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  Here at KBOO, we will be celebrating LGBTQIA2S+ Heritage on Tuesdays, 7:00 to 8:00pm, with live panels from our studios, where we will have guests from these communities talk to us about their culture, presence, struggles, and relevance. Calls are welcome, 503-231-8187 ... Read more

  Here at KBOO, we are celebrating Pride Month and LGBTQIA2S+ Heritage on Tuesdays, 7:00 to 8:00pm, with live panels from our studios, where we will have guests from these communities talk to us about their culture, presence, struggles, and relevance. Calls are welcome, 5... Read more

Host Liz Schwartz interviews world-renowned klezmer fiddler Alicia Svigals and features selections from her brand-new album, Fidl Afire. Read more

  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: New Forms of Democracy-Part Two: In part two of their discussion, Bill Resnick interviews Eleanor Finley, an anthropologist, who investigates historic and emerging forms of democracy. ... Read more

Since time immemorial the Yakama Nation lived along a stretch of the Columbia River now known as the Hanford Reach. This area provided sources of food and medicines and contains many sacred sites, like Gable and Rattlesnake mountains, and the white bluffs that peer down fro... Read more

Join host Tina Turner-Morfitt of the Oregon Coalition of Black Trade Unionists in our monthly Labor Radio segment. Sister Turner-Morfitt is one of two KBOO volunteers at the event interviewing event planners, venders and community event goers.  The event took place on June ... Read more

Host Karen James speaks with Andrés Oswill with Portland for All, an organization with programs that address the root causes of the toughest issues facing Portland. We reflect about Mike Schmidt, who lost his bid for a second term as district attorney of Multnomah County, a... Read more

The 36th Waterfront Blues Festival is right around the corner, ready to fill Portland’s Waterfront Park with four days of great live music, from July 1st through the 4th. The schedule includes headliners Buddy Guy, The Mavericks, Los Lonely Boys, JJ Grey & Mofro, Shemekia C... Read more

  North Carolina legislators have passed a comprehensive mask ban and politicians elsewhere are pushing to criminalize masking in public space as part of ongoing suppression of political dissent and extension of police power.  Frann Michel discusses this attack on our righ... Read more

This special programming was broadcast Saturday, March 16th, 9am to 5pm for the 2024 Bluegrass Marathon on KBOO! 8 hours of live bluegrass performed by 13 of your favorite local bands and special archived performances We were live in the studio at 20 SE 8th, and we did l... Read more