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Retired?...or ReWired? Episode 1: Series Overview

Airs at: Mon, 07/02/2018 at 11:30am - Tue, 07/10/2018 at 12:00pm
Produced for:  Retired...or ReWired?
This is the first episode in a 20-part series on what it's like to age in Portland.  In this opener, we give an overview of the entire series.   This episode includes many of the key quotes from some of the roughly 40 interviews we conducted.  Our guests include geriatric d... Read more

John Callahan: Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot

Airs at: Thu, 07/12/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  John Callahan was the most unlikely of cartoonists, a quadriplegic who was only able to grip a pen after extensive physical therapy.  Yet he became a comics phenomenon, transforming personal and cultural demons into abrasive yet hilarious single-panel gags that earned hi... Read more

CoHo Summerfest

Airs at: Tue, 07/10/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae features the last two shows of CoHo SUMMERFEST 2018. We'll feature Pratik Motwani's solo show #////#  (performing July 12 – 15 at 7:30pm) and Philip’s Glass Menagerie  (performing July 19 – 22 at 8pm)directed by Philip Cuomo, producing artistic director of CoHo Pro... Read more

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Airs at: Fri, 07/06/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Celebrating FOUR years of The Sacred Circle "TEMENOS" -Radio Show - with Diablo -Dirty Diablo on KBOO Community Radio! We might even have a special guest tonight . . .     Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/197311724265336/ Read more

Grateful Dead & 100 Things Phish Fans Should Know...

Airs at: Sat, 07/14/2018 at 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Great show coming up on 7/14/18.  The first hour will be filled with amazing music from the Grateful Dead. Think 12.31.84, 3.14.841, 8.27.72, 5.972. I think for many those dates ought to ring some bells. The second hour, I invite my good friend Jason Gershuny and recent co... Read more

Whirlaway by Poe Ballantine

Airs at: Thu, 07/05/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Poe Ballantine, author of the new book Whirlaway: The Great American Loony Bin, Horseplaying & Record-Collecting Novel, published by Portland’s Hawthorne Press. Poe has published seven books and hundreds of stories and essays, many of which have a... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall

Airs at: Mon, 07/02/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
What if the notorious outlaws and lovers – Bonnie and Clyde – didn’t die in a hail of gunfire in Lousiana in 1934? That’s the question our KBOO News In Depth guests – Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall – ask, and answer, in their Bonnie and Clyde series of novels. The first boo... Read more

Portland Jewish Hour

Airs at: Sun, 07/01/2018 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Portland Jewish Hour
Tune in for the most eclectic Danish radio episode ever on the Portland Jewish Hour with host Liz Schwartz. What's Danish radio? Music sans format-any kind of Jewish music you can think of might come out over the airwaves at you on Sunday, July 1, at 10am Pacific time. Read more

Gus Van Sant

Airs at: Thu, 07/26/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Film Show
  Gus Van Sant's directorial work has ranged from the avant-garde (Gerry and Last Days) to the transgressive (Mala Noche and Drugstore Cowboy) to Hollywood crowd-pleasers (Good Will Hunting and Finding Forrester).  His latest feature, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot,... Read more

Mr. Jones's Neighborhood

Airs at: Fri, 06/29/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
We talk books today on Mr. Jones's Neighborhood. And while Mr. Jones himself is barely literate, the Portland metropolitan area is decidedly not. We're a city of  great readers and writers, and, fortunately for those readers and writers, great independent publishers. We hav... Read more