Arts/Culture

2025 Pickathon is almost here

Produced for: KBOO

Big Names and Local Bands are ready to slay at 2025 Pickathon Big-name bands at Portland’s most unique music festival, 2025 Pickathon, include Portugal. The Man, Taj Mahal, Ocie Elliott, Julien Baker & Torres, and Haley Heynderickx. But Pickathon (July 31–Aug. 3 at Pen... Read more

Everybody Reads 2026

Airs at: Thu, 02/05/2026 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Black Book Talk

Everybody Reads 2026 celebrates Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s book, Lovely One. In addition to distributing 8,000 free copies of Lovely One through libraries and high schools, the library also offers a series of events related to the program. All are free to the pu... Read more

Book Mole: Thirsty Creek

Produced for: Old Mole Variety Hour

Recent history is full of examples of humans messing with nature in order to increase profits, only to cause lasting ecological damage that wasn’t taken into account. The mystery novel Thirsty Creek, by Portland lawyer and writer Jennie Bricker, reviewed by writer and... Read more

Collage show: Now What Remains

Airs at: Tue, 02/10/2026 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

On Tuesday, February 10, 2026, at 11.30 a.m., Joseph Gallivan interviews collage artists Kirk Read and Angela Morrow about the show “Now What Remains: A Portland Collage Exhibition,” which is on now at the Alberta Street Gallery through Feb 23. Read and Morrow talk abo... Read more

A mix of old and new for Film t 11, for Friday, 6 February., 2026

Airs at: Fri, 02/06/2026 at 10:30am - 11:00am

Produced for: Film at 11

This week Jeff Godsil asks us to reconsider Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, while Britta Gordon is fascinated by Laura Citarella's Trenque Lauquen, and Matthew of KBOO'S Gremlin Time digs into the very first feature films directed by Akira Kurosawa via a Criterion Collecti... Read more

Talking Warhammer With Chris Spizale

Airs at: Tue, 02/03/2026 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Winner's Bias

James and Nate talk about something they know very little about: Warhammer! They bring on Nate's friend to talk about what Warhammer is, the culture around it, and why most Euro games can't get on board with the game. Read more

Media and art we like

Airs at: Fri, 01/30/2026 at 10:00am - 10:30am

Produced for: Radiozine

First, Clark talks about different styles of dances. Then, Kiyan describes his favorite and least favorite characters in Superman. Finally, Em discusses why the TV show Stranger Things is meaningful to her. Read more

Repeat:

Airs at: Tue, 01/27/2026 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

On Tuesday, January 27, 2026, at 11.30 a.m., Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Carolyn Supinka about the show Designing Nature, which is on now at Portland Japanese Garden through February 23, 2026. The show explains the six distinct styles of Japanese gardens that deve... Read more