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58--TEXT/PROP--SATIE's A Day In The Life Of A Musician--performing text w/flute

Hi, Just sharing a short fun text I'll be working on with Jessie Isaac (flute), who will be playing something by Satie, yet to be determined (I'm hoping for Trois marceaux en forme de poire which Satie did for a dada festival in Paris in 1923, but that's up to Jessie and wha... Read more

Meeting of the KBOO Board of Directors, 2010/08/23

Board and Staff Present: Chris Merrick, Erin Brand, Judy F, Jim Craven, Marty S, Becky C, Kurt, Louis, Ani, Ivonne, Maire, John M Public Present: Per F, Susan E, Glen O,Yvette M, Devin R, Paula S, Kathy B, Keller H, Alicia O 6-7:15 Closed Session 7:30 pm Check in Food Thank... Read more

Cory Doctorow on The Digital Divide February 8, 2013 KBOO 90.7 FM Portland

Listen in to this great interview with Cory Doctorow and Rabia Yeaman. Cory's newest book Homeland, a sequel to a previous sci-fi best seller, Little Brother is already generating a lot of buzz. Listen in.http://kboo.fm/node/54079 Read more

PressWatch: Haiti Katrina-ed?

Headlines: Radio Havana Cubarhc.cuPort-au-Prince, January 20 (RHC)-- Haiti was hit with a powerful new earthquake just a little over a week after the initial quake that killed tens of thousands of people. The latest earthquake hit shortly after six a.m. Wednesday morning, ... Read more

wall-e

For The Old Mole July 14 2008, we review WALL-E, the latest Pixar animation, also brought to us by Disney. The title character is a lonely trash compactor, a Waste Allocation Load Lifter—Earth-class—the last operating robot on a desolate planet Earth, with mountains of ga... Read more

Celebrating the Longest Night, and the Return of the Light

So we've made it around the Sun, one more time. The longest night of the year comes next week-- Winter Solstice is Tuesday, the 21st, with the Sun going into Capricorn at 3:38 PM, Pacific Time. This is one of the eight turning points of the pagan year. The last was Samh... Read more

JAZZ IN THE AFTERNOON

PORTLAND'S TREASURED COMPOSER/SINGER/PIANIST/SONGWRITERDAVE FRISHBERG,THOUGHT OF AS THE POET LAUREATE OF BASEBALL SONGS,IS OUR GUEST TODAY FOR THISFIFTH ANNUAL BASEBALL AND JAZZ KBOO SPECIAL -MAKE THAT "EXTRA SPECIAL"- FOR DAVE'S GIANT CONTRIBUTIONSTO JAZZ MUSIC. Read more

Sarcasm versus war

A serf is a feudal subject, as you know, not quite a slave but imprisoned in a system of exploitation. Land owners also owned the labor of the people living on the land, so if you were a serf, you had to work at certain times of the year to get in the Master's crops, and y... Read more

Research proves underwriting works

WBUR finds ROI for stores in underwriting Published in Current, Aug. 29, 2011 By Karen Everhart Looking to expand the pool of companies that place underwriting spots on public radio stations, Boston’s WBUR unveiled results from its first-ever study demonstrating that sponso... Read more