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For The Old Mole July 14 2008, we review WALL-E, the latest Pixar animation, also brought to us by Disney.   The title character is a lonely trash compactor, a Waste Allocation Load Lifter—Earth-class—the last operating robot on a desolate planet Earth, with mountains of... Read more

Walt Curtis Fire Fund

KBOO's own Walt Curtis, one of the hosts of Talking Earth, needs your help and support. Walt is an amazing part of the KBOO Community and Portland, OR. Walt lost nearly everything, including writings and artwork in a recent fire at the Great Northwest Bookstore in Lair ... Read more

KBOO Programmer Top Ten Lists of 2012

Our annual top ten lists by your hard working knowledgeable fun and talented Disc Jockeys of KBOO! These are listed by the order in which they were turned in, so make sure to keep checking back, as we add more lists to the list! Happy New Year! -- Jamillah, host of Guess... Read more

Sarcasm versus war

A serf is a feudal subject, as you know, not quite a slave but imprisoned in a system of exploitation.  Land owners also owned the labor of the people living on the land, so if you were a serf, you had to work at certain times of the year to get in the Master's crops, an... Read more

Grandma Aggie

Well, my feet are just about back on the ground after having Grandmother Aggie on Osiyo. She is WONDERFUL and I hope we can get interest up in supporting her and the Council of Indigneous Grandmothers... It costs 250K for the Grandmothers to meet every six months and our o... Read more

Lisa Loving named as Evening News Director

Hey friends--I am starting out the New Year with a new job -- KBOO Evening News Director. Yes I held this job many years ago, but times were different then. No one had heard of Facebook yet! Hard to imagine isn't it? Last year marked my 25th anniversary of volunteering at... Read more

99-102--CALL--email contained audio files of readings going out to musicians & audio artists--email list only

Audio files available only to those signed up on our email list.  Sorry.  You will be able to hear them during festival. Read more

Life During Wartime's Top Ten of 2010!!

So many great punk/hardcore platters and cassettes have been spit out this past year. Here's some of our Top Ten favorite new releases from 2010:         Erin- EDDY CURRENT SUPRESSION RING  -Rush to Relax FROZEN TEENS - Gas Money Demo KING LOUIE'S MISSING MONUMENTS – Black... Read more

MOVIE MUSIC SHOW 2/26/2012

COMING,,,TO A RADIO NEAR YOU...YES - IT'S ,IT'STHEMOVIE MUSIC SHOW !!!!!!!!!!!!That's right - starting this morning, Brian will bring to your ears----MUSIC!!!!(from movies).We will go back in time to highlightthe Academy Award winners in the musiccatagories - Starting wa... Read more

From Dancers to Novelist

 I spoke with three dancers at the Portland Project at Performance Works Northwest, an umbrella organization for some of the most skillfull dancers in Portland. Linda Austin started this venue ten years ago. She's joined on today's Stage and Studio with Anne Furfey and T... Read more