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Abortion Access/Reproductive Health and Justice

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2020 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Poetry and Everything
This will be the last episode of Poetry and Everything for a while (or forever – we’ll see what happens).  The series – which opened in July of 2016, just a little while before this current phase of our national horrorshow began – will have run for 37 months by the end of J... Read more

Winter Film Events

Airs at: Thu, 01/09/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Local cinema programmers Greg Hamilton and Micah Vanderhoof offer up dark films for the dark winter months, with appearances by directors John Dahl and Julia Reichert, who are in town for retrospectives of their work.  John Dahl joins us on the phone to talk about his ca... Read more

Albina Jazz Festival 2018

sets and interveiws from the Albina Jazz Festival Read more

Amanda Clem interviews Ebenezer Galluzzo

Airs at: Tue, 01/07/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday January 7, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Amanda Clem interviews Ebenezer Galluzzo about his upcoming exhibition As I Am, a celebration of gender non-conformity and performativity, opening Friday January 10 at PCC Paragon Gallery.  Ebenezer is a gender nonconforming trans m... Read more

A House On Stilts by Paula Becker

Airs at: Mon, 01/06/2020 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  News In Depth, Evening News
Our In Depth guest today is Paula Becker, author of the new memoir A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction, from University of Iowa Press. The book tells the story of Paula’s son, Hunter -- raised in a close, supportive, and loving family – who later fa... Read more

BLIND at Chapel Theatre Collective

Airs at: Tue, 01/07/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae starts the new year off with the first of three shows featuring original works during the Fertile Ground Festival. Debuting before the festival is BLIND, the world premiere of Bonnie Ratner's new play produced by the Chapel Theatre Collective. We'll talk with Bonnie... Read more

End of the Year Show

Airs at: Mon, 12/30/2019 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Last show of the year for the Sampler. Fortunato filled the afternoon with lots of music. With some serious jam sessions, and a set of gypsy jazz. In the last hour, SW Conser and former KBOO volunteer Josh drop in to talk about Josh's travels in Asia, and Fortunato gives a ... Read more

INDIGIFI-Identity

Airs at: Tue, 04/28/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Stage and Studio
  Dmae Roberts presents the final episode of the 4-part series INDIGIFI-Definition of Resilience, a documentaries about Indigenous hip hop artists produced and hosted by Alexis Sallee of INDIGEFI and distributed by Native Voice One. This episode is called Identity” and it... Read more

Black Light by Kimberly King Parsons

Airs at: Thu, 01/02/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Kimberly King Parsons, author of the story collection Black Light from Vintage Books. Kim’s fiction has been published in The Paris Review, Best Small Fictions 2017, Black Warrior Review, No Tokens, Kenyon Review, and other journals. And her book ... Read more

Reading by Judith Arcana

Airs at: Mon, 12/23/2019 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Poetry and Everything
If you’ve been listening to “Poetry and Everything” regularly, or even now&then, you know that the past several months have included shows with various formats (that is, not what had been the standard in the first three years of the show). This one, too, is different, in bo... Read more