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Film at 11 sees out the month with new movies for Friday, 30 June 2023

Airs at: Fri, 06/30/2023 at 10:30am - 11:00am

Produced for: Film at 11

A series of quick reviews, then Jeff Godsil on The Last Detail, and Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time covers the new sequel Extraction 2. Read more

Crazy Fun For Early Summer

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: The Monday Sampler

Featured on this afternoon's show will be a radio drama adaptation of issue #17 of The Fantastic Four, In The Clutches Of Dr. Doom. One of a short series of radio adaptations of the early issues of The Fantastic Four made around 1973. Featuring Stan Lee himself reading the ... Read more

Human Rights after the Holocaust

Airs at: Tue, 06/27/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

OJM Human Rights KBOO blurb On Tuesday, June 27, 2023, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Scott Miller and Judy Margles about the new permanent exhibit at the Oregon Jewish Museum, Human Rights after the Holocaust. They talk about five of the 30 articles of the UN’s ... Read more

Popurrí La Ruleta

Airs at: Fri, 06/23/2023 at 10:00pm - Sat, 06/24/2023 at 12:00am

Produced for: La Ruleta

Esta noche se presentará una selección bastante ecléctica de discos y grupos poco conocidos pero de calidad indiscutible: Ampersan, Jodorowsky, Javier Batiz, Trilce, Cossa Nostra, Toncho Pilatos, Betsy Pecanins, Nacho Méndez, Tepetatles, Quintana Roo, Baby Bátiz, Abril, Ari... Read more

Alison Bechdel - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 06/22/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

In this episode of Words and Pictures from May of 2012, we revisit Alison Bechdel, creator of the long-running comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and author of the graphic memoirs Fun Home and Are You My Mother? Alison may be best known for the “Bechdel Test,” which orig... Read more

Waterfront Blues Festival 2023 Preview

Airs at: Thu, 06/22/2023 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Jonesy

We have a few annual traditions here on Jonesy, ones I look forward to every year: our Portland Book Festival preview with director Amanda Bullock, the Portland Youth Philharmonic season opener with Musical Director David Hattner, and the Waterfront Blues Festival preview w... Read more

Pre Summer Music

Airs at: Mon, 06/19/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: The Monday Sampler

fortunato returns with music for an overcast day. Read more

Oregon Society of Artists

Airs at: Tue, 06/20/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

On Tuesday, June 20, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Nancy Truszkowski, Executive Director, and Joanne Radmilovich Kollman, oil painting instructor, of the Oregon Society of Artists, about their annual Rose Festival show, which is on now through June 28. They ta... Read more

3D Radio presents By The Dawn's Early Light by Lawrence Block

Airs at: Mon, 06/19/2023 at 11:00pm - Tue, 06/20/2023 at 12:00am

Produced for: Gremlin Time

Tonight we will re-air a production from 2004 of By The Dawn's Early Light by Lawrence Block. David Chelsea and Yani Berkshire are featured in this 3D Radio adaptation of this Matt Scudder Mystery. Former NYPD Detective, and still drinking, Matt Scudder is hired to look int... Read more