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Earth Day: The circle of life-- Earth Day renewal

City Repair’s Earth Day Portland 2012 is going to be amazing this year! This free admission event will be from 11 am - 6 pm on Sunday, April 22nd at the PCC - Cascade campus on 705 N. Killingsworth, just blocks from the MAX yellow line and right on the 4 and 72 bus line... Read more

8/24 Benefit for 5-year-old Harry Strong and Family

KBOO is a proud sponsor of a benefit for 5-year-old Harry Strong and family Mt Scott-Arleta Community Pulls Together to Help the Family of a Child Critically Injured by a Careless Driver When: Friday, August 24th, 8pm Where: ... Read more

Benefit at the Hollywood Theater, Sept. 5 at 6PM, featuring a film with Walt Curtis

Salmon PoetDirector: Sabrina GuitartWith: Walt Curtis, GuitartA visually beautiful plea/prayer to save the world by saving the rivers and the salmon.  Walt’s goofy and serious sides are well exhibited here, along with nice music and views of the Columbia Gorge and variou... Read more

Tiny Furniture, now open at Cinema 21 (12/31/10)

Tiny Furniture Director: Lena Dunham With: Dunham, Laurie Simmons, Grace Dunham, Jemima Kirke, Alex Karpovsky, David Call Aura (L. Dunham) has finished college and her boyfriend has finished with her.  She goes home to a huge apartment in Manhattan, to live with her mot... Read more

Happy First Anniversary to Rose City Native Radio!

About a year ago, I met Jackie Malstrom in an Intro to Audio Production class I was teaching. I offered to help her and Paul Rolland to get a Native program rolling and on April 10th this year we will be celebrating the 1st Anniversary of Rose City Native Radio, hosted, ... Read more

Celebrating the Spirit of Dave Carter

Today's show was about celebrating the life and music of one of my favorite singer songwriters--Dave Carter who died unexpectedly on July  19, 2001.  I was at the Vancouver Folk Festival in Vancouver BC (which had been a 10+ year summer pilgrimage every year, the highlig... Read more

Bob Mould - The Descent - filmed in Portland

 In honor of Bob Mould's show at the Wonder Ballroom tomorrow night, here's a cut from the new album Silver Age, with a video filmed in Portland. Enjoy! Read more

A day of Culture + the Oregon Biennial

The Oregon Cultural Trust has given a grant to Disjecta to produce the (now rather homeless) Oregon Biennial. It has been named Portland 2010. We will have Cynthia Kirk from the Trust, Bryan Suereth from Disjecta and Cris Moss the curator as our guests. Kirk will also ta... Read more

Portland Y.O.U.T.H. Summit

KBOO is a proud media sponsor the 2011 Portland Y.O.U.T.H Summit When: February 11th & 12th, 2011 10:30AM Where: Portland State University Since February of 2007, Portland community members along with National guest speakers have hosted the Annual Youth Summit for youth in... Read more

KBOO Working to Create new Mission and Vision Statements!

KBOO Strategic Planning Support Work Group, board and staff are leading a process to create a new mission and vision statement for KBOO.  KBOO does not have an official mission statement - we have our Programming Charter, but not a mission statement! (See the section bel... Read more