Live Wire with Luke Burbank

Live Wire Radio is an independently produced radio show and non-profit based in Portland, Oregon. Hosted by Luke Burbank and announced by Elena Passarello, the show artfully blends unpredictable conversation, live music, and original comedy featuring all kinds of cultural talent and creative minds, from emerging artists to established acts. Live Wire champions discovery by producing engaging, spirited, and genuine live and listening experiences for a local and national audience.

BIANCA BOSKER

Bianca Bosker is the New York Times bestselling author of Cork Dork and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Best American Travel Writing, and been recognized with awards from the New York Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, and more. Her new book Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See is out February 6, 2024.

TESSA HULLS

Tessa Hulls is an artist, writer, and adventurer who is equally likely to disappear into a research library or the wilderness. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Atlas Obscura, and Adventure Journal, and her comics have been published in The Rumpus, City Arts, and The Margins. She has been awarded grants from the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture, and the Robert B McMillen Foundation, and received the 2021 Washington Artist Trust Arts Innovator Award. For the last almost-decade, she has focused on making Feeding Ghosts (MCD, 2024), a graphic memoir that traces three generations of women in her family across a backdrop of Chinese history to explore the complicated ways that mothers and daughters both damage and save one another.

SARAH MARSHALL

Sarah Marshall is a writer, podcaster, and media critic who wonders why we keep falling for the same old myths. Why is the maligned woman a staple of our news media? Why do we believe that serial killers are brilliant? How do we keep stumbling into all these moral panics? These are some of the questions that propel Sarah’s work as co-host of the popular modern history podcast You’re Wrong About, which has been highlighted in the New Yorker, the Guardian and Time Magazine. She loves Portland, Oregon, Philly and Las Vegas in that order, and rumor has it she is writing a book about the Satanic Panic.

PURE BATHING CULTURE

Pure Bathing Culture is a Portland based indie pop band consisting of members Sarah Versprille and Daniel Hindman. Their debut album Moon Tides was released in 2013 following the release of three additional full length albums of dreamy shoe gaze melodies with a touch of sparkle. They’ve toured with Father John Misty, La Luz, Widowspeak, and Tennis. Their latest album Chalice was released in 2023 which embodies a collection of songs about the ritual of creativity, progress and transformation, and the search for transcendence and joy.

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