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Old Mole Variety Hour for April 4, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 04/04/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Photo by Bette Lee Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Tax the Rich: Taxes are the price of civilization. Political theory understands that taxes pay for the public institutions that protect society from capitalism’s si... Read more

Celebrating the Olmsteds

Airs at: Mon, 04/04/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
This spring communities across the country will be celebrating the 200th birthday of Federick Law Olmsted, co-creator of New York City's Central Park and numerous subsequent parks. Writer, literary publisher, philosopher, abolitionist and committed social reformer, Olmsted ... Read more

Chaotic Dischord - The Interview

Produced for:  Life During Wartime
  Tune in as Wolfman and Matt C return to the studio. Laura C spins jams from the remote studio. Wolfman also sits down with Chaotic Dischord for an interview.   For the first time, Ransid and Ampex tell their side of the story. They also discuss the reformation, Steve A... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 28, 2022

Airs at: Mon, 03/28/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Oregon Legislature 2022: Bill Resnick talks to Emory Mort about his experience in the 2022 Oregon legislative session as Chief of Staff of State Representative Teresa Alonso Leon who... Read more

Another World is Possible

Airs at: Mon, 03/28/2022 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In our last Old Mole of Women’s History Month, Norm Diamond celebrates the birthday and paradoxes of Rosa Luxemburg, a great revolutionary thinker and activist. How is her example and how are her insights of more than a hundred years ago relevant to us now? For our contenti... Read more

Music for Silent Movies

Airs at: Thu, 03/24/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  "There's nothing silent about.. silent films," says Dean Lemire.  Dean and a crew of Portland-area musicians and tinkerers are on a mission to preserve and showcase the classic pipe organs that originally provided soundtracks to silent films.  Through Pipe Organ Pictures... Read more

Max Nemtsov, Russian translator of Gravity's Rainbow

Airs at: Thu, 03/24/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Jonesy
Jonesy himself has been under the weather for about a week and a half. It's not COVID, fortunately, but it's still somewhat of a mystery illness. While Jonesy undergoes a few medical tests, we decided to take some unpaid sick time and re-air an interview we did for KBOO's B... Read more

Oh Gee Pee Oh Gee on 03/20/22

Airs at: Sun, 03/20/2022 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Oh Gee Pee Oh Gee
  This moment is many things--Vernal Equinox, Ostara, and first day of Spring, as well as Fred Roger's birthday, the Pisces to Aries transition and much more so join me as we explore some of what this moment holds through a variety of relevant music, poetry, and other soun... Read more

Murder & Mayhem in Portland Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 03/21/2022 at 11:00pm - Tue, 03/22/2022 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight, excerpts from Murder and Mayhem in Portland, Oregon by local writer and historian J.D. Chandler. An midday robbery in downtown Portland in 1878 results in murder and leads to the largest attendance of any public execution in Portland history. A half naked body, dis... Read more

Amber Richardson Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
  DISCLAIMER:  Ben Morris, who is the Communications Director at the Oregon Secretary of State contacted KBOO on 4/20 with the following corrections regarding answers given by Amber Richardson in her 3/16/22 interview with Don Merrill.  Mr. Morris' comments are posted her... Read more