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Interview with Kurtis Blow on the Hip Hop Nutcracker

Airs at: Mon, 10/25/2021 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for Evening News, News In Depth
  A fusion of classical and hip-hop, Tchaikovsky’s 129-year-old ballet is reimagined as a holiday dance spectacular in The Hip Hop Nutcracker, hitting the road for a seventh season, with a stop at Portland’s Keller Auditorium.  The production features hip hop pioneer Kurt... Read more

Amanda Bullock previews the Portland Book Festival

Airs at: Thu, 10/28/2021 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Jonesy
Today on Jonesy, we preview the upcoming Portland Book Festival with Amanda Bullock, Director of Public Programs at Literary Arts. The festival, which started out in 2005, has become an annual tradition here in Portland. And our preview with Amanda has become an annual trad... Read more

Gregory Grenon

Airs at: Tue, 10/26/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Art Focus
 Aurora Josephson Interviews Gregory Grenon about his personal revolution and moving out west in 1976, working at Landfall Press and teaching himself how to paint on reverse glass, in the first episode of the Outsider’s Corner on Art Focus.  Read more

A Scary Story for The End of Summer!

Airs at: Mon, 10/25/2021 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Classic Hollywood Movie Actor Robert Taylor stars in this eerie radio play "The House in Cyprus Canyon", orginally broadcast in 1946. Also starring , Cathy Lewis and Hans Conried. A young couple are setting up in a new house. They discover that one closet can't be opened by... Read more

29 Cañonazos Bailables - Vol. Afrocaribe

Airs at: Sun, 10/24/2021 at 4:00pm - 6:00pm
A tour between the Colombian Caribbean coast and the Caribbean Islands, with layovers in Nigeria, Gambia, and Senegal. Tune in to have a great time dancing to Champeta, Cumbia, Porro, Reggaeton, Hip Hop, Salsa Merengue, and Soukous! Read more

Wider Window Poetry with Assorted Poets

Airs at: Mon, 11/01/2021 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for Wider Window Poetry
A variety of poets reading their own work. Read more

Afrobeats, Reggae and Marimba music

Airs at: Sun, 10/24/2021 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
Welcome to our special marathon, from our musical hearts to your blessed audience!! Let's start with some modern sounds of our African ancestry. We are travelling from the Pacific coast of South America on the marimba, then hopping across the Caribbean on the reggae wave, a... Read more

El Amor, Hair, Pájaro Alberto, La Máquina del Sonido, La Fachada de Piedra

Airs at: Fri, 10/22/2021 at 10:00pm - Sat, 10/23/2021 at 12:00am
Produced for La Ruleta

Dispatches from the World of Cinema this week on Film at 11, for Friday, October 29

Airs at: Fri, 10/29/2021 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for Film at 11
After a quick survey of recent films, The Last Duel and Halloween Kills, and a discussion with Stephen Hood of Belmont Books about  Last Night in Soho, Britta Gordon discusses Bergman Island, and Jeff Godsil seeks chills in The Fly (1986), while Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Ti... Read more

"Satie's Journey" - Artist on Artist interview

Airs at: Wed, 10/20/2021 at 9:30am - 10:00am
  The creators of Imago Theatre's new music theater work Satie's Journey interview to each other. Satie's Journey premiered live at Imago Theatre on Oct 9 and will have its KBOO premiere on Friday, October 22 at 7pm. Listen as the artists behind this new bold work discuss ... Read more