Arts and Culture

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Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition

Airs at: Tue, 02/08/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday February 8, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews Maryanna Ramirez and Edmund Holmes about Black Lives Matter Artist Grant Exhibition, which is on now through April 30 at Portland State University. Gallery Director Remirez and artist and Nike designer Holmes talk abou... Read more

A mix of new and old this week on Film at 11, Friday, 11th February, 2022

Airs at: Fri, 02/11/2022 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Moonfall, Death on the Nile, Jeff Godsil on Sexy Beast, and Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time, on John Woo's Hard-Boiled. 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

A Trip to the Dark Side of The Moon

Airs at: Mon, 01/31/2022 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
The Sampler finishes out our month long observance of Stan Lee's 100th Birthday with another exciting episode of The Fantastic Four. In this Cold War/Space Race Adventure our four heroes need to beat a Russian scientist, know as The Red Ghost, to a mysterious Blue Section o... Read more

Hueco, TNT: Gigante, ISIS: Sin Salida

Airs at: Fri, 01/28/2022 at 10:00pm - Sat, 01/29/2022 at 12:00am
Produced for:  La Ruleta
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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

Starseed Presence

Airs at: Fri, 01/28/2022 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Squirrels Know
Join Ender Black on a Starseed Healing Journey! For some time now, a movement of great proportions has been stirring all over the world, in the shadows, away from mainstream acceptance: The movement of galactic awareness for a better tomorrow. ---- Millions of people throug... Read more

Noel Taylor

Airs at: Tue, 02/01/2022 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday February 1, 2022, Joseph Gallivan interviews visionary painter Noel Taylor. Taylor talks about using the mische technique to make oil paintings that feel backlit, how his abstract forms come to him in a meditative state and how he stops his ego from taking over. ... 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

Film at 11 celebrates Americana this week, on Friday, 4 February 2022

Airs at: Fri, 02/04/2022 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
This wwee we take a look at a few recent releases, while Jeff Godsil comments on Our Town. Britta Gordon reflects on  Samuel Fuller's crazy masterwork The Naked Kiss, and in the book corner a recent volume-length interview with the late director by Peter Tonguette, Picturin... Read more