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Live Bands July and August

Here's the schedule for the Live Bands upcoming here on Life During Wartime: June 20 PRF... Mike, Seve, Andre, Aidan, and Wolfgang are about to take their Portland Hardcoregon sound over to Europe! We get to enjoy them one more time before they're all "refined". http://w... Read more

Review of "Avatar: The Last Airbender" now playing

The Last Airbender (3-D) Director: M. Night Shyamalan With: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel, Aasif Mandvi, Shaun Toub Note: This movie has nothing to do with Avatar by James Cameron. This is a film with many problems and few virtues. First, the 3-D... Read more

Review of "The Burning Plain," opening Sept. 25 at Cinema 21

The Burning PlainDirector: Guillermo ArriagaWith: Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Joaquim de Almeida, Jennifer Lawrence, J.D. Pardo, Jose Maria Yazpik, Tessa IaAt first, I thought this would be another Crash, unconnected lives intersecting in a contrived and coincidental ... Read more

NEW in KBOO music library March 31, 2014

Creative Adult Psychic Mess Run For Cover Alt Rock DVA Nipomo Northern Spy Alt Rock Jiles Band Toxic Waste Self Released Alt Rock Liars Mess Mute ... Read more

KBOO Give!Guide Momentum Surges...

...passed $10,000!! YAY!! But you can still join in. DONATE NOW Since Monday, dozens of wonderful listeners have donated thousands to KBOO via the Give!Guide. Today's pace is even faster and with your help we can exceed last year's total. Huge thanks to all our Give... Read more

Welcome

Hello, Welcome to my blog. Here you will find imformation related to my programs in the near future! Thanks, Scott Forrester Read more

Winnebago Man, now at Cinema 21

Winnebago Man (Doc 2009) Director: Ben Steinbauer This is about Jack Rebney, an unwitting star of underground VHS tapes and, inevitably, YouTube. While it is the simple tale of a man (Steinbauer) who merely wants to meet the guy demonstrating Winnebago RVs in a 1988 indu... Read more

"In Search of Beethoven," now at the Hollywood Theater (Nov. 20)

In Search of Beethoven (Documentary)Director: Phil GrabskyWith: Emanuel Ax, Ronald Brautigam, Sir Roger Norrington, etc.In 2006, Grabsky gave us In Search of Mozart. I was not particularly impressed, finding the documentary dry, academic and dull, exactly nothing like M... Read more

More Orange

For the 23 June 2014 Old Mole Variety Hour, Iven Hale and I review season two of Orange is the New Black. Alas, season two has the problems we noted in season one, and lacks some of the compensating virtues. It continues downplaying the problem of sexual violence, for in... Read more

Battle: Los Angeles, now playing

Battle: Los Angeles Director: Jonathan Liebesman With: Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, etc. I suppose it’s okay for a movie to borrow from other sources, as original ideas seem to be at a premium these days. (Recalling that mediocre artists borrow, and great artists s... Read more