Arts/Culture

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James Rates Nate's Fave Games: A One Year, One Hour Extravaganza!

Airs at: Tue, 07/01/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Winner's Bias
James and Nate celebrate one year on the air with James rating Nate's top ten games of all time. Will James' opinion line up with Nate's or will he be wrong? AND, for the first time ever (for them, not for KBOO or radio as a whole), they will be taking phone calls live o... Read more

Brendan Slocumb, THE DARK MAESTRO

Airs at: Thu, 07/03/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Author Braendan Slocumb introduces Curtis Wilson, a cello prodigy,  in his third mystery, The Dark Maestro.  Curtis is growing up in the Southeast D.C. projects with a drug dealer for a father. But through determination and talent, and the loving support of his father’s ... Read more

Once Upon a Time.

Airs at: Fri, 06/27/2025 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Produced for:  Once Upon a Time
Mohammad Bader is an Arab American, Palestinian poet, National Certified Counselor,  and host of a bilingual called podcast The Arabian Traveler Poetry. He was born in East Jerusalem and much of his poetry reflects his experience as a first generation immigrant. His boo... Read more

Neuro Emergent: The Language of Neurodiversity

Airs at: Wed, 06/25/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Neuro Emergent
  In the launch episode of “Neuro Emergent,” I talk with Salem-based neurodiversity consultant Dan Dickinson about late-diagnosed adults with autism and the sometimes misleading language surrounding neurodiversity. Featured interview: Dan Dickinson, Founder and Program D... Read more

Rupert Kinnard's Cathartic Comics

Airs at: Thu, 06/26/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Rupert Kinnard has been drawing comics for fifty years, while nurturing his side gigs as a designer, art director, and community activist.  His characters The Brown Bomber and Diva Touché Flambé were the first queer African-American superheroes — long before DC and Ma... Read more

Neuro Emergent

Explore neurodiversity issues with activists, experts and artists in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Monthly podcast hosted by Kerry Stewart Lengel, an award-winning journalist and cultural critic who was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in 2022. Read more

No Straight Road

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg reviews Rebecca Solnit's  latest collection of essays, No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain.  You can find the book at the Multnomah County Library.  You can find more of Solnit's most recent writing at her site, Meditations in... Read more

Truth Demands

Airs at: Mon, 06/23/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Matt Witt reviews Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice, by lawyer, climate activist, and writer Abby Reyes.  Twenty years after Abby Reyes's partner, Terence Unity Freitas, was assassinated in Colombia while working with the ind... Read more

Oregon Book Awards finalist Miriam Gershow, author of Survival Tips (re-broadcast)

Airs at: Thu, 06/26/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
Our scheduled guest this week was Miriam Gershow, author of the new novel Closer from Regal House Publishing. But Miriam had to cancel due to illness. Hopefully, we’ll have her back for our next show in July. In the meantime, we’ll be playing an episode from March 2024, ... Read more

Miriam Gershow returns with new novel Closer

Airs at: Thu, 07/10/2025 at 10:30am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Jonesy
On today's show, we welcome Miriam Gershow, author of the new novel Closer from Regal House Publishing. Miriam’s books include the novel The Local News and the story collection Survival Tips, which was a finalist for the 2025 Oregon Book award in fiction, an Independent ... Read more