Arts/Culture

evergreen_web_banner.png

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


The Monday Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 01/09/2017 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
We're back for another year of crazy fun! Fortunado, Just Jess and the Sampler crew are starting off 2017 with a bang! In-studio interviews with local artist GLASYS, and Jay from Portland band, Big Duck. Another episode of I Love a Mystery, Katherine Dunn reading a Damon Ru... Read more

A Look Back on 2016

Airs at: Fri, 12/30/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Bread and Roses
To close out the year, we'll play some memorable moments from 2016 episodes, including Danica Brown on transformative direct action at Standing Rock, Leslie Gregory on racism as a public health threat, Kiki Nicole with Unchaste Readers on erasure with their blackout poetry ... Read more

THE BIKE SHOP SHOW!!!

Airs at: Wed, 01/04/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for The Bike Show
We all have our favorite things, and for a seasoned cyclist a favorite shop is definitely a thing.  But what is it exactly that makes it one's favorite? Is it smoking hot deals, great mechanics, awesome gear, friendly and understanding staff?  On Wednesday January 4th we w... Read more

Fuck 2016!

Airs at: Fri, 12/30/2016 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Here's to 2017 being all about "Fuck Yeah!" vs. the shit show of 2016 and all the:   "Oh Fuck!"   "Fuck No"   and "Fuck this"   momements.   We'll be celebrating the lives and works of many of the artists we've lost in 2016 and the healing po... Read more

The Underground: PSYCOLOGY

Airs at: Wed, 12/28/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for The Underground
What is in the mind anyway? Read more

Hot Season by Susan DeFreitas

Airs at: Thu, 01/19/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Between The Covers
  An outlaw activist on the run. A pipeline set to destroy a river. And three young women who must decide who to love, who to trust, and what to sacrifice for the greater good. In the high desert of Arizona, three roommates—students at Deep Canyon College, known for its ra... Read more

Look by Solmaz Sharif

Airs at: Thu, 01/05/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Between The Covers
  Solmaz Sharif’s astonishing first book, Look, asks us to see the ongoing costs of war as the unbearable losses of human lives and also the insidious abuses against our everyday speech. In this virtuosic array of poems, lists, shards, and sequences, Sharif assembles her f... Read more

Goodbye 2016

Airs at: Tue, 12/27/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Stage and Studio
Dmae says goodbye to 2016 with an end-of-year special. In 2016, we presented and produced 52 shows. We'll revisit some of the best moments of Stage & Studio and we say goodbye to our longtime engineer Janet Anderson! (Airs 11am LIVE on Dec. 27th  on KBOO 90.7 FM or always ... Read more

Hot Topics

Airs at: Sat, 12/24/2016 at 4:45pm - Sat, 12/31/2016 at 4:45pm
Produced for This Is How We See It
Beloved TV Dad Alan Thicke passes away from a heart attack.  Mariah's World, not reality at all.  Is Kenya Moore back to paying men to be her boyfriend on the RHWOA?  Are some Trump supporters starting to regret their decision?  Join us as we discuss these topics and more.   Read more

Ubu Hour January 2017

Airs at: Mon, 01/02/2017 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/03/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for Ubu Hour
Tonight on the Ubu Hour we bid fairwell to PUPPET RADIO THEATER, who are taking the Flying Prince to the Republic of China. And we have a special radio theater version of their latest show, BUNKO KELLY & THE FLYING PRINCE, set in Portland in the 1880s. The puppets Floyd, Ha... Read more