Arts/Culture

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The Music and Contribution of Otis Redding

Airs at: Fri, 01/19/2018 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  From the Grassroots
For the first radio show and Podcast of  2018 ,"From the Grassroots" will deconstruct and celebrate the music and contribution of Otis Redding Joining LaNita Duke will be Art Historian  Professor Dianne  Johnson and the Prophet of Rage. We will answer the question ," Should... Read more

Buscando America on 01/16/18

Airs at: Tue, 01/16/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En este episodio hicimos un recuento de la historia de KBOO Community Radio. Este 2018 esta radio 100% independiente cumple 50 años y estamos en la búsqueda de ex-locutores y productores del programa Buscando América. Escucha a Alfredo Fuentes Feliciano contando sobre su ex... Read more

Interview with Peter Hamer

Airs at: Mon, 01/22/2018 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Poetry and Everything
Peter Hamer lives in Estacada, Oregon with his wife, two cats and an elderly Labrador Retriever. He sits on the Estacada Arts Commission, is the Music Coordinator for the Estacada Summer Celebration annual art and music festival, and serves on the board of the Performing Ar... Read more

Unruly Jade by Terence Faherty

Airs at: Mon, 01/15/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/16/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight, Rude Jade by Terence Faherty. A private eye adventure set in famous nightspots of Hollywood in 1946. Scott Elliott is hired to babysit a hard drinking writer/humorist as he tours his favorite nightclubs. At first it appears easy enough until Scott happens to over h... Read more

E.M. Lewis' Magellanica

Airs at: Tue, 01/16/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Susannah Mars of the Adventures in Artslandia podcast talks with award-winning playwright E.M. Lewis about her upcoming 5-hour epic world premiere play Magellanica, directed by Damaso Rodriguez. The show opens on January 20 through February 18 at Artist Repertory Theatre... Read more

Interface: Automata, Dictadura, Extincion.

Airs at: Fri, 01/12/2018 at 10:00pm - Sat, 01/13/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
Interface, duo formed by Samir Menaceri and Roxana Flores, had three released productions in the late 1980's, early 1990's. The first one being Automata, from 1987, and the second one, Dictadura, on LP. Extincion was later released on cassette only. Supported and produced a... Read more

Four Mondays: A Radio Play

Airs at: Thu, 03/29/2018 at 10:00pm - Fri, 03/30/2018 at 12:00am
  “Four Mondays” is an original radio play that takes place over the course of four Mondays at the last saltwater pool in 1980's San Francisco.  The Crystal Plunge is quiet, the radiators are broken, letting out steam. Kasper from the Water Bureau is on the case, but first... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Nichole Graf and Liz Crain

Airs at: Mon, 01/08/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
  Despite the latest efforts by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who by the way is facing his own considerable legal problems, marijuana is available by law in about 60 percent of the U.S. Recreational cannabis is legal in eight states, with California the latest addition ... Read more

Chuck Palahniuk: Tricksters and Terrorists

Airs at: Thu, 01/18/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Portland author Chuck Palahniuk is the most restless of literary lions, reinventing himself with each book, alternately dazzling and bedeviling his readership.  With Legacy, his latest coloring book / novella hybrid, Palahniuk dives further into visual storytelling, crea... Read more

Tom Gauld's Literary Funnies

Airs at: Thu, 01/11/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Tom Gauld is best known to Americans for his droll and iconic cartoons in The New Yorker and The Guardian where literature and mythology get mashed up with pop culture.  But he's also the author of such imaginative graphic novels as Goliath, Hunter and Painter, and The G... Read more