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Pomegranate

Airs at: Mon, 08/07/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Larry Bowlden reviews Pomegranate, by Helen Elaine Lee, a rich book on so many levels. Written though the eyes of Ranita Atwater, a woman just released from four years of imprisonment for opioid possession, the book leaps forward to her assiduous efforts to regain parental ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 14, 2023

Airs at: Mon, 08/14/2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The Bomb: Last week was the 77th anniversary of the US bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaski. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. The explosion... Read more

Dian Greenwood, author of About the Carleton Sisters

Airs at: Thu, 08/10/2023 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome Dian Greenwood, author of the new novel About the Carleton Sisters from She Writes Press. After studying both writing and counseling psychology in San Francisco, Dian now lives and writes here in Portland, and works as a family therapist. Whic... Read more

Bogart, Bacall and Pee Wee

Airs at: Mon, 08/07/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Returning for another Monday afternoon Fortunato has lined up a lot of music for today.Also featured with be a couple of performances by the recently passed Paul Rubins as Pee Wee Herman. And another episode of Bold Venture with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. In this ad... Read more

Live from the KBOO studios

Airs at: Mon, 07/31/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
It's a fifth Monday for July, and Fortunato comes down to the studio to do a live program Blue Moon Monday Sampler for mid summer. We will talk by phone to John and Emily Goodman, from The Writers Of The Future Contest who have attended comic cons in both San Diego and Tamp... Read more

Festival of Cinema Animation and Technology

Airs at: Thu, 07/27/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  The Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology has been touring the world for over a decade as the International Festival of Cinema and Technology.  Now it's come home to Portland as a four-day event that will be taking place at the Oregon Museum of Science an... Read more

Aug Stone, author of The Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass

Airs at: Wed, 07/19/2023 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
Our In Depth guest today is Aug Stone, musician, comic, podcaster, and author of the new novel The Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass. I got to know Aug initially through his comedy act Young Southpaw, in which he channels a sweet, and often puzzled, Southerner obsessed with music,... Read more

The bed time radio show for grown-ups presents Two Curious Tales of Uncommon Events

Airs at: Mon, 07/17/2023 at 11:00pm - Tue, 07/18/2023 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight, we re air a program from May 2022. Fortunato presents two scary stories for a lovely spring evening. A classic radio drama from 1950 entitled 3 Skeleton Key. Vincent Price stars as a member of the crew at a remote lighthouse. One day, a fishing ship crashes into th... Read more

Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Thrust (rebroadcast)

Airs at: Thu, 07/13/2023 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
It’s summer here on Jonesy, as it might be for you, and that means Jonesy himself is on the run, I mean traveling again, I don’t know where. What I do know is this show comes to a complete stand-still when he’s gone. So we’ll be doing what we usually do – re-airing one of o... Read more

1/6: The Graphic Novel

Airs at: Thu, 07/13/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  What if the pro-Trump insurrection at the Capitol had succeeded?  That's the question asked in 1/6: The Graphic Novel, a speculative spin on the real events of January 6, 2021.  Writers Gan Golan (The Adventures of Unemployed Man) and Alan Jenkins, a Harvard Law School p... Read more