Last Friday, January 20th, was inauguration day. And shortly after Donald
Trump was sworn in as president, protestors gathered in Portland’s Pioneer
Square for an anti-Trump rally and march.
KBOO reporter Ken Jones was there with a recorder and talked with several of
th...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Melissa Yancy, author of the new story collection
Dog Years. The book won the 2016 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, sponsored by
the University of Pittsburg Press, and one of the most prestigious awards for
a book of short fiction. Dog Years was cho...
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It's the fifth Monday of the month. And Halloween. And another episode of The
Holy Crowley Hour, or Two! How often does that happen? Only once every
thousand years or so. We counted.
So how do you celebrate such a momentous event, one that may never happen
again in our ...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Gigi Little, editor of the new collection of short
fiction City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales.
The tales in City of Weird, set in a Portland both real and imagined, feature
sea monsters, aliens, vampires, ghosts, robotic dogs, man-eati...
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Here's what's airing on the Ubu Hour tonight... Hosted tonight by famed
Swedish Actor Max Von Sydow..
ROBOT LOVE: As life becomes more automated, just how sexy and manipulative
can robots become? (Written and produced by Martin Dodge)
GREMLIN TIME: No, not the radio sh...
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Froggy the Gremlin was a much beloved character on the 1950’s TV show
Andy’s Gang. But during the dark days of the Cold War, he was accused of
being a Communist, and subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities
Committee. On tonight’s Ubu Hour, we present a radio docum...
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It's the fifth Monday of the month. And that means months are getting longer,
no doubt due to global climate change. It also means yet another episode of
The Holy Crowley Hour, or Two.
On tonight's show, we explore the program's tag line "Under the influence".
At the H...
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Host Ken Jones talks with Zora O'Neill, author of the new book All Strangers
Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World.
In the book, Zora visits four Middle Eastern countries over the course of a
year. She spends several weeks in each place, studying the Arabic lan...
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