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Texture ~ A Flood Clothing Fashion Event

KBOO is a proud media sponsor for Texture A Flood Clothing Fashion Event! To celebrate my 7th year in business I am throwing my first ever complete fashion show! Texture is comprised of 6 different collections, 35 total looks that are inspired by my take on the different... Read more

New in KBOO Music Library June 7, 2012

Soul Union    Natural Accord    Self-released    Africa [contemporary, USA] Bluefields Project    Caribbean Taste    Bluefields Sound    Afro-Caribbean Cawibe    Musica joven de la Costa Atlantica    Bluefields Sound    Afro-Caribbean Jumbalassy    Self-titled    Self-re... Read more

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

Review of Double Take, now at The Hollywood Theater (10/22/10)

Double Take (2009) Director: Johan Grimonprez With: Ron Burrage, Mark Perry Not quite a documentary, not quite a work of fiction.  More like a meditation on the Cold War as seen through a fictional version of Alfred Hitchcock, his work in movies (especially The Birds) and... Read more

Mic Crenshaw's Afrikan Hiphop Caravan Blog

Where did you go? I started in Cape Town South Africa, then went on to Harare Zimbabwe, Arusha Tanzania and Nairobi Kenya. Who were you with? I was hosted by local  Hip Hop Collectives in each city. I also traveled with an artist from Cape Town named Mkhululi Khusta S... 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

UPCOMING EVENTS !!

*****************************************************************************8 Friday June 3rd,  2011   *SKATALITES*                                  DANTE'S  PORTLAND Thursday June 9th         *DANNY I & ABJA*                 TED'S (formerly Berbati's Pan) PORTLAND Fri,... Read more

New Jazz Releases, July 31, 2012

KBOO Jazz Tracking 7/31/12 Randy Crawford/Joe Sample                Live            PRA Records Anna Estrada                            Volando            self prod Kelly McCarty                        Roux Steady        Offsuit Kat Parra                las adventuras d... 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

Haiti: Disaster: Capitalism

A briefer audio version of this was broadcast on the Old Mole Variety Hour January 18, 2010. The Well-read Red has been reading up on Haiti. As many in the progressive press have noted, last week's earthquake was a natural disaster made much more disastrous by the poli... Read more