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May Showers Brings The Monday Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 05/01/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: The Monday Sampler

More music for a spring day in Portland. Fortunato returns inspite of losing his voice, with music and another episode of Nightbeat,starring Frank Lovejoy. Today's story opens with reporter Randy Stone getting his wallet stolen at gunpoint. This leads him on a search throug... Read more

Animator Nancy Beiman - Part Two

Airs at: Thu, 04/27/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

Nancy Beiman is an author, artist, director, teacher, and writer who in 1979 became the first female graduate from the California Institute for the Arts' Character Animation program, and has been helping open doors for women artists ever since. As a young animator in th... Read more

Rui Sasaki

Airs at: Tue, 04/25/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

On Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Carolyn Supinka, the head of exhibitions at Portland Japanese Garden. Supinka talks about glass artist Rui Sasaki’s new exhibit in the garden “Subtle Intimacy: Here and There” which is on now through June 12.... Read more

Conrad Schnitzler: Blau (Bureau B); Gold, 1974-78

Airs at: Mon, 04/24/2023 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Produced for: A Different Nature

Spring Fever on the Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 04/24/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: The Monday Sampler

Lots of music for a lovely Monday afternoon. Featured in the first hour will be an episode of Night Beat starring Frank Lovejoy as reporter Randy Stone. In today's episode, Randy is leaving the paper after a long night and runs into a young woman who's life is in danger. An... Read more

Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher, author of No God Like the Mother

Airs at: Thu, 04/27/2023 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Jonesy

We're back in the KBOO studios after three long years doing the show remotely via Zoom. And I'm so happy our first guest is Kesha Ajọsẹ-Fisher, author of the story collection No God Like the Mother, from Portland’s Forest Avenue Press. Kesha was born in Chicago, raised in ... Read more

Earth Day edition of Sounds Unsound

Airs at: Sun, 04/23/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am

Produced for: Sounds Unsound

Earth Day edition of Sounds Unsound. The third hour will be all nature sounds, no human intervention. Read more

Rainy Day Music

Airs at: Mon, 04/17/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: The Monday Sampler

Fortunato returns with an all music program for this afternoon. Read more

Hito Steyerl

Airs at: Tue, 04/18/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

My guest this week is Sara Krajewski [PRONOUNCED kra-JESS-ki], the Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Portland Art Museum. Krajewski is talking about Hito Steyerl’s [PRONOUNCED HEE-to STY-rol] video installation called “This is the Future” which critiques arti... Read more

Naftalina

Airs at: Fri, 04/14/2023 at 10:00pm - Sat, 04/15/2023 at 12:00am

Produced for: La Ruleta