you looked up again: same TV news clip, same picture of Barack and Michelle. The next day, you hear that the Obamas went to something like 10 balls. If you thought about it at all, you wondered: 10 balls? In one night? Weren't they exhausted? Review: Live Wire! Wordstock editionLuciana Lopez, The Oregonian, 11/09/2008Music + books = very happy nerdy me, so how could I resist the Wordstock edition of Live Wire!? Answer: Couldn't, and I'm glad I didn't try. Saturday's taping of the Portland-based OPB radio sketch/variety show, recorded at the Aladdin Theater, was packed to the gills -- not just with audience members, but with guests: Graphic artists/writers Lynda Barry and Alison Bechdel, musicians The Long Winters and Jonathan Coulton, musician and now playwright McKinley (of Dirty Martini) essayist Sandra Tsing Loh, NPR's "This I Believe" producer Jay Allison, author and PC-in-those-Apple-ads John Hodgman and poetry slam champ Anis Mojgan, as well as the usual funny cast of the show... Live Wire! on Oregon Art BeatGreg Bond, Nick Fisher, and Tom Shrider, Oregon Art Beat, 04/12/2007Allison Frost goes behind the scenes of OPB radio's Live Wire! show as it is taped in Portland's Aladdin Theater. Radio DazeMiranda Rake, Portland Monthly, 05/01/2006It's early March at the North Portland recording facility Mississippi Studios, and the cast of Live Wire, Portland's answer to Prairie Home Companion, is rehearsng a sketch for its next live radio show. Sean McGrath, playing the part of an overfriendly clerk in a co-op grocery store, accost "intimidated Shopper" Mame Pelletier, who stifles her giggles. Sweet 'Live Wire!' samplerMarty Hughley, The Oregonian, 12/23/2005To paraphrase from one of the worst movies of all time, a compilation CD is like a box of chocolates. And when the confectioner, so to speak, is a variety show to begin with, the unpredictability factor is even greater. Portland-produced show offers up a singular voiceEric Bartels, The Tribune, 12/13/2005No doubt Courtenay Hameister has her low-key moments, when she visits the quieter end of the emotional spectrum. But she’s one of those people who are always leaning, if not practically falling, toward a good laugh. The Spark That Became Live Wire!OPB Member, 11/01/2005LIVE WIRE's producers Kate Sokoloff adn Robyn Tenebaum recently sat with OPB to discuss the true beginning fo LIVE WIRE! Portland's got it 'Wired'Kristi Turnquist, The Oregonian, 10/28/2005Lots of people move to Portland thinking they'd love to do something creative. But few of them manage to create and produce their own regular radio show. Fewer still dream of taking their live performance/radio broadcast baby to a national audience. But that's just what Robyn Tenenbaum and Kate Sokoloff, the co-creators and producers of "Live Wire!," have in mind. They're not satisfied with selling hundreds of tickets to their show's live performances. Or with having an on-air berth every month at Oregon Public Broadcasting. They want nothing less than to do for Portland what "A Prairie Home Companion" has done for Minnesota: put it on the national radio map as a place with its own entertaining quirks, personality and sense of humor. Live Wire! What on earth were they thinking?OPB Member, 09/01/2005If you haven't caught LIVE WIRE! and want to know what everyone's talking about, or if you have caught it and don't know how to talk about it, here's a little primer: it's inttermittently wacky vaudeville for the mind with musical guests and thought-provoking discussion. It's a bit of salt, pepper and that other spice, the one that makes the dish. Taking Live Wire to a national stageMaureen McDowell, The Business Journal, 05/20/2005Portland's growing stature as a creative center could get a major boost from a local live radio show that is gaining an audience and looking to expand nationally. Lake Wo...Be Gone, Here Comes "Live Wire!"Jonathan Nicholas, The Oregonian, 03/10/2004Robyn Tenenbaum and Kate Sokoloff are close friends. So close that, man-wise, they share the same fantasy. There's the guy. Kind of like Garrison Keillor. The strong, unsilent type. But younger. Hipper. And a lot less Lutheran. |
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