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  Places to find food for those who lost SNAP benefits: (Compiled via Willamette Week, The Portland Mercury, Oregon Live, KGW)   OREGON FOOD BANK Searchable database of places providing hot meals, boxes of groceries, and other goods. Search by zip code Expect to call a... Read more

International Women's Day (March 8th) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. International Women's Day honors the work of the suffragettes, feminists, and pioneers who have fought for gender equality... Read more

Sea shanties and sea songs have been getting a lot of attention recently, partly because they are sturdy songs that can be sung with gusto. Any number of people can sing them together, and spontaneous harmonies just add to the richness of the singing experience. This epi... Read more

Patricia Kullberg hosts this International Women’s Day show which features a re-broadcast from Against the Grain. Whether it’s basketball, billiards, or table tennis, sports in the U.S are segregated by sex. And most of the time those divisions are taken to be natural, ... Read more

We often think of the Willamette River as a scenic backdrop for recreation, but for many, it is a site of "slow violence". On this episode of Locus Focus, Dr. Vivek Shandas of Portland State University explores how the harbor’s industrial legacy—a "toxic graveyard" of W... Read more

Fortunato returns with more music, and humor. Lots of great artists featured to day. Teddy Wilson, Herbie Mann, Coleman Hawkins, Kenny Burrell, Booker T Jones, Ray Bryant, Vince Guaraldi, Carl Perkins, Duke Ellington, Nan Wynn, Eddie Andrews, The Beatles, Dan Hicks and m... Read more

  This week on Prison Pipeline, co-host Emma Lugo brings listeners a roundup of important stories shaping the prison pipeline in Oregon and beyond. Tune in Monday, March 9 at 6:30 pm on KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM in Portland, or streaming online at kboo.fm. This week... Read more

On Tuesday, March 10, 2026, at 11:30am, Joseph Gallivan interviews Mike Rosen about The Spirit of Will Eisner, a retrospective on now at the Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts in the Pearl District. Rosen, who is the chair of the museum which opened in December 2025, talks ... Read more

This episode of Pastures of Plenty on March 11th will focus on folk music from  the 1960s: the mid-twentieth century folk revival. No new releases, just the old stuff, kinda like me.   The show opens with The Kingston Trio "Tijuana Jail" and ends with Odetta "900 Miles.... Read more

We have a special treat for you today, which just happens to be the 100th episode of Jonesy. Our guest is Elizabeth Heider, author of the new mystery novel Children of the Savage City from Penguin Books. The new book is the second in a series, featuring Nikki Serafino, w... Read more

Join us for Cascadia Coffeehouse this Friday morning when we'll celebrate the upcoming arrival of St. Patrick's Day with some Celtic-flavored favorites in the second half of the show, including from the legendary bands Solas (in concert at The Alberta Rose Theatre on Mar... Read more