Arts/Culture

Premiere: The Global Sail, with TK Kapurura

Airs at: Wed, 05/10/2023 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Produced for: The Global Sail

Exclusively on KBOO 90.7FM Portland. Welcome to the Global Sail Show on KBOO. I am your host this evening and my name is TK Kapurura. We will sail together and share some experiences for the next hour. I am an immigrant from Zimbabwe. In case you are not familiar with ... Read more

Classic Radio Crime Dramas featuring Frank Lovejoy and Jack Webb

Airs at: Mon, 05/15/2023 at 11:00pm - Tue, 05/16/2023 at 12:00am

Produced for: Gremlin Time

Settle down on a warm evening with of a couple of crime dramas from the golden age of radio. First, Frank Lovejoy stars as Randy Stone reporter for the Chicago Star, in the series Night Beat from 1950. While waundering through a riverside carnaval Randy gets caught up in ... Read more

AV Geeks

Airs at: Thu, 05/11/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

Skip Elsheimer has filled up a ten-bedroom house in his hometown of Raleigh with his collection of 30,000 16mm films, which he screens online for viewers every weekday. His channel, AV Geeks, celebrates all the earnestness and weirdness of 20th-century educational and i... Read more

The Global Sail

The Global Sail Show Hosted by TK Kapurura This is a 7pm talk show presented on the first Wednesday of the month. Through live conversations, I interact with immigrants and refugees from across the world. I encourage storytelling through interviews and ref... Read more

Zaji Cox, author of Plums for Months: A Memoir of Nature and Neurodivergence

Airs at: Thu, 05/11/2023 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Jonesy

We're back again in the KBOO studios with guest Zaji Cox, author of the new book Plums for Months: Memories of a wonder-filled, neurodivergent childhood, from Portland’s Forest Avenue Press. Zaji’s been writing fiction since her first short story at the age of nine. She we... Read more

Warm up with The Sampler

Airs at: Mon, 05/08/2023 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: The Monday Sampler

The Monday Sampler returns for another afternoon with lots of grownup music and another episode of Night Beat. In this first broadcast episode from Febuary of 1950, Frank Lovejoy, as newspaper reporter Randy Stone, is prowling the city looking for a story. He meets a young ... Read more

Jena Friedman, author of Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Etcetera

Airs at: Thu, 05/11/2023 at 10:30am - 11:00am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Join us as we welcome Jena Friedman, comedian, writer, director, and author of the new book Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Etcetera from Atria Books. In the words of Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, and author Samantha Bee, "Jena Friedman is brilliant at m... Read more

Robin Friend

Airs at: Tue, 05/09/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

On Tuesday, May 9, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews photographer Robin Friend about his show “Bastard Countryside”, which is on now at Blue Sky Gallery through May 27. Friend talks about hunting disused and overgrown industrial and military sites in his homeland... Read more