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Donors Set New Record for December Web Gifts

Happy New Year to everyone!  I just wanted to post quick thanks to those several dozen people who waited until the last few days of the month to make their contribution to KBOO.  As anticipated, the 31st was the biggest day of the month with just over $3000 in pledges, o... Read more

Chapter two!

If you're intending to start from the start, go to the previous post.    In this chapter, we meet the Bun, who have just arrived at our planet.... TWO Third Galactic Commander Blarg looked doubtfully at the Saint Peter Autoglow Respondomatic Human Deception Suit as it hung i... Read more

KBOO's Winter Membership drive needs you!

KBOO's Winter Membership Drive begins on Friday, January 22nd. We still have opportunities for volunteers to staff the phones during our nine-day on air fundraiser, which ends Saturday, January 30th. Shifts are available from early morning through the evening. Please c... Read more

Help KBOO Continue our work with a Year End Donation

Thanks to our members, KBOO is off to a great start for a new year of exciting, vital radio!  Thanks for helping to protect and strengthen one of the few strong independent media sources in the region, even the nation!  Support KBOO with a year end donation! With commun... Read more

Beppu Wiarda on KBOO

Listen to the interview here. For the past two weeks I was at MAC school, unable to produce broadcasts for Art Focus. I'm returning this week with a show around the exhibition Proof: Art : Women : Science at Beppu Wiarda . My guests include the curator Lorna Nakell, the ... Read more

Jazz In The Afternoon - March 28 Update

Thank goodness for friends like Rita Rega.   With no notice, she stepped in and, tastefully and swingingly, took over "Jazz In The Afternoon" after our house fire on New Year's day.   A big debt of gratitude is due her. Please expect nothing but the best jazz to continue from ... Read more

Damien Gilley and Ethan Rose

  Damien Gilley and Ethan Rose have a show called Approximate up at Gallery Homeland curated by Tilt Export. Gilley also has a new show up called Air Math (pictured above) at the Autzen Gallery of PSU. Both artists talk about their recent collaboration and individual pro... Read more

Portland Folk Festival

KBOO is a proud media sponsor of the Portland Folk Festival August 19th -August 22nd Our Mission The Portland Folk Festival is dedicated to the preservation and celebration of the world's folk and traditional music, and to the vibrant community, forward-thinking quality... Read more

Visiting Pakistani Journalist Sadia Khan partners with KBOO News

(March 10, 2014) Portland, OR – KBOO Community Radio, in partnership with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), will host pioneering Pakistani journalist, Sadia Khan, in their newsroom March 10th to 31st, 2014, as part of the U.S. Pakistan Professional Partner... Read more

Why do right-wingers believe all that crap?

Why does so much disinformation make the rounds among the right wing/tea party crowd?  There are two matters here. The first is gullibility.  There is a measurable minority in this country who will believe anything about Obama.  He's a cannibal, he's a Muslim, he's a Ken... Read more