Recent Audio

Joining me today is attorney, award-winning television personality and longtime women's heart health advocate, Star Jones. Star is here to discuss her journey as a survivor of heart disease and the launch of 'A Letter to My Mother' campaign, which encourages women to tak... Read more

Join us for an exploration of all the great queer music currently spinning at KBOO. Local queer band the Cabin Project, will be stopping by to share information about the Annual Queer Joy Celebration, benefiting SMYRC and sharing some of their favorite queer artists.   ... Read more

And it's just like any other day that's ever been. Today's show concludes my official tribute to the life work of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh.  Picking up where I left off last month, you can hear more obscure tunes either covered or revitalized by Phil in his solo wo... Read more

  Tune in to KBOO Community Radio for a Roots of Rock & Roll Tribute to Moms this Friday at 3pm with DJ Mike Fisher on 90.7FM Portland & KBOO.FM online.     We’ll belatedly celebrate Mother’s Day with tracks about mothers from Savoy Brown, Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Ca... Read more

Hey now, Phil G here. This week I am presenting the first of a two part special, the best of the recordings from New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest 2025. I was down there working for New Orleans' community radio station and also with the folks from JazzFestLive.com  I'v... Read more

KBOO's Rick Mitchell and Mona Bowen confer on the success of Ryan Coogler's Sinners.  Read more

Jan Haaken is a former nurse and psychology professor who taught at Portland State University from 1980 to 2011, and now works as a documentary filmmaker and radio programmer on the Old Mole Variety Hour, a weekly public affairs program on KBOO community radio. She rece... Read more

  On May 15th 2025 from 8 AM to 6 PM, KBOO presents Radio Free Palestine: a collaborative simulcast observing the 77th anniversary of the ongoing Palestinian Nakba and resistance to Israeli Apartheid. The broadcast will include discussions, speeches, music, poetry, and ... Read more

Host Glen Andresen and co-pilot Jim Gilbert are once again in the studio for a live show. We may not need supplemental water this week, but we will, and we have watering tips. Plus, there are myriad ways plants get pollinated, let's discuss. And Jim is always breeding pl... Read more

“Despite a wider freeze on refugees, Trump called on the U.S. to prioritize resettling Afrikaners, descendants of mostly Dutch early settlers, saying they were "victims of unjust racial discrimination." The granting of refugee status to white South Africans - who have rem... Read more