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Laurie Mercier speaks with Amanda Frost, the David Massee Professor of Law and Director of the Immigration, Migration and Human Rights Program at the University of Virginia School of Law. They discuss how citizenship has always been contested and racialized in the United... Read more

  2025 marked the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by white supremacists that killed 168 people. The novel Low April Sun by Constance E. Squires, reviewed by writer and photographer Matt Witt, is set against that atrocity and show... Read more

     Today’s Folk Espresso show is an inviting 90 minutes of eclectic music prepared especially for Presidents’ Day on KBOO. The first half of the program stirs together wit, protest, and history through songs that circle the American presidency from many angles. Arlo Gu... Read more

Sound Collage, by any other name.   More information at: awphooey.com Read more

  On Sunday February 15th, 2026 we were very excited to interview “PURE COUNTRY” & Friends, Kellie (lead singer) & Ron (guitar player) at the Pondarosa Lounge & Grill – North Portland. When we say “Friends” Nashville recording artist Steve Wesley took the stage to sing ... 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

For the most part, this show consists of instrumentals. Surf. Ambient, Remixed, and some Dub Effects. Read more

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It's time to celebrate the month of ♡ Love ♡ by showing love and respect to the blues icon, the knuckle coupler between blues and rock n' roll Willie Mae Thornton a.k.a. Big Mama Thornton.  Read more