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Music for Spring Cleaning on the Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 04/15/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Another Monday afternoon, another week and more music on the Sampler. Featured on today's show, King Curtis, Tina Turner, The Mills Brothers, Stan Getz Blossum Dearie, Anat Cohen, Sergio Mendes and Brazill '66, Samatha Fish, Rufus Thosmas, Oscar Peterson, Tom Jones, Laura N... Read more

Gurdjieff: Harmonium Improvisations 1948-1949

Airs at: Mon, 04/15/2024 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature
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Film at 11 on 04/12/24

Airs at: Fri, 04/12/2024 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Matthew of KBOO's monthly Gremlin Time joins Lisa Neville of Cortland University to discuss the early '50s comedy It Should Happen to You, with Judy Holiday and Jack Lemmon. Read more

Capitán Pijama

Airs at: Fri, 04/12/2024 at 10:00pm - Sat, 04/13/2024 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
Una noche con El Capitán Pijama, la música de Jesús Bojalil. Capitán Pijama y La Orquesta Roja de Cucamonga, con "En el Purgatorio No Sirven Ravioles" y "Music for Monsters", de 1994. Read more

Mabel Normand- Pioneer Filmaker

Airs at: Mon, 04/15/2024 at 11:00pm - Tue, 04/16/2024 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
An evening of non-fiction as Fortunato reads Chapter 13, "Mabel At The Wheel", from Dana Stevens'  biography of Buster Keaton, Camera Man 2022. Tonight's chapter focuses on the career of Mabel Normand, who was already an established star and director by the time Charlie Cha... Read more

Tessa Hulls - Feeding Ghosts

Airs at: Thu, 04/11/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Tessa Hulls' debut as an author is the sprawling graphic memoir Feeding Ghosts, a story of her own family, of survival and madness and love, seen through the lens of three generations of women and covering nearly a century of Chinese history. Tessa is an illustrator, pa... Read more

For Friday April the 19th, 2024, more TV shows on streaming and essentials

Airs at: Fri, 04/19/2024 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
  Mona Bowen joins us to reflect on five new TV series: • Apples Never Fall, a family drama • Ripley, the new Patricia Highsmith adaptation • Sugar, a private eye pastiche with Colin Farrell • Dinosaur, a Glasgow-set comedy • Loot, a Maya Rudolph sit-com   Read more

Daniel A. Olivas, author of Chicano Frankenstein

Airs at: Thu, 04/11/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Daniel A. Olivas, author of the new novel Chicano Frankenstein from Portland’s Forest Avenue Press. Daniel’s the author of 12 books, including the story collections How to Date a Flying Mexican and the upcoming My Chicano Heart: New and Collec... Read more

Afternoon Delight

Airs at: Mon, 04/08/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns with music to help you through the afternoon. Read more

Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renee Watson

Airs at: Thu, 04/04/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
     Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections of her childhood in Portland. These odes to Black women of all ages are brilliantly illustrated by celebrated fine artist Ekua Holmes .      Black Girl You Are Atlas is Watson's fir... Read more