Arts/Culture

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The MOST wonderful time of the year, STAR WARS!

Airs at: Fri, 12/15/2017 at 12:00am - 3:00am
The MOST wonderful time of the year, when a brand new STAR WARS movie drops! We'll be celebrating all things Star Wars! Music, Games and more . . . .     Facebook Event for this Broadcast: https://www.facebook.com/events/1537134973022683/     Read more

When You Never Said Goodbye by Meg Kearney

Airs at: Thu, 12/14/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Meg Kearney, author of the new book When You Never Said Goodbye, a novel in poems and journal entries. When You Never Said Goodbye is the final book in a trilogy following the teen years of Lizzie McLane, an adopted daughter searching for her birth... Read more

Gabrielle Bell - Everything Is Flammable

Airs at: Thu, 12/14/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Words and Pictures kicks off its fifteenth season on the air at the Wordstock Literary Festival, where we're joined by graphic novelist Gabrielle Bell.  Best known for her diary comics Lucky and The Voyeurs, Gabrielle has also teamed up with filmmaker Michel Gondry to cr... Read more

The Ninth Hour

Airs at: Mon, 12/11/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Larry Bowlden reviews the new novel by Alice McDermott “The Ninth Hour.” Spanning the twentieth century, The Ninth Hour is the story of a widow and her daughter and the nuns who serve their Irish-American community in Brooklyn. Photo by Julius Wilcox - Brooklyn Museum Read more

Monday Sampler bonus: Kevin McDonald and David Koff interview

Airs at: Mon, 12/11/2017 at 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Monday Sampler host Fortunato welcomes Kevin McDonald of The Kids in the Hall and David Koff, artistic director of Fake Radio, as they talk about their live on-stage version of "It's A Wonderful Life". The kind folks at Fake Radio, who have been performing this show annuall... Read more

Dark Girls

Airs at: Wed, 12/13/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Political Perspectives presents Sojourner Truth Radio...Today, we broadcast a one-hour special with award-winning actor and filmmaker Bill Duke. He joined us to discuss "Dark Girls," a companion book to his documentary of the same name, which explores the phenomenon know... Read more

Big Data, Racial Discrimination and Privilege

Airs at: Mon, 12/18/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcome Douglas Tsoi from the Portland Underground Grad School to talk about two upcoming courses that cover urgent issues in today's climate. Structural racism is insidious in two particular ways. First, it is normalized and thus difficult to see, par... Read more

Live Music // SunFalls

Airs at: Mon, 12/18/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature
A Different Nature is proud to have Sunfalls join us live on KBOO Community Radio on 12/19. From noise cello improv for butoh, sound design for local theatre production Bogville, to experimental ableton sets and merging into eurorack synthesis in 2013, Eusebie, aka SunFal... Read more

Sex4Sale: Episode 8, Porn

Airs at: Tue, 12/05/2017 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
This is the eighth episode in KBOO's ten-part series on the business of sex in Portland.  In this one we focus on the porn industry.  KBOO interviews Dr. Shira Tarrant, an economist who has studied the subject, and we discuss the impact of global corporations, including Min... Read more

The Monday Sampler on 12/11/17

Airs at: Mon, 12/11/2017 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
We have some music and our new radio mystery serial Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. we start with the first of five episodes of a mystery set during the holiday season of 1956, The Nick Shurn Matter, featuring the man with the action packed expence account, private investigator ... Read more