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Crazy Fun

Airs at: Mon, 03/18/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Just Jess, DK and old Fortunato are back with more crazy fun to help start out your week! We'll play part 2 of radio drama, The Red Headed Woman, starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez. Then we reminisce on artists that have come on the show throughout the years, like Jaime L... Read more

Back For March

Airs at: Mon, 03/11/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
A new month and a new line up of Samplers. Just Jess, DK and old Fortunato are back with more crazy fun to help start out your week. For March, The Sampler will present radio dramas featuring some well known actresses. To start off with, we present an episode of Suspense st... Read more

International Womxn's Day Threshold Shift Special Feature

Airs at: Fri, 03/08/2019 at 9:00pm - 10:30pm
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
A Conversation with Two Scientists from Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology and Bioacoustics Research Program Nikki Martin delves deep into a wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Laurel Symes and Dr. Michelle Fournet about their work as well as their experiences of being... Read more

Lizzie Borden Audio #1

Airs at: Mon, 04/01/2019 at 8:00am
Produced for:  Lizzie Borden Audio
An introduction to the Lizzie Borden crime and the zany cast of characters seen through the eyes of novelist and Borden scholar, Florence King with her 1992 National Review Magazine"A WASP Looks At Lizzie Borden." Funny and acerbic, the essay is infused with the actual tria... Read more

Poetry and Science

Airs at: Fri, 03/08/2019 at 9:00pm - 10:30pm
Poetry and sound with Judith Arcana of Poetry and Everything, Tiel Ansari of Wider Window Poetry, and Nikki Martin of Threshold Shift. We'll be exploring the intersections between poetry and sound, words and representation, art and science on this International Womxn's Day.... Read more

Amanda Clem interviews artist Nicolo Gentile

Airs at: Tue, 03/05/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
  Nicolo Gentile is an artist living, working, and working out in Portland, Ore. He has been the Artistic Director of GoodSport since May 2014. As a queer athlete, his practice investigates identity and gender construction in relation to the idealized human form, sport, bo... Read more

It Takes A Village To Bring Life To People ft. Ronnie a.k.a. BeSpeak

Airs at: Tue, 03/05/2019 at 12:00am - Sun, 03/31/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Village Vibes Podcast
Happy Tuesday Folx! Y’all know what it is.. we have a new episode!! We have a VERY special guest this week. @ronnie_aka_bespeak stopped by the studio and schooled us on how to be a creator in pdx, discussing his music and incredible ability to lift up his community. Take no... Read more

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Airs at: Thu, 03/07/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter’s. It’s as deep a... Read more

Linda Austin & Ordinary Devotions

Airs at: Tue, 03/05/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae talks with award-winning veteran dance artist Linda Austin about her newest original show Ordinary Devotions running March 14-23 at Performance Works Northwest. Austin says this experimental dance work honors the particularities of her 65-year old body and its hunge... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Eva Hagberg Fisher

Airs at: Thu, 02/28/2019 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
Our News In Depth guest today is Eva Hagberg Fisher, author of the new book, How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship, from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Eva’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, Wallpaper, Wired, and Dwell, and she holds degrees ... Read more