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Interview with film historian Joseph McBride on Frank Capra

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
The Sampler Crew is back with more crazy fun to help start out your week!  Calling into the studio will be film historian Joseph McBride, to talk with us about his new book on legendary filmmaker Frank Capra titled, "Frankly: Unmasking Frank Capra". It details the troubles h... Read more

Little Big Union Launches Portland's Second Fast Food Workers Alliance

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Workers at the Little Big Burger restaurant chain have launched Portland's second fast food union.  Like the Burgerville Workers Union, Little Big Union is affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World and has already been engaged in direct actions on the shop floor t... Read more

An Interview on the Inside

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Join host Isabelle Sinclair in an interview with currently incarcerated aspiring writer Damon Lee Petrie. Damon has been incarcerated at Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP) for the past 26 years, and shares his insight about life within the prison system, and about the fundamen... Read more

A Different Nature Earth Day Special

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 8:00pm - Tue, 04/23/2019 at 5:30am
Produced for:  A Different Nature
What's wrong with planet Earth?  Humans!  Join the 'A Different Nature' collective from 8:00 pm Monday, April 22nd until 5:30 am Tuesday Morning for 9 1/2 hours of environmental sounscapes in celebration of Earth Day 2019.  Human voices will vanish from the KBOO airwaves, g... Read more

The Working Class

Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Warren Buffett, the much-admired genius investor and one of the world’s richest men said, “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.” And who are the losers? The working class, people who work for an hourly wa... Read more

"Tenali" at NWCT + "Diary" at OCT

Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae features two premiere Portland theater companies for youth and families. First up we talk about Tenali, the Royal Trickster at Northwest Children's Theatre  (running till May 12) with artistic director Sarah Jane Hardy who co-directed once again with Anita Menon to ... Read more

Portland poet Nastashia Minto, author of "Naked"; and the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival

Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2019 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
We'll be talking with Nastashia Minto, author of the new poetry collection, 'Naked': I never truly understood the beauty of another being until I began to find and love myself. Minto is a Georgia-born African American woman living and working in Portland. Reema Zaman call... Read more

Temper CA by Paul Skenazy

Airs at: Thu, 04/25/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between the Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Paul Skenazy, author of the new novel Temper CA, from Miami University Press. Paul’s essays, stories, and book reviews have appeared in a range of newspapers and magazines, and he’s published critical work on noir writers such as Dashiell Hammett,... Read more

Film at 11 on 04/26/19

Airs at: Fri, 04/26/2019 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
This week DKH is joined by Marc Mohan, for a discussion of High Life, the new science fiction film by Claire Denis, and other recent art films. The program starts at its new air time, 10:30 AM, which compels wits around the station to joke that is Film Until 11.  Read more

MYKU: My Portland by Meg Vogt

Airs at: Thu, 05/02/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between the Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Meg Vogt, author of the new book of photographs and poems MYKU: My Portland. “MYKU” is what Meg calls her variations on the haiku form, a poem in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables. The book pairs Meg’s MYKU’s with photographs from her... Read more

The 2nd ARCHIVAL DATABASE EDIT-a-Thon and Party!

Reunite with old news and public affairs programming here at KBOO! Please join us on Saturday, April 27th, 2019  to reminisce with current & past volunteers while we add missing information to the KBOO archives memory bank! This event is open to the public. We need KBOO fo... Read more

Asian/Pacific American Heritage Day

May 3 is Asian/Pacific American Day on KBOO! In recognition of the month of May as APA Heritage Month, KBOO is airing all Asian/Pacific American (APA) KBOO programming on May 3, 2019 from 9am-4pm. Tune in to hear our favorite APA Compass episodes from the archive, an all n... Read more