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Winterfolk 23 ~ Benefit for Sisters of the Road

KBOO is a proud media sponsor for Sisters of the Road's Winterfolk 23 Please join us February 5th for Winterfolk 23     This year, our headliner is Tracy Grammer. Tracy blazed new acoustic trails and put Portland on the map in the folk music world, with her musical pa... Read more

THANK YOU Dear Members!

We thank you so much, our KBOO Members New and Renewing, for your amazing support for our Fall Membership Drive. We cut a day off the drive before we even started, and were able to end early on our last day, as well. We are proud to be here as your community radio stati... Read more

2010 Olympic Resistance: Stolen Lives, Stolen Land

KBOO is proud to co-sponsor:2010 Olympic Resistance: Stolen Lives, Stolen LandWhen: January 3rd, 2010Where: Native American Resource Center @ Portland State UniversityTime: 4-9PMCost: FreeSetting the Record Straight, is a collective out of Portland, OR focused on promoti... Read more

Call in first Saturday in July for Confessional 2:am Talk with Contessa de la Luna Live

Contessa de la Luna wants to hear from you. How you feeling? How you coping with'a crazy things going on in'a world every day. What'a are you fears for the future? What do you think will be the next catastrophe to happen on world/national/local scale? Times, they are'a t... Read more

New CDs in music library June 13, 2012

Cartal, Felix    Different faces    dim Mak    Electronica Datsik    Vitamin D    Dim Mak    Electronica Mbrascatu    Self-titled    Self-released    Europe [contemporary] Various artists    Italia 4: Roots Music Atlas    Felmay    Europe: Italy Tobias. Todd    Medicine Show... Read more

Hate Crime in Greeley, Colorado - Victim referred to as an "it"

Most of the time when a trans woman gets murdered, mainstream media outlets usually call her a man and use male pronouns.  Manytimes, what she was wearing before she was killed or beaten will be descriptively detailed along with underlying insinuations that she deserved ... Read more

Final tally for Haiti relief

During our February 18th special to fundraise for Haitian earthquake recovery efforts, KBOO listeners generously donated nearly $12,000 to support four organziations picked by KBOO. Now that we've tallied all the actual payments, we're happy to report that we exceeded (b... Read more

Proposing an Idle No More/Indigenous Actions 30 minute morning talk show with J.Keeler

Osiyo, Kboo'ers. I will be submitting a proposal for a Native American show keying on Idle No More, AIM, and other grassroot organizations and the revolution. Read more

The Joshua Generation: A New Generation Heeding the Call to Leadership

  Join us this Monday, August 31, 2009 from 8-9:00AM as we speak with Charles McGee, President and CEO of the Black Parents Initiative, and Johnell Bell, former staff aide to Mayor Potter and Multnomah Chair Tom Wheeler, about the  " The Joshua Generation: A New Generati... Read more

Inception: A minority report

Inception Director: Christopher Nolan With: Leonardo DeCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe, Marion Cotillard, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, etc. Having missed the press screening, I saw this commercially and after the critical anointing as the film of the... Read more