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Oscar needs some AC ASAP!
Yeaaaah, you could say I'm pretty miserable today.
Once again, revenge of the nerds was on and said the 5 letter word I guessed so lucky guess
Im the kang of WORDLE there is none higher!!!
Only 2 guesses call me sire!!!!
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KNKX won awards for five audio stories across seven categories in the SPJ Region 10 Excellence in Journalism Contest. @SPJWash
Congratulations to @OtherWillJames @KNKXBellamy @poseygruener @vivmccall @KariPlog and the entire KNKX news team!
http://knkx.org/term/news-0/2022-05-20/knkx-honored-by-spj-for-excellence-in-audio-journalism
Often imitated.
Never duplicated.
Norm will most definitely be missed on @ThisOldHouse. http://bit.ly/3lsjZHZ
My 5yo dressed as his personal hero, Norm Abram from @ThisOldHouse for Halloween. Didn’t forget his safety glasses.
It's time to reveal the new Jazz FM Playlist - week commencing 23 May 2022 🔊 🎶
What do you think? Is your new favourite song on our list?
Featured Artist: Renegade Brass Bad
| @renegadebrass #JazzFMPlaylist |
Get your clock set, sit down and get set for a journey of discovery with Marcus Brigstocke, as he begins his new series of 'Jazz Family Trees' with one of the fathers of jazz - Louis Armstrong 🎺
Jazz Family Trees with Marcus Brigstocke starts tonight at 9pm 📻
| @marcusbrig |
Who? - Comedian, actor, and self-confessed jazz nerd Marcus Brigstocke 🎙️
What? - Jazz Family Trees, Series 3 🎶
When? - Sunday evenings, 9pm 🕘
Where? - Jazz FM, obviously 📻
| @marcusbrig |
ICYMI: Mary Mills is a Seattle ICU nurse, her career started with the HIV/AIDS pandemic and is now coming to a close with the coronavirus. Listen to her reflect on caring for COVID-19 patients.
http://knkx.org/2022-05-20/nurses-have-had-an-up-close-view-of-the-pandemic-deaths-in-the-u-s
Beat the heat with a little "The French Chef" and chill courtesy of GBH Passport: https://www.wgbh.org/the-french-chef-with-julia-child
today's temps:
3 underrated jazz artists:
Bah…
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In February and March, refugees waited for hours or days at a the Ukraine border to cross into Poland. Now, the flow has reversed.
http://knkx.org/2022-05-20/millions-rushed-to-leave-ukraine-now-the-queue-to-return-home-stretches-for-miles
Chicago-based trumpeter Marquis Hill makes time to talk with Tony to discuss his latest album - 'New Gospel Revisited' 🎺
Tony Minvielle on Sunday, hosting the hottest music and hottest guests, each week from 10am 📻
| @mhillsounds @TonyMinvielle @EditionRecords |
@ThisOldHouse will pay tribute to THE master carpenter with a one-hour special, "The House That Norm Built," premiering Oct. 3 on GBH-2.
This Old House® To Air Tribute Special to Master Carpenter and Television Trailblazer, Norm Abram
The House That Norm Built To Premiere October 3rd.
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After 43 years of measuring twice but only cutting once, @ThisOldHouse's Norm Abram is putting down his saw and toolbelt.
Ever since @GBH 🎥 started rolling in 1979, Norm's master carpentry has helped inspire an entire genre of home improvement TV. http://bit.ly/3lsjZHZ
On the eve of his induction into the @soccerhof, @clint_dempsey acknowledges the limelight changed him later in his career as he felt responsible for his club and American soccer.
Entering US Soccer Hall, Dempsey finds pressure eased
Clint Dempsey acknowledges the limelight changed him later in his career as he felt responsible for his club and ...
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Having a good time with @Felix_RRevue ?
Joyce Chen's philosophy: "If you see a door, don't ask if you can go through it. Just open the door." Through her @GBH cooking show, restaurants and cookbooks, that door remains open decades after her passing.
@monicaeng's @washingtonpost feature: https://wapo.st/3MHrPJP #AAPIHM
Tel Aviv-based guitarist Ron Magril joins Ruth this evening to reveal the details of his debut album 'Until Now' 🎸
Full Circle with Ruth Fisher, uncovering game-changing jazz, Saturday evenings from 1am 📻
| @RuthYaelFisher @UbuntuMusicJazz |
Listen to a special program on Jazz Caliente tonight at 5 p.m. PST featuring part one of "Los Olvidados," an audio documentary on the rich and complex history of pan-Latin music.
