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New Jazz Releases, July 31, 2012

KBOO Jazz Tracking 7/31/12 Randy Crawford/Joe Sample                Live            PRA Records Anna Estrada                            Volando            self prod Kelly McCarty                        Roux Steady        Offsuit Kat Parra                las adventuras de ... Read more

REGGAE COMIN ON STRONG !!

  Yes Portland area,   REGGAE is coming on strong.  Despite the recent economy blues, the Portland Reggae Music scene is a growin !!  Thankyou Cheerful Jolly Roger (se 12th and Hawthorne) for holdin the live Reggae for years.  Thankyou Mt Tabor Theatre (se 48th and Hawthorn... Read more

Earth Day 2012 Conference: The Next Seven Generations

KBOO is co-sponsoring this exciting conference, featuring workshops, art and ceremony. When? Friday, April 20, 2012, 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. (Registration opens at 5:00 pm) Saturday, April 21, 2012 , 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Registrati... 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

notes on michael jackson

those who follow the show i do- 'guess who's coming to radio??!!'- know that i have been struggling emotionally with the transition of michael joseph jackson, a man who, along with STEVIE WONDER i consider to be my teacher.  i have been writing every day, consistently, in t... Read more

New hosts join Yiddish Hour

 From Portland's Jewish Review: Portland’s Yiddish Hour has three new co-hosts—Ed Kraus, Liz Schwartz and Barry Lavine. Yiddish Hour airs on KBOO 90.7 FM radio every Sunday from 10 to 11 a.m. Launched in 1979 by Jack Falk, the show has brought Jewish music and culture to P... 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

Robot Movies! June 4! Run!

Dennis Nyback used to own and run the Clinton Street Theater.  He is a complete film nut, and a collector of off-beat cimema.  He also has some of the finest bad taste west of John Waters. He returns to Portland with films from time to time, and he is back with robot movies... 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

dawnbreaker's breakdown

 The Music Goes Round & Round - Frank Froeba   How Long How Long Blues - Tampa Red; with the fabulous Jackie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon on the orgasmic vocal   Nobody Knows - The Dillards   Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Ray Charles; Brother Ray does it again. Not only bringing soul to secu... Read more