Arts/Culture

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Honoring the life and art of Prince Rogers Nelson (part 2)

Airs at: Thu, 05/26/2016 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
To cover the vast amount of work Prince Rogers Nelson has done on this earth, it's going to take a full year (at least).  We still wanted to do something with the minimal amount of time we have though, so we are spending this week looking at just a few of the MANY songs he ... Read more

Village Building Convergence 2016

Airs at: Fri, 05/27/2016 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Positively Revolting
The Village Building Convergence is an annual celebration of placemaking, community, permaculture, natural building, music, and art. A project of City Repair, the VBC is a vehicle through which neighbors come together to plan, create, and implement tangible lasting projects... Read more

Vanessa Renwick and the Oregon Department of Kick Ass

Airs at: Thu, 05/26/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Film Show
  Vanessa Renwick is the founder of the Oregon Department of Kick Ass and a member of the experimental film collective Peripheral Produce.  The Portland Art Museum is currently featuring an multi-channel video and sound installation by Vanessa titled Next Level Fucked Up, ... Read more

The Underground: ODDITIES

Airs at: Wed, 05/25/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  The Underground
Listen to pieces on ethical taxidermy, teh Pecularium, cicada 3301, and a fantastic original song by marilyn! It's all below... If you want to be a part of the youth collective, contact Erin Yanke at program@kboo.org Read more

Laura O. Foster on "Walking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary's Portland"

Airs at: Thu, 06/23/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Host Bethany Grabow talks with Laura O. Foster, author of the new book Walking with Ramona: Exploring Beverly Cleary’s Portland. Part walking tour, part history lesson, this guidebook is a unique look at life when author Beverly Cleary was a young girl in the 1920s and t... Read more

The Monday Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 06/27/2016 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Summertime and the livin' is easy. Featured in today's show, Just Jess  interviews Roger Fisher of the band Heart. He fills us in on the background to the almost life long creation of  his new CD "All Told",< http://www.rogerfisher.com/ > Unfortunately, Roger informed us th... Read more

The Monday Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 06/13/2016 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
We're not officially connected with the Rose Festival, but today's show is so big we could call it our Rose Festival Special! We have two bands setting up in the studio. Bearcoon as well as Jonathan Brinkley will be performing live. And stopping by the air room to talk with... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews architects Robert Hoffman and Brian Cavanaugh about Snøhetta

Airs at: Tue, 05/24/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday May 24 Joseph Gallivan interviews architects Robert Hoffman and Brian Cavanaugh about Snøhetta, the Norwegian architecture firm that is designing the James Beard Public Market in downtown Portland and the Willamette Falls Riverwalk in Oregon City. Hoffman and Ca... Read more

Seeing Red by Lina Meruane

Airs at: Thu, 06/30/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  In Lina Meruane's Seeing Red, fiction and autobiography intertwine.  An intense, visceral novel about the relation between the body, illness, and human relationship by one of Chile’s brightest young authors.  “Lina Meruane’s prose has great literary force: it emerges fro... Read more

Philip Kan Gotanda - Traveling Master

Airs at: Tue, 05/24/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae features veteran playwright Philip Kan Gotanda. She first talked to him three years ago when he came to do a talk at Reed College. Now he's a Traveling Master for the Dramatists Guild Fund and will be teaching a class called "Challenges of Writing From a Racial and Cul... Read more