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Embracing Comic Tragedy

Airs at: Mon, 04/17/2017 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Progressive Spirit
Mary Astor’s biggest role was Brigid O’Shaughnessy.  Brigid was the love interest of Sam Spade played by Humphrey Bogart in the film, the Maltese Falcon.  But Mary Astor is most famous for what happened off screen and was recorded in her diary.   Caricaturist Edward Sorel b... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for April 3, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 04/03/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Tom Becker is the host of this episode of the Old Mole, and it includes these segments: Union Activist Mark Dudzic talks with Bill Resnick about Medicare for all and the role of Unions in making it happen.  Laurie Mercier and Thomas A. Saenz discuss the intensification o... Read more

Movie Moles: "Get Out"

Airs at: Mon, 04/03/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Movie Moles Denise Morris and Jan Haaken discuss the new film by Jordan Peele that mixes the plot of "Guess Who's Coming for Dinner" with the genre of horror.  They recommend it.  Correction: The review cited as by Roger Ebert was written by Brian Tallerico and appeared on... Read more

"Mad World" by Michael Andrews & Feat. Gary Jules (Round 4, Match #3 of March Sadness)

  MAD WORLD as performed by Michael Andrews and Featuring Gary Jules Album: Donnie Darko (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Year: 2002   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4     --- LYRICS --- All around me are familiar faces Worn out places, worn out faces Br... Read more

The Lost Eleven

Airs at: Tue, 03/28/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  James Dixon talks with co-author Robert Child about the story of the Wereth Eleven. Nearly forgotten by history these African-American soldiers who fought courageously for freedom in World War II only to be ruthlessly executed by Nazi troops during the Battle of the Bulg... Read more

guess who's coming to radio??!! on 03/09/17

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
  Part 2 of Guess Who's Coming to Radio from  3/9/17 Catch the first hour here: http://kboo.fm/media/56313-fuller-conversation-dr-jared-ball-and-music-al-jarreau Read more

A (fuller) conversation with Dr. Jared A. Ball, and the music of Al Jarreau

Airs at: Thu, 03/09/2017 at 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Jared A. Ball has been on the airwaves of KBOO several times; in interviews related to news programming, on airings of Hard Knock Radio, and even on 'guess who's coming to radio??!!' (in a segment on A Tribe called Quest and Phife Dawg). However, we had been wanting to do a... Read more

Roxanne Roxanne

Airs at: Fri, 03/10/2017 at 12:00am - 3:00am
In Celebration of "Roxanne Roxanne" the new Hip-Hop biopic on Roxanne Shanté (Lolita Shanté Gooden) which just premiered AND Sold at the Sundance Film Festival we'll be traveling back in time to Queens, New York and the year 1984 to explore her rebuttal to the UTFO song whi... Read more

Problematic Favorites

Airs at: Fri, 02/24/2017 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
We all have a problematic favorite or two. It's those movies that we knew were racist or problematic but there's something about it that you can't help but like it anyway. We're talking about all those problematic favorites that make up our American media, from childhood st... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for February 20, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 02/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this edition of the Mole and we hear: 1. Bill Resnick and Bill Smaldone discuss parallels and differences between German fascism and threats of nuclear confrontation. 2. Maya Jarrod of 350.org speaks about fossil fuel struggles at a forum on Standing Ro... Read more