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Interview with Susan Moore

Airs at: Mon, 03/27/2017 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Poetry and Everything
Susan Moore is the author of two chapbooks from Dancing Girl Press:  She Preferred to Read the Knives and How to Live Forever. Her work has appeared in Filter, New York Quarterly, Quick Fiction and elsewhere. Susan edited the online poetry magazine Caffeine Destiny for 13 y... Read more

News You Can Use

Airs at: Sun, 03/19/2017 at 2:15pm - Sun, 03/26/2017 at 2:15pm
Produced for:  This Is How We See It
Trump accuses Obama of wiretapping his phones at Trump Towers!  Ben Carson says that African slaves were immigrants?  The Pope may be open to having married men as priests in the Catholic church.  Listen in as we cover these topics and more. Read more

Tomás & the Library Lady

Airs at: Tue, 03/21/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae talks with artistic director Stan Foote of Oregon Children's Theatre. He'll be joined by director Rebecca Martinez and actor Marcelino Hernandez from Tomás & the Library Lady. The show runs April 1st through 29th at the Winningstad Theatre. We'll hear about the play... Read more

Sean The Bus Driver hosts ALEXA WILEY on Plugged In 03/17/17

Airs at: Fri, 03/17/2017 at 10:00pm - Sat, 03/18/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Plugged In
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Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein

Airs at: Mon, 03/13/2017 at 11:30pm - Tue, 03/14/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Open Air
"When I started talking to him, he gave me the same look he had on a book that had sat on my desk for years. Surreal doesn't come close." John Nixon, former CIA Senior Analyst & author of "Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein", joins me to talk abou... Read more

Hot Topics

Airs at: Sun, 03/12/2017 at 12:00pm - Sun, 03/19/2017 at 12:00pm
Produced for:  This Is How We See It
Jeff Sessions lying to Congress under oath!  Oscars 2017 breakdown.  Can men get "the baby blues"?  Join us as we discuss these topics and more. Read more

We have a winner! (March Sadness)

  After many hard fought battles March Sadness is over!   Here is the final song that made it from the original Sixty-Four songs that we started the tournament with!   http://kboo.fm/blog/56920   Thanks to all the listeners and volunteers who submitted songs and vote... Read more

Stories From Rural Oregon

Airs at: Tue, 03/14/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae features rural Oregon author Bing Bingham and his book Shaped By The Land: Stories of the rural American West. We'll hear about his stories of ordinary people in Eastern Oregon and their perspectives and lives are shaped by their surroundings. He'll be reading from his... Read more

Rip City Basement - Jonny Cool

Airs at: Sat, 03/11/2017 at 10:00pm - Sun, 03/12/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Rip City Basement
Jonathan Sanders aka Jonny Cool StarGazer is a Multidisciplinary artist and musician born and raised in NE Portland Oregon. 'Cool' raises the frequencies through his unique style of music, art and good vibrations. Publicly recognized as a music producer and artist, Jonny Co... Read more

Renters' Rights Comics

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this encore episode from March 2015, we learn about renters' rights with the help of cartoonist Becky Hawkins and the late Justin Buri, onetime Executive Director of Portland's Community Alliance of Tenants. When local educational group Know Your City needed a medium ... Read more