Arts and Culture

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Waterfront Blues Festival 2023 Preview

Airs at: Thu, 06/22/2023 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Jonesy

We have a few annual traditions here on Jonesy, ones I look forward to every year: our Portland Book Festival preview with director Amanda Bullock, the Portland Youth Philharmonic season opener with Musical Director David Hattner, and the Waterfront Blues Festival preview w... Read more

Pre Summer Music

Airs at: Mon, 06/19/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: The Monday Sampler

fortunato returns with music for an overcast day. Read more

Oregon Society of Artists

Airs at: Tue, 06/20/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

On Tuesday, June 20, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Nancy Truszkowski, Executive Director, and Joanne Radmilovich Kollman, oil painting instructor, of the Oregon Society of Artists, about their annual Rose Festival show, which is on now through June 28. They ta... Read more

3D Radio presents By The Dawn's Early Light by Lawrence Block

Airs at: Mon, 06/19/2023 at 11:00pm - Tue, 06/20/2023 at 12:00am

Produced for: Gremlin Time

Tonight we will re-air a production from 2004 of By The Dawn's Early Light by Lawrence Block. David Chelsea and Yani Berkshire are featured in this 3D Radio adaptation of this Matt Scudder Mystery. Former NYPD Detective, and still drinking, Matt Scudder is hired to look int... Read more

Film at 11 revives its most popular episode for Friday, 16 June 2023

Airs at: Fri, 06/16/2023 at 10:30am - 11:00am

Produced for: Film at 11

We return to Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, in case you missed it the first time around. Read more

Aaron Ross, host of the new "Who's the Ross" podcast

Produced for: Evening News, News In Depth

Our In Depth guest this evening is Aaron Ross, writer, comedian, actor, and a good friend of KBOO. He’s the host of “Who’s the Ross”, a live on-stage late night talk show that's run for over ten years and 900-plus performances. Aaron moved to Los Angeles, or Ross Angeles as... Read more

Oregon Jewish Museum reopens

Airs at: Tue, 06/13/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

On Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at 11.30 am Joseph Gallivan interviews Bruce Guenther about the new shows “THE JEWS OF AMSTERDAM, REMBRANDT AND PANDER,” and “ BUT A DREAM, SALVADOR DALÍ.” The Amsterdam show is on now at the Oregon Jewish Museum until Sept 24 and the Dali through... Read more

The Avengers are first assembled

Airs at: Mon, 06/12/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: The Monday Sampler

Featured this afternoon is a radio drama adaptated from the first comic book appearance of Marvel Comics' The Mighty Avengers from September of 1963. Trickster God Loki's attempt to entrap his half brother Thor, sets in motion a series of events that bring together Earth's ... Read more

Boogie Pachanguero - the Mommas & the Pappas

Airs at: Fri, 06/09/2023 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Produced for: Boogie Pachanguero

Buenas noches mi gente! Tonight, we are playing a small tribute to all parents in the world. This is for those who have raised their children from the cradle to adulthood, through tantrums and mid-life crises. El programa radial de hoy es para todas las madres y los p... Read more