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KBOO News In Depth: Steve Poltz

Airs at: Tue, 01/16/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for News In Depth
Steve Poltz is an amazing singer-songwriter with an international following. He’s been recording and performing solo, just him and a guitar, since 1998. But he started out as a founding member of the indie-rock band, The Rugburns, back in San Diego in the 1980s. Steve has ... Read more

Unruly Jade by Terence Faherty

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/16/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for Gremlin Time
Tonight, Rude Jade by Terence Faherty. A private eye adventure set in famous nightspots of Hollywood in 1946. Scott Elliott is hired to babysit a hard drinking writer/humorist as he tours his favorite nightclubs. At first it appears easy enough until Scott happens to over h... Read more

E.M. Lewis' Magellanica

Airs at: Tue, 01/16/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Stage and Studio
  Susannah Mars of the Adventures in Artslandia podcast talks with award-winning playwright E.M. Lewis about her upcoming 5-hour epic world premiere play Magellanica, directed by Damaso Rodriguez. The show opens on January 20 through February 18 at Artist Repertory Theatre... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Nichole Graf and Liz Crain

Airs at: Mon, 01/08/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for News In Depth
  Despite the latest efforts by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who by the way is facing his own considerable legal problems, marijuana is available by law in about 60 percent of the U.S. Recreational cannabis is legal in eight states, with California the latest addition ... Read more

Chuck Palahniuk: Tricksters and Terrorists

Airs at: Thu, 01/18/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Between The Covers
  Portland author Chuck Palahniuk is the most restless of literary lions, reinventing himself with each book, alternately dazzling and bedeviling his readership.  With Legacy, his latest coloring book / novella hybrid, Palahniuk dives further into visual storytelling, crea... Read more

Tom Gauld's Literary Funnies

Airs at: Thu, 01/11/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Tom Gauld is best known to Americans for his droll and iconic cartoons in The New Yorker and The Guardian where literature and mythology get mashed up with pop culture.  But he's also the author of such imaginative graphic novels as Goliath, Hunter and Painter, and The G... Read more

Milagro's 'Bi' & Prince Gomolvilas

Airs at: Tue, 01/09/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Stage and Studio
  Dmae features  the 2018 world premiere of Bi– Milagro Theatre's newest devised work. We'll talk with actor and co-developer Ajai Terrazas Tripathi and assistant director/choregographer Gabriela Portuguez to talk about Bi- running Jan. 11-20 at Milagro Theatre. Bi- is pre... Read more

The Monday Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 01/08/2018 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Back again for a new year, The Sampler crew present another show chock filled with music and crazy fun! Today, Jess and Fortunato will interview local musican Ajai Combelic  about his music his tours and his creative process as well as play some of his music.Also, joining u... Read more

Her Body and Other Parties

Airs at: Thu, 02/01/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Between The Covers
  “Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado, is a love letter to an obstinate genre that won’t be gentrified. It’s a wild thing, this book, covered in sequins and scales, blazing with the influence of fabulists from Angela Carter to Kelly Link and Helen Oyeyemi,... Read more

Gospel of Regicide

Airs at: Thu, 01/25/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Between The Covers
  "In Gospel of Regicide, Eunsong Kim develops a thrilling method for unwriting lyric even as she reimagines it, creating a socially engaged poetry of and for our time. Anticapitalist, feminist and anti-racist yet critical of non-intersectional understandings of identity a... Read more