Community Building

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Preview Portland Youth Philharmonic's 96th season opener with musical director David Hattner

Airs at: Thu, 11/07/2019 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
Portland’s changed a lot since 1924, but there’s been at least one constant, besides those rusty downtown drinking fountains  – our own homegrown orchestra, the Portland Youth Philharmonic. PYP will be opening their 96th season this Saturday, November 9th, at the Arlene Sch... Read more

11 TRIPP-P 3Nov2019

Airs at: Sun, 11/03/2019 at 11:15pm - Thu, 11/30/2023 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
TRIPP-P episode 11 features guest Ryan Haas.   Ryan is currently a News Content Manager at OPB & audio-host of the podcast "Bundyville." He has previously worked as Editor of The World newspaper in Coos Bay, Oregon and has freelanced in Florida and the Southern Oregon coa... Read more

Buscando America on 11/05/19

Airs at: Tue, 11/05/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En esta emisión hablamos sobre las precarias condiciones que se viven en los centros de detención con las activistas y defensoras Maru Mora Villalpando y Colleen Flynn. En krónicas de Viaje, Karen Torrente contextualiza el conflicto chileno desde los años 90´s. Foto: La Res... Read more

New Classic Cookbook authors preview their Portland Book Festival panel

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2019 at 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth, Evening News
On Last Monday’s News In Depth, we previewed the Portland Book Festival, which is coming up this year on Saturday, November 9th. And the week before that, we focused on the 10th anniversary of the Portland Fermentation Festival, another annual event that’s unique to our cit... Read more

Local Folks Podcast Season 3: Helping The Homeless, Episode 2

Airs at: Fri, 11/01/2019 at 7:00pm - Mon, 11/01/2021 at 7:00pm
Produced for:  Local Folks
Before I started this project, I was aware that there were homeless people in my community, but even though I would see folks collecting cans, or come across their camps at various locations around town, I had no understanding of what their daily lives were really like. In ... Read more

HALLOWEEN Special Cliff and Ivy Silence from Alaska/Dream Wulf

Airs at: Thu, 10/31/2019 at 10:00pm - Fri, 11/01/2019 at 12:00am
  Cliff and Ivy Silence from Anchorage Alaska are joining us in the KBOO Studios to perform LIVE and to promote and give away tickets to the goth festival they are playing in INTO THE SHADOWS "World of Goth Magazine Winter 2019" From Alaska's only goth band to World Goth... Read more

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Airs at: Tue, 11/12/2019 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
We spend time today with organizers of one of Portland's Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) events. TDOR is Wednesday, November 20th.   Per GLAAD:  "Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor... Read more

The Unipiper & Weird Portland United

Airs at: Wed, 10/30/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Good Vibes Only, Radiozine
The Unipiper, celebrated as the city’s Mascot of Weird, is Brian Kidd's alter ego.  This Portland persona rides through the city on a unicycle while wearing a Darth Vader mask and playing bagpipes that shoot fire.  The performance reliably leaves dumbfounded bystanders mout... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Portland Book Festival 2019

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2019 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth, Evening News
For many of us here in Portland, the colder, wetter days of Fall mark the start of perfect reading weather. And there’s no better way to kick off the season than the city’s biggest literary event of the year, the Portland Book Festival. The annual Festival, organized by th... Read more

Talking with Pauline Park, trans activist and writer.

Airs at: Tue, 10/29/2019 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
Pauline Park, activist and author, is one of our favorite people to talk with on Preference. We've chatted in the past about censorship and queer community; and about LGBTQ solidarity with Palestinians. This week, we look forward to talking with Pauline about being an adopt... Read more