Arts/Culture

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Hillsboro "Dreamers" Adjust to Life after DACA

Airs at: Thu, 11/09/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
When President Trump rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, it threw the futures of 800,000 young people in the US into uncertainty. The program was instituted in 2012 by then-President Barack Obama by executive order. It was based on provisi... Read more

Interview with Jennifer Richter

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Poetry and Everything
Jennifer Richter’s two poetry collections have both been named Oregon Book Award Finalists: her second book, No Acute Distress, was chosen by Major Jackson; her first, Threshold, by Robert Pinsky.  Richter has been awarded an Oregon Literary Fellowship as well as a Wallace ... Read more

Losing Our Religion, 9/11 Truth, and the Political Jesus

Airs at: Fri, 11/10/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Beloved Community
  Leslea Mair is the president and CEO of Zoot Pictures out of Winnipeg, Manitoba. She talks about her latest film,  Losing Our Religion, a feature length documentary about preachers who are not believers, and what atheists do when they miss church. Allowed access to the 6... Read more

Hole Drummer Patty Schemel on Music, Life and Recovery

Airs at: Wed, 11/08/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Patty Schemel has led an eventful life in the Pacific Northwest, having been the drummer for the band Hole for much of the 90s and a member or founder of several bands since the year 2000. She will be at Powell’s City of Books tonight at 7:30, to join Sleater-Kinney drummer... Read more

Combined Culture Radio- Episode 13

Airs at: Wed, 11/08/2017 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Combined Culture Radio
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Sex4Sale: Episode 1, Introduction

Airs at: Tue, 11/07/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
This is the first episode of Sex4Sale, a 10-part series about the business of sex in Portland, OR--what we know, what we don't know, and what we think we know. In this episode, we'll take an overhead view of the project--future episodes will zoom in on more specific topics.... Read more

Laika Animation at the Portland Art Museum

Airs at: Thu, 11/09/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  From its humble beginnings as Will Vinton Studios in the 1970's, Portland's Laika Entertainment has become one of the top studios in the world for stop-motion animation, producing the feature films Coraline, Paranorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings.  Now,... Read more

Today the Kitchen, Tomorrow the World

Airs at: Thu, 11/09/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
     Novelist, author and Exterminating Angel Press publisher Tod Davies returns to the Jam Today series in an update of her original cult classic cookbook memoir. Tod's attitude toward literature is the same as her attitude toward cooking - it's all about working with what... Read more

Remembering Roxy

Airs at: Mon, 10/30/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Denise Morris and Jan Haaken reflect back on the legacy of Roxy LeRoy Neuhart--partner of Darcelle XV and co-owner of the longest surviving drag club in the United States. Roxy--beloved by many activists in Portland--died this past week at the age of 82. He was featured ... Read more

KBOO Visiting Journalist Natalia Messer Visits the Day of the Dead Celebration in Cornelius

Produced for:  Evening News
Natalia Messer is a freelance journalist visiting KBOO from Chile, who will be reporting from the Portland area until November 10th. Her most recent work focuses on the struggles of the Mapuche people in Chile, though she has reported from around the world, including German... Read more