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Review of "The Men Who Stare at Goats," now playing

The Men Who Stare at GoatsDirector: Grant HeslovWith: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Stephen LangGeorge Clooney has made a career of doing films both funny and serious about social issues and politics. Goats is one of those funny ones, just not ... Read more

KBOO Mardi Gras Concert

Come celebrate Mardi Gras with KBOO at the Mt Tabor Theater on March 4th. This is a fundraiser for KBOO, so come on out and make a night of it. Where: Mt Tabor Theater, SE 48th and Hawthorne Cost: $7 When: March 4th at 9PM Steam it here: www.audioglobe.com This will be a mas... Read more

the contradictions of housing under capitalism (wrr)

For the Old Mole Variety Hour March 9, 2015 First, from a 1946 New International essay by Miriam Gould on "Profits and the Housing Crisis: Conflicting Interests of Banks, Industry and Real Estate": Way back in 1872, Frederick Engels made three generalizations about hou... Read more

Training Materials

I do a bunch of trainings at KBOO. KBOO's like a school, except it's real and fun. here's the syllabus for the Basic Digital Editing and File Management skillshare: Beginning Digital Editing (w File Management) File Management Login - Open explorer window – locate networ... Read more

The American, open today (9/1/10) at many theaters

The American Director: Anton Corbijn With: George Clooney, Violante Placido, Paolo Bonacelli, Johan Leysen, Thekla Reuten First, the good things. The movie is beautiful, filmed mostly in Abruzzo hill country in Italy. George Clooney is in superb physical shape. That is... Read more

9/22 Jeff Halper Talk on Israel-Palestine

KBOO is proud to sponsor Jeff Halper's A Single Democratic State in Israel-Palestine: The Only Option Israel and the United States Have Left Us When: Saturday, September 22nd, 7:00 PM Where: Eliot Chapel at the First Un... Read more

Extraordinary Measures, filmed in Portland, open 1/22/10

Extraordinary Measures (Opening in several locations)Director: Tom VaughanWith: Brendan Fraser, Harrison Ford, Meredith Droeger, Keri Russell, Diego VelazquezFull disclosure: my cousin’s daughter has a bit part in this Portland-shot film.The story of John Crowley (Fraser) w... Read more

MLK's Legacy

Audio here. These days, everybody wants a piece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Last year, Glen Beck invoked King's legacy to promote his own rally, claiming the tea party was fighting the same fight as King. And last week, the general counsel of the Department of Defen... Read more

Rethinking the school-to-military pipeline

A version of this is part of the Old Mole Variety Hour for 25 May 2015 Today is Memorial Day, so we're talking about memory, and the military, as well as about education and labor. All of those institutions arose in their modern disciplinary forms in the 18th century, alon... Read more

Day of Silence focused call-in show on Tues 4/29

The National Day of Silence was Friday April 25th. This is the largest student-led day of action in the country. Many schools in the Portland metro area, as well as nationally, participated in this event. This year's event was held in honor of Lawrence King, a 15 year old k... Read more