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Jazz In The Afternoon

Many thanks to you - members, listeners, and friends, for your enthusiastic response to our Four Freshmen special during the Fall drive.  Count on Part II during the 2010 Fall Drive.   The 10/28 show will be a Mose Allison special (2-3 pm) co-hosted by KBOO alum Denny (The Lo-... Read more

NWFC Deneuve Retrospective, Miranda July at the Hollywood Theater

Miranda July at the Hollywood Theater This is a press release from the Hollywood.  Miranda July has a new film about to be released. MIRANDA JULY TO VISIT THE HOLLYWOOD THEATRE MAY 6th and 7th (Portland, OR), Apr. 19, 2011 – In partnership with Portland State University’s... Read more

the contradictions of housing under capitalism (wrr)

For the Old Mole Variety Hour March 9, 2015   First, from a 1946 New International essay by Miriam Gould on "Profits and the Housing Crisis: Conflicting Interests of Banks, Industry and Real Estate":   Way back in 1872, Frederick Engels made three generalizations about h... Read more

30--NEWS--for musicians and audio artists

Hi Folks, As I am about to shut off the computer and run away, I'm aware that some of you have emails advertising your availability and some of you do not. Feel free to send in an email about yourself if you haven't and I'll send it out to everyone. I'm also going to ... Read more

A little racism with your tea?

April 20, 2009 I was all set to write a brilliant psychosocial expose of the racist undercurrent of the April 15 Teabag Parties, and then I saw this video of Janean Garofalo and Kieth Olbermann hitting the nail on the head. (I'm going to figure out how to embed video, I s... Read more

9/22 Jeff Halper Talk on Israel-Palestine

KBOO is proud to sponsor Jeff Halper's A Single Democratic State in Israel-Palestine: The Only Option Israel and the United States Have Left Us When: Saturday, September 22nd, 7:00 PM Where: Eliot Chapel at the First U... Read more

February 14 - Playlist Spotlight

An Evening of Afrotainment is dedicated to bringing you music from Black artists worldwide who cross all genres of music.  We do our best to present music that makes you listen, think and reflect as we slip and slide aurally through the spectrum of the Black experience o... Read more

No Fest 2011

KBOO is a proud sponor for the 2011 No Fest Normal 0 KBOO will broadcast Noon – 10:00 pm on Saturday the 25th, featuring such artists and street performers as the Portland Peace Choir, Michael Hurley, Oregon Universal Hip Hop, Rasika School of Music, SNDTRKR, Gulls & W... Read more

Rethinking the school-to-military pipeline

A version of this is part of the Old Mole Variety Hour  for 25 May 2015 Today is Memorial Day, so we're talking about memory, and the military, as well as about education and labor. All of those institutions arose in their modern disciplinary forms in the 18th century, al... Read more

61--TEXT--6 brief poems from ELUARD's FIRSTLY for anyone to read & produce

Hi, Here are the first six very short poems from a much longer series, but this seemed a nice cluster. I'm just pulling them up out of the book and throwing them out there if anyone likes them and wants them. Thanks love raf   Read more