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Episode: In the Grove   Go into the woods Thursday morning, with host Jonathan Lay on Rise When the Rooster Crows: traditional North American music, it's roots, branches and beyond. In this episode, those roots and branches reach to shady groves, piney woods, crooked tr... Read more

Just about two years ago BP (Before Pandemic), I had the great pleasure of welcoming to KBOO four of the very best short fiction writers in Portland, in the whole country for that matter: Margaret Malone, author of People Like You, which was a Pen Hemingway finalist; Kimber... Read more

Join us on the Cascadia Coffeehouse this Friday morning as we celebrate the music of beloved singer-songwriter Kate Wolf, who would have turned 80 this week.  We'll also hear brand new music from Eliza Gilkyson, the Harley Kimbro Lewis trio, Molly Tuttle with her incredible... Read more

Almodovar's new Parallel Mothers, is the subject of attention, while Jeff Godsil takes a new look at Les Blank's Herzog documentary, Burden of Dreams. and Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time assesses the Marvel TV show Hawkeye, while in the book corner we look at a new account o... Read more

Claire Howe is Executive Director (though she much prefers the title "Mother Raven") at The Raven Corps, a youth-led, consistent anti-oppression nonprofit organization for activists between the ages of 15 and 22. The Raven Corps is a growing community of young change-makers... Read more

  Made in Americana   Somewhere at the confluence of country, blues, folk and gospel lies this mythical place known as Americana. From this collision of genres has sprung a form of music that since 2010 has been a category of music recognized the Recording Academy. Join ... Read more

  Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Power Battles in Maine: Bill Resnick interviews Matthew Cannon, a leader of a Maine ballot Initiative campaign that successfully prohibited the construction of a superhigh voltage e... Read more

  The Portland metro area is a land of water at the confluence of two of the major rivers in the Pacific Northwest. The Chinookan People, who lived along the Columbia and Willamette Rivers before European contact, were master canoe builders, and the rivers were their highw... Read more

Host Karen James speaks with Zach Winston, policy director with Oregon Justice Resource Center, about the 2022 Oregon legislative short session. Three bills that were unsuccessful in the 2021 session have been re-introduced this year by OJRC. Zach explains each bill and its... Read more