On today's episode, we welcome Buzzy Donahue, a deejay on our sister
community radio station, KPTZ in Port Townsend, Washington. Buzzy is radio
royalty. Her dad is the legendary Tom “Big Daddy” Donahue who pioneered
free-form radio back in San Francisco in the late 1960s...
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While KBOO is currently in its 54th year on the air, which is a long time,
that pales in comparison to another local institution, the Portland Youth
Philharmonic. Dating back to 1924, PYP is the oldest continuously operating
youth orchestra in the country.
PYP will be c...
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On today's episode, we welcome Shawn Levy, author of the new book In On The
Joke: The Original Queens of Stand-Up Comedy, which charts the rise of women
comedians from Moms Mabley’s start in black vaudeville in the 1920s, to the
breakthrough mainstream success of Phyllis...
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Today on Jonesy, we welcome Laura Stanfill, author of the debut novel
Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary, from Lanternfish Press.
Laura is the founder of Forest Avenue Press, a Portland-based indie publisher
now in its tenth year. Laura's own writing has appeared in S...
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Jonesy himself has been under the weather for about a week and a half. It's
not COVID, fortunately, but it's still somewhat of a mystery illness. While
Jonesy undergoes a few medical tests, we decided to take some unpaid sick
time and re-air an interview we did for KBOO'...
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On this special Ides of March episode, we bring you Part 2 of our interview
with David Ossman and Philip Proctor of the legendary comedy group
the Firesign Theatre, and Firesign archivist Taylor Jessen. We're
celebrating both the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC a...
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On today's KBOO News in Depth, we preview Portland Youth Philharmonic's
upcoming Russian Winter concert with guests David Hattner, PYP's Musical
Director, and Michael Gu, winner of the Portland Piano International 2021
Piano Concerto Competition. David programmed the con...
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On today's episode, we welcome David Ossman and Philip Proctor of the
legendary comedy group the Firesign Theatre, and Firesign archivist Taylor
Jessen to talk about their latest release “The Firesign Theatre Live at the
Magic Mushroom". And we are truly in three places ...
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Today on Jonesy, we welcome Stacy Brewster, author of the new story
collection What We Pick Up, from Portland’s Buckman Publishing.
Stacy is a fiction writer, poet, and screenwriter based here in Portland.
Born in Los Angeles and raised both there and in the San Francis...
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