Recent Audio

  On Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at 11.30 a.m., Joseph Gallivan interviews landscape photographer Mike Vos (pronounced VOSS) about his show “FRAGILE, TENUOUS WORLDS,” which is on now at Laura Vincent Design and Gallery through the end of July 2025.  Vos uses large format... Read more

Tune into KBOO at 10 pm on Monday where a panel of comics share perspectives on the news and life that may possibly be better left unmentioned. We will be on until midnight, if you want to call us with your takes.  This month's panel includes:  Dan Wiancko (@danwianckoco... Read more

Beaverton School Board member, Tammy Carpenter and Beaverton school teachers and union activists, Claire Reneau and Ellen, discuss the recent controversy over "Teaching Palestine", a workshop sponsored by the Beaverton Education Association, and the investigation launche... Read more

Fortunato returns with an excerpt from a history of Comedy about how Jerry Lewis tried to become the King of Primetime Television but only ended up killing one of the greatest TV shows of all. Read more

The first evidence of Climate Chaos was felt mainly at the poles, as polar sea ice began to melt. Polar bears served as the first charismatic symbol of climate change but since media attention shifted from melting sea ice to wildfires, floods, heatwaves, and other impact... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg reviews Rebecca Solnit's  latest collection of essays, No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain.  You can find the book at the Multnomah County Library.  You can find more of Solnit's most recent writing at her site, Meditations in... Read more

  Matt Witt reviews Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice, by lawyer, climate activist, and writer Abby Reyes.  Twenty years after Abby Reyes's partner, Terence Unity Freitas, was assassinated in Colombia while working with the ind... Read more

  On June 28, Portland activists will gather at the Clinton Street Theater to honor the life and work of the founding member of Portland Peace and Justice Works/Portland Copwatch, an indefatigable organizer on a host of interconnected issues – war/militarism, police acc... Read more

  This episode explores American warmaking, remembers Dan Handelman, and reviews recent nonfiction. Old Mole episodes are prerecorded the week before airing.  Frann Michel hosts, and we hear these segments: Big Tech and Big War: On June 13th, the US Army swore in four si... Read more

  This Week's Featured Goddesses:   HOUR 1 - THE BUTCHIES: All-female "queer-core crusaders" punk Band, DFurham NC. 1998-2005. Kaia Wilson (guitar/vocal, previously with  Adickdid and Team Dresch), Alison Martlew (bass), and Melissa York (drums, also with Team Dresch b... Read more