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South of the Slot by Jack London

Airs at: Mon, 02/21/2022 at 11:00pm - Tue, 02/22/2022 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight, Fortunato reads a short story set in San Francisco in the days before the great 1906 earthquake, "South of the Slot" by america's greatest writer Jack London. UC Berkeley sociology professor Freddie Drummon has published a number of well receaved books about condit... Read more

Wider Window Poetry with Stephanie Adams-Santos

Airs at: Mon, 03/07/2022 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Wider Window Poetry
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Music for a cold day.

Airs at: Mon, 02/21/2022 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
The Sampler returns with more music. Read more

Elizabeth McCracken, from Boston to Austin

Airs at: Thu, 02/17/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Fiction writer and memoirist Elizabeth McCracken joins us to discuss her latest short story collection, The Souvenir Museum (which is long-listed for the National Book Award in fiction), as well as her novels and thoughts about good writing. Whether writing nonfiction abou... Read more

Buscando America on 02/15/22

Airs at: Tue, 02/15/2022 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Art by Bemma Akyeampong. Programa musical dedicado al Black History Month con temas de la Orchestra Baobab, Amadou y Mariam, Afrocubism, Manu Dibango y más.  Read more

Film at 11 takes on an impossible mission this week at 10:30 am, Friday, February 25

Airs at: Fri, 02/25/2022 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Today we take a look at no less than three recent Criterion Collection films, Hirokazu Kore-eda's 1998  After Life, Douglas Sirk's Written on the Wind, with Rock Hudson and Dorothy Malone, and The Celebration, Thomas Vintenberg's quasi-dogme epic, each one a variation on fa... Read more

Sun Ra: When Angels Speak of Love, God is More Than Love Can Ever Be, Celestial Love.

Airs at: Mon, 02/14/2022 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
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Tex Tex, Iconoclasta, El Nirgal

Airs at: Fri, 02/11/2022 at 10:00pm - Sat, 02/12/2022 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
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Valentine's Day Madness

Airs at: Mon, 02/14/2022 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
This year some crazy fun for Valentine's Day as KBOO's now offical Program Director Azia Hawthorne joins Fortunato to present a line up of Romantic Music and Listener's Valentines. that have been sent into the station. Also, The Lux Radio Theater adaptation of  the great sc... Read more

Retro Boogie vol.1

Airs at: Fri, 02/11/2022 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Boogie Pachanguero
Good evening!! Tonight, the caravan is going back to its roots. Get yourselves comfortable and allow yourselves to immerse into the depths of the British Invasion, coupled with cumbia, vallenato and salsa classics. Sweet dancing!!!!! Read more