Arts/Culture

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Proscenium Live + Kurios

Airs at: Tue, 07/25/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae presents new works at Proscenium Live with collaborating partners Michael Mendelson, founder/artistic director of Portland Shakespeare Project and Steve Rathje of Proscenium Journal.  The staged readings are Aug. 4-6 at Artists Repertory Theatre,. And then in the se... Read more

Portland Jewish Hour

Airs at: Sun, 07/23/2017 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Portland Jewish Hour
Host Liz Schwartz welcomes back George Lederer, actor and storyteller, who will share two short stories written by Jo Sinclair (Ruth Seid), and Yuri Suhl, about the immigrant/refugee experience. Read more

Ep.7 Chillin with Chili

Airs at: Sun, 07/23/2017 at 2:45am - 3:30am
Produced for:  Peace, Love and Soup
July 2017 - This month we’re doing things differently -- we’re chillin!    We’re dedicating the entire episode to Tom Hood (Tommy Hollywood), Chief Engineer at KBOO radio. A man of many talents — Chili Champ, Composer, Producer, Humorist & all around nice guy— deserves thi... Read more

American War by Omar El Akkad

Airs at: Thu, 07/20/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle—a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. Sarat Chestnut, born... Read more

Rad Woman Poly Styrene

Airs at: Mon, 07/17/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Joe Clement & Raisa read about Poly Styrene and X-Ray Spex from the volume Rad Women Worldwide, written by Kate Schatz, and available at the Multnomah County Library Read more

OSU demolishes the Corvallis Multi-Lingual Literacy Center, A.K.A. Sunflower House

Airs at: Thu, 07/13/2017 at 4:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Kboo reported earlier this month on Oregon State University’s decision to demolish its adjacent community center, the Corvallis Multi-lingual Literacy Center also known as the Sunflower House. The community center has housed a large portion of OSU’s international programs. ... Read more

Breaking News

Airs at: Sun, 07/16/2017 at 4:30pm - Sun, 07/23/2017 at 4:30pm
Produced for:  This Is How We See It
NC Governor Roy Cooper signs "brunch bill" into law allowing restaurants to serve alcohol at 10:00am on Sundays.  Scandal at the NC Register of Deeds office.  California father is led to believe his son is dead but buries someone else instead.  Join us as we discuss these t... Read more

Hands Up and Kevin Jones

Airs at: Tue, 07/18/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae features Kevin Jones, artistic director of the August Wilson Red Door Project and actor Alonzo Chadwick and their ground-breaking touring production of Hands Up: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testaments. The seven autobiographical monologues of this remarkable production were wr... Read more

Gremlin Time presents "The Horror of the Mound" by Robert E. Howard

Airs at: Mon, 07/17/2017 at 11:00pm - Tue, 07/18/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
It's that time once again for the bedtime radio show for grownups. Tonight, a classic tale from the pages of Weird Tales Magazine, "The Horror of the Mound" by Robert E. Howard. Ex cattle drover Steve Brill is regretting his decision to take up farming in the hills of West ... Read more

Live Broadcast from Cathedral Park Jazz Festival

Airs at: Sat, 07/15/2017 at 2:00pm - 10:00pm
KBOO is broadcasting the Cathedral Park Jazz Festival from 2 pm - 10 pm Saturday July 15th. The Jazz Society’s Cathedral Park Jazz Festival is a FREE concert open to the public and held over three days in mid-July at Cathedral Park at the base of the St. Johns bridge in th... Read more