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Thank You Once in a Boo Moon Event Sponsors

Once in a Boo Moon, held Saturday February 23rd at St. David of Wales Episcopal Church, was a huge success. Devoted KBOO fans listened to Henry & Moggy, The True Vine Ramblers, Don McLaren & His Fiddlin' Friends and Retta Christie & Her One Night Stand Band. The wonderfu... Read more

Interview With David Nelson of the New Riders of The Purple Sage Pt. 1

Hi folks, thanks for your patience. I interviewed David Nelson back in May of 2009 and KBOO broadcast a (as you will no doubt notice) heavily edited (by me, for time constraints, no other reason) on June 13 2009. Here is the full text of the first half of the interview (... Read more

Groundation

KBOO Presents Groundation Normal 0 Friday September 2, 2011 ((( The Wonder Ballroom ))) 21+ // 8pm // $20 with special guests Kevin Kinsella, Outpost & XactChange HiFi            “Building An Ark” Tour // U.S. Press Release            August & September // 2011       ... Read more

Thank You Pink Martini!

A huge KBOO hug of appreciation goes out to Pink Martini for pulling off a fabulous 4-night Fundfest extravaganza! Fundfest 2008 raised over $66,000 which will be split into a generous $16,000+ for each of the beneficiary organizations. Aside from KBOO, the other amazing... Read more

Board Meeting Monday June 28

Here is the board meeting agenda. Read more

Monsters of the Market reviewed

A shorter audio version of this review was broadcast on the January 7, 2013 Old Mole Variety Hour. Vampires and zombies abound these days in popular culture and in the culture of the market. In 2009, journalist Matt Taibbi famously dubbed the investment bank Goldman Sa... Read more

Praise Song Sitting in a Room

In response to a remix call-out on WFMU's Beware of the Blog, I submitted my version of Elizabeth Alexander's ill-advised reading of her poem Praise Song for the Day. There are so many cool versions of this poem there - my favorites are Fatty Jubbo's manic reading where... Read more

Voice in Action: Human Rights on Film

KBOO is a proud media sponsor for NW Film Center's Voices In Action: Human Rights on Film When: October 6th - November 9th Where: The Whitsell Auditorium at the Portland Art Museum, unless otherwise noted. While cinema provides entertainment and escape, for many filmmakers... Read more

64--TEXT/SITE--BRETON & TROTSKY & RIVERA's MANIFESTO

My Comrades, I will get to bed eventually tonight. I was sorting through material for tomorrow and suddenly thought that I might find this manifesto somewhere in the internet. And lo! I did at: http://marx.org/subject/art/lit_crit/works/rivera/manifesto.htm So ... Read more

Say Hello to our New Web Graphic Designer

KBOO's board has supported a visual redesign of our website.  To handle the task we've hired a graphic designer to assist in designing a new Drupal theme for our CMS website. We were happy to hire Kevin Fitzpatrick for the position, as he brings with him professional... Read more