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The new poll tax

The great Rachel Maddow on the modern poll tax: (still working on embedding video. Watch it anyway, foo!) (H/T, Pandagon) -A Read more

List of Regular Readings in Portland Area

List of Regular Readings in Portland area EVERY MONDAY:: The “Show and Tell Gallery” series hosts Featured Readers at 7 PM, & an OPEN MIC Reading at 8 PM at at Three Friends Coffee House, 201 SE 12th Avenue, Portland EVERY TUESDAY: In Salem: OPEN MIC reading a... Read more

New Releases, March 1, 2012

List of releases we've added to the KBOO Library the week of March 1st, 2012 ARTIST TITLE LABEL GENRE Sigman, Alexander Nominal / Noumenal Carrier New/Experimental Brass Tax Brass Tax Album Neurotic Yell Rock Cousins, Rose We Have Made a Spark... Read more

Portland police tackle racial profiling...again

People of color continue to be stopped and searched by the police than other Portlanders. Racial profiling has not abated according to a draft 36-page report released February 18 by Portland Police Bureau Chief Rosie Sizer. The report, long awaited by the community, outl... Read more

The Naked Truth: Body image, Photoshop, and Other Adventures in Advertising

KBOO is a proud media sponsor of The Naked Truth: Body image, Photoshop, and Other Adventures in Advertising, an intergenerational forum What: Take part in an interactive community forum with several panelists who are experts in media, advertising, and gender. Where: Uni... Read more

Board Candidates’ Statements 2014

The candidate statements have been printed as submitted. Neither the KBOO Nominating Committee nor the Board of Directors vouch for the accuracy of the information contained within them. Kathleen O’Brien HI. I'm a woman with language talents and creative ideas, who is... Read more

RIAA To Shift Tactics

Interesting notes on the RIAA and their War on Us: "Peace in our time" - 10 years later the music industry's highly controversial strategy of suing individuals for illegal file-sharing has come to an end, wants ISPs to adopt a three-strikes policy. I've read the article ... Read more

new [bluegrass] in music library June 1, 2012

Aldridge, Darin & Brooke So Much In Between Mountain Home Bluegrass Balsam Range Trains I Missed Mountain Home Bluegrass Big Country Bluegrass Open for Business Mountain Home Bluegrass Boxcars, The All In Mountain Home Bluegrass Brant, B... Read more

Jon Kretzu on Directing & Occupy Art

Tuesday Nov. 15th 11am on Stage & Studio, Dmae Roberts sits down with Associate Artistic Director Jon Kretzu of Artist Repertory Theater. Jon is in his 19th season with ART, where he has directed over 40 productions for the company. He tours the set of his latest pro... Read more

against work

The well-read Red has been reading about working and about not working. With unemployment rates in the US hovering around 16 percent, we might take to heart comments from French activists protesting changes in unemployment law some years ago. Taking a page from the Situ... Read more