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Valentine's Day Madness

Airs at: Mon, 02/14/2022 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
This year some crazy fun for Valentine's Day as KBOO's now offical Program Director Azia Hawthorne joins Fortunato to present a line up of Romantic Music and Listener's Valentines. that have been sent into the station. Also, The Lux Radio Theater adaptation of  the great sc... Read more

Stacy Brewster, author of What We Pick Up

Airs at: Thu, 02/10/2022 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Jonesy
Today on Jonesy, we welcome Stacy Brewster, author of the new story collection What We Pick Up, from Portland’s Buckman Publishing.   Stacy is a fiction writer, poet, and screenwriter based here in Portland. Born in Los Angeles and raised both there and in the San Francisco... Read more

Maus author Art Spiegelman

Airs at: Thu, 02/10/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In the wake of recent book bannings in school libraries, most notably of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel Maus, S.W. Conser and Bill Dodge revisit their earlier Words and Pictures conversations with Spiegelman. Included in this episode are excerpts ... Read more

YINKA, WHERE IS YOUR HUZBAND?

Airs at: Thu, 02/03/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
   Yinka Oladeji is 30-something, Oxford-educated, and up for a promotion at her impressive bank job.   She has a supportive network of friends and family who love her dearly, but her personal and professional success doesn’t stop her many "aunties" from constantly asking w... Read more

Ivan Brunetti

Airs at: Thu, 02/24/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  From member of the Chicago underground comics scene to New Yorker cover artist and college professor, Ivan Brunetti has been challenging readers with his scathing satire and sharp intellect for decades.  Now, he's brought his theories of comics structure to the mainstre... Read more

Portland's Short Story All Stars: Margaret Malone, Kimberly King Parsons, Karen Russell, and Lidia Yuknavitch

Airs at: Thu, 01/27/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Jonesy
Just about two years ago BP (Before Pandemic), I had the great pleasure of welcoming to KBOO four of the very best short fiction writers in Portland, in the whole country for that matter: Margaret Malone, author of People Like You, which was a Pen Hemingway finalist; Kimber... Read more

2022 - It's Just like 2000 ? (Part 2) {With Super Secret Bonus Show}

Airs at: Tue, 01/18/2022 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  Vinyl Pajama Party
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Only in Oregon - the Political Cartoons of Jesse Springer

Airs at: Thu, 01/13/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Only in Oregon: 26 Years of Oregon Political Cartoons is the new collection from cartoonist and graphic designer Jesse Springer, who’s been chronicling the unique foibles of statewide politics for over a quarter of a century from his drawing board in Eugene. Jesse joins... Read more

2022 - It's Just like 2000 ?

Airs at: Tue, 01/04/2022 at 3:00am - 5:30am
Produced for:  Vinyl Pajama Party
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BTTE Episode 306: Year-End Special 2021

Airs at: Sun, 01/02/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Back To The Egg
Annie Bloom's PR coordinator (and fellow music devourer) Michael Keefe joins me for a 3-hour review of the year 2021. Press PLAY for a countdown of our top ten favorite albums of the year, and join us after that for The Bonus Round! How many of our favorite songs can we we... Read more