Arts/Culture

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Ursula K. Le Guin on Steering the Craft

Airs at: Thu, 09/22/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Ursula K. Le Guin has published more than sixty books of fiction, fantasy, science fiction, children’s literature, poetry, drama, criticism, and translation. Among her honors are a National Book Award, a PEN/Malamud Award for short fiction, five Hugo and five Nebula Awar... Read more

The Staple

Produced for:  The Staple
  Portraits of artists. Portraits of everyone. Portraits of anyone. Anyone who has left a mark, made a dent or cracked a wall, applied color to canvas or brushed their fingers through water, darned yarn or punched a typewriter, defended and resisted, held the room breathle... Read more

GAMES

Airs at: Wed, 09/28/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  The Underground
Tune into KBOO to hear the Youth Collective and their take on GAMES.  Tanis talks about Metal Gear Solid, Maeve Ryan and Tanis have another amazing radio play, and Elizabeth tells us about Gaming Glitches, and much more!   Read more

Poetry and Everything

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EcoFilm and the Pillars of Portland

Airs at: Thu, 09/22/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Film Show
  In this special membership-drive episode of The Film Show, Jenn Chavez previews the Portland EcoFilm Festival with director Dawn Smallman and documentarians Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz, who have produced The Real Dirt on Farmer John, Queen of the Sun, and the new film Se... Read more

Gremlin Time presents Katherine Dunn reading Cornell Woolrich

Airs at: Mon, 09/19/2016 at 11:00pm - Tue, 09/20/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
We continue to present more stories read by Katherine Dunn, who passed away last Spring. Tonight, a New York Subway guard unexpectedly. finds himself part of a city wide manhunt in a short story called "The Phantom of the Subway", written by the master of suspence, Cornell ... Read more

Fall 1-hour Special

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
Dmae presents a fall membership drive one-hour edition of Stage & Studio. First up we feature with Alexis Tidwell (Crystal), Johari Nandi Mackey (Chiffon) and Ebony Blake (Ronnette) who make up the dynamic trio chorus in Little Shop of Horrors  at Portland Center Stage.  We... Read more

Is The Star Spangled Banner Really Racist?

Airs at: Wed, 09/21/2016 at 9:45am
Produced for:  This Is How We See It
Join us as we examine the lyrics of the star spangled banner that some are saying are racist. Police in Tenaha, TX under investigation accused of robbing motorists. Bruce Jenner's 2nd wife speaks to People magazine about her marriage to him and when he told her he wanted to... Read more

Aurora Levins-Morales, nationally known Puerto Rican-Jewish feminist, author and activist

Airs at: Fri, 09/16/2016 at 10:15am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Flashpoints
  Host Dennis Bernstein devotes the entire show to an interview with Aurora Levins-Morales, nationally known Puerto Rican-Jewish feminist, author and activist, who is planning to travel the US in her mobile radio station, talking about the confluence of ecology, health and... Read more

The White Donkey - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 09/08/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended version of our interview with Oregon artist Maximilian Uriarte, we talk more about his graphic novel The White Donkey, which has been hailed for its frank depictions of post-traumatic stress disorder in young veterans.  Max hopes to adapt the graphic nov... Read more