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The KBOO Mural

The KBOO mural was designed and implemented by local artist Kevin Fitzpatrick on the outside of KBOO's building in 2010. It was mentioned as one of 5 must see murals in Neighborhood Notes. And check out the video of the making of the mural!   Read more

NEW in KBOO music library September 26, 2014

Banks Goddess Harvest Alt Rock Cellular Chaos ugEXPLODE Self Released Alt Rock Cobalt Cranes Days In The Sun Lolipop Alt Rock Dead Lovers, The Supernormal ... Read more

18--TEXT--Oliverio Girondo Poetry #1 CLAIMED by Tabor Porter & possibly J

Hi gang, Tabor Porter has asked to take on the Girondo Poetry.  I also received a later email from J also asking to do them.  So let's consider this batch of poems to be already taken.  It is nice to have you folks snapping these scripts up as fast as I can churn them out.... Read more

Huliau - The Return Voyage

HULIAU – THE RETURN VOYAGE ANCESTRAL HAWAIIAN WISDOM TEACHINGS   Place: New Renaissance Bookshop Event Center 1338 NW 23rd Ave., Portland, OR 97210 Time: Wednesday June 6, 2012, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. For Info: 503-764-8485                                                           ... Read more

Living in Disastrous Times

For the Old Mole Variety Hour May 10, 2010               There are two kinds of disasters. There are the fast, sudden disasters that are visible in real time and pile up bodies and rubble or flooded buildings in the blink of an eye, and that are captured in spectacular TV f... Read more

Remembering Mary Catherine Lamb

Mary Catherine Lamb died Aug. 15, 2009. She was a pioneer of women’s programming on KBOO. From the mid-’70s to the mid-’80s she had a bi-weekly program, first called “Women Reading Women’s Writings” and later “Women’s Voice,” on which she read diverse fiction and nonfictio... Read more

Meet Sekoynia Wright and Donate in December to be Matched

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26--NEWS--Rabia Yeaman is taking on 25C: ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A TINY MOUSE

I would like to do track 5 ...."there was a tiny mouse..." lemme know rabia   : ) Read more

The Edge of Heaven, at NWFC this Saturday

The Edge of Heaven, screening at the Northwest Film Center this Saturday, June 5, at 7pm. Turkish-German director Fatih Akin (whose earlier film, Head-On, is also excellent) makes movies about immigration, alienation and the human struggle to behave decently in bleak... Read more

Volunteer Spotlight on Sam Parrish

January of 2009, Sam Parrish checked into volunteering at KBOO to fulfill a requirement for a class he was taking at PSU. He just needed to volunteer for a few hours, and connected with the Membership Department to provide some much needed clerical support. Although he'd be... Read more