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 Hound Dog - Big Mama Thornton Chinese Laundry Blues - Ralph Shaw; a double entendre hit for British movie & stage star, from the 30's thru the 50's, the one & only - George Formby. Halimuhfack - Zora Neale Hurston; Zora was a part of the 'Harlem Renaissance' of the 20's... Read more

This Friday, Sept. 9 at 9:30 AM Eastern, the House Labor, HHS Appropriations Subcommittee is scheduled to mark up its spending bill.  This is the Subcommittee that decides on Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding.  Subcommittee members are listed below. If one of t... Read more

I’ve been thinking about zombie movies, of which the twenty-first century has seen a resurgence. The zombie movie database lists nearly 1600 films since the year 2000, though that includes shorts, tv shows, and direct to video releases. Still, many of those have been q... Read more

At the December board meeting, volunteers raised concern that I am not familiar with the laws regarding open meetings.  It was suggested that the board look to ORS Chapter 192.610-192.690.   http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/192.html   However, as I have communicated to s... Read more

This past Sunday, KBOO's Station Navigator, Lynn Fitch pre-empted regular programming for 15 minutes to deliver an address to all listeners which contained an ambitious membership, outreach and awareness building campaign for this Summer.If you care about KBOO, please gi... Read more

The Boys are BackDirector: Scott HicksWith: Clive Owen, Nicholas McAnulty, Emma Booth, Laura Fraser, George MacKayWith antecedents in Kramer vs. Kramer and Ghost, this movie contrives to tug heartstrings and jerk tears.  Joe (Owen) is a sports writer in Australia whose w... Read more

An Interest in Life: GRACE PALEY Grace Paley, one of this country's most honored and best loved writers, died on August 22, 2007. Her commitment to antimilitarism, environmentalism, feminism and antiracism was inseparable from her stories, essays, and poems. CELEBRATE GR... Read more

Our new MP3 webstreams are now online!  We've been testing them out the past week and everything seems good so far, but we'd love for others to join in and give some feedback.  You can find the links on our "listen" page here: http://www.kboo.fm/listen.  The MP3 streams ... Read more

 Beal, Willis EarlNobody Knows.HXCAlt RockBody/HeadComing ApartMatadorAlt RockCallahan, BillDream RiverDrag CityAlt RockCase, NekoThe Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, the More I Love YouAnti-Alt RockClubfeetHeirs and GracesSelf ReleasedAlt RockGo... Read more