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Comics Take on the News and solve science

Airs at: Mon, 10/28/2024 at 10:00pm - Tue, 10/29/2024 at 12:00pm
Produced for:  Comics Take on the News
  Join us at 10 pm on Monday, Oct. 28th to hear just how informed the Portland comedian community and their friends are on current event in the Pacific Northwest. It almost certainly won't be educational or informative, but high hopes of it being fun. This month panel inc... Read more

Vera Brosgol - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 10/24/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  In the leadup to the 2024 Portland Book Festival, we revisit our January 2011 conversation with comics artist and animator Vera Brosgol. Vera drew on her own immigrant childhood for inspiration in creating the character of Anya, the haunted teenager at the heart of her d... Read more

Michael Keefe, author of All Her Loved Ones, Encoded

Airs at: Thu, 10/24/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's show, we welcome Michael Keefe, author of the new novel All Her Loved Ones, Encoded from Running Wild Press. Michael’s short fiction has appeared in Tahoma Literary Review, Thin Air Magazine, Summerset Review, among other journals. He’s also the Events Coordinato... Read more

Conventions With Cardner

Airs at: Tue, 10/15/2024 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Winner's Bias
James and Nate expand upon their convention discussion two weeks ago with Cardner of Panda Game Manufacturing. She just returned from the world's largest board game convention, Spiel Essen. Cardner's job has her attending various conventions and we're chatting about the dif... Read more

A 5th Monday Sampler Special

Airs at: Mon, 09/30/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato catches the bus down to the studio for a live show, with special guest, Late-Night KBOO DJ Stean Stewart. Also, a special story about comedian Jerry Lewis. As well as lots of special music.   Read more

James Went to PAX West!

Airs at: Tue, 10/01/2024 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Winner's Bias
James went to PAX West with some friends and did interviews with "everyone [he] could find" (two people). Nate and James discuss his experience at the convention and play interviews with Nick, half of the design team of the card game Roast: A Game of Marsh and Mallow, and T... Read more

Farewell to Portland Story Theater

Airs at: Thu, 09/26/2024 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
Since I started doing radio shows, I’ve featured storytellers. Those who tell their stories on the printed page or on a stage, through pictures or video, or entirely through sound, as we do on the radio. And in all that time, one of the very best has been Portland Story The... Read more

Fall Membership Drive Music Special

Airs at: Mon, 09/16/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns once again to help raise meembership with a music filled two hours. Also featured, an excerpt from tonight's Gremlin Time later this evening at 11pm on KBOO, which will present a chapter from Kliff Nestoroff's History of American Comedy. Featured musical a... Read more

A History of American Comedy:the origins of Las Vegas

Airs at: Mon, 09/16/2024 at 11:00pm - Tue, 09/17/2024 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
More excerpts form Kliph Nesteroff's History of American Comedy, The Comedians:: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy. This month we return to Kliff Nestoroff's exstensive history of American comey with a  look at the rise of Las Vegas as a center ... Read more

Talkin' Board Game Design With Brickhouse Games

Airs at: Tue, 09/17/2024 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Winner's Bias
Winner's Bias is very excited to welcome Rick and Mary Hou of Brickhouse Games to discuss board game design, playtesting, running your own Kickstarter, and any other matters of board game production that comes up. They have a beautiful new game called Northwest that is in i... Read more