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Conversations with Ender Black

Broadcast throughout the galaxy as part of the ongoing Protocols of Galactic Interaction with our planet. -- Ender has been part of the KBOO community as a segment producer and collaborator since 2014, and since 2017 he's been DJing and producing Squirrels Know, aired every... Read more

Bill Ayers & Ryan Alexander-Tanner - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 06/25/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  During the presidential campaign of 2008, Weather Underground co-founder and Distinguished Professor of Education Bill Ayers teamed up with cartoonist Ryan Alexander-Tanner to adapt Bill's groundbreaking education textbook into comics form.  The result is To Teach: The J... Read more

Art Talk Bus Stop: Episode 5 with Sarah Farahat

Airs at: Wed, 06/24/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Art Talk Bus Stop
Art Talk Bus Stop is a serial 30-minute podcast produced by a group of students and educators based out of Reynolds High School in Troutdale, OR, just outside of Portland. The students are enrolled in the Reynolds Gallery of Contemporary Art (RoCA), where they learn profess... Read more

The Monday Sampler presents Rebecca

Airs at: Mon, 06/22/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
A special radio drama today, with more music to help you through another locked down Monday afternoon. An encore presentation of Daphne Du Maurier 's Rebecca starring Ida Lupino, Ronald Colman and Judith Anderson. Read more

Kristin Derryberry talks to Ariana Jacobs and Mac McFarland about Congress Yard Projects,

Airs at: Tue, 06/23/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday June 23 at 11.30 a.m. Kristin Derryberry talks to Ariana Jacobs and Mac McFarland about Congress Yard Projects, a community project.  This DIY exhibition space is focused on local artists in the time of COVID-19. The current show "emBEINGbodies" includes Onyx And... Read more

Portland Jewish Hour

Airs at: Sun, 06/21/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Portland Jewish Hour
Music for Father's Day, Pride, and Black Lives Matter, hosted by Liz Schwartz. Read more

Catching Up! Film at 11 on 26 June 2020

Airs at: Fri, 06/26/2020 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
This week the team catches up with films new and old, including current political films such as Wasp Network and Mr. Jones, and older films such as Charles Burnett's My Brother's Wedding, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise, and the comedy A Thousand Clowns.  Read more

Dub's St Johns & Cason's Fine Meats

Airs at: Wed, 06/17/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Food Show
On today’s show we’ll hear interviews with the owners of two long standing Portland black owned businesses - Dub Travis of Dub’s St John’s and Theotus Cason of Cason’s Fine Meats. First up, we have Chris Siegel’s August 2017 Food Show interview with Chef Dub Travis. Dub ta... Read more

Juneteenth Special: a conversation with N.K. Jemisin

Airs at: Fri, 06/19/2020 at 10:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Juneteenth Special
  N.K. Jemisin is the first black writer to win Science Fiction & Fantasy's most prestigious prize, the Hugo Award, for best novel.  And Jemisin is the first writer ever, in the history of the genre, to win the Hugo Award for best novel three consecutive times.  She has be... Read more

A Two Hour Special with National Book Award winning poet Nikky Finney

Airs at: Thu, 06/18/2020 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years of black American life. National Book Award winner Nikky Finney’s fifth collection contains lighthouse poems, narrative hotbeds, and tre... Read more