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A new governor, budget woes, and pickleball: KUOW's...

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2025/01/06

2025 is officially here - and with that comes a whole lotta new: new resolutions, new goals, and a new page a day pull away calendar on your desk at work. But even with all this new to look forward to - at least one thing will stay the same in 2025: we’ll be here to bring you the news coverage you rely on and trust every day. Soundside reached out to the KUOW newsroom to ask reporters about the big stories they’ll cover this year. Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this

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How Kenny G went from local fill-in to global...

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2025/01/03

He’s no longer rolling up to Franklin High School in a blue Oldsmobile Super 88 with homemade white wall tires, or knocking out accounting tests on the University of Washington campus, but Kenny G is still in touch with his Seattle roots -- even after selling more than 75 million records worldwide. The iconic sax-man played a run of sold-out shows at Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley over the turn of the new year. In case you couldn’t make it to a show, the story of how Kenneth Gorelick of

52:44

Soundside's Producer Picks: Jazz clubs, real-life...

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2024/12/31

Soundside will be off the air on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. We will be back with some fresh new stories Jan. 2. For today, we’ve revisiting a mix of some of Soundside producer Alec Cowan's favorite segments from this past year, including his patrol with a pair Seattle's "real-life superheroes" and the musicians keeping jazz music alive in Seattle. We also have one new story for you, courtesy of producer Jason Megatron Burrows.2024 was the 50th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons

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Soundside looks back at the 50th Anniversary of D&D

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2024/12/30

The tabletop role playing game Dungeons & Dragons was first published in 1974. 5 decades later, there’s a new ‘edition’ of the game out, and D&D has changed dramatically from its origins in a little house in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The anniversary is happening at a delicate time for the company, Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro. Arguably the first modern tabletop role playing game is, today, fighting for market share – squaring off against a horde of

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Libby looks back on her favorite Soundside stories of...

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2024/12/27

The Soundside team is taking the week off to rest and prepare for some upcoming shows we’re working on in the new year. So in the meantime, we're going to revisit two of Libby's segments from 2024. And to do that, we're going backin time, to the Seattle of the 1990s. We’ll look back on the music of grunge band The Gits, and hear from the band’s former drummer about his decision to revisit and reclaim the group's history. And later, we’ll revisit the story of a bank robber

3:05

Your favorite sounds of the Pacific Northwest

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2024/12/20

All this week, Soundside has heard from local sound artists about their quintessential sounds of the Pacific Northwest. We’ve heard coyotes howling across the Methow Valley, the bygone squeak of a metro bus, and the rhythm of melting snow. Along the way we’ve asked for your favorite Northwest sounds. You sent us some good ones – the sound of North Cascades rain on a tent, and a chorus of frogs croaking in Marymoor Park. You also wrote in with your favorites: the grinding of

19:03

Looking back at the best local albums of 2024

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2024/12/20

Are your music listening habits stuck in a rut? Did you open your Spotify Wrapped and realize you listened to the same five songs on an endless loop? Maybe you want to mix it up in 2025, and become more acoustically adventurous. Soundside is here to help you out - we've rounded up a panel oflocal music experts to give you some fresh recommendations for albums to check out before we head into the new year. GUESTS: Bekah Flynn, senior publicist, international promotions manager, and A&R

4:08

Soundside's "Weekend Warmup" - Dec 20th-24th

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2024/12/19

Soundside is about to take a long and well deserved break, we’ve got some best-of shows planned for the holiday week, and we’re just generally excited to go DO some fun STUFF! And in that spirit, here’s somebody who has ALL the stuff worth doing: producer Jason Megatron Burrows with a few sneak peeks of things to keep you occupied through Christmas Day! LINKS: The Jinkx & DeLa Holiday Show Spokane Valley Summer Theatre - Big Band Christmas Bellingham's Holiday Dockside

25:24

Is it still possible to "fix" Congress? Outgoing...

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2024/12/19

After almost 20 years in public office, Derek Kilmer is stepping down from his role as U.S. Representative for WA's 6th district. The Representative was chair of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress - sometimes called the “Fix Congress Committee” - from 2019 to 2023. He’s also the former chair of the New Democrat Coalition - a caucus of centrist democrats with a pro-businesses, moderate approach to fiscal issues. In other words - he’s a guy who spent a lot of

10:16

Transit workers call for safety improvements after...

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2024/12/19

Around 3:00am today, a King County Metro driver was fatally stabbed near the 4100 block of University Way in Seattle’s U-District. At a press conference this morning, King County Executive Dow Constantine said that the loss is being felt by everyone in county transit. "We are not always able to keep what's happening out on the streets away from the transit that operates on those streets," said Constantine. "We are doing everything that we can, and will continue to ramp up our efforts, to make

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KUOW's Ashley Hiruko breaks down the latest with...

