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Final tally for Haiti relief

During our February 18th special to fundraise for Haitian earthquake recovery efforts, KBOO listeners generously donated nearly $12,000 to support four organziations picked by KBOO. Now that we've tallied all the actual payments, we're happy to report that we exceeded (b... Read more

Proposing an Idle No More/Indigenous Actions 30 minute morning talk show with J.Keeler

Osiyo, Kboo'ers. I will be submitting a proposal for a Native American show keying on Idle No More, AIM, and other grassroot organizations and the revolution. Read more

Jazz In The Afternoon

My guest on March 18 will be renowned trombonist Sonny Russo,who has retired to the Portland area after his 60-year career. Sonny will bring his own music and his inimitable stories! We'll touch, musically, also on Dave Frishberg's 76th birthday coming up March 23, and Nat... Read more

Inception: A minority report

Inception Director: Christopher Nolan With: Leonardo DeCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe, Marion Cotillard, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, etc. Having missed the press screening, I saw this commercially and after the critical anointing as the film of the... Read more

Catch the Live Feed for Pickathon Here

Back home from Pickathon and selecting music for tonight's program (midnight-3am). You can catch some live acts here http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/08/paste-magazine-to-stream-pickathon-2012.html. Neko Case was terrifc last night after a long day of travel she ... Read more

59--PROP/TEXT--KAHLO script (#52) now spoken for by Crystal

Hi Richard,I would love to produce or read the Kahlo script, if no one else has spoken for it.I'm also expecting myself to send you some dada news updates, to see if they fit your overall idea.Thanks for what you're doing!Crystal     Read more

policing women and privatizing care

Audio here  March 8th 2011 is the one hundredth anniversary of International Women's Day, but American women could use more than a day to call for our rights and solidarity. The recent wave of GOP legislative attacks on choice is summed up by Katha Pollit in the Natio... Read more

03/05/15 episode of Pandæmonium

03/05/15 episode of Pandæmonium is up Chapter XXXIX: W-logy (part 1) episode information playlist download Read more

The Social Capital of Capitalism and Socialist Construction in China

The Evolving Concept of Social Capital, Markets, Market-based Processes and Socialist Construction Paper delivered Sept 1-2, 2004 at the International Symposium on the Reform of Property Rights and Enterprise Development in Transitional Countries at Tsinghua University, ... Read more

PressWatch: destroying corporate mind control

          The local bus service is, like many municipal services across the US, facing loss of revenue.  It's interesting to me to see how the shortfall is handled—so far, service is being reduced at the same time that prices are raised.  The bus service is an essent... Read more