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New and Increased Donations are Matched in December at KBOO!

Double your donation and help us spread the good news about KBOO’s matching grants in December!! Click here to donate today-thank you! All donations from new donors and all increased annual donations from current members will be matched 1:1 by generous foundations... Read more

Meeting of the KBOO Board of Directors, 2010/08/23

Board and Staff Present: Chris Merrick, Erin Brand, Judy F, Jim Craven, Marty S, Becky C, Kurt, Louis, Ani, Ivonne, Maire, John M Public Present: Per F, Susan E, Glen O,Yvette M, Devin R, Paula S, Kathy B, Keller H, Alicia O 6-7:15 Closed Session 7:30 pm Check in Food Tha... Read more

Real Life Adventures in Live Remote Broadcasting

In our last episode you may remember our intrepid technical and air talent volunteers broadcasting live from remote locations such as the Occupy Encampment, the Waterfront Blues Festival, PDX Pop Now, The Q Center and Pickathon. We link back to the station using audi... Read more

Press**Watch: smash the mental handcuffs

Our minds have been tasered and handcuffed into a state of paralysis. We need to start breaking through the mental handcuffs before we can even begin to make progress against the ultra-greed class that is destroying this planet. Smash the tasers and snap the handcuffs ... Read more

Thanks Ed Goldberg and Ruth Kovacs

KBOO would like to wish Ed Goldberg and Ruth Kovacs well in their new adventures. Ed Goldberg We say good-bye to long-time KBOO volunteer, Ed Goldberg, who was the main force behind KBOO's Movie Talk program for 17 years. The show started in 1994 with Ed and his original... Read more

We Like Our Music Innapropriate, Thank You Very Much

Uptight parent sends her daughter to The Rock N’ Roll Camp for Girls and she’s shocked that she comes back with some decent music: A mother who sent her 8-year-old daughter to a Portland rock music-themed camp for girls says she is shocked by what she thinks is age-inap... Read more

Bread and Roses is Women History Month every Friday!

What? Is this really happening? I thought to myself: “Here is a fifty some year old man, sitting at my kitchen table, describing to me, without me prompting the conversation, the strong women who influenced the way he lives his life.” He spoke about his mother, his gran... Read more

Declare Your Candidacy for KBOO Board of Directors by July 30th!

KBOO MEMBERS: DECLARE YOUR CANDIDACY FOR A SEAT ON THE KBOO BOARD OF DIRECTORS! Deadline: July 30th at 5pm. Each September we hold our annual election to fill four three-year terms on our governing board. All KBOO members are welcome to apply. Deadline to decl... Read more

Best Worst Movie, opening today (9/10/10) at the Hollywood Theater

Best Worst Movie (Doc 2009) Director: Michael Stephenson In 1990, an Italian film crew came to a small town in Utah to create a horror film, working title Goblins. The result was eventually released as Troll 2, though it had nothing to do with Troll (1986). T2 has become... Read more

Thinking of the classics

On today's Stage and Studio, I talked with Connor Kerns and Debbie Hunter who have been running Quintessence Language and Imagination Theatre concentrating on the classics and Connor's original plays. They started in 2001 and it's been a labor of love for most of this d... Read more