Recent Blog Posts

Global Perspective: 33rd International Film Festival

The benefits of seeing films from other countries are big. Not only can you take your experience to the bar, cafe, or water cooler, and brag on your worldliness, but there is an authentic experience happening in your heart when you open the mind to perspectives outside y... Read more

KBOO Raises Over $10,000 for Haiti

On February 18th, 2010, KBOO Community Radio in Portland, OR dedicated 13 hours of airtime to fundraise for Haiti relief efforts, due to a rare FCC waiver that allowed us to fundraise for organizations on-air. The last time the FCC allowed this was after Hurricane Katrin... Read more

Shutter Island and Happy Tears, open today (Feb. 19) and a short rant about "indie movies"

Shutter IslandDirector: Martin ScorseseWith: Lenoardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, etc.(This will be a no-spoiler review.)I had the opportunity to interview Dennis Lehane when he toured through... Read more

The Seamstress is Back!

Thursday nights' Active Listening keeps you on your toes with more hot new music from the Seamstress of Sound. Back from the Middle East, the Seamstress brings you beats, grooves and spoken word bringing you straight into Friday morning. Active Listening airs on the 2... Read more

Thanks for helping Haiti

I wanted to say thank you to all those that contributed during our Haiti fundraiser yeseterday. It is a wonderful feeling to know that we can count on the KBOO community to step up and support Haiti in it's time of need. You helped raise $10,000 that will go to our four ... Read more

Fundraising for Haiti

So as of 5:30pm, we've raised just over $6,000 for Haitian relief efforts through our special day of programming. But the special goes until 10 pm, and we'd love to reach $10,000 before then. We'll accept donations online until midnight and then that's it. If you've n... Read more

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