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A Revolutionary Friendship

Airs at: Fri, 05/17/2019 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  From the Grassroots
In 1963, Asian American activist Yuri Kochiyama shook hands with Malcolm X for the first time. Over the next few years, Yuri and Malcolm would share a friendship that was grounded in fighting oppression and finding voice for their communities. In addition to sharing a passi... Read more

The National Poetry Month show -- one month late!

Airs at: Mon, 05/27/2019 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Poetry and Everything
Tonight we're doing something different - now, in May, we're doing the show we created for National Poetry Month in the USA, which is April..... and we're doing that because the night we would have been on was given up to the important, exciting, valuable hours of programmi... Read more

Buscando America on 05/14/19

Airs at: Tue, 05/14/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
En este episodio conoce a Lua, cantautora andaluz radicada en Madrid. Daniela del Mar nos habla del proyecto artístico Letra Chueca Press. La actriz peruana Patty Alvitez nos habla de The Wolf at the Door una nueva producción del Teatro Milagro.  Read more

How To Change Your Mind: Conversation With Michael Pollan

Airs at: Tue, 05/14/2019 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
Bestselling author Michael Pollan talks with KBOO reporter Doug McVay about psychedelic therapy, psilocybin mushrooms, and Pollan's book How To Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcend... Read more

Peter Bagge - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 05/09/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended online-only conversation, we hear many more rollicking stories about Peter Bagge gained fame as the "grunge cartoonist" during the alt-comics boom of the 1990's, launching such titles as Hate, Neat Stuff, Apocalypse Nerd, and Sweatshop.  He took over th... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Laura Mueller about Northern Lights, a ceramics show at the Portland Japanese Garden

Airs at: Tue, 05/14/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday May 14 at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Laura Mueller [pron. MOO-ler] about Northern Lights, a ceramics show at the Portland Japanese Garden which runs through May 27. Mueller talks about how ceramics in the northern Japanese region of Hokkaido de... Read more

The EVOLVE Experience

Airs at: Tue, 05/14/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae presents an encore broadcast of an interview with Kevin Jones, artistic director of The August Wilson Red Door Project which is presenting a new production called The EVOLVE Experience. This work combines gripping and timely monologues from of Hands Up about racial ... Read more

Portland Jewish Hour

Airs at: Sun, 05/12/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Portland Jewish Hour
Think the only music celebrating Jewish mothers is Mein Yiddishe Mome? Think again! Join host Liz Schwartz for an hour of beautiful songs about Jewish mothers everywhere. Read more

Music and Mystery and Space....OH MY!!!

Airs at: Mon, 05/13/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Back for May The Sampler Crew returns to help you get your work week started! Old Fortunato, Just Jess, DK Holm and Godiva Lee will present music and talk. Also featured today will be new installments of The KBOO DnD Mystery Theater, and listeners' favorite, Space Patrol. Read more

Exhalation

Airs at: Thu, 07/04/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “Like such eclectic predecessors as Philip K. Dick, James Tiptree, Jr., Jorge Luis Borges, Ursula K. Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, China Miéville, and Kazuo Ishiguro,  Ted Chiang has explored conventional tropes of science fiction in highly unconventional wa... Read more