Arts/Culture

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Portland Jewish Hour

Airs at: Sun, 09/17/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Portland Jewish Hour
Host Liz Schwartz will feature music for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, which begins on September 20. Tune in for a surprise special offer perfect for the New Year! Read more

First Impressions

Airs at: Mon, 09/18/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The American Southwest is a land that echoes with mystery, stark beauty, and a history of brutality. On this arid landscape civilizations have risen and fallen for thousands of years. Some were wiped out by changing climatic conditions, others by the brutality of Spanish Co... Read more

The Monday Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 09/11/2017 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
The late-night show for the early afternoon returns for another exciting ride around the universe! Today, back by popular demand, we will play 2 episodes of the radio drama "The Million Dollar Curse" by Carlton E. Morse. Fortunado and the Sampler Crew talk music, movies an... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews ERIN BOBERG DOUGHTON and ROYA AMIRSOLEYMANI about the second half of T:BA 17.

Airs at: Tue, 09/12/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday Sept 12, 2017, Joseph Gallivan interviews ERIN BOBERG DOUGHTON and ROYA AMIRSOLEYMANI [pronounced ameer-sollay-monny] of the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art about the second half of T:BA 17. The annual time-based art festival runs from September 7 to 17th... Read more

Songs to Fill the Air - A KBOO Benefit with Live Music at the White Eagle

Airs at: Sat, 09/23/2017 at 12:00pm - 8:00pm
  KBOO Grateful Dead & Friends is happy to present "Songs to Fill the Air," a benefit for KBOO Community Radio at The White Eagle, located at 836 N. Russell St on Saturday, September 23rd from Noon-8PM. This all ages, free, family friendly event is supports KBOO's Fall Mem... Read more

The Child Finder by Rene Denfeld

Airs at: Tue, 09/12/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
  On this LIVE episode of Intersections Radio...host Sarika Mehta talks to author Rene Denfeld about her writing as well as her advocacy on behalf of sex trafficking victims and people who are wrongly imprisoned. THE CHILD FINDER: A haunting, richly atmospheric, and deeply... Read more

Poetry, Music, and Justice with John Slaughter and Makana

Airs at: Fri, 09/08/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Beloved Community
My guests today are passionate, engaging, lovers of life and justice. They are both artists. They present their art to transform the world. Makana hails from the isle of O‘ahu, Makana is an internationally acclaimed slack-key guitarist, singer, composer, philosopher, activi... Read more

2017 Burning Man Art Discovery Review

Airs at: Fri, 09/08/2017 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Venture back out to the dusty, dusty Playa with Diablo for a recap and interviews with some of the artists from this year's Burn, including the interview we got out on the Playa with Burning Man founder Larry Harvey!     Facebook Event https://www.facebook.com/events/172... Read more

Call For Entries - written work for Ep.10 Day of Dead

Produced for:  Peace, Love and Soup
Hello Peace, Love & Soup listeners!   A Call for Entries: As we prepare for our 10th episode, we have decided to feature stories written and read by you —our friends and authors of all ages and backgrounds— to air on October 19th, during our special Day of the Dead episod... Read more

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

Airs at: Thu, 09/07/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Jacqueline Woodson's latest novel, "Another Brooklyn" recently out in trade paper, was a 2016 National Book Award finalist. She talks about this poetic tale of four African American girls growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s with host Richard Wolinsky.   Running into a l... Read more