Recent Blog Posts

Fall Drive Completed!

Thanks to everyone who made a contribution to KBOO during our recently completed Fall membership drive. We had a lot of great programming, involved many new volunteers and raised a whole bunch of money to keep ourselves on the air. We did not achieve our fundraising goal ... Read more

Fall Membership Drive Ends Wednesday

We've extended our Fall drive by a few days so we get as close to our $130,000 goal as possible. It's all over Wedesday at noon even if we don't hit our financial goal. KBOO raises its annual budget each year with contributions from our membership accounting for about 80% ... Read more

Jazz Soothes The Soul

Jazz Soothes The Soul so come with me on a Journey Into Jazz. Hey there, it's me, Bridget B. and I'm sitting in for Yugen tonight during our membership drive so listen in and join the soul community here at KBOO. Volunteers will be ready to take your call and I heard that ... Read more

Mayer Hawthorne's Firsts Mixtape

I'm just can't get over this guy- I'm fully sprung. Here's why: Mayer Hawthorne grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, and vividly remembers, as a child, driving with his father and tuning the car radio in to the rich soul and jazz history the region ... Read more

Reviews of Red and You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, open now (10/15/10)

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger Director: Woody Allen With: Naomi Watts, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Frieda Pinto, Antonio Banderas, Pauline Collins, Lucy Punch The once-great Woody has resurrected his career by filming in England and Europe. He gets the ... Read more

The Underground History of American Education

Prologue The shocking possibility that dumb people don’t exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbnes... Read more

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