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Join Rita for an artful mix of jazz classics and current trends. Read more

This morning I have a eclectic mix for you. Tom Rush, Judy Collins, John Hartford, Ian & Silvia, Joan Baez, and Pete Seeger just to name a few. Read more

This week on Century of Lies: The Global State of Harm Reduction. On Tuesday October 29, Harm Reduction International released its new report entitled The Global State of Harm Reduction 2024. HRI held a news conference to announce the release and discuss their findings. We... Read more

The annual Portland Book Festival is our city’s biggest literary event, and one of the most popular on the entire West Coast. This year’s festival takes place Saturday, November 2nd, just a few days away, and features on-stage discussions with over 80 authors, pop-up readin... Read more

On Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Linda Hutchins about Willamette Greenway, a show of her late husband’s stills and video of a patch of the Willamette River, which is on now at Nine Gallery through November 2. Hutchins talks about di... Read more

  Join us at 10 pm on Monday, Oct. 28th to hear just how informed the Portland comedian community and their friends are on current event in the Pacific Northwest. It almost certainly won't be educational or informative, but high hopes of it being fun. This month panel inc... Read more

A Tribute to the sun. “Flight Towards the Sun” by Karl Stockhausen, “Coptic Light” by Morton Feldman, “Illuminations of the Beyond” by Olivier Messiaen, “Sun Music” by Peter Sculthorpe, “A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur” by Morton Subotnick, and “Sun Song” by Herman Blount, plus ... Read more

Host Karen James speaks with Shannon Wight, Deputy Director, and Babak Zolfaghari-Azar, Senior Policy Manager, with Partnership for Safety & Justice and Safety and Justice Oregon. They discuss their advocacy work plans for the 2025 Oregon Legislative session and past accomp... Read more

Portland State University non-tenured faculty are facing massive layoffs just as their union contract is about to expire.  Labor Radio captures excerpts from a fight-back rally, prior to entering the bargaining room. Read more

Today we bring back a favorite Halloween show featuring two chilling stories and some halloween themed music. First, KBOO's own Emily Young reads Night by Ray Bradbury. Also Katherine Dunn returns to present one of our favorite stories The Cat Man. Read more