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The Holy Crowley Hour on 9/23/19

Airs at: Mon, 09/23/2019 at 11:00pm - Tue, 09/24/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Holy Crowley Hour
Welcome to the Autumn edition of The Holy Crowley Hour, the radio show for people who don’t own a radio. Our special guest is the legendary audio theater producer, director, and writer Dirk Maggs. Dirk is perhaps best known for adapting the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ... Read more

Buscando America on 09/17/19

Airs at: Tue, 09/17/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Programa musical y campaña de recaudación de fondos para el otoño con el lema de "Mic to the People // Micrófono para la gente". En cabina Ivonne Rivero y Luna Flores. En Krónikas de Viaje conmemorando el golpe de estado en Chile.  Read more

"Bodies Piled Up", a Continental Op mystery by Dashiell Hammett, and Dick Powell as Richard Diamond

Airs at: Mon, 09/16/2019 at 11:00pm - Tue, 09/17/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Dashiell Hammett's nameless detective, known as The Continetal Op, investigates a multiple murder discovered in a downtown San Francisco hotel room, which leads to a deadly shoot out inside a North Beach speakeasy.  Also, a radio mystery drama featuring Dick Powell as forme... Read more

1984 at Artists Rep and The Wolves at Portland Playhouse

Airs at: Tue, 09/17/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae presents a special one-hour membership edition of Stage & Studio on KBOO. We feature  Damaso Rodriquez, artistic director of Artists Repertory Theatre to talk about the adaptation of 1984 by George Orwell as well highlights of the whole 2019/20 season. And in the se... Read more

Hollywood Babylon

Airs at: Thu, 09/12/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Hollywood Babylon is the new series of 1930's feature films, produced before the censorious Hays Code, that tackled such timely topics as corruption, prostitution, and drug use.  Curated by Chantell Richardson and Dan Halsted, this series screens at the Hollywood Theatre... Read more

Four Men Shaking by Lawrence Shainberg

Airs at: Thu, 09/12/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Lawrence Shainberg, author of the new book Four Men Shaking: Searching for Sanity with Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer, and My Favorite Zen Teacher from Shambhala Publications. Lawrence is author of the memoir Ambivalent Zen: One Man's Adventures on ... Read more

Cetzforthesoul and Jcetz

Airs at: Fri, 09/13/2019 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Express Yo'self
On this episode, Ji interviews spoken word artists Cetzforthesoul and Jcetz, two brothers, about their spoken word journeys. Their music and poetry can be found on SoundCloud by searching for "cetzforthesouls" or "jcetz". Cetzforthesoul can be supported on instagram and twi... Read more

Islands in the Stream: The Inland Sea DVD reviewed by Film at 11

Airs at: Fri, 09/06/2019 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
      He called it a novel. But Donald Richie's The Inland Sea was more than that.      In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the islands of Japan’s Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a tradi... Read more

Buscando America on 09/10/19

Airs at: Tue, 09/10/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
El pintor mexicano Francisco Toledo falleció a los 79 años a causa de cáncer. Javier Sierra del Sierra Club habla sobre el cambio climático,  la corrupción del presidente Trump y  las universidades verdes. En Krónikas de Viaje conoceremos a  Natasha Montes de la organizaci... Read more

Parfait Bassale and Migrations Arts Project Artists

Airs at: Tue, 11/17/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae encores profiles of West African guitarist and singer Parfait Bassale, Bhutanese poet Dilip Sunar with interpreter Suprina Koirala and the Tongan Sewing Circle led by Kato Kakala Kavapalu and Kolini Fusitua. All were featured in Dmae's special yearlong project Migra... Read more