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2024/12/18

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has fired former Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz. The decision was announcedTuesday in a letter from the mayor to the Seattle City Council. Ashley Hiruko is a KUOW investigative reporter who has been covering news about former Chief Diaz for the past year. She joined Soundside's Libby Denkmann to give a little more insight into what’s happening at Seattle's Police Department. Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help

23:05

Redmond poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha talks about winning...

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2024/12/18

The light touch of tea glasses. Jasmine vines. Cigarette kisses. These are some of the images the Redmond-based poet, essayist, and translator Lena Khalaf Tuffaha conjures of Palestine in her most recent poetry collection, Something About Living. Last month, the collection earned Tuffaha the National Book Award for poetry. Through her poems, Tuffaha chronicles the legacy of violence and colonialism in Palestine’s history, while also bringing readers into a homeland that is rich with beauty,

2:23

Listening to the rhythm of snow melting in the...

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2024/12/18

What does the Northwest sound like to you? It’s a question we’ve asked local sound artists. And this week, we’ve been sharing some of their sound choices. Yesterday, Christopher DeLaurenti played a recording of the bygone squeak of a metro bus. Our next piece of tape comes from Gordon Hempton. Guest: Gordon Hempton, international acoustic ecologist and Emmy Award winning sound recordist See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

3:07

What does the NW sound like? Perhaps an old metro bus

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2024/12/18

What does the Northwest sound like to you? It’s a question we’re asking local sound artists. And, over the next week, we’ll be hearing some of those sounds. Yesterday, Perri Lynch Howard shared the sound of coyotes in the Methow Valley. Today’s sound has a bit more of a metropolitan flare. This sound originally appeared on a compilation called phongraphy.org 1 on and/OAR records Guest: Christopher DeLaurenti, Seattle born composer and phonographerSee omnystudio.com/listener

20:54

A grocery mega-merger just failed. Could it shape the...

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2024/12/18

Breakups are always hard. Especially when you’re two of the largest grocery mega-conglomerates in the country. Last week two judges – including a federal judge in Oregon and a superior court judge based in Seattle – officially blocked a merger between grocery chains Kroger and Albertsons. The companies had argued they needed to unite to compete with the likes of Wal-Mart. While an appeal is possible, Albertsons has backed out of the merger altogether and is now suing Kroger for

13:01

How incoming Congresswoman Emily Randall is planning...

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2024/12/17

Emily Randall has been a “person to watch” in Washington politics for a while now. Randall’s first electoral victory was in 2018, when she flipped a Republican held state house seat in the 26th district. Now, Randall is headed to congress. Last month, she won the election to become the US Representative-elect for Washington’s 6th district. That includes both peninsulas, most of Tacoma, and counties including Kitsap, Mason, and Grays Harbor. Randall is heading to the other

4:04

What is the quintessential NW sound? For Perri Lynch...

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2024/12/16

What does the Northwest sound like to you? Is it light drizzle on you window? The sound of waves pushing against rocky beaches or dry grass blowing in the Palouse. It’s a question that we’ve asked local sound artists in the area. And, over the next week, we’ll be hearing some of those sounds. Today, we take you to the Methow Valley. Guest: Perri Lynch Howard - Independent artist based in the Methow Valley Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If

10:41

Upper Columbia River in WA designated a Superfund site

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2024/12/16

Washington State has a brand-new Superfund site: the Upper Columbia River.It’s the latest development in the federal government's attempts to force a Canadian company to pay for pollution that flowed down stream into U.S. waters. So what’s the next step for cleaning up the river? Well, it’s a long process, which Seattle-ites can see in their own backyard. Cleanup is also beginning on another Superfund site, the Duwamish Waterway, nearly a decade after the EPA released a plan

18:50

Could WA achieve universal healthcare? Our new...

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2024/12/16

For the first time in 24 years, Washington has a new state Insurance Commissioner stepping into the role. Patty Kuderer is currently a state senator representing the 48th district, whichcovers areas including Redmond, Bellevue, and Medina. She’ll become Washington’s 9th insurance commissioner in January. It’s a big job - Kuderer will be in charge of licensing and regulation for every insurance industry in the state, as well as handling consumer complaints, and lobbying the

3:29

Soundside's "Weekend Warmup" - Dec 13th-15th

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2024/12/13

Once again, thanks for listening to Soundside during our Winter Fundraising Drive! Here at Soundside, we work really hard to bring you the news, like our conversation with Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson, and shows like Sound Politics, but we also like to keep things fun! So, in that spirit, here’s somebody who loves fun: producer Jason Megatron Burrows with a few sneak peeks of things to keep you occupied this weekend… LINKS: Christmas Parade of Boats - Friday - South Lake

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