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Reel Music Festival 29

KBOO is a proud media partner for NW Film Center's Reel Music Fstival 29 When: October 7-October23 Where: The Whitsell Auditoruim at the Portland Art Museum - unless otherwise noted Our 29th Annual Reel Music Festival brings to the surface films that tell the creative, u... Read more

Bob Riddle/Rita Rega/Don Manning

The incomparable Don Manning,. long time host of "Bebop Spoken Here" on KBOO, has passed on Tuesday, September 9, 2014. We collectively owe a debt of gratitude to Don, as well as KBOO managers over these many years, for continuing the tradition of unique jazz hosts on KBOO. ... Read more

Dirty Burly Bitch Show - Dirty Queer benefit for Bitch Magazine

Dirty Queer is October 10th, but before that, join the lovely and talented sahara dunes, of Burly Girl Productions, and the dirty queer crew in throwing a benefit for bitch magazine! Together, we're bringing you the Dirty Burly Bitch Show, on Saturday, October 4th.Same g... Read more

Service for Hood River Broadcast Disabled Today

Our Hood River transmitter will be down from about 2 PM until 8 PM for engineering work. Read more

Tillicum Wawa with Cynthia King/News on Winnemem Wintu/Upcoming "Return Voyage" Event

What a great learning opportunity, speaking with Cynthia King, Native herbalist and owner of The Herb Shed! Her specialty is aromatherapy...at one point she sprayed cedar mist in the air room. The calming and balancing effects left us very relaxed. I thinks that could be... Read more

Bring on the World Cup

World Cup qualifying is back! For soccer nerds, this is the time you begin to salivate in advance of the World Cup -- which this time around will be played in South Africa next summer. It's the first time the tournament will have ever been staged in Africa, incidentally.... Read more

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

When the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan, one of the prominent justifications was liberating the people George W Bush called “women of cover” from the Taliban. Laura Bush told us in 2002 that “the fight against terrorism is also a fight for the right... Read more

Music Library: New Jazz Releases November 12, 2014

The Bad Plus Inevitable Western Okeh Alexis Cole A Kiss In the Dark Chesky Candido The Master Chesky Rene Fleming Christmas in New York Decca Bill Frisell Guitar in the Space Age... Read more

Voices from the Edge June 19, 2008

Voices from the Edge Real progressive talk radio Thursdays, 7:30 - 9 a.m. KBOO 90.7 FM Portland; 100.7 FM Corvallis; 91.9 FM Columbia Gorge This Thursday: Freedom of Speech and Civil Discourse - Must One Come at the Cost of the Other? Is the exercise of free speech destro... Read more

Mayer Hawthorne's Firsts Mixtape

I'm just can't get over this guy- I'm fully sprung. Here's why: Mayer Hawthorne grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, and vividly remembers, as a child, driving with his father and tuning the car radio in to the rich soul and jazz history the regio... Read more