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KBOO's 2025 Inauguration Statement and Resources

To everyone in our Beloved Community,   In light of the inauguration, the slew of executive orders, and the rise of misinformation in the United States, we here at KBOO are committed to continuing our legacy as an alternative to mainstream media. We have a duty to serv... Read more

The Continuing Struggle to Stop NEXT at Port Westward

Airs at: Mon, 07/21/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Locus Focus
For years the fossil fuel industry has set its sights on Port Westward, just outside Clatskanie, Oregon, where there is a small industrial park along the Columbia Estuary. Port Westward has very little industrial development on what is primarily highly productive agricul... Read more

Building Bridges Inside and Out

Airs at: Mon, 07/21/2025 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli interviews Danny Wilson and Tracy Schlapp with Bridgeworks Oregon. Bridgeworks Oregon partners with individuals and groups to run programs that focus on well-being and education by using art, music, and cultural awareness to bridge societal divisions in O... Read more

Walt Curtis reads Jack London

Airs at: Mon, 07/21/2025 at 11:00pm - Tue, 07/22/2025 at 12:00am
Produced for Gremlin Time
Tonight we honor the passing of long time KBOO on air host Walt Curtis of The Talking Earth. Ten years ago I brought Walt into the studio to record him reading a story by Jack London called Hobos That Pass In The Night. About London's own years riding the rails looking f... Read more

2025 Recent Grads Show

Airs at: Tue, 07/22/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Art Focus
  On Tuesday, July 22, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan talks to artists about the Recent Grads show at Blackfish Gallery in the Pearl District, a show of works selected by college professors to showcase some outstanding young artists coming out of Oregon colleges ... Read more

Radical Romance

Airs at: Wed, 07/23/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Radical Romance
We interviewed a nesting pair with no shortage of poly experience.  They've had wild ups and downs, and history in the "companion" industry, which can they laugh about.  Come on in; the water's fine. Read more

Lidia Yuknavitch, author of the new memoir Reading the Waves

Airs at: Thu, 07/24/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for Jonesy
On today's episode, we welcome back Lidia Yuknavitch, author of the new memoir Reading the Waves from Riverhead Books. Lidia’s the nationally bestselling author of the novels Thrust, The Book of Joan, Dora: A Headcase, and The Small Backs of Children, which won the 2016 ... Read more

New and old and two Criterions on Film at 11 for Friday July 25th, 2025

Airs at: Fri, 07/25/2025 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for Film at 11
This week Jeff Godsil joins us to discuss the film noir Cry Danger, as well as Ari Aster's new "state of the nation" tale  Eddington. In addition we have reviews of two recent Criterion releases, Anthony Mann's Winchester '73 and Jean Eustace's The Mother and the Whore.  Read more