Arts/Culture

Get the 2021 KBOO Bluegrass Mararthon T-shirt!

  Buy your 2021 KBOO Bluegrass Marathon t-shirt! This year's Bluegrass Marathon shirt is designed by Music From The True Vine host Justin Auld. Celebrate the Bluegrass Marathon and show your support for KBOO Community Radio by purchasing your super stylish t-shirt today. ... Read more

International Women's Day 2018

KBOO's International Women's Day celebrations were started by Program Director Karen Burdick in 1976. We've celebrated each year since then with special programming created by for and about women. As we finalized the schedule for KBOO's annual celebration of international ... Read more

Rest in Power, Ursula K LeGuin

My heart hurts for the loss of Ursula K LeGuin. I know where to take comfort, in her fiction, essays, and her many many interviews over the years here at KBOO "the cheerful voice of social conscious" is how she described us. Here are some of our archival programs with Ursul... Read more

Audio from the Waterfront Blues Festival!

The 2017 Waterfront Blues Festival audio is now online for your streaming pleasure: Audio from Day One - Friday 6/30   Audio from Day Two - Saturday 7/1   Audio from Day Three - Sunday 7/2   Audio from Day Four - Monday 7/3   Audio from Day Five - Tuesday 7/4   ... Read more

Anna Freya Lantry on Transgender Vocal Training

Airs at: Tue, 09/21/2021 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Transpositive PDX
Please join us for Transpositive on Tuesday, September 21 at 6 pm on KBOO as we talk with Anna Freya Lantry about Transgender Vocal Training.  The ability to 'pass' is a real issue for persons who identify as transgender and wish to fit into the binary of masculine and femi... Read more

Portland Jewish Hour 9/19/21

Airs at: Sun, 09/19/2021 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Portland Jewish Hour
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Julian Voss-Andreae

Airs at: Tue, 09/21/2021 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday, Sept 21, 2021, at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Julian Voss-Andreae [PRONOUNCED Voss-andRAY] about his segmented sculptures of human forms which seem to disappear as you look at them from different angles. Voss-Andreae talks about trying to visual... Read more

Still nice out

Airs at: Mon, 09/20/2021 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Another Monday and another lovely afternoon. Fortunato returns with lots of music. Read more

Rogue Scarab at the Renegade Burn

Airs at: Fri, 09/17/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Journey back out to the Black Rock Desert with Diablo . . . Read more

Hitchcock Special

Airs at: Mon, 09/20/2021 at 11:00pm - Tue, 09/21/2021 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
On tonight's show we present two dramas based on two films by Alfred Hitchcock. First, Joesph Cotton stars with Vanessa Brown in an adaptation of the 1942 suspense drama "Shadow of a Doubt". A young woman suspects that her beloved uncle is really a multiple murder. Followed... Read more