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From the Black Book Talk Vault: Wilmer Fields, "My Life in the Negro Leagues: An Autobiography"

Airs at: Fri, 08/07/2020 at 10:00am - 10:30am

Produced for: Black Book Talk

Wilmer Leon Fields (August 2, 1922 – June 4, 2004) was a household name in the Negro leagues and other baseball circuits between the 1940s and 1950s. His son, Bennie Fields, visits Black Book Talk to discuss his father's book, "My Life in the Negro Leagues: An Autobiograp... Read more

Our Artist in Residence, Marisa Anderson, goes on a full US Tour

Our artist in residence Marisa Anderson, goes on a full US tour as of Friday!Marisa's residency at KBOO was about delving into songs in our public domain, and she'll be playing some of the songs in her set. She'll also have the Elizabeth Cotten/Marisa Anderson split 7" fo... Read more

D'Norgia Taylor, "If By Chance"

Airs at: Thu, 09/05/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

D'Norgia Taylor writes science fiction for all ages and all kinds of people. "A lot of it is about escape -- getting away from whatever the issues...that you want to escape from -- or to." Her latest work, If By Chance, deals with a generational curse that besets a small ... Read more

Cacophony Zone Trips - The Inception

Airs at: Thu, 08/29/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Web extra: Carrie Galbraith (co-editor, along with John Law and Kevin Evans, of Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society) recounts the early days of the Cacophony Zone Trips, before the notorious Zone Trip Four inpired the founding of the Burning Man Arts Fesival.Click ... Read more

John Law and Carrie Galbraith at Powell's Books - part two

Airs at: Thu, 08/29/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Between The Covers

John Law and Carrie Galbraith are the co-editors (along with Kevin Evans) of Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society. On June 14, 2013, they appeared before a standing-room-only crowd at Powell's City of Books. KBOO's Between the Covers presents part two of the uncut... Read more

John Law and Carrie Galbraith at Powell's Books - part one

Airs at: Thu, 08/29/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Between The Covers

John Law and Carrie Galbraith are the co-editors (along with Kevin Evans) of Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society. On June 14, 2013, they appeared before a standing-room-only crowd at Powell's City of Books. KBOO's Between the Covers presents part one of the uncut a... Read more

John Law and Carrie Galbraith: Tales of the SF Cacophony Society

Airs at: Thu, 08/29/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Culture-jammers extraordinaire John Law and Carrie Galbraith join host S.W. Conser for a special hour-long edition of Between the Covers.Some twenty-odd years ago, John and Carrie (inadvertently) helped found the Burning Man Arts Festival and the Billboard Liberation Front,... Read more

POWfest Summer Docs and TBA's The Works

Airs at: Fri, 08/23/2013 at 12:00am

Produced for: The Film Show

For their Summer Documentary Series, POWfest is bringing award-winning filmmaker Ondi Timoner to Portland to screen her docs DIG! and We Live in Public. Jenn Chavez gets Ondi on the line to talk about her career in feature films as well as her new web-channel A Total Disru... Read more

New Jazz Releases August 9, 2013

Agachiko Yes! AccurateRon Aprea Remembering Blakey Early AutumnMiles Black/Grant Stewart Live at Cory Weed’s Cellar LiveBarra Brown Songs for a Young Heart ... Read more

Dr. Earl Bracy,c "The Making of a Psychologist"

Airs at: Thu, 08/01/2013 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

Dr. Earl Bracy -- a Vietnam War era combat medic, practicing clinical psychologist, and author of Too Young to Die: Inner-City Adolescent Homicides and The Making of a Psychologist -- has endured prejudice and discrimination the likes of which many Americans, black and whit... Read more