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Bogart, Bacall and Pee Wee

Airs at: Mon, 08/07/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Returning for another Monday afternoon Fortunato has lined up a lot of music for today.Also featured with be a couple of performances by the recently passed Paul Rubins as Pee Wee Herman. And another episode of Bold Venture with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. In this ad... Read more

Live from the KBOO studios

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
It's a fifth Monday for July, and Fortunato comes down to the studio to do a live program Blue Moon Monday Sampler for mid summer. We will talk by phone to John and Emily Goodman, from The Writers Of The Future Contest who have attended comic cons in both San Diego and Tamp... Read more

Festival of Cinema Animation and Technology

Airs at: Thu, 07/27/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  The Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology has been touring the world for over a decade as the International Festival of Cinema and Technology.  Now it's come home to Portland as a four-day event that will be taking place at the Oregon Museum of Science an... Read more

Aug Stone, author of The Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass

Airs at: Wed, 07/19/2023 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
Our In Depth guest today is Aug Stone, musician, comic, podcaster, and author of the new novel The Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass. I got to know Aug initially through his comedy act Young Southpaw, in which he channels a sweet, and often puzzled, Southerner obsessed with music,... Read more

The bed time radio show for grown-ups presents Two Curious Tales of Uncommon Events

Airs at: Mon, 07/17/2023 at 11:00pm - Tue, 07/18/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight, we re air a program from May 2022. Fortunato presents two scary stories for a lovely spring evening. A classic radio drama from 1950 entitled 3 Skeleton Key. Vincent Price stars as a member of the crew at a remote lighthouse. One day, a fishing ship crashes into th... Read more

Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Thrust (rebroadcast)

Airs at: Thu, 07/13/2023 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
It’s summer here on Jonesy, as it might be for you, and that means Jonesy himself is on the run, I mean traveling again, I don’t know where. What I do know is this show comes to a complete stand-still when he’s gone. So we’ll be doing what we usually do – re-airing one of o... Read more

1/6: The Graphic Novel

Airs at: Thu, 07/13/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  What if the pro-Trump insurrection at the Capitol had succeeded?  That's the question asked in 1/6: The Graphic Novel, a speculative spin on the real events of January 6, 2021.  Writers Gan Golan (The Adventures of Unemployed Man) and Alan Jenkins, a Harvard Law School p... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 3, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 07/03/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this episode fo the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Making Peace with China: Several top military officials and many pundit “experts” are predicting that mutual U.S. and China provocations by warships and fighter planes on and over the ... Read more

The Covenant of Water

Airs at: Mon, 07/03/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Book Mole Larry Bowlden reviews Abraham Verghese’s 2023 novel, The Covenant of Water, a story that is both wonderful and daunting. Verghese is a medical doctor of renown, and the reader learns as much about medicine as about the caste system in India. This compendious novel... Read more

27 - Troll & Pioneer with Jallo Faber

Airs at: Fri, 07/21/2023 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  The Ghost of Hollywood
  Swedish Cinematographer, Jallo Faber, well known for his recent work on movies such as Netflix's Troll, Spectre, or the 2013 award winning film, Pioneer, sits down with Ragan & Poxy to discuss his career as a Director of Photography and the challenges of filming in, arou... Read more