Arts and Culture

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Women in Jazz at Oregon Coast Jazz Party Preview

Airs at: Wed, 10/03/2018 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: Jazz in the Afternoon

Women are in the news - and an amazing number have made, and are making, their mark in jazz. Because there is no way this subject can be treated thoroughly in a 2-hour show, this will be a random sampler of outstanding such performances, many of them seldom-or-never-heard ... Read more

Buscando America on 10/02/18

Airs at: Tue, 10/02/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm

Produced for: Buscando America

Javier Sierra habla sobre el escándalo sobre abuso sexual en el Tribunal Supremo del País. José Luís Espinoza nos habla del proyecto de Sisters of the Road, un esfuerzo en Down Town Portland para erradicar el abuso y la opresion en todas sus formas. Read more

Coming Home: Return of the Alutiiq Masks

Airs at: Tue, 10/20/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Dmae Roberts presents "Coming Home: Return of the Alutiiq Masks" Dmae Roberts presents and encore edition of the half-hour version of Coming Home: Return of the Alutiiq Masks, originally a one-hour radio documentary that interweaves oral history interviews, Alutiiq music... Read more

Fox & American Fictionary

Airs at: Thu, 10/18/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

Dubravka Ugresic, a novelist and essayist Susan Sontag called a "writer to follow and cherish," has been living in exile in Amsterdam since the Yugoslav wars of the early 90s. Labeled a traitor and a witch when she vocally critiqued the rising ethno-nationalism of both ... Read more

Live in Studio: DANBERT NOBACON! PIÑÉN!

Airs at: Wed, 10/17/2018 at 10:00pm - Thu, 10/18/2018 at 12:00am

Produced for: Life During Wartime

From Twisp, WA by way of Chumbawamba comes DANBERT NOBACON! He'll play first! Then, from Barcelona, Spain comes PIÑÉN! The DIY space in London described them like this: "Hardcore Radikal from Barcelona. This two piece pick up where FIRMEZA 10 left off. Their ideas and the... Read more

Movies at the Airport

Airs at: Thu, 09/27/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: The Film Show

Visitors to Portland International Airport can now enjoy short films by Oregon-based directors, thanks to the new Micro-Cinema on Concourse C which features local programming 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Hollywood Theatre Executive Director Doug Whyte brings us into... Read more

KBOO News Interview - Aaron Ross and Jordan Paladino

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2018 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm

Produced for: Evening News

Portland comedy icon, and good friend of KBOO – Aaron Ross – left us earlier this year for the bright lights and noxious air of Los Angeles, or Ross Angeles as he likes to call it. But he’s back in Portland, at least for another few days, for the premier of his YouTube seri... Read more

Insectuality: The Radio Show

Airs at: Sat, 09/29/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am

Produced for: Threshold Shift

The Press Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--09-24-2018 In Pursuit of Science and Sound: A Cornell Lab of Ornithology Edward W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellow will be the subject of a three-part series on KBOO radio while the sounds, which are the focus of that research, are feat... Read more

The Holy Crowley Hour

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 09/25/2018 at 12:00am

Produced for: The Holy Crowley Hour

Welcome to The Holy Crowley Hour, the radio show for folks who are not attempted rapists and/or Supreme Court nominees. Seems to be a dwindling pool. Tonight's guests are Rob Harrison and Paul Chetty, creators and writers of the British podcast Gamma Radio. Gamma Radio is ... Read more

Insectuality: The Sequel

Produced for: Threshold Shift

Bill McQuay is guest spotting an entire Threshold Shift long-form episode bringing us brand new radio stories focusing on the all-women research team from Dartmouth College, Laurel Symes and Hannah ter Hofstede. We'll be going deep into the rain forests of Barro Colorado... Read more