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Amanda Clem interviews Kat Salas of STROLL PDX and Roya Amirsoleymani of PICA about the exhibition and symposium No Human Involved: The 5th Annual Sex Workers’ Art Show

Airs at: Tue, 11/05/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday November 5, 2019 at 11:30 a.m. Amanda Clem interviews Kat Salas co-direcor of STROLL PDX and Roya Amirsoleymani, co artistic director at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, about the exhibition and symposium No Human Involved: The 5th Annual Sex Workers’... Read more

Immortal Technique talks new album, Afghanistan and this activist moment

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2019 at 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  Immortal Technique is an indigenous hip hop artist and revolutionary, known for his raw, highly-political lyrics. He is performing this evening at 8 p.m. at the Hawthorne Theater. KBOO’s Tammy Habteyes spoke to Immortal Technique about his life, work and perspective on ... Read more

New Classic Cookbook authors preview their Portland Book Festival panel

Airs at: Mon, 11/04/2019 at 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth, Evening News
On Last Monday’s News In Depth, we previewed the Portland Book Festival, which is coming up this year on Saturday, November 9th. And the week before that, we focused on the 10th anniversary of the Portland Fermentation Festival, another annual event that’s unique to our cit... Read more

Tracing the Desire Line: A Memoir in Essays by Melissa Matthewson

Airs at: Fri, 11/08/2019 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Melissa Matthewson, author of the new book Tracing the Desire Line: A Memoir in Essays from Split Lip Press. Melissa is the author of a collaborative chapbook, (un)learning, with Andrea Beltran from Artifact Press. And her essays have appeared in G... Read more

No Good Very Bad Asian by Leland Cheuk

Airs at: Thu, 11/07/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Leland Cheuk, author of the new novel No Good Very Bad Asian, from C&R Press.  No Good Very Bad Asian is Leland’s third work of fiction, following his novel The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong, and a collection of short stories, Letters from Dinosa... Read more

SOUL'D

Airs at: Tue, 11/05/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae features SOUL’D: the economics of our black body, a new devised ensemble piece that examines the American Economic Dream for Black Americans. She'll talk with director Damaris Webb (who is also co-director of Vanport Mosaic) and actress Shareen Jacobs who performs i... Read more

The Wrong End of the Table: A mostly Comic Memoir of A Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In

Airs at: Fri, 11/01/2019 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  Today on Radiozine, Suzanne LaGrande interviews Ayser Salman, writer, editor and author of  The Wrong End of the Table:  A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In. In this interview, Ayser Salman traces her unlikely journey from Baghdad t... Read more

Books, Movies, and Terminators, on Film at 11, Friday, 1 November

Airs at: Fri, 11/01/2019 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Book authority Joseph Witt is today's guest to discuss turning novels into films favorite movies, kids films, and Terminator: Dark Fate.   Studio One https://studioonetheaters.com/ Motherless Brooklyn Harriet   Laurelhurst    https://www.laurelhursttheater.com/   ... Read more

HALLOWEEN Special Cliff and Ivy Silence from Alaska/Dream Wulf

Airs at: Thu, 10/31/2019 at 10:00pm - Fri, 11/01/2019 at 12:00am
  Cliff and Ivy Silence from Anchorage Alaska are joining us in the KBOO Studios to perform LIVE and to promote and give away tickets to the goth festival they are playing in INTO THE SHADOWS "World of Goth Magazine Winter 2019" From Alaska's only goth band to World Goth... Read more

The Unipiper & Weird Portland United

Airs at: Wed, 10/30/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Good Vibes Only, Radiozine
The Unipiper, celebrated as the city’s Mascot of Weird, is Brian Kidd's alter ego.  This Portland persona rides through the city on a unicycle while wearing a Darth Vader mask and playing bagpipes that shoot fire.  The performance reliably leaves dumbfounded bystanders mout... Read more