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KBOO Bike Show

Airs at: Wed, 05/01/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  The Bike Show
On this month's KBOO Bike Show, we're getting into the technical details of helmets. Bicyclists have a choice, to helmet or not to helmet. So we want to dig into what's inside those helmet shells, and how does it help or hinder bicyclists? Our guests are Michael Bottlan... Read more

Occupy ICEPDX and Dani Summers

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers interviews Portland activists Sam and Alana about OccupyICEPDX and the late Dani Henri Sommerville, also known as Dani Summers, and Dani Som, a twenty year old musician/songwriter,  with OccupyICE/PDX, who died in February. Scroll down for a transcript ... Read more

PDX neighborhood associations; The Demo House

Airs at: Fri, 05/10/2019 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
On today's Radiozine, we feature two different orgs who are helping out people with how they addressing being in Portland, from living here to visiting here. First, Jenna talks to Sunny Bleckinger and Kristin Shorey about Portland's many Neighborhood Associations, their... Read more

Stopping Tar Sands Oil Trains in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 04/29/2019 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Last year, Zenith Energy in NW Portland, quietly began exporting tar sands oil from its Willamette River facility. Now Zenith Energy is expanding its facility so that it can handle more than three times the number of oil train cars that currently pass through the city.Th... Read more

82nd Ave of Roses Parade 2019

Airs at: Wed, 04/24/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Jenna talks to 82 Ave of Roses Parade organizer Nancy Chapin. The annual parade takes place this Saturday, April 27. The parade starts at Eastport Plaza at 9:30am and proceeds north on 82nd to SE Yamhill Street. Read more

DSA and Chicago City Politics

Airs at: Mon, 04/22/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Bill Resnick interviews Joanna Misnik about Chicago and the DSA's success in their recent election winning six seats in the 50 person city council. These seats won in campaigns not based in personality or resume but on issues and movements. Joanna Misnik is a life-lon... Read more

Cable Access Memories

Airs at: Thu, 04/25/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Portland Cable Access at the end of the 20th century gained a reputation for creativity and outrageousness, featuring such characters as "Working" Kirk Reeves, Jim Spagg, and Stephanie ("Where's the Art?") Pierce.  And Oregon's uniquely strong freedom of expression la... Read more

Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon: APANO

Airs at: Fri, 05/03/2019 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  For Asian/Pacific-Islander American Heritage Day on KBOO, we talk to Simeon Jacob of the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon (APANO) to discuss the organization's work around community building, addressing oppression, and growing as an organization.  KBOO is re... Read more

MYKU: My Portland by Meg Vogt

Airs at: Thu, 05/02/2019 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Between The Covers
Host Ken Jones talks with Meg Vogt, author of the new book of photographs and poems MYKU: My Portland. “MYKU” is what Meg calls her variations on the haiku form, a poem in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables. The book pairs Meg’s MYKU’s with photographs from ... Read more

Portland poet Nastashia Minto, author of "Naked"; and the Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival

Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2019 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
We'll be talking with Nastashia Minto, author of the new poetry collection, 'Naked': I never truly understood the beauty of another being until I began to find and love myself. Minto is a Georgia-born African American woman living and working in Portland. Reema Zaman ca... Read more