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Our Los Angeles correspondent returns with three looks a essential films, for Friday, December 8, 2023

Airs at: Fri, 12/08/2023 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
  It's an All-Jeff episode as we re-air our recent episode with our own Jeff Godsil, who looks at Wuthering Heights, and then revisits Raging Bull. But first, Jeff explains how he tracks down his pictures.     Read more

Words and Pictures 20th Anniversary with Derek Ballard

Airs at: Thu, 12/14/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Author, cartoonist, and storyboard artist Derek Ballard has worked on the television shows Adventure Time and Midnight Gospel.  He's also put in his time as a construction worker, single dad, and all-around working-class hero. Derek's comic stories have been collected in... Read more

A Critical Introduction to Tarot

Airs at: Sun, 12/10/2023 at 8:30am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Pathways
Simon Kenny is an author, technologist and educator whose work combines probing questions with technical thinking. Simon has taught as a lecturer at the University of Limerick, Ireland. As a writer on the topics of belief and spirituality, Simon brings a keen awareness of p... Read more

Helen Frankenthaler

Airs at: Tue, 12/05/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday Dec. 5, 2023, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Bruce Guenther about Helen Frankenthaler, a show of her prints which is on now at the Oregon Jewish Museum through March 23, 2024. Guenther talks about the famous painter’s approach to printing, her u... Read more

Laura Moulton and Street Books

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2023 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
If you’ve seen someone riding a bicycle-powered mobile library around Portland, chances are you’re looking at a Street Books librarian. Street Books is an organization that provides books to people living outside in our city, and operates like a library. Patrons are issued ... Read more

Jazz, Radio Theater, Rock & Roll

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Lots of music on store for today, plus Part 3 of our Diesel Punk Dr Who Adventure Storm Warning. The Doctor and Charlie discover the real mission of the Royal Airship R101 as it assends into the stratosphere to meet an alien spaceship. Featured musicians on today's show inc... Read more

World Aids Day December 1st Writers

Airs at: Tue, 12/05/2023 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Transpositive PDX
Please join us for Transpositive on KBOO Community Radio on Tuesday, December 5th to hear the December 1st Writers recorded live at the Friendly House in downtown Portland in honor of World Aids Day.  The December First Writers are dedicated to education, dialogue, communit... Read more

Interview with Jack Perez

Airs at: Fri, 12/01/2023 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Once Upon a Time
  Film Maker, Producer, Scriptwriter, Producer and Professor, Jack Perez is living now in Portland and he lived thirty years in Los Angeles. He went to Film school at NYU in New York City, his hometown. Currently, he teaches filmmaking at Clackamas Community College and Po... Read more

Susan Tomorrow previews the Kuchar Brothers Film Festival

Airs at: Wed, 11/29/2023 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
In Hollywood history, there’s been a number of famous filmmaking siblings -- the Warner brothers, Coen brothers, the Wachowskis, and the Safdies, to name a few. But there’s another highly regarded, though lesser known team, the twin brothers George and Mike Kuchar. Between... Read more

Fake Radio presents "Miracle on 34th Street"

Airs at: Thu, 11/30/2023 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
The holiday season is in full swing, and that means the annual re-appearance of holiday film classics such as “It’s a Wonderful Life”, “A Christmas Story”, “Elf”, “Bad Santa”, and one of my very favorites – “Miracle on 34th Street”. Those of you who are not old-time radio ... Read more