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Creating the Isle of Dogs

Airs at: Fri, 03/16/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Portland animator Paul Harrod has built sets for Pee-Wee's Playhouse, sculpted California Raisins for Will Vinton, and directed episodes of the breakthrough animated TV series The PJs. During a recent trip to the Burning Man arts festival, Paul answered a call from film... Read more

Gail Noonan, the Laughing Feminist - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 02/15/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In this extended conversation with animator Gail Noonan, S.W. Conser asks about the early artistic adventures with the Winnipeg Film Group that helped spark Gail's four-decade-long career in the world of Canadian independent film and led to her recent retrospective at Po... Read more

Press**Watch: News you're not supposed to know

Airs at: Thu, 02/22/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Presswatch
Today we'll be looking at some of the great accomplishments of USA society, like soreading anthrax through beetles that children are likely to handle, conducting interrogations purely for the sake of terror, villages in order to save them, dropping out of the wimpiest possi... Read more

Animator Gail Noonan

Airs at: Thu, 02/15/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Gail Noonan's short films celebrate human relations and the natural world with a sweeping range of artistic techniques, from collage to stop-motion animation.  Her work cuts against the grain with humor and heart, tackling themes of justice and liberation, poetry and sex... Read more

Dr. Demento 2018

Airs at: Fri, 01/19/2018 at 4:00pm - 4:30pm
Join us as we welcome Dr Demento back to Portland. This short radio program will give a taste of the 3 events he'll be leading this weekend at Reed College. Friday, January 19 at 8:00pm to 9:30pm Dr. Demento: The Life and Music of Frank Zappa Vollum College Center, Lectu... Read more

January 2018 - Beginnings

Airs at: Wed, 01/24/2018 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  The Underground
Join the youth collective as we talk about beginnings, the general nature of them, how new years resolutions are mostly dumb and a waste of time and money, and to celebrate KBOO's 50th anniversary, we asked how people began volunteering at KBOO, and why they're still around... Read more

Chuck Palahniuk: Tricksters and Terrorists

Airs at: Thu, 01/18/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Portland author Chuck Palahniuk is the most restless of literary lions, reinventing himself with each book, alternately dazzling and bedeviling his readership.  With Legacy, his latest coloring book / novella hybrid, Palahniuk dives further into visual storytelling, crea... Read more

Tom Gauld's Literary Funnies

Airs at: Thu, 01/11/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Tom Gauld is best known to Americans for his droll and iconic cartoons in The New Yorker and The Guardian where literature and mythology get mashed up with pop culture.  But he's also the author of such imaginative graphic novels as Goliath, Hunter and Painter, and The G... Read more

Contessa de la Luna Valentine Spectacular 2018

Produced for:  The Confessional
Contessa de La Luna’s 6th Annual Valentine Spectacular February 15, 2018 7:00 - 9:45 PM Live performances by Contessa de la Luna FASHION SHOW WITH REAL PRIZES $$ (free to enter!) Intrigue! Catfights! Balloon Animals! Buy tickets for Contessa de La Lunas 6th Annual Valenti... Read more

Commentary: Trump Tweets

Airs at: Fri, 01/05/2018 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    Donald Trump is addicted to Twitter. Hardly a day goes by when he doesn’t use the social media tool to announce policy, attack his latest foe or pat himself on the back. And the media hangs on his every Tweet. But should we? KBOO’s Ray Bodwell has these thoughts. Read more