Arts/Culture

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Words and Pictures 20th Anniversary with Derek Ballard

Airs at: Thu, 12/14/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

Author, cartoonist, and storyboard artist Derek Ballard has worked on the television shows Adventure Time and Midnight Gospel. He's also put in his time as a construction worker, single dad, and all-around working-class hero. Derek's comic stories have been collected in... Read more

A Critical Introduction to Tarot

Airs at: Sun, 12/10/2023 at 8:30am - 9:00am

Produced for: Pathways

Simon Kenny is an author, technologist and educator whose work combines probing questions with technical thinking. Simon has taught as a lecturer at the University of Limerick, Ireland. As a writer on the topics of belief and spirituality, Simon brings a keen awareness of p... Read more

Helen Frankenthaler

Airs at: Tue, 12/05/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

On Tuesday Dec. 5, 2023, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Bruce Guenther about Helen Frankenthaler, a show of her prints which is on now at the Oregon Jewish Museum through March 23, 2024. Guenther talks about the famous painter’s approach to printing, her u... Read more

Laura Moulton and Street Books

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2023 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm

Produced for: Evening News, News In Depth

If you’ve seen someone riding a bicycle-powered mobile library around Portland, chances are you’re looking at a Street Books librarian. Street Books is an organization that provides books to people living outside in our city, and operates like a library. Patrons are issued ... Read more

Jazz, Radio Theater, Rock & Roll

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: The Monday Sampler

Lots of music on store for today, plus Part 3 of our Diesel Punk Dr Who Adventure Storm Warning. The Doctor and Charlie discover the real mission of the Royal Airship R101 as it assends into the stratosphere to meet an alien spaceship. Featured musicians on today's show inc... Read more

World Aids Day December 1st Writers

Airs at: Tue, 12/05/2023 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Produced for: Transpositive PDX

Please join us for Transpositive on KBOO Community Radio on Tuesday, December 5th to hear the December 1st Writers recorded live at the Friendly House in downtown Portland in honor of World Aids Day. The December First Writers are dedicated to education, dialogue, communit... Read more

Susan Tomorrow previews the Kuchar Brothers Film Festival

Airs at: Wed, 11/29/2023 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm

Produced for: Evening News, News In Depth

In Hollywood history, there’s been a number of famous filmmaking siblings -- the Warner brothers, Coen brothers, the Wachowskis, and the Safdies, to name a few. But there’s another highly regarded, though lesser known team, the twin brothers George and Mike Kuchar. Between... Read more

Fake Radio presents "Miracle on 34th Street"

Airs at: Thu, 11/30/2023 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm

Produced for: Evening News, News In Depth

The holiday season is in full swing, and that means the annual re-appearance of holiday film classics such as “It’s a Wonderful Life”, “A Christmas Story”, “Elf”, “Bad Santa”, and one of my very favorites – “Miracle on 34th Street”. Those of you who are not old-time radio ... Read more

Bop and Diesel Punk

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: The Monday Sampler

Featured this afternoon will be a deep dive right into some Bop, as well as lots of other great music. Featured today will be Dexter Gordon, Chick Corea, Renee Rosnes, Andi James, Carmen McCrae, Charlie Parker and many others. Also on tap will be Part 2 of our Diesel Punk D... Read more

Radical Sista: Radical EP; Putrid Sc•m: Is it The Way?; Rueda: Demo y Ensayo 1988

Airs at: Fri, 11/24/2023 at 10:00pm - Sat, 11/25/2023 at 12:00am

Produced for: La Ruleta