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Crystal Ligori

Portland

Producer and Newscaster at KOPB-FM (Portland, OR)

Producer and Newscaster at Oregon Public Broadcasting

Host @OPB's All Things Considered | Narrator & Producer #Superabundant Also heard on @Marketplace, @NPR news, @livingonearth & @LiteraryArts #TheArchiveProject

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  • 2 weeks ago | opb.org | Crystal Ligori

    Author Chelsea Cole with her new cookbook, "A Fest of Thorns and Roses" in Portland, Ore. on April 1, 2025. Recipes in the book are inspired by foods and characters from the romantasy series, "A Court of Thorns and Roses."Marco Kensler / Courtesy of Chelsea ColeThe idea of a pop culture cookbook is nothing new – 50 years ago, you could pick up The Partridge Family Cookbook or whip up some frontier foods that could have been eaten in the Little House on the Prairie.

  • 1 month ago | opb.org | Crystal Ligori

    Hank Vogel, left, and his father Jon Vogel check out a OneCourt tactile device before a Portland Trail Blazers game on Feb. 22, 2025. The Portland Trail Blazers are the first professional sports team to offer this device at all of their home games. It’s a rainy, February night when 11-year-old Hank Vogel gets to the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon. He’s there to watch the Portland Trail Blazers play the Charlotte Hornets and he’s got his dad, uncle and a friend from school in tow.

  • 1 month ago | opb.org | Crystal Ligori

    Radicchio is really having a moment right now: it’s been called the ‘it girl’ of winter, offered as an alternative to roses for Valentines Day, and has been showing up on menus around the country. “It’s not new in Italy, but it’s new to us,” says Lane Selman.

  • 1 month ago | marketplace.org | Crystal Ligori |Amanda Peacher

    For sports fans who are blind or have low vision, it can be hard to experience the full excitement of a game without being able to see where the ball is or what the players are doing. But a Seattle tech company is hoping to change that after creating the first tactile sports broadcast, transforming gameplay into trackable vibrations for visually impaired sports fans like Hank Vogel. “I’m blind, but I don’t just see blackness,” said 11-year-old Hank.

  • 1 month ago | flipboard.com | Crystal Ligori

    1 day agoWireless Electricity Is on the Horizon—And It Could ‘Beam’ Power Right to Your HousePower beaming could allow an orbiting space-based power station to deliver one gigawatt of solar power, enough to power about 1 million homes annually. Ever since an engineer flipped a switch at Pearl Power Station in downtown Manhattan in 1882, electricity transmission around the world has traveled …12 hours agoIs this TV the real “OLED Killer”?

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Crystal Ligori
Crystal Ligori @CrystalLigori
4 Sep 24

What a treat to be asked to do a #coffee episode for @OPB 's new podcast "The Evergreen"! It covers some similar ground to the #Superabundant documentary, but also brings in some new interviews & perspectives on coffee's potential "Fourth Wave".☕ https://t.co/XnVsraHjz0

Crystal Ligori
Crystal Ligori @CrystalLigori
20 May 24

RT @portable_chavez: Give yourself a little present this Monday & listen to this lovely interview by @CrystalLigori & @OPBmorning over lunc…

Crystal Ligori
Crystal Ligori @CrystalLigori
15 May 24

RT @everywhereist: Portland!! PDX!!! In three days, I will be at Powell's City of Books (on Friday, 5/17, at 7pm) speaking with @andizeisle…