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Spring has sprung, so the first half of the program celebrates spring, April, and April showers. Earth Day is April 22 so the program ends with a musical salute to our home planet. Featured artists include Tracy Grammer, Greg Brown, Show Ponies, T Sisters, Josh Ritter, ... Read more

This week on Century of Lies: #CND68 Part Two. The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs held its Sixty-Eighth Session in Vienna, Austria March 10 through 14. Over the next couple of weeks we’ll hear highlights from some of the side events that took place during the... Read more

Heavy Reggae Juggling featuring all kinds of styles & sub genres within the Reggae Diaspora✨ **Live & Direct**Mixxed to the Maxx** Read more

Join us for a special episode of Transpositive on KBOO! Tuesday, April 1st, at 6 PM, we welcome Rachel Crandall Crocker, founder of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV). Celebrated annually on March 31, TDOV is a day to uplift transgender people, highlight their contributions, ... Read more

  According to newly published research, opioid testing information was unavailable in half of injury death investigations in the U.S. in 2021 and in only about one out of ten unintentional overdose death investigations that were conducted that year. This at a time whe... Read more

The Portland Book Festival is not only our city’s biggest literary event, and one of the most popular on the entire West Coast, but a great way for local writers to meet and make connections. Our In Depth guests tonight, Dao Strom and Alicia Jo Rabins, are a case in poin... Read more

"Embrace Russia, Contain China? A Fool's Errand" Read more

James and Nate welcome Liz and Curtis from Montavilla's Board Bard Games. They talk about their first year and a half of business, the challenges of opening a new game store, and fostering a warm and welcoming community. Read more

War plans shared on a group chat. Tariffs for everybody. More and more firings of government employees. Alienation of longtime allies. Universities held hostage. More mass deportations. If only this were an April Fools joke -- but it ain't. Join Traci and Abe for the lat... Read more

Tune it for the last hour of César Chávez Day. We'll get heavy to mix of folk, punk and folk punk all revolving around themes of community, standing up for worker rights, critiquing our capitalist system.  Read more