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Good in the Hood on KBOO News

Airs at: Tue, 06/14/2016 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Good in the Hood is holding it's 24th annual multicultural music, arts, and food festival on Saturday, June 24-26. Good in the Hood is the largest community parade in the PNW. KBOO News spoke with Samuel Thompson to learn more about this yearly Portland tradition.  Read more

Art Focus hosted by Andre Middleton w/ guest Mia O'Connor and Natalie Figueroa

Airs at: Tue, 06/14/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
Mia O'Connor is a 22 year old Portland native. She started dancing at age 3, joined pre professional dance company Jefferson dancers (2008-2012) after graduating from Grant HS, she moved to NYC to dance at the Ailey school. Once she returned to Portland, in January 2015 she... Read more

Animator Kathy Zielinski - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 06/09/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended version of our interview with pioneering artist and filmmaker Kathy Zielinski, we talk more about her experiences riding the technological waves from hand-drawn 2-D feature films to computer-generated imagery, the importance of pose and expression in bot... Read more

Angelica Pray~A Song for My Brother

Airs at: Mon, 06/13/2016 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Mindi Griffiths interviews Angelica Pray, a singer/songwriter from Portland, Oregon, whose unique style is described as “musique for self-governed gelfling-gangster hybrids”. She is also a non-violent communications teacher with Oregon Prison Project at Coffee Creek Correct... Read more

Native Fashion Now 06/09/16 Interview with Jared Yazzie of OXDX (Interview only)

Airs at: Thu, 06/09/2016 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Rose City Native Radio
We chat with Jared Yazzie, Creator of OXDX Clothing. Check out Jared and other amazing native designers at the Native Fashion Now exibit at the portland art museum! http://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/native-fashion-now/ http://oxdx.storenvy.com/   Read more

Danielle Dutton on her novel "Margaret the First"

Airs at: Thu, 06/09/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with writer Danielle Dutton about her novel, "Margaret the First," which dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the eccentric 17th-century Duchess. Margaret wrote and published volumes of poems, philosophy, feminist plays, and utopian ... Read more

Psychology, Trauma, Palestine/Israel

Airs at: Mon, 06/06/2016 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jan Haaken talks with Judy Roth, an activist with Psychologists for Social Responsibility, about her work with Israeli and Palestinian trauma victims and the Born Equal Task Force.   Photo by Hamde Abu Rahma: A schoolgirl, a ladder, a wall Read more

Prince Vs. Bowie Memorial Bike Ride

KBOO Community Radio is a proud Co-Sponsor of the Prince & David Bowie Memorial Bike Ride on Sat. June 11th @ 7pm   Come celebrate the lives & music of these INCREDIBLE icons as we pedal and dance the night away! "We don't cry because we knew them, we cry because they hel... Read more

Animator Kathy Zielinski

Airs at: Thu, 06/09/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Kathy Zielinski is a pioneering artist and filmmaker who's been called "The Queen of Animated Villains" for helping bring to life such characters as Ursula the Sea Witch in The Little Mermaid and Jafar in Aladdin. Wbile visiting Portland for an ASIFA event, she sat down... Read more

Theatre Diaspora on KBOO Evening News

Airs at: Tue, 05/24/2016 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Media Rites' Theatre Diaspora joined the KBOO Evening news live in Studio 2 to talk about their upcoming stage reading of "After the War Blues," a play by Philip Kan Gotanda. We spoke with executive producer Dmae Roberts and actress Wynee Hu about their upcoming performance... Read more