Arts/Culture

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Nobuko Miyamoto on creating Asian American resistance music

Airs at: Fri, 11/24/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Pacific Underground

This month's theme is about resistance and we're talking to artist and activist A'misa Chiu and musician and member of Yellow Pearl, Nobuko Miyamoto about her music and activism! Yellow Pearl was the first band to use the term "Asian American" to describe their identity and... Read more

The Underground:DECEIPT

Airs at: Wed, 11/22/2017 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: The Underground

Deciept and Lies and Trechery vox pop on lies, Nyrten has a song about lyring, it bums us out Read more

The Night Run Of The Overland by Elmore Elliot Peake

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 11:00pm - Tue, 11/21/2017 at 12:00am

Produced for: Gremlin Time

Tonight, stories set in the Golden Age Of American Railroading. Featuring our 3D Radio Players in The Night Run Of The Overland. A look at the Railway Guides and an episode of the rare, classic rail road drama The Green Valley Line Read more

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Movie Moles Joe and Jan discuss the meanings for current viewers of the representations of family, gender, and capitalism in the 1947 holiday movie Miracle on 34th Street. image via wikimediacommons Read more

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Cecil and Celeste welcome literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr to KBOO. Gates currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Rese... Read more

Is Mickey Mouse a Minstrel?

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am

Produced for: More Talk Radio

Cecil & Celeste are joined by Kirby McCurtis to discuss the images our children consume in pop culture and where those images come from. What are the modern alternatives to these established and harmful depictions? The diversity gap in children's publishing is overwhel... Read more

Remembering Jim Pepper

Airs at: Tue, 11/21/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Dmae presents a music special with interviews on Jim Pepper, former Portland jazz musician who is celebrated each year during the Native Arts Festival in Portland. This remembrance is produced by Warms Springs Radio's KWSO on Native Voice One. Jim Pepper was a Muskogee Cre... Read more

Laika Animation at PAM - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 11/09/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

In this expanded version of our visit to the Portland Art Museum, we take a more leisurely look at the exhibition Animating Life: The Art, Science, and Wonder of Laika. Join host S.W. Conser, and find out about the creative process behind the screen from Laika creatives... Read more

Ep.11 Wild Mushroom Bisque

Airs at: Sat, 11/18/2017 at 3:45am - 4:45am

Produced for: Peace, Love and Soup

Nov. 2017 -- It’s that time of year when the weather gets brisk, the leaves change color and Portlanders have one thing on their mind… Wild Mushrooms! On this month’s episode: Cook / Renaissance man Saint James https://kboo.fm/media/61098-saint-james-show invites... Read more