Arts/Culture

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The Treasure Ship, a Captain Blood Story by Raphael Sabatini

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 11:00pm - Tue, 02/20/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
After escaping from the sugar plantation where they had been held in boundage, Peter Blood and his crew of escaped slaves need to find a ship that they can sail to England. Which leaves their only course of action to become pirates. But, not only do they acquire a fine ship... Read more

The Exodus: How It Happened and Why It Matters

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
  Many of us have grown up watching The Ten Commandments on television. Each year we would watch Charlton Heston kill an Egyptian, rescue Midianite damsels, confront the Pharaoh with amazing miracles and the lead the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt and through the Red Sea.... Read more

KBOO News Poem: Trump Shoes

Airs at: Wed, 02/14/2018 at 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    A gaudy threat hangs over the Washington DC of our souls--KBOO News Poet Dan Raphael is on the scene. Read more

A Wizard of Portland: Ursula K. Le Guin

Airs at: Thu, 02/15/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a poet, essayist , and master of fantasy and speculative fiction. In this interview recorded in 2000, she talks about her start as a writer and the creation of several of her greatest works. Hosted by Richard A. Lupoff and Richard Wolins... Read more

The Brick House

Airs at: Thu, 03/01/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  The Brick House by Micheline Aharonian Marcom is a place where people dream of love and loneliness, of the world's beauty, and of ongoing environmental degradation. In this short but moving work, travelers confront their lives in the strange, elemental language which dre... Read more

Portland Black Film Festival with David Walker

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2018 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcome writer and filmmaker David Walker to KBOO.  He's curated movies for the The Portland Black Film Festival which aims to offer diverse perspectives and stories in an art form all too often dominated by white filmmakers. The festival features films... Read more

Heart Berries

Airs at: Thu, 02/22/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman’s coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of Post Traumatic ... Read more

Buscando America on 02/13/18

Airs at: Tue, 02/13/2018 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
Desde la Ciudad de México, escucha lo que sucedió en la visita del Concejo indígena de Gobierno y María de Jesús Patricio Martínez por la UAM Xochimilco. Además, Alfredo Fuentes entrevista a Matias Trejo co-fundador del Instituto de Cultura Oregoniana - ICO. Read more

"The porn won't load"; Portland's Gender Queery; and Sasha Buchert on current trans law cases.

Airs at: Tue, 02/13/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
Portland artist Sean Chamberlain will join us to talk about his new exhibit "the porn won't load," an 'examination of the social construction of pornography and its cultural output.' Sean is a queer artist & curator and co-director of project205, a free educational archive ... Read more

Kalista Lacie Kilpriest

Airs at: Fri, 02/16/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Bread and Roses
Kalista Lacie Kilpriest comes into the KBOO studios to tell her story, and takes us through the twists and turns of her life starting with her adoption from the Southern Americas into Portland, Oregon. The process she describes reveals direct connections between our communi... Read more