107.1 XRAY FM · Portland · Weekly
Brief, sideways dispatches on the mind, the self, and the small instincts that keep us moving through a noisy world.
On air every Wednesday morning.
The Rough Draft with Anthony Alvarado is what happens when a writer's notebook grows a voice: brief, sideways dispatches on the mind, the self, and the small instincts that keep us moving through a noisy world.
It's a weekly, open-ended conversation — part notebook, part trial run — where ideas are tested in real life before they're cleaned up. Useful when it works, and still interesting when it doesn't, and always grounded in lived experience.
Part psychology, part creative essay, part survival manual for the bewildered — always brief, always insightful, always hunting for the deeper pattern beneath the day-to-day.
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Wednesdays at 8:30 AM
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107.1 XRAY FM, Portland
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Catch it live Wednesday mornings at 8:30 AM on Portland community radio — or stream online at xray.fm.
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Ideas tested in real life
before they're cleaned up.
The Rough Draft · XRAY FM