KBOO's zine, the BOO Beat, is back with a second issue, featuring KBOO's program guide, interviews with local activists and community members, spotlights on local businesses, and on-the-ground reporting. Our publication has its finger on the pulse of Portland, and you... Read more

  Places to find food for those who lost SNAP benefits: (Compiled via Willamette Week, The Portland Mercury, Oregon Live, KGW)   OREGON FOOD BANK Searchable database of places providing hot meals, boxes of groceries, and other goods. Search by zip code Expect to call a... Read more

Host Glen Andresen and co-pilot Jim Gilbert are back in the KBOO studio for a live January show. The sources for fruiting shrubs and trees are immense. But not all plants are really appropriate for, and won't thrive in, our region. We'll have some tips on what to look fo... Read more

On Tuesday, January 13, 2026, at 11.30 a.m., Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Carolyn Supinka about the show Designing Nature, which is on now at Portland Japanese Garden through February 23, 2026. The show explains the six distinct styles of Japanese gardens that deve... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this MLK Day episode of the Old Mole, which takes up the history and politics of immigration.  The Reverend Martin Luther King once said: "We may have all come on different ships, but now we're in the same boat." Were he alive, MLK would have be... Read more

Starting with Billy Joe Shaver’s classic I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train, the show moves through a variety of country songs, from Hal Ketchum’s Mama Knows the Highway to Honky Tonk Merry Go Round from Patsy Cline and They Call the Wind Maria from a pair of New Mexico s... Read more

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Kush celebrates 20 years on KBOO! All month The Incredible Kid brings the party to you with the latest Global Bass jammers: emphasizing South Asia and the South Asian diaspora with a special focus on Punjabi beats. Khushi or Kush, the choice is yours! Read more

Pastures of Plenty is a year-round program, but winter mornings may be the best time to huddle around your radio and listen to folk music.  In case that’s true, I’m going to start this show with a pair of radio songs - My Ol’ Radio from Malcolm Holcombe and Morning Man f... Read more

Tune in to Between the Covers on Thursday, January 15th, for an interview with New York Times best-selling author Jamie Ford. His debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, explores a father-son relationship set against the backdrop of the internment of Japane... Read more