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LGBTQIA2S+ Heritage | Live Panel 10: Queer Musicians

Airs at: Tue, 08/13/2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  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 ☎... Read more

Supernatural Beavers Live on KBOO FM 08.24.2024

Airs at: Sat, 08/24/2024 at 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Blues Junction
The Supernatural Beavers are a rollin' rock band from Portland, Oregon. They were formed in 2018 by Jake O'Halloran (guitar, vocals) and Zack Hyneman (guitar, vocals) after meeting at a local open mic. The group's rhythm section, however, hasn't remained as constant.   Si... Read more

TJ Klune, author of Somewhere Beyond the Sea

Airs at: Thu, 08/15/2024 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
TJ Klune, author of The House In the Cerulean Sea, is back with his new sequel, Somewhere Beyond the Sea. Join us for a wide-ranging talk about publishing, queer lit, and the things we fight for. Read more

Portland Jewish Hour

Airs at: Sun, 08/11/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Portland Jewish Hour
Tune in for another edition of Danish Radio with host Liz Schwartz. Read more

On Issam Abdallah

Airs at: Tue, 08/13/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, August 13, 2024, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Chris Ayzoukian [pronounced uh-ZOOK-ee-an] and Karen De Benedetti of the Reser Center in Beaverton about the exhibit “Exposed Transmissions: A Photographic memoir from Issam Abdallah’s lens,” about the wo... Read more

More Hot Jazz and Cold War Intrigue

Airs at: Mon, 08/12/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns with more music for a summer afternoon by the pool. We'll also contnue will our radio dramatisation of  Ian Fleming's 1953 Cold War Novel, Moonraker. With Toby Stevens as agent James Bond. After a security officer at a secret rocket base is murdered, Lt Co... Read more

James Gets Thrown Into The Deep End

Airs at: Tue, 08/06/2024 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Winner's Bias
James agrees to play the most complicated game he's ever played: The Gallerist, a game about running competing art galleries. How did he do? Listen to find out! Read more

Bill Plympton's Oregon Roots

Airs at: Thu, 08/08/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Bill Plympton has spent four decades going against the grain of the animation industry, self-financing his short films and features and drawing each frame with pencil and paper.  Nominated twice for Academy Awards and taking home a Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival,... Read more

Suzy Vitello, author of the new novel Bitterroot

Airs at: Thu, 08/08/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's show, we welcome Suzy Vitello, author of the new novel Bitterroot from Sibylline Press. Suzy’s published fiction includes the novel Faultland and the young adult novels The Moment Before and The Empress Chronicles series. Her award-winning short fiction and nonfi... Read more

From the Black Book Talk Vault: Avel Gordly: "Remembering the Power of Words

Airs at: Thu, 08/01/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
  When President Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed his vice president to succeed him, the country's attention focussed on Kamala Harris. The notion of this dynamic, Afro-Asian woman (mother emigrated from India,  father  from Jamaica)  has b... Read more