Arts/Culture

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Renters' Rights Comics

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this encore episode from March 2015, we learn about renters' rights with the help of cartoonist Becky Hawkins and the late Justin Buri, onetime Executive Director of Portland's Community Alliance of Tenants. When local educational group Know Your City needed a medium ... Read more

A (fuller) conversation with Dr. Jared A. Ball, and the music of Al Jarreau

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Jared A. Ball has been on the airwaves of KBOO several times; in interviews related to news programming, on airings of Hard Knock Radio, and even on 'guess who's coming to radio??!!' (in a segment on A Tribe called Quest and Phife Dawg). However, we had been wanting to do a... Read more

Luc Ferrari: Didascalies, 2007; Son Memorise, 2005

Airs at: Mon, 03/06/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature
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Hot Topics

Airs at: Sun, 03/05/2017 at 2:45pm - Sun, 03/12/2017 at 2:45pm
Produced for:  This Is How We See It
Actor Bill Paxton passes away at 61.  Home Owner's equity on the rise.  Paris Jackson to appear on Fox's hit show "Star".  Candice Wiggins says she was discriminated against in the WNBA because she was straight.  Tune in as we discuss these topics and more.   Read more

Carmen & El Silencio Del Carbón

Airs at: Tue, 03/07/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Susannah Mars from Adventures in Artslandia guest hosts for Dmae Roberts & welcomes: Ruth Wikler-Luker, Curator & Producer of Boom Arts presenting CHIFLÓN: EL SILENCIO DEL CARBÓN & Sarah Slipper, Artistic Director of NW Dance Project presenting a new production of CARM... Read more

Roxanne Roxanne

Airs at: Fri, 03/10/2017 at 12:00am - 3:00am
In Celebration of "Roxanne Roxanne" the new Hip-Hop biopic on Roxanne Shanté (Lolita Shanté Gooden) which just premiered AND Sold at the Sundance Film Festival we'll be traveling back in time to Queens, New York and the year 1984 to explore her rebuttal to the UTFO song whi... Read more

A Really Good Day

Airs at: Thu, 03/02/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Ayelet Waldman is a mother of teenagers, a former federal public defender, and a writer living with mood disorders who discovers an underground culture of clinicians advocating for the therapeutic use of LSD.  Having exhausted virtually every other medical option for her... Read more

The Dark Tower

Airs at: Mon, 02/06/2017 at 11:30pm - 11:45pm
Produced for:  Ubu Hour
THE DARK TOWER:  When he rented a pricy apartment at the new Darth Vader building, at one end of the Burnside Bridge, little did he know what sinister secrets lay within. An eerie drama about the changing Portland landscape. Ken Jones says:  I listened to this month’s Ubu H... Read more

Ubu Hour March 2017

Airs at: Mon, 03/06/2017 at 11:00pm - Tue, 03/07/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Ubu Hour
Tonight on Ubu Radio Theater we give you a couple of sequals. First up.. First up.. We bring you the second episode in our series about President Trump in early 2019 as he faces the threat of impeachment and deals with legal issues on a broad front.  In the opener, “PRESI... Read more

Good Ole Grateful Dead and More!

Airs at: Sat, 03/11/2017 at 12:00pm - 2:00pm
It's been years since I've played any of the music that James Booker created with Jerry Garcia. They played two live shows and one rehearsal, all between 1/7/76-1/10/76. For those that don't know, James Booker was an amazing piano player from New Orleans with one eye. He ha... Read more