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  Allie Brosh is the creator of the comics blog Hyperbole and a Half and the author of the book collection of the same name, which unexpectedly shot to number one on the New York Times bestseller list in 2013. Her long-awaited second book Solutions and Other Problems arriv... Read more

  Shemia Fagan is the Democratic candidate for Secretary of State in the November 2020 election. Fagan is an Oregon native, growing up in Dufur and the Dalles. Currently she serves as a state senator representing District 24, which encompasses Southeast Portland, Happy Va... Read more

  On this episode of the Gap, Tammy and Althea discuss election anxiety. We are in the special limbo time of not knowing what is going to happen, and it weighs on the mind even when we don't realize it. Then, we bring back Tik Tok Watch to talk about the reunion of Fleetwo... Read more

  On our next program, host Michele Coppola brings you two stories you don’t want to miss. Sharks may have an (undeserved) bad reputation, but they are very much in danger: it’s estimated that as many as half a million of them will be slaughtered to make a vaccine for COVI... Read more

This week we start out with two horror films, The Wolf of Moon Hollow and We Summon the Darkness, followed by some nostalgia horror from Mathew of KBOO's Gremlin Time, discussing The Crawling Eye, Hammer's The Phantom of the Opera, a disc of The Cat and the Canary / The Gho... Read more

On today's show, we celebrate our city's biggest literary event of the year -- the Portland Book Festival. This year, as with just about every event other than superspeader campaign rallies, the Festival is going virtual. Instead of one big day, it will take place over seve... Read more

On this episode, I bring you an exclusive interview with elder Uqualla, a true expert on the topics we discuss on Squirrels Know. --- We will be talking about awesome and all-encompassing subjects, such as the magnificent cosmic transition we're going through on the planet,... Read more

Phil G here; this Saturday (10/24) we'll be presenting a Patchwork Quilt of Grateful Dead and Friends in the Forests of Fennario... We'll pay tribute to Tom Petty and Spencer Davis, including a rare Tom Petty Performance of a Grateful Dead song (and a great version of "Gimm... Read more

On Monday, October 26, Folk Espresso will feature the third in its series of four all-political shows, with host Diane Hunt.  The 90-minute show will include songs that confront us, contort us, and comfort us as we VOTE to put this country back on a sane course.  You can co... Read more

Verizon is planning to build a drone testing facility along the Willamette River in North Portland. Until recently few people knew about this plan and it seems that Verizon hoped to get the project approved away from the public eye. However neighborhood activists got wind o... Read more

Labor Defending Democracy is a new formation of Portland area union activists who are organizing to prevent Trump from stealing the election.  By his own words, the president has threatened to reject an election defeat and to remain in power.  Laurie King and Dave King, lon... Read more

Adam Carpinelli interviews Aisha Mohammed and Jihad Abdulmumit from The Jericho Movement for Political Prisoner Amnesty, discussing the importance of supporting Black Political Prisoners during a time of global pandemic, national political uprisings in 2020 and recent campa... Read more

The theme for October is "Magic," and the featured guest is Ingrid Wendt. Eugene (OR) poet Ingrid Wendt has authored five books of poems and co-edited the Oregon poetry anthology From Here We Speak and In Her Own Image: Women Working in the Arts.  A visiting poet in hundred... Read more

This week in anticipation of the year's scariest day of the year, we have Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time on Mario Bava's anthology film  Black Sunday, and our L.A. correspondent Jeff Godsil on the seminal The Uninvited. Also on hand is Britta Gordon on a sequence of Berlin ... Read more

This week the team has an array of films to get you through the colder months, including Britta Gordon on the film and BFI book on Lynne Ramsey's Ratcatcher, Gremlin Time's Matthew on XXX,  Jeff Godsil on XXX, and more reviews, including American Utopia with the Talking Hea... Read more

  The results are in! This month, we asked our community to respond to a survey about what they care about most this election season. The survey centered around one simple question: what do you want candidates to be talking about as they compete for votes? There are a lot... Read more

It's KBOO's Fall Membership Drive! We are trying to raise $80,000 by October 31st. We aren't in the station to take your calls but you can show your support by giving online. Please urge everyone you know to make a contribution at www.kboo.fm/give Can you help spread the w... Read more

The results are in from KBOO's Citizen's Agenda Survey! Look and see what our respondents prioritized, and what we are focusing on in our election coverage! Look here for KBOO's latest audio reports on the 2020 election. Oregon Primary Election Coverage - May 2020 (inclu... Read more