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Truth Demands

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Matt Witt reviews Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice, by lawyer, climate activist, and writer Abby Reyes.  Twenty years after Abby Reyes's partner, Terence Unity Freitas, was assassinated in Colombia while working with the ind... Read more

Oregon Book Awards finalist Miriam Gershow, author of Survival Tips (re-broadcast)

Airs at: Thu, 06/26/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
Our scheduled guest this week was Miriam Gershow, author of the new novel Closer from Regal House Publishing. But Miriam had to cancel due to illness. Hopefully, we’ll have her back for our next show in July. In the meantime, we’ll be playing an episode from March 2024, ... Read more

Miriam Gershow returns with new novel Closer

Airs at: Thu, 07/10/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's show, we welcome Miriam Gershow, author of the new novel Closer from Regal House Publishing. Miriam’s books include the novel The Local News and the story collection Survival Tips, which was a finalist for the 2025 Oregon Book award in fiction, an Independent ... Read more

Portland Jewish Hour

Airs at: Sun, 06/22/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Portland Jewish Hour
Music for summer and Pride with Liz Schwartz Read more

Films with an Asian theme today on Film at 11 for Friday, 27 June 2025

Airs at: Fri, 06/27/2025 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Two recent BFI Film Classics on Mikio Naruse's A Woman Ascends a Staircase and Wong Kar-Wei's In the Mood for Love.        ---------------------------------------------------------------     IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE     I’ve often wondered why the British Film Institut... Read more

More Jerry Lewis

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  The Monday Sampler
Fortunato returns with an excerpt from a history of Comedy about how Jerry Lewis tried to become the King of Primetime Television but only ended up killing one of the greatest TV shows of all. Read more

Pride Month

Produced for:  The Underground
The Youth Collective talks Pride for our June episode. Queer History, Music, Culture and Activism are all topics of discussion, for a fun and informative episode. Read more

A repeat of our episode on The Sinners for Friday June 20, 2025

Airs at: Fri, 06/20/2025 at 10:30pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Film at 11
A repeat of our episode on The Sinners in which KBOO's Rick Mitchell and Mona Bowen go deep into the film's music and mythology. Read more

Mike Vos

Airs at: Tue, 06/24/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
  On Tuesday, June 24, 2025, at 11.30 a.m., Joseph Gallivan interviews landscape photographer Mike Vos (pronounced VOSS) about his show “FRAGILE, TENUOUS WORLDS,” which is on now at Laura Vincent Design and Gallery through the end of July 2025.  Vos uses large format... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for June 23, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This episode explores American warmaking, remembers Dan Handelman, and reviews recent nonfiction. Old Mole episodes are prerecorded the week before airing.  Frann Michel hosts, and we hear these segments: Big Tech and Big War: On June 13th, the US Army swore in four si... Read more