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Dub's St Johns & Cason's Fine Meats

Airs at: Wed, 06/17/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Food Show
On today’s show we’ll hear interviews with the owners of two long standing Portland black owned businesses - Dub Travis of Dub’s St John’s and Theotus Cason of Cason’s Fine Meats. First up, we have Chris Siegel’s August 2017 Food Show interview with Chef Dub Travis. Dub ta... Read more

Juneteenth Special: a conversation with N.K. Jemisin

Airs at: Fri, 06/19/2020 at 10:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Juneteenth Special
  N.K. Jemisin is the first black writer to win Science Fiction & Fantasy's most prestigious prize, the Hugo Award, for best novel.  And Jemisin is the first writer ever, in the history of the genre, to win the Hugo Award for best novel three consecutive times.  She has be... Read more

A Two Hour Special with National Book Award winning poet Nikky Finney

Airs at: Thu, 06/18/2020 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life. National Book Award winner Nikky Finney’s fifth collection contains lighthouse poems, narrative hotbeds, and tre... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Emma Berger who started the George Floyd memorial mural on the boarded up Apple Store in downtown Portland

Airs at: Wed, 06/17/2020 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Art Focus
Sorry about the sideways photos: it's a content management system thing. On Tuesday June 16, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Emma Berger who started the George Floyd memorial mural on the boarded up Apple Store in downtown Portland which then became a ... Read more

James Dixon: EDI and Beyond

Airs at: Tue, 06/16/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae features James Dixon, actor, director, EDI consultant and activist who recently joined the Fuse Theatre Ensemble. James and Dmae have a frank discussion about how Predominantly White Institutions (PWI) can create a safer and more equitable creative environment while... Read more

The Night has a 1,000 Eyes

Airs at: Mon, 06/15/2020 at 11:00pm - Tue, 06/16/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Two vintage radio dramas tonight. First an adaptation of the film version of Cornel Woolrich's suspence filled novel of doomed predestination, "The Night Has A 1,000 Eyes". Edward G. Robinson stars as a phony psychic who suddenly can predict the future. William Demerest als... Read more

The Sampler presents Sherlock Holmes and The Demon Barber

Airs at: Mon, 06/15/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns with some 1920's Sweet Jazz, classic R & B and some surprises to help get through the day. Featured today is another episode from the long running radio drama series featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce entitled The Adventure of The Demon Barber of Fle... Read more

Escalón, Gerardo Enciso, Hongo, Mask

Airs at: Fri, 06/12/2020 at 10:00pm - Sat, 06/13/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
Música de Guadalajara de los 80's. Escalón con la voz de Jaramar Soto con Carlos Esege en los teclados con el disco Hermano de la Muerte. Gerardo Enciso y el Poder Ejecutivo con el disco A Contracorriente. El grupo Hongo de 1980 y el grupo Mask con José Fors en los vocales,... Read more

They Hate Us We Hate Them

Airs at: Wed, 06/10/2020 at 10:00pm - Thu, 06/11/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Life During Wartime
Soundtrack to the insurrection! Featuring classics like "The Badge Means You Suck" "Policia No" and "State Violence State Control"... plus songs for anxiety and more songs about fighting the police. Read more

Keith Knight, Gentleman Cartoonist - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 06/11/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Rapper, cartoonist, and social activist Keith Knight is a longtime fan of the Portland comics scene as well as community radio.  He was delighted to make a detour to the KBOO studios during his visit to the 2006 Stumptown Comics Festival, where his slideshow and stage pe... Read more