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AAPI Heritage Live Broadcast

Airs at: Thu, 05/16/2024 at 5:00pm - 8:30pm
  On May 16th, we took a moment to celebrate and acknowledge Asian American Pacific Islander heritage.  We broadcast live from the annual fundraising event organized by APANO (Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon), held at Avenue, in Portland's Lloyd District.  This y... Read more

Music for a Cloudy Day

Airs at: Mon, 05/20/2024 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
The Sampler returns with lots of music for a busy afternoon. Featured to day will be wynton Marsalis, Rubin Blades, Chick Corea, Lee Wright, John Coltrane and even some Bob And Ray. So clean up the house, do the disnes, or read a book.  Read more

Film at 11 looks at a spate of new streaming shows and books for Friday, May 31, 2024

Airs at: Fri, 05/31/2024 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for Film at 11
      Mona Bowen joins us to discuss a spate of new streaming shows, including Dark Matter xxxx   , The Veil FX         , Shardlake,      Zzzzzz     and Under the Bridge. Xxxxxx   And we look at a new monograph  in the British Film Institute's Film Classics... Read more

Radnectar: Live in 1990 at the Julián Carrillo Auditorium; presentation of the 2024 LP: Atrás del Cosmos: Cold Drinks, Hot Dreams (1980)

Airs at: Mon, 05/20/2024 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for La Ruleta
Presentation of the recently released LP of the legendary recording by Atrás del Cosmos: Cold Drinks Hot Dreams. Originally released on a very limited edition cassette in 1980, we are very happy to play this remastered document of Mexican Free Jazz with Henry West on Saxoph... Read more

Dylan Raasch

Airs at: Tue, 05/21/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Art Focus
On Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews sneaker designer Dylan Raasch [PRONOUNCED ROSH] about the show Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks, which is on now at the Portland Art Museum until August 11.  Raasch is a former Artistic Dir... Read more

Portland Jewish Hour

Airs at: Sun, 05/19/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for Portland Jewish Hour
Featuring music for counting the omer. What's that, you ask? Tune in and find out! Read more

Blonde on a Bum Trip with Mikki Gillette

Airs at: Tue, 05/21/2024 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Transpositive PDX
Please join us on Tuesday, 21st at 6:00 pm for Transpositive PDX on KBOO Community Radio 90.7fm as we talk with playwright Mikki Gillette and actor Ruby Welch about "Blond on a Bum Trip" playing now at Reed Theater. "Blonde on a Bum Trip" is vibrant backstage comedy, the pl... Read more

Film at 11 celebrates Star Wars and the moth of May with Mike Russell and others, for 24 May, 2024

Airs at: Fri, 05/24/2024 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for Film at 11
Mike Russell joins us to discuss two new books in the British Film Institute's Film Classics series, one on Star Wars, the other on The Empire Strikes Back, geared to the latest Star Wars series The Book of Boba Fett. In addition, Jeff Godsil looks at the career of Sylvia S... Read more

Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe in Murder My Sweet

Airs at: Mon, 05/20/2024 at 11:00pm - Tue, 05/21/2024 at 12:00am
Produced for Gremlin Time
Tonight the bedtime radio show for grownups presents the Lux Radio Theater adaptation of the 1944 RKO Pictures production of Raymond Chandler's 1940 detective novel Farewell My Lovely. Retitled as Murder My Sweet,. Dick Powell sheds his pretty boy image of the previous deca... Read more

GLAAD it's Queer Awards Season

Airs at: Sat, 05/18/2024 at 10:00pm - Sun, 05/19/2024 at 12:00am
Produced for Queery
May 2024 saw the 35th GLAAD Media Awards and the 67th Eurovision Song Contest, providing a lot of opportunity to explore up and coming queer artists!    The GLAAD Media Awards began in 1990, representing content created in 1989. It is the longest running US awards show fo... Read more