Arts/Culture

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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

Keith Knight, Gentleman Cartoonist - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 02/12/2026 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Rapper, cartoonist, and social activist Keith Knight is a longtime fan of the Portland comics scene as well as community radio.  He was delighted to make a detour to the KBOO studios during his visit to the 2006 Stumptown Comics Festival, where his slideshow and stage... Read more

Mona Bowen joins us to discuss four new shows and movies on Film at 11 on 13 Fri., 2026

Airs at: Fri, 02/13/2026 at 10:30am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Film at 11
Mona Bowen joins us to discuss Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, the six-part romantic thriller His and Hers, the action comedy The Wrecking Crew, and Brendan Fraser in Rental Family.  Read more

Double Groove - Stronger Than Dirt

Airs at: Fri, 02/13/2026 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Double Groove
It's time to celebrate the month of ♡ Love ♡ by showing love and respect to the blues icon, the knuckle coupler between blues and rock n' roll Willie Mae Thornton a.k.a. Big Mama Thornton.  Read more

Talking Earth--Wheatfall Fair-Layman and Giovanni on 02/09/26

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2026 at 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Produced for:  Talking Earth
Emmett Wheatfall lives in Portland, Oregon where he writes, records, publishes, and performs poetry. Twice nominated for Oregon Poet Laureate and is the winner of the prestigious 2024 Oregon Poetry Association Patricia Ruth Banta Award.  Press, an imprint of Barclay Pres... Read more

Sculpted Light

Airs at: Tue, 02/10/2026 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
Joseph Gallivan interviews Daniel Peabody about Sculpted Light at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, which coincides with the Portland Winter Light Festival. https://pdxwlf.com/ Peabody talks about the gallery's big-name artists Dan Flavin and Hap Tivey, the difference between se... Read more

News In Depth: Arts News with Oregon ArtsWatch and the Global Citizen International Digest

Airs at: Thu, 02/05/2026 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  News In Depth
  On this edition of KBOO News in Depth:  KBOO's Althea Billings speaks with Oregon Artswatch Executive Director Laura Grimes about some of the latest arts news in the region. They discuss "Plan for two-venue Keller Auditorium, PSU Performing Arts Center challenged," "... Read more

Everybody Reads 2026

Airs at: Thu, 02/05/2026 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Everybody Reads 2026 celebrates Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s  book, Lovely One.  In addition to distributing 8,000 free copies of Lovely One through libraries and high schools, the library also offers a series of events related to the  program.  All are free to the pu... Read more

Book Mole: Thirsty Creek

Airs at: Mon, 02/09/2026 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Recent history is full of examples of humans messing with nature in order to increase profits, only to cause lasting ecological damage that wasn’t taken into account. The mystery novel Thirsty Creek, by Portland lawyer and writer Jennie Bricker, reviewed by writer and... Read more

Collage show: Now What Remains

Airs at: Wed, 02/18/2026 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
NOTE THE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME On  Wednesday, February 18, 2026, at 6 pm, Joseph Gallivan interviews collage artists Kirk Read and Angela Morrow about the show “Now What Remains: A Portland Collage Exhibition,” which is on now at the Alberta Street Gallery through Feb 23... Read more