Recent Blog Posts

KBOO Raises Over $10,000 for Haiti

On February 18th, 2010, KBOO Community Radio in Portland, OR dedicated 13 hours of airtime to fundraise for Haiti relief efforts, due to a rare FCC waiver that allowed us to fundraise for organizations on-air. The last time the FCC allowed this was after Hurricane Katrina, ... Read more

Shutter Island and Happy Tears, open today (Feb. 19) and a short rant about "indie movies"

Shutter IslandDirector: Martin ScorseseWith: Lenoardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams, Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, etc.(This will be a no-spoiler review.)I had the opportunity to interview Dennis Lehane when he toured through Po... Read more

The Seamstress is Back!

Thursday nights' Active Listening keeps you on your toes with more hot new music from the Seamstress of Sound. Back from the Middle East, the Seamstress brings you beats, grooves and spoken word bringing you straight into Friday morning. Active Listening airs on the 2nd ... Read more

Thanks for helping Haiti

I wanted to say thank you to all those that contributed during our Haiti fundraiser yeseterday. It is a wonderful feeling to know that we can count on the KBOO community to step up and support Haiti in it's time of need. You helped raise $10,000 that will go to our four cha... Read more

Fundraising for Haiti

So as of 5:30pm, we've raised just over $6,000 for Haitian relief efforts through our special day of programming. But the special goes until 10 pm, and we'd love to reach $10,000 before then. We'll accept donations online until midnight and then that's it. If you've not ... Read more

Movies to check out this week

The Portland International Film Festival continues at the NW Film Center this week. I haven't seen as many this year as I'd like to, but the ones I have seen have been good. Recommendations (be sure to check nwfilm.org for an updated schedule): Bluebeard Francedir: Catherin... Read more

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