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Femmes Sing Murder Ballads

Airs at: Fri, 03/08/2019 at 2:30pm - 3:00pm
DJ Erin plays murder ballads sung by womxn/femme identifying people.  Read more

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers

Airs at: Thu, 03/07/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
  In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee borrowed $100 from her brother to run a "Numbers" racket out of her tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in o... Read more

Amanda Clem interviews artist Nicolo Gentile

Airs at: Tue, 03/05/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
  Nicolo Gentile is an artist living, working, and working out in Portland, Ore. He has been the Artistic Director of GoodSport since May 2014. As a queer athlete, his practice investigates identity and gender construction in relation to the idealized human form, sport, bo... Read more

Episode 3: Loren Chasse & Branic Howard

Airs at: Tue, 03/05/2019 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Anything But Ordinary
Sarah Tiedemann recently spent time with Loren Chasse and Branic Howard, learning about their collaboration for “Habitat” - a sonic adventure performance commissioned by Third Angle. What is the line between composer and sound artist? When are industrial sounds beautiful? A... Read more

It Takes A Village To Bring Life To People ft. Ronnie a.k.a. BeSpeak

Airs at: Tue, 03/05/2019 at 12:00am - Sun, 03/31/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Village Vibes Podcast
Happy Tuesday Folx! Y’all know what it is.. we have a new episode!! We have a VERY special guest this week. @ronnie_aka_bespeak stopped by the studio and schooled us on how to be a creator in pdx, discussing his music and incredible ability to lift up his community. Take no... Read more

Dylan's Iceland Airwaves

Airs at: Fri, 03/08/2019 at 12:00am - 3:00am
    Tonight we have a very special guest, Dylan on The Sacred Circle "TEMENOS" -Radio Show - with Diablo -Dirty Diablo Born and raised in Kansas City, Dylan grew up in her parents record store 'Pennylane' and started attending festivals, including NOLA's Jazz and Heritag... Read more

The Politics of Living - Episode 25

Airs at: Wed, 03/06/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  The Politics of Living
Kris Gowen Interview | Vicky Mazzone - One Nation Under Song: My Karaoke Journey Through Grief, Joy and America Another Read Through, 3932 N Mississippi Ave, Portland OR  March 8th.  NOTE: this event starts at 6 p.m., not 7 p.m. as previously stated.  Kris will be readin... Read more

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

Airs at: Thu, 03/07/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it. A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter’s. It’s as deep a... Read more

Linda Austin & Ordinary Devotions

Airs at: Tue, 03/05/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae talks with award-winning veteran dance artist Linda Austin about her newest original show Ordinary Devotions running March 14-23 at Performance Works Northwest. Austin says this experimental dance work honors the particularities of her 65-year old body and its hunge... Read more

KBOO News In Depth: Eva Hagberg Fisher

Airs at: Thu, 02/28/2019 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
Our News In Depth guest today is Eva Hagberg Fisher, author of the new book, How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship, from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Eva’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, Wallpaper, Wired, and Dwell, and she holds degrees ... Read more