Soul, one of KBOO's Out Loud volunteer producers, is hosting a KBOO fund raiser in the form of a mini-workshop.  He needs our help in packing Liberty Hall with up to 145 people next Sunday from 12:45 - 3 p.m.

Two events in one afternoon:

It's especially busy at KBOO in the next few weeks. We've got the Martin Luther King Day events, including a day-long live broadcast from some of the festivities. We've also got the very important KBOO Community Meeting which I wrote about previously as well as our special one-day on-air fundraising day, "No Beginning Too Small" on January 31. (More on that next week).

But what I really want to write about here today is two wonderful volunteers who have taken it upon themselves to do their part to help KBOO raise some cash:

It was a joy to interview Lipstick & Dipstick in the KBOO studios last week. We laughed alot. This duo has chemistry that cannot be denied! Their new book is hilarious!

To hear their stories, enjoy their humor, and learn from their advice, catch them at these Portland area events:

Jan 22 at 7:30 pm at Powell's Books (1005 W Burnside) for an interactive book reading

Jan 26 from 5 to 9 pm Hot Flash Dance at Barracudas (9 NW 2nd Ave) They will be emceeing the party, reading and signing books (more.....)

In 2007, the KBOO Evening News and Public Affairs Department has built up a large pool of ‘citizen reporters’ through a new training program, as well as developing a number of special programs.

We have greatly increased the number and quality of locally-produced news segments for daily newscast, and now have over fifty contributing reporters.

Trainings that have been developed through the PM News Department include:

Newsroom Orientation

News Production

Writing for Radio

Community Reporting

Interviewing

Field Recording

KBOO LISTENERS, MEMBERS, VOLUNTEERS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS
~ Express yourselves! ~
 
Join us for a
KBOO Community Meeting
Saturday, January 26
1 - 4pm
Liberty Hall, 311 N. Ivy Street, Portland
Contact us for more information
Toni - 503 231 8032 x206

Coalición de  Derechos Humanos:

http://www.derechoshumanosaz.net/

National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights:

http://www.nnirr.org/

The Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Rights:

http://www.centerforhumanrights.org/

My goal is to produce sonic art that allows for a general expansion of viewpoint

--say what?

--close your eyes and listen

--what do you see?

I slowly peel back the layers-mysterious that encompass the knowledge and experience necessary to git where I'm a'wanting to go,

but then ain't that what its all about?

mitakuye oyasin

Rascho

For my first blog entry I would like to introduce myself. My name is Sean Ongley and I've been with KBOO for about 1 and a half years. Currently I'm acting as an instructor for digital audio editing and production, talent booking, board operator, and arts reporting. My next reporting project is the Portland Jazz Festival. Recently I booked the annual Boo Bash at Holocene, 2007, and I continue finding talent for Jennifer Robin's Night of the Living Tongue experimental music/spoken word show. I got my start with Blues Fest as on site board operator for our annual remote broadcast. I was educated in audio engineering at Sound Master Audio/Video Institute in North Hollywood, 2002 under Brian Ingoldsby. But I'm also a musician studying at PSU, locally known mostly in avante-garde circles.

Have you heard? Lipstick & Dipstick are locals & they're also well known to women around the world!

They'll be hosts for the L Word season preimiere Sunday Jan 6th at the Bagdad Theater 

Voted the #1 column in CURVE in a recent reader's poll, Lipstick & Dipstick give punchy advice to the lesbian community, a measured blend of guidance, wit and sincerity from the femme and the butch perspective.

This is the song i nominate for best song of 2007.  Sometimes music can change the world....sometimes it can speak truth to power. You might wanna google him and check out the song itself on a variety of sites including You Tube. Have a wonderful new year and thanks for listening!

No, Surrender by Justin Currie

lyrics below:

Big Macs for the fat, lo-cal wraps for the call centre battery hens,