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The sound of the train in the distance. The whistle and steam of an antique engine. The lonesome stretch of the rails. Trains and railroads have shaped the way we live, and the rhythm of the rails flows seamlessly into music. This episode of Rise When the Rooster Crows, The... Read more

If police are the problem, what’s the solution? Geo Maher's new book, A World without Police, offers concrete strategies for confronting and breaking police power, as a first step toward building community alternatives that make the police obsolete. Surveying the post-prot... Read more

Join us on the Cascadia Coffeehouse this Friday morning as we hear new music from Billy Strings, Asheville-based singer-songwriter Anya Hinkle, Eliza Gilkyson, Lisa Bastoni, Charlie Parr, Zoe & Cloyd and others.  We'll also hear live music from Pharis & Jason Romero and fav... Read more

This week, we take a literary look at the screen, with Joe Witt and Stephen Hood of Belmont Books on Dune and The French Dispatch, plus some comments on The Last Duel and Halloween Kills, while  Jeff Godsil appraises Billy Wilder's masterpiece The Private Life of Sherlock H... Read more

Hey now, Phil G here. In April 1968, right around the time that Johnny Cash released Live From Folsom Prison, he played the legendary Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco to about 1000 hippies. The Carousel soundman, Owsley Stanley III, recorded the show. The concert is being... Read more

  Imago Theatre continues its radio theater series on KBOO this fall with Satie's Journey, a new and adventurous music-theater work, from librettist Jerry Mouawad and composer Marisa Wildeman. Conductor Ben España with a chamber ensemble made up of three live vocalist and ... Read more

Hey now, Phil G here. This weekend on the Forests of Fennario, my little corner of the Grateful Dead and Friends’ Universe, I am as pleased as I can be to visit with Rosie McGee, original Grateful Dead Family member, Photographer , and Story teller. We’re going to discuss R... Read more

Joe Clement hosts this episode and we hear: Bill Resnick interviews Max Elbaum on the two existential threats facing humanity -- authoritarianism and global roasting. They discuss how to defeat both, building the broadest of lefts, including segments of the Democratic Part... Read more

Over the summer, the Mt. Hood National Forest Service proposed cutting trees along over 200 miles of roads within the 2020 Riverside Fire area. Bark, a community organization who has trained hundreds of volunteers about the basics of forest policy and saved tens of thousan... Read more

Iron Tribe emerged from the vision of two men as they served time in Oregon prison.  Upon release from prison they fulfilled their commitment to develop an effective transitional housing solution for others re-entering their communities after involvement with the criminal l... Read more

Some dark and creepy music to get you in the mood for Halloween, Samhain, All Saints Day, Dia De Los Muertos, etc. Hosted by Rich L. Read more