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Joseph Gallivan interviews Alexis Day

Airs at: Tue, 01/14/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, Jan 14, 2020, at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Alexis Day about her new show of tapestries which is at Elizabeth Leach Gallery now through March 1. Day talks about how she blends photos with fabric, sewing, beading and painting, and how she tries to cons... Read more

First Show of the Year !

Airs at: Mon, 01/13/2020 at 2:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns with a lot of music from different decades and different genres. Film critic DK Holm will be dropping in to talk about a couple of films either now playing or will be playing in theaters in town. Read more

The Magical Language of Others

Airs at: Thu, 01/16/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “In The Magical Language of Others, E.J. Koh writes of the boundary between anonymity and naming, between absence and abandonment, between cruelty and safety for four generations of mothers and daughters, each speaking with an occupied heart and crossing narrative border... Read more

Abortion Access/Reproductive Health and Justice

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2020 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Poetry and Everything
This will be the last episode of Poetry and Everything for a while (or forever – we’ll see what happens).  The series – which opened in July of 2016, just a little while before this current phase of our national horrorshow began – will have run for 37 months by the end of J... Read more

Winter Film Events

Airs at: Thu, 01/09/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Local cinema programmers Greg Hamilton and Micah Vanderhoof offer up dark films for the dark winter months, with appearances by directors John Dahl and Julia Reichert, who are in town for retrospectives of their work.  John Dahl joins us on the phone to talk about his ca... Read more

Albina Jazz Festival 2018

sets and interveiws from the Albina Jazz Festival Read more

Amanda Clem interviews Ebenezer Galluzzo

Airs at: Tue, 01/07/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday January 7, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Amanda Clem interviews Ebenezer Galluzzo about his upcoming exhibition As I Am, a celebration of gender non-conformity and performativity, opening Friday January 10 at PCC Paragon Gallery.  Ebenezer is a gender nonconforming trans m... Read more

A House On Stilts by Paula Becker

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2020 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  News In Depth, Evening News
Our In Depth guest today is Paula Becker, author of the new memoir A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction, from University of Iowa Press. The book tells the story of Paula’s son, Hunter -- raised in a close, supportive, and loving family – who later fa... Read more

BLIND at Chapel Theatre Collective

Airs at: Tue, 01/07/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae starts the new year off with the first of three shows featuring original works during the Fertile Ground Festival. Debuting before the festival is BLIND, the world premiere of Bonnie Ratner's new play produced by the Chapel Theatre Collective. We'll talk with Bonnie... Read more

End of the Year Show

Airs at: Mon, 12/30/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Last show of the year for the Sampler. Fortunato filled the afternoon with lots of music. With some serious jam sessions, and a set of gypsy jazz. In the last hour, SW Conser and former KBOO volunteer Josh drop in to talk about Josh's travels in Asia, and Fortunato gives a ... Read more