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

Julio Appling joins All My Greatest teachers Showed Me Love

Airs at: Wed, 01/21/2026 at 10:00am - 11:00am
If you want to get a hold of Julio you can find him at: www.julioappling.com Need a counselor? Please reach out and find help at foragewellnesscollective.com Or email Xan:  xan@kboo.org   Read more

Getting Biological With Fascinary Games

Airs at: Tue, 01/20/2026 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Winner's Bias
James and Nate welcome Gina and Christa of Fascinary Games to talk about their game Mate: The Part Game for Feral Naturalists. We talk about turning animal mating habits into a game, creating a game using the concepts of Universal design, and how you know when you're don... Read more

Mimi Pond

Airs at: Thu, 01/22/2026 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Mimi Pond is an author, humorist, and award-winning cartoonist who’s written for newspapers, magazines, and television shows such as Designing Women and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.  Her graphic novels include Over Easy, The Customer Is Always Wrong, and most recently Do Admi... Read more

Radio Noir starring Edward G. Robinson and Jack Webb

Airs at: Mon, 01/19/2026 at 11:00pm - Tue, 01/20/2026 at 12:00am
Produced for Gremlin Time
Featured tonight are Two Classic Radio Dramas. First aired in 1949, Edward G. Robinson stars in this episode of the CBS Radio series Suspence adapted from the film noir classic Night Has A Thousand Eyes.  The original story, by Cornell Woolrich, follows a young couple de... Read more

Musical Grooves For A Winter's Day

Airs at: Mon, 01/19/2026 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for The Monday Sampler
Fortunato presents a selection of music to round out your afternoon. Featuring Marvin Gaye, Esperanza Spalding, Issic Hayes, Grover Washigton Jr, Jimmy Cliff, Lee Morgan, Carmen McRae, Mel Brown, and more. Read more

Cai Emmons' posthumous novel The Bells with her husband Paul Calandrino

Airs at: Thu, 01/22/2026 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for Jonesy
I had the great pleasure of interviewing Eugene-based writer Cai Emmons five times for KBOO, before she ended her life, through Oregon’s Death With Dignity program, in January 2023. Cai was diagnosed with bulbar onset ALS in early 2021, at the age of 70. It’s a debilitat... Read more

Derf - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 01/08/2026 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  In this 75% longer conversation with graphic novelist Derf Backderf, we dive deeper into Derf's origins as a student journalist; his immersion in Ohio's underground music scene, which inspired the book Punk Rock and Trailer Parks; and his popular alternative comic The... Read more

Portland Japanese Garden

Airs at: Tue, 01/13/2026 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Art Focus
On Tuesday, January 13, 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