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12th Annual Pickathon

KBOO is a proud media sponsor for the 12th Annual Pickathon at Pendarvis Farms, August 6th - August 8th. Listen Live on Saturday August 7th from 9AM-Noon on KBOO. This year's lineup is as follows: Bonnie Prince Billy & The Cairo Gang | Dr. Dog | Heartless Bastards | ... Read more

New Show

Great Show! Rose City Native Collective ROCKS! Read more

Under Our Skin, opens today at the Hollywood Theatre

Director: Andy Abrahams WilsonThis documentary about Lyme disease accomplishes the tricky feat of squeezing serious drama out of a rift in the medical industry. Disagreements in scientific philosophy don't normally make for thrilling cinema, at least not without a heavy ... Read more

Battle Royale with Cheese

For the Old Mole 16 April 2012 Jan Haaken and I review The Hunger Games, the first movie based on the first book in the popular Young-Adult trilogy by Susanne Collins, and still number one at the US box office. The story is set in a future version of North America, a ... Read more

96--TEXT--Festival Schedule for Brochure

NOTE TO KBOO WEBSITE READERS -- BROCHURE SCHEDULE NOT ATTACHED TO THIS EMAILJUST AN EARLY VERSION, NOW ALTEREDHi folks,I got some fresh air in the park and dove back in. Some write-ups are a bit altered and hopefully I have caught all the corrections. I have sent this ... Read more

Just who is steering this ship, anyways?

For much of this year, KBOO has operated without a Station Manager. In keeping with KBOO’s tradition of trying innovative ideas to address challenges, the board accepted a proposal by the staff to give collective management a trial run. Initially, we started out by appo... Read more

Music Library: New Jazz Releases July 8, 2014

Aardvark Jazz Impressions Leo Jason Ajemian Folklords Delmark Todd Bishop Travelogue Origin Mars 4-tet The Blind Watchmaker Summit Anthony Branker Th... Read more

Masters of the Universe, Redux

July 21, 2009 Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi gets to the heart of how one investment banking firm, Goldman Sachs, has engineered bubble after speculative bubble in the marketplace for years, always positioning itself to prosper in the wake of each disaster -- often at taxpa... Read more

Maude Barlow and FatherJohn Dear address the Rotary District 5100 2012 Conference

KBOO is a co-sponsor of the Rotary District 5100 annual District Conference and end-of-year celebration. The conference will be held May 18-20, in Newberg, Oregon on the campus of George Fox University. This gathering reflects the fact that Rotary International, with local... Read more

Five reasons to be frightened of Sarah Palin

1) She's a global warming denier.2) She thinks that God likes pipelines, (h/t Juan Cole)3) She has a whole lot in common with fundamentalists from other parts of the world.4) She's a liar.5) She believes the war in Iraq is God's work.And there's more, believe me. I di... Read more