Arts/Culture

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

Mala at CoHo Productions

Airs at: Tue, 08/27/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae talks features CoHo Productions' season opener Mala by Melinda Lopez. She talks with co-producers Anna Nicholas and Brian Shnipper who is also director and Julana Torres who performs the title role of Mala in this solo play about a Cuban American daughter taking car... Read more

TRIPP-P

  A podcast discussing Politics, Protests & POT-pourri.   Hosted by Cory Elia & Lesley McLam Guest Coordinator: Cory Elia Production Engineer: Lesley McLam Read more

Portland Jewish Hour

Airs at: Sun, 08/25/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Portland Jewish Hour
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This week's movies! at Film at 11

Airs at: Fri, 08/30/2019 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
As August comes to a close, the Film at 11 team looks at the last remaining releases of summer, and looks forward to some of the better sounding titles of fall and the "awards season."  Read more

Women and Secrets: Film at 11

Airs at: Fri, 08/23/2019 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
This week the Film at 11 team concentrates on some recent films that survey women and the secrets they keep or the secrets they expose, in Vita and Virginia, about the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville-West(Gemma Arterton)  and literary icon Vi... Read more

Former Possessions of the Spanish Empire

Airs at: Thu, 08/22/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between the Covers
Michelle Peñaloza’s ambitious and remarkable debut searches for a place to anchor in spite of a rancorous world where we might have “began as crumbs ferried in the beak of waxwings.” These poems read mythic yet contemporary in their burst of bloom-song and bright blood stro... Read more

Grace Paley's Life and Work

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2019 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Poetry and Everything
We celebrate the life and work of Grace Paley (1922-2007); Grace died in late August one dozen years ago. I'll read some of her last poems + part of a particularly notable short essay; Ken Jones will read the full text of one of her extraordinary early stories.     Read more