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  Cover photo by Anna Wilcox    KBOO Community Radio stands in solidarity with the ICE Out General Strike. We support the immigrant community today and every day, and condemn the gruesome and unlawful actions of ICE in Minnesota and across the country.   We will conti... Read more

  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

This week Jeff Godsil asks us to reconsider Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, while Britta Gordon is fascinated by Laura Citarella's  Trenque Lauquen, and Matthew of KBOO'S Gremlin Time digs into the very first feature films directed by Akira Kurosawa via a Criterion Collecti... Read more

This week, some folk, psych folk and indie rock.. Read more

Father and Son, Robert and Graham Parish, call a few audibles and attempt a flea-flicker or two in their monthly three-hour broadcast. To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Hour One features some of the best slow love songs in the history of country music. You’ll hear selections ... Read more

On this episode the Parsing Sound crew dims the lights and shifts the frequency to love. Join the crew from 10pm to Midnight as we pay homage to the legendary "Quiet Storm" legacy.   Read more

  Hosted by Frann Michel, this episode includes these segments: African-Americans and the Bomb:   When Dr. Vincent Intondi became interested in the African-American response to atomic weapons, he was told over and over again by various scholars that the Black community h... Read more

This legislative session, Senator Sollman is trying for the fifth time to bring 1700 acres of some of the best farmland in the world into the city's urban growth boundary. Each time it's for a different reason, but this time much of the land would likely go to data cente... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Daniel Peabody about Scultped Light at Elizabeth Leach Gallery     FROM THE PRESS RELEASE:    Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to continue Sculpted Light, a group exhibition featuring five artists, com... Read more

My friend and KBOO colleague Judith Arcana passed away in December at the age of 82. Judith was a poet, writer, teacher, radio host, and activist. Her work includes a biography of Grace Paley – Grace Paley’s Life Stories – the poetry collections What if your mother, 4th ... Read more

Please join me as I jump the gun on Women's History Month to feature some of the women of Country and Rock-A-Billy music.  The stress will be on the earlier days, 20s through 50s.  You'll hear some familiar voices and maybe some not so familiar voices.  It's my Valentine... Read more

NOTE THE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME On  Wednesday, February 18, 2026, at 6 pm, Joseph Gallivan interviews collage artists Kirk Read and Angela Morrow about the show “Now What Remains: A Portland Collage Exhibition,” which is on now at the Alberta Street Gallery through Feb 23... Read more

  At 4pm, we welcome four amazing contributors to Portland, Oregon, and Multnomah County, civic and community life. They will tackle the prevailing turbulent discourse, and narrative: Immigration and Federal ICE Agents; the impact, the chaos, and a runway towards re... Read more