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

Black History and Future Month

---- Join KBOO throughout the month of February to hear programs from Black creatives, artists, activists, revolutionaries, KBOO hosts, musicians and more! These specials aim to celebrate all aspects of the Black lived experience - from contemporary political and socia... Read more

Once Upon a Time

Airs at: Fri, 02/13/2026 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Produced for: Once Upon a Time

Rebecca Knuth, a professor at the University of Hawaii and an expert on censorship and cultural destruction, authored Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the 20th Century. After retiring in 2014, she moved to London and immersed herself ... Read more

Animation for the People

Airs at: Thu, 02/26/2026 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

For nearly a century, the National Film Board of Canada has been a celebrated source of experimental and educational filmmaking, most notably animation. NFB directors have won hundreds of awards, including multiple Oscars, and become legendary for their versatility, ... Read more

Collage show: Now What Remains (repeat)

Airs at: Tue, 02/24/2026 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

On Tuesday, February 24, 2026, at 11:30am, Joseph Gallivan interviews collage artists Kirk Read and Angela Morrow about the show “Now What Remains: A Portland Collage Exhibition,” which was on at the Alberta Street Gallery through Feb 23. Read and Morrow talk about wh... Read more

Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain: Santa Sangre; Fando y Lis

Airs at: Mon, 02/23/2026 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm

Produced for: A Different Nature

Sidney Morrison, author of Frederick Douglass: A Novel (re-broadcast)

Airs at: Thu, 02/26/2026 at 10:30am - 11:30am

Produced for: Jonesy, Black History and Future Month

On today’s show, we celebrate Black History Month with a rebroadcast of our interview with Sidney Morrison, author of Frederick Douglass: A Novel from Portland’s Hawthorne Books. Sidney’s book is historical fiction at its most engaging, enlightening, and inspiring, about... Read more

Neuro Emergent: A Field Trip to PHAME

Airs at: Wed, 02/25/2026 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Neuro Emergent

In this episode: NEURODIVERSITY NEWS (2:25) Sweden study shows girls are “catching up” with boys in autism diagnoses https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/women-and-men-are-almost-equally-as-likely-to-be-diagnosed-as-autistic-by/ Medical journal retracts paper on leuc... Read more