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State of Oregon's Environment 2024 - Live Panel

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
  On Monday April 22nd, we celebrated Earth Day, with a day full of special programming, in addition to a live panel, 2-4pm. Our small panel / roundtable was divided in five different areas: *Water *Forests *Global Warming *AI, Evolution, & the Environment *Native America... Read more

Interview with Bridget Moix of the Friends Committee on National Legislation

Airs at: Wed, 04/24/2024 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for Radiozine
For decades the Friends Committee on National Legislation has served as a public advocacy arm of the Society of Friends, leading the way on issues related to peace and justice, providing guidance and options for legislators and persons of conscience.  We will talk on this e... Read more

2024 Mt. Hood Jazz Festival Preview

Airs at: Wed, 04/24/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
   Bandleader is Steve Spiegl, who'll be in studio 2-3 pm, then performing at the Festival, and Mt. Hood Jazz Festival Director is Dan Davey, likely by phone due his teaching schedule at the college.      We'll sample representative music from the festival, and its sche... Read more

Rise When the Rooster Crows - Old-Time Earth Day

Airs at: Thu, 04/25/2024 at 5:30am - 7:00am
  Tune in to KBOO Thursday morning to continue the celebration of Earth Day. In this Old-Time Earth Day episode, Rise When the Rooster Crows will celebrate Earth Day with traditional North American music, its roots, branches, and beyond.   Artists in this episode inclu... Read more

Kesha Ajose-Fisher, author of No God Like the Mother (re-broadcast)

Airs at: Thu, 04/25/2024 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Jonesy
Jonesy has a cold today and it appears to be contagious. So we’re re-broadcasting a favorite episode from last year. It’s an interview with Kesha Ajose-Fisher, author of the story collection No God Like the Mother from Portland’s Forest Avenue Press. Kesha was my first inte... Read more

Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 04/25/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  As part of the 20th anniversary commemoration of Words and Pictures, we revisit our October 2018 conversation with Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore.  Ezra and Ben grew up loving comics and science fiction, and have expanded both genres to address pressing issues of ... Read more

Wolves: Victims, Not Villains

Airs at: Fri, 04/26/2024 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for Voices for the Animals
  Back in February a Wyoming man named Cody Roberts deliberately ran over a wolf in his snowmobile, traumatically injuring the animal. Instead of immediately putting the wolf out of its misery, he taped its mouth shut and posed for pictures with it. He then dragged the poo... Read more

For Friday, 26 April, 2024, we get some details look at two films from Jeff, and at Rushmore

Airs at: Fri, 04/26/2024 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for Film at 11
    • Jeff on Ghost World.   • Jeff on The Fog of War.   • The new British Film Institute monograph on Wes Anderson's Rushmore. Read more

Swing 'n' Country with Mary 4/27/24

Airs at: Sat, 04/27/2024 at 6:00am - 9:00am
Produced for Swing 'n' Country
I'll have a fun selection of old country, western swing and cowboy songs queued up for you, as well as a few special themed sets including some music you've likely never heard before. All to highlight the unique, alternative and avant-garde programming you can hear on KBOO ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for April 29, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Norm Diamond hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Campus Protest: For two decades, Palestinian rights activists have called for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel. The aim of the BDS movement is to pressure Western com... Read more

Zenith's Planned Expansion Brings New Threats

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
After promising to ditch crude oil, documents show that Zenith Energy intends to expand its Portland, OR, terminal while continuing to handle fossil fuels. The amount of liquid fuels passing through the terminal is projected to increase more than 2.5 times above 2022 levels... Read more

Writing to Prisoners 101 & Jailhouse Lawyers Speak

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli interviews Brianna Peril, a member of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee about writing to Prisoners.   More Information: www.jailhouselawyersspeak.com/shutemdowniwochq@gmail.com Read more

2024 Bluegrass Marathon

This special programming was broadcast Saturday, March 16th, 9am to 5pm for the 2024 Bluegrass Marathon on KBOO! 8 hours of live bluegrass performed by 13 of your favorite local bands and special archived performances We were live in the studio at 20 SE 8th, and we did l... Read more