Arts/Culture

KBOO is open to the public! To visit the station, contact your staff person or call 503-231-8032.


Words Are My Matter by Ursula K. Le Guin

Airs at: Thu, 09/19/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Between the Covers host David Naimon talks to Le Guin in 2017 about her book Words Are My Matter. For the Fall Membership Drive, we're offering a special thank you gift package of a package of signed books by Ursula K Le Guin (limit 1 package available). Tune in to hear mor... Read more

Alder Street Food Carts

Airs at: Wed, 09/18/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Food Show
On today's episode of the Food Show, we're talking about the Alder Street Food Cart pod. The downtown pod was evicted this summer to make way for a new hotel, taking a chunk of Portland culture with it. The carts are now in storage and the owners are waiting for the day the... Read more

PLEDGE: The Public Radio Fund Drive

Airs at: Wed, 09/18/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
For KBOO's Fall Membership Drive, we're getting meta by interviewing KBOO's own Don Merrill talks about his book PLEDGE: The Public Radio Fund Drive. Tune in for a fundraising conversation about fundraising.    PLEDGE examines the fund drive and the public radio universe su... Read more

"Bodies Piled Up", a Continental Op mystery by Dashiell Hammett, and Dick Powell as Richard Diamond

Airs at: Mon, 09/16/2019 at 11:00pm - Tue, 09/17/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Dashiell Hammett's nameless detective, known as The Continetal Op, investigates a multiple murder discovered in a downtown San Francisco hotel room, which leads to a deadly shoot out inside a North Beach speakeasy.  Also, a radio mystery drama featuring Dick Powell as forme... Read more

1984 at Artists Rep and The Wolves at Portland Playhouse

Airs at: Tue, 09/17/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae presents a special one-hour membership edition of Stage & Studio on KBOO. We feature  Damaso Rodriquez, artistic director of Artists Repertory Theatre to talk about the adaptation of 1984 by George Orwell as well highlights of the whole 2019/20 season. And in the se... Read more

06 TRIPP-P 6Sep2019

Airs at: Fri, 09/13/2019 at 4:30pm - Thu, 09/30/2021 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
Join the hosts, as we chat about a POT-pourri of Cannabis related topics and headlines. Including: a protest agaisnt a Portland pot shop, strain names, social impact in the history of the plant, a recent Washington State ganja heist, black-market vape cartidges causing dea... Read more

Hollywood Babylon

Airs at: Thu, 09/12/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Hollywood Babylon is the new series of 1930's feature films, produced before the censorious Hays Code, that tackled such timely topics as corruption, prostitution, and drug use.  Curated by Chantell Richardson and Dan Halsted, this series screens at the Hollywood Theatre... Read more

Four Men Shaking by Lawrence Shainberg

Airs at: Thu, 09/12/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Lawrence Shainberg, author of the new book Four Men Shaking: Searching for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer, and My Favorite Zen Teacher from Shambhala Publications. Lawrence is author of the memoir Ambivalent Zen: One Man's Adventures on ... Read more

Cetzforthesoul and Jcetz

Airs at: Fri, 09/13/2019 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Express Yo'self
On this episode, Ji interviews spoken word artists Cetzforthesoul and Jcetz, two brothers, about their spoken word journeys. Their music and poetry can be found on SoundCloud by searching for "cetzforthesouls" or "jcetz". Cetzforthesoul can be supported on instagram and twi... Read more

Islands in the Stream: The Inland Sea DVD reviewed by Film at 11

Airs at: Fri, 09/06/2019 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
      He called it a novel. But Donald Richie's The Inland Sea was more than that.      In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan’s Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a tradi... Read more