Arts and Culture

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Buscando America on 05/29/18

Airs at: Tue, 05/29/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for Buscando America
En este programa hablamos con Blanca Stacey Villalobos sobre la curación y el empoderamiento a través de los sueños. Además en cabina tuvimos a dos integrantes de la banda Ojos Feos un proyecto del Pacific Northwest compuesto por músicos viajeros y dedicados a la organizaci... Read more

New World Aviation Committee and Dubious Move Live at KBOO 05/25/18

Airs at: Fri, 05/25/2018 at 10:00pm - Sat, 05/26/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for La Ruleta

Lacking Character by Curtis White

Airs at: Thu, 05/03/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Curtis White, author of the new novel Lacking Character, published by Melville House. Curtis has published seven earlier books of fiction, including Memories of My Father Watching TV and Requiem. His nonfiction includes The Middle Mind: Why Americ... Read more

From the "Black Book Talk" Vault: Poet Kwame Alexander

Airs at: Thu, 12/03/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Black Book Talk
We reprise Emma Jackson Ford’s May, 2018 interview with poet Kwame Alexander and his musical accompanist, guitarist Randy Preston.  The interview focusses on Rebound, the follow-up to his Newbery medal-winning middle-grade novel, The Crossover. Alexander is a poet, educato... Read more

Buscando America on 05/15/18

Airs at: Tue, 05/15/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for Buscando America
En este programa podrás escuchar el proyecto sonoro Pedimento de Griselda Sánchez, Radioasta Mixteca, Huemac Olivares y Oscar Peña. Un registro de memoria oral contada por los abuelos de las comunidades de Tilantongo, Apoala, Magdalena Jaltepec, y San Isidro Jaltepetongo. ... Read more

Carbon Ideologies by William T. Vollmann

Airs at: Thu, 04/26/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with William T. Vollmann, author of Carbon Ideologies, a new two-volume work about the factors and human actions that have led to global warming. The first volume – No Immediate Danger – is now available. And the second volume – No Good Alternative – go... Read more

Buscando America on 05/01/18

Airs at: Tue, 05/01/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for Buscando America
Esta emisión festejamos el Día del Trabajo y estuvimos transmitiendo desde la ciudad de Salem.  Read more

The Monday Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 04/09/2018 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Fortunato, Just Jess and the Sampler Crew return for more crazy fun on the radio. Starting today a new series of radio dramas, a hard boiled mystery series set in San Fransico, Pat Novack For Hire, featuring Jack Webb and Raymond Burr. Read more

Rajneeshpuram: What Price Paradise?

Airs at: Tue, 04/10/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Stage and Studio
  Dmae presents Rajneeshpuram: What Price Paradise? her very first full-length radio documentary produced in 1986 that she thought she had lost forever. Thanks to KBOO‘s archive project and archivist Selena Chau, it has been found! Hear the broadcast of this historic docum... Read more

Team Choey

Join Ender Black on a conversation with teen social media stars Team Choey, as part of their Follow Your Dreams Tour in Portland and Seattle. We discuss the world of social media, fame, art, experiences, good times and takeaways from their interactions with hundreds of supp... Read more