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KBOO News In Depth: David Koff and John Pirruccello

Airs at: Mon, 06/03/2019 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
For tonight’s News In Depth segment, we welcome back one of our favorite guests -- David Koff, Artistic Director of Portland’s Fake Radio. Portland is home to a thriving radio theater community, and Fake Radio is one of the very best! The troupe will be celebrating the 70th... Read more

Mr. Jones's Neighborhood - 2019 Waterfront Blues Festival Preview

Airs at: Fri, 05/31/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
It's the 5th Friday of the month, and the last one before Portland's annual Waterfront Blues Festival. Since Mr. Jones's Neighborhood airs only on the 5th Friday of the month, we're celebrating the festival a little early this year. As usual, KBOO will be live broadcasting... Read more

Lizzie Borden Audio

Airs at: Wed, 05/01/2019 at 8:00am - Fri, 05/31/2019 at 7:45pm
Produced for:  Lizzie Borden Audio
One of the greatest southern writers of all time as well as a Borden scholar in her own right, Miss King wrote an acerbic and entertaining essay while spilling all the inside info on the Borden clan. This essay was first published in 1992 and was recently re-released upon h... Read more

The Holy Crowley Hour on 5/27/19

Airs at: Mon, 05/27/2019 at 11:00pm - Tue, 05/28/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  The Holy Crowley Hour
Welcome to the special Memorial Day edition of The Holy Crowley Hour, the radio show for war criminals who have not been pardoned by the president. Not yet anyway. Our guest tonight has one of the best sci-fi podcasts in the known universe. Sarah Rhea Werner is the creator... Read more

Radio Lost & Found for 05/23/19

Airs at: Thu, 05/23/2019 at 10:00pm - Fri, 05/24/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radio Lost and Found
Earlier in the week, I'd received a memo telling me that scheduled maintenance on the station's servers might mean no web stream tonight, but happily, that was not the case. I tested it and everything - running the station's (40+ second delayed) web stream into the air room... Read more

Buscando America on 05/21/19

Airs at: Tue, 05/21/2019 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for:  Buscando America
A diez años del asesinato de Abraham Bojorquez escucha a Karen Torrente en Kronicas de Viaje sobre este lider cultural radialista y rapero aymara Ukamau y Ké. Lectura sobre la desilusión que conduce a la resistencia de Evo Morales una vez iniciada su campaña electoral, un t... Read more

Excerpts from "The Comedians" by Kilph Nesteroff, part 2

Airs at: Mon, 05/20/2019 at 11:00pm - Tue, 05/21/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
We continue with more readings from the book by Kilph Nesteroff, "The Comedians; Drunks, Thieves Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy" This month we cover the rise of Las Vegas and the change that comedy went through in the late 1950's with the work of Lenny Bruce ... Read more

The National Poetry Month show -- one month late!

Airs at: Mon, 05/27/2019 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Poetry and Everything
Tonight we're doing something different - now, in May, we're doing the show we created for National Poetry Month in the USA, which is April..... and we're doing that because the night we would have been on was given up to the important, exciting, valuable hours of programmi... Read more

Radio Lost & Found for 05/09/19

Airs at: Thu, 05/09/2019 at 10:00pm - Fri, 05/10/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radio Lost and Found
Brand new music by The Darts, we say sayanora to Michiro Endo of Japanese punk legends The Stalin, some crazed punk rawk of Lumpy & The Dumpers, perennial favorites Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, listen to Harry Dean Stanton as a Care Bear (really!), American Pie en Deutsche, a... Read more

Excerpts from "The Comedians" by Kliph Nesteroff

Airs at: Mon, 04/15/2019 at 11:00pm - Tue, 04/16/2019 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
A non-fiction presentation tonight as Fortunato reads a couple of chapters from Kliph Nesteroff's extensively researched, 2015 show business narrative, "The Comedians - Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy". Read more