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KBOOs 51st Birthday Party and Birthday Cake Potluck

Join us on Sunday June 2nd from 2-4pm at KBOO Community Radio 20 SE 8th Avenue for our 51st Birthday Party! It's a BIRTHDAY CAKE POTLUCK, so bring the cake you want to eat in this world, and come celebrate with music, fun, station tours, casual converstation, and Birthday ... Read more

World's Finest/Rainbow Electric/Eric Kallio Trio

Airs at: Thu, 12/12/2019 at 10:00pm - Fri, 12/13/2019 at 12:00am

Produced for: Radio Lost and Found

World's Finest is coming in the promote a few upcoming shows and give away TICKETS. Rainbow Electric is premiering their new debut album, recently released. Eric Kallio is bringing in his blues trio for an unplugged live set. 12.12.19 10pm to midnight. Best described as Ne... Read more

Little Lulu - Working Girl

Airs at: Thu, 12/12/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

Little Lulu, the comic originally created by Marjorie Henderson Buell for the Saturday Evening Post in the 1930's, has gone on to inspire generations of animators and cartoonists including the industry group Friends of Lulu. Now, the Lulu strips penned by journeyman wri... Read more

Blake College by Dan Armstrong

Airs at: Fri, 12/13/2019 at 10:00am - 10:30am

Produced for: Between the Covers

Host Ken Jones talks with Dan Armstrong, author of the new novel Blake College from Mud City Press. Dan’s work includes the novels Chain of Souls, Prairie Fire, Puddle of Love, Taming the Dragon, Cornelia: The First Woman of Rome, and The Eyes of Archimedes, a trilogy abou... Read more

Three Northwest Visionary Poets Read

Airs at: Mon, 12/16/2019 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm

Produced for: Talking Earth

Three of the Northwest’s most dedicated poets and visionaries join host Barbara LaMorticella on Talking Earth. Jim Grabill, Chris Luna and Dan Raphael all have poetic fields that stretch far and deep in time and space. Tonight they treat us to a poetry call and response and... Read more

These Boys and Their Fathers by Don Waters

Airs at: Mon, 12/09/2019 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm

Produced for: News In Depth

Our In Depth guest today is Don Waters, Portland-based author of the new memoir These Boys and Their Fathers, from University of Iowa Press. In addition to the new book, Don’s work includes the novel Sunland, and two story collections -- The Saints of Rattlesnake Mountain a... Read more

Until the Lions: Echoes of the Mahabharata

Airs at: Thu, 01/09/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between the Covers

In Until the Lions, Karthika Naïr retells the Mahabharata through the embodied voices of women and marginal characters, so often conquered and destroyed throughout history. She captures the richness and complexity of the Mahabharata, while illuminating lives buried benea... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Tom Cramer

Airs at: Tue, 12/10/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

On Tuesday Dec. 10, 2019 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Tom Cramer about his show Journey to the Third Dimension, on now through Dec. 29 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene. Cramer talks about his wood carving style, how music and drawing rela... Read more

PCS Holiday Shows

Airs at: Tue, 12/10/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Stage and Studio

Dmae welcomes Marissa Wolf, artistic director of Portland Center Stage to talk about two holiday time shows, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (which she directs) a reimagining of Pride and Prejudice and the Tony-award-winning musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Both sh... Read more