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Mothers and Others: Alloparents and Commoning

For the Old Mole Variety Hour May 10, 2010. The well-read red likes to consider histories and holidays: Memorial Day, Columbus Day, and Easter , Queer Pride and International Women's Day. So, we've noted before, on the Old Mole, that Mother's Day, which began in t... Read more

Update on 'Programming Excellence' project

  Program Changes/Campaign for Programming Excellence May 2010 Report   Fall 07 – Spring 08 - Evening Music   ·         Edgier, more contemporary and/or has a younger audience: Electronica, hip-hop, indie, punk, experimental, dj sets and African-American culture, music and p... Read more

Arthel Lane Watson March 3, 1923 – May 29, 2012

 "A long steel rail and short rail tie are gonna carry me home..."  It was in the early '70s that I remember hearing Doc Watson singing "The Streamlined Cannonball" on one of the music shows on WFMT in Chicago - for whatever reason I employed it as a pacing tool when I ran C... Read more

25--CALL--Schwitter's Fairy Tales for further Audio--

Available only to those signed up as participants in Desolo Luna Vox Theatrum.  You can sign on to be on the email list by sending an email to DLVTheatrum@yahoo.com.     Read more

Press**Watch: Marines in the Suez/Polar ice melting/New Depression

Try these links: http://english.aljazeera.net/ http://rawstory.com/ US media, including Time magazine, are reporting that the US has two of its Marine carriers, the USS Kearsarge and USS Ponce, in the Red Sea, ready to attack Egypt. According to the pro-war and sometime ... Read more

NEW in KBOO music library November 17, 2014

Black Diet Find Your Tambourine Piñata Alt Rock Charlies Musiikia Elokuvasta Julisteiden Liimaajat Normal Alt Rock Dough Rollers, The Gone Baby Gone Third Man Alt Rock ... Read more

Two popcorn movies now open (July 9)

Predators Director: Nimrod Antal With: Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Laurence Fishburne, Walton Goggins, Oleg Taktarov, Danny Trejo, Louis Ozawa Changchien, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali A juiced-up remake of the 1987 sci-fi action flick Predator, notable mostly for th... Read more

7/27 - Joanna Macy speaks on Active Hope

KBOO is proud to sponsor Joanna Macy speaking on ACTIVE HOPE When: Friday, July 27, 7 p.m. Where: The Channing Room, Eliot Chapel First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th Ave., Portland Admission:... Read more

PICA - TBA 09 on Art Focus

Sean Ongley, fellow volunteer at KBOO, asked me if he could produce a small segment on the upcoming PICA/TBA festival. I said take the whole ball and run with it. So Sean will host Art Focus on September 2nd, talking with Kristan Kennedy, Erin Boberg, Cathy Edwards and Mike... Read more

Give!Guide Opportunity Ends Tonight!!!

KBOO's initial Give!Guide effort is looking promising... With only a handful of hours remaining in the 2008 GiveGuide, we're rapidly closing in on our goal...and with your donation, we will get there.  If you've put it off until now, remember that this is your last chance t... Read more