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Women of Color Navigating Motherhood: Celeste Ng & Shanthi Sekaran

Airs at: Wed, 11/29/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  Sarika Mehta talks to two powerful writers about the intersections of parenting, gender and race.  Both Celeste Ng and Shanthi Sekaran write about the weight and potential of motherhood. Celeste Ng was a recipient of a Pushcart Prize in 2012 for her story Girls, At ... Read more

Shaping a Future: Life After Prison - Part 2

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On Sunday, October 29th 2017 nine individuals told their stories in a performance titled: Shaping a Future: Life After Prison. The performance was a culmination of  writing workshops sponsored by the Regional Arts and Culture Council. The project conceived of and organiz... Read more

Shaping a Future: Life After Prison - Part 1

Airs at: Mon, 11/27/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On Sunday, October 29th 2017 nine individuals told their stories in a performance titled: Shaping a Future: Life After Prison. The performance was a culmination of  writing workshops sponsored by the Regional Arts and Culture Council. The project conceived of and organiz... Read more

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Movie Moles Joe and Jan discuss the meanings for current viewers of the representations of family, gender, and capitalism in the 1947 holiday movie Miracle on 34th Street.  image via wikimediacommons   Read more

100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Airs at: Mon, 12/04/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Cecil and Celeste welcome literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr to KBOO.  Gates currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American ... Read more

Ep.11 Wild Mushroom Bisque

Airs at: Sat, 11/18/2017 at 3:45am - 4:45am
Produced for:  Peace, Love and Soup
Nov. 2017 -- It’s that time of year when the weather gets brisk, the leaves change color and Portlanders have one thing on their mind…   Wild Mushrooms!   On this month’s episode:   Cook / Renaissance man Saint James https://kboo.fm/media/61098-saint-james-show invit... Read more

The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria

Airs at: Mon, 11/20/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Intersections Radio
  Sarika Mehta talks to author Alia Malek about her memoir The Home That Was Our Country...about Syria's history and contemporary politics through stories of her own family from the NYT: "Alia Malek’s memoir, “The Home That Was Our Country,” is one of the finest examp... Read more

Shooting in Color

Airs at: Mon, 11/13/2017 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
  Intisar Abioto and Renee Lopez are two Portland photographers who are working to tell the stories of Black and Brown Portlanders through the brilliant images they create.   from theblackportlanders.com : My name is Intisar Abioto. I’m a writer, dancer, photographer, a... Read more

Hillsboro "Dreamers" Adjust to Life after DACA

Airs at: Thu, 11/09/2017 at 6:00pm - 6:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
When President Trump rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, it threw the futures of 800,000 young people in the US into uncertainty. The program was instituted in 2012 by then-President Barack Obama by executive order. It was based on prov... Read more

Hole Drummer Patty Schemel on Music, Life and Recovery

Airs at: Wed, 11/08/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Patty Schemel has led an eventful life in the Pacific Northwest, having been the drummer for the band Hole for much of the 90s and a member or founder of several bands since the year 2000. She will be at Powell’s City of Books tonight at 7:30, to join Sleater-Kinney drum... Read more