Arts/Culture

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International Women's Day 2018

KBOO's International Women's Day celebrations were started by Program Director Karen Burdick in 1976. We've celebrated each year since then with special programming created by for and about women. As we finalized the schedule for KBOO's annual celebration of international ... Read more

Rest in Power, Ursula K LeGuin

My heart hurts for the loss of Ursula K LeGuin. I know where to take comfort, in her fiction, essays, and her many many interviews over the years here at KBOO "the cheerful voice of social conscious" is how she described us. Here are some of our archival programs with Ursul... Read more

Audio from the Waterfront Blues Festival!

The 2017 Waterfront Blues Festival audio is now online for your streaming pleasure: Audio from Day One - Friday 6/30   Audio from Day Two - Saturday 7/1   Audio from Day Three - Sunday 7/2   Audio from Day Four - Monday 7/3   Audio from Day Five - Tuesday 7/4   ... Read more

Yasmin Ruvalcaba

Airs at: Tue, 10/27/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae features a conversation with Yasmin Ruvalcaba, a Latinx theatre artist and community engagement advocate who works in the Portland-metro and Washington County area. She also works as a program manager for Advance Gender Equity in the Arts (AGE) and is a prolific pla... Read more

Yasmin Ruvalcaba

Airs at: Tue, 10/27/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae features a conversation with Yasmin Ruvalcaba, a Latinx theatre artist and community engagement advocate who works in the Portland-metro and Washington County area. She also works as a program manager for Advance Gender Equity in the Arts (AGE) and is a prolific pla... Read more

Two Stories by Edgar Allen Poe and Hitchcock's Psycho

Airs at: Mon, 10/26/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
The Sampler returns with some Halloween fun. Featured in today's show, Katherine Dunn and Fortunato will read two of Edgar Allen Poe's classic horror stories, "The Masque of the Red Death" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". DK Holm will stop by to review a recent release ... Read more

Promo

Airs at: Wed, 10/21/2020 at 7:00am - 7:15am
Produced for:  It Did Happen Here
Promo for It Did Happen Here First Episode Nov 13th Voices: Celina Flores Mic Crenshaw Editor: Icky A. Music Reagan Youth Read more

Los Nena y Rebel'd Punk

Airs at: Fri, 10/23/2020 at 10:00pm - Sat, 10/24/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
Esta noche escucharemos los dos discos compactos del grupo Los Nena, de 2001 y 2004 respectivamente. También canciones del primer larga duración de Rebel'd Punk. Read more

Fall Grows Colder on Film at 11, for Friday, for Nov. 6 2020

Airs at: Fri, 11/06/2020 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
This week the team has an array of films to get you through the colder months, including Britta Gordon on the film and BFI book on Lynne Ramsey's Ratcatcher, Gremlin Time's Matthew on XXX,  Jeff Godsil on XXX, and more reviews, including American Utopia with the Talking Hea... Read more

Mr. Jones's Neighborhood 10/23/20

Airs at: Fri, 10/23/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
On today's show, we celebrate our city's biggest literary event of the year -- the Portland Book Festival. This year, as with just about every event other than superspeader campaign rallies, the Festival is going virtual. Instead of one big day, it will take place over seve... Read more