Tune in on 88.5 FM or stream live on http://KNKX.org
http://knkx.org/show/jazz-caliente/2022-05-19/los-olvidados-two-part-special-on-jazz-caliente-may-21-and-28
Take jazz with you today
On 'Musical Connection', Makeda will ponder about the power of music, with words from YolanDa Brown and contributions from Future Yard 🎶
#JazzFMVoices - Musical Connection with Makeda Carayol, continues tonight from 9pm 📻
| @MakedaCarayol @yolandabrown @future_yard |
Join me and Clive Anderson on @bbcradio4 at 6.15pm. I interview the brilliant actress Katherine Parkinson about her new series Spreadsheet… plenty of giggles! 😂😜❤️ Music from @LeylaMcCalla @soaksoaksoak Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017k1f
It's a @celtics Playoff Gameday...
in 1985!
(🎞 via @GBHArchives)
The Edmonds Jazz Walk begins tonight (May 21) from 6 p.m. to midnight across eight venues in Downtown Edmonds. Featuring: Pearl Django, Adriana Giordano, Johnaye Kendrick and more. Sponsored by KNKX! Tix: http://bit.ly/3Lnh8uq.
This video just made smile, laugh, cry and more… beautiful! Just beautiful! When can I see them live?!? I’m a fan!
@N8Holder @AlisonKriel We LOVED the marimba video you shared the other day and wanted to show you our brilliant steel pan group @ColerainePark @HarrisFed 🔥🤩! @BWhyteMusic @yolandabrown We think you’ll like this! #London #music #SaturdayVibes
❤️ They were all absolutely fab! A sax is not a bad birthday present. My friends at @Saxcouk will look after you and give you the special YolanDa price… 😜👀💪🏾
My daughter loved taking part in @YVconcerts A wave from @yolandabrown made her night. I’m half expecting a sax to be on her birthday list by the end of the weekend 🤣
via @NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/05/20/world/americas/enslaved-haiti-debt-timeline.html?referringSource=articleShare
Get yourself set for some sizzling Stevie Wonder sounds, who is YolanDa's Artist of the Week 🎶
YolanDa Brown on Saturday, showcasing the world's greatest jazz, soul, and blues, each week from 2pm 📻
| @StevieWonder @yolandabrown |
The startling soul sensation Sister Cookie at The Bear Club to celebrate the upcoming release of her debut album ‘In The Blue Corner’ 🎤
Find out more as part of Jazz FM's Gig Guide: https://bit.ly/3gc4Qaz
| @sisterrrcookie @the_bear_club #JazzFMGigGuide |
Coming next, renewable solar energy leaders LightSource bp Founder and Group CEO Nick Boyle reveals the essential lessons of starting a green business 💼
Jazz Shapers with Elliot Moss & Mishcon de Reya, Saturdays from 9am 📻
| @Lightsourcebp @Mishcon_de_Reya @elliot_moss |
Renewable solar energy leaders LightSource bp Founder and Group CEO Nick Boyle joins us to discuss how he protected his business aims during his career 💼
Jazz Shapers with Elliot Moss & Mishcon de Reya, Saturdays from 9am 📻
| @Lightsourcebp @Mishcon_de_Reya @elliot_moss |
RHYTHM AND SONG WEEKEND!
"Weekend Jazz Overnight," with Sheila Anderson @SheilaE_WBGO Saturday, 1 AM- 5 AM
Volunteers with @WASeaGrant trapped an invasive European green crab this week in Hood Canal, the farthest south the species has been found in the Salish Sea. @WDFW will try to locally eradicate the species.
First invasive European green crab found in Hood Canal
An invasive European green crab was captured in Hood Canal, the farthest south the species has been found in the...
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On Friday night's New Cool show at 9 pm, listen for Peter Adams' dramatic tune "Squall" from the Tacoma keyboard player and composer's new album "Refuge."
Tacoma-based Peter Adams creates a musical refuge for difficult times
Keyboard player and composer Peter Adams releases his quartet album "Refuge" on Friday, recorded while battling cancer through the pandemic years.
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Today on @nprfreshair listen to two archival interviews with the late comedian George Carlin, and a review of the new HBO documentary about him.
http://knkx.org/arts-culture/2022-05-20/american-dream-documentary-examines-george-carlins-triumphs-and-demons
Update from @LillyAFowler: A hunger strike at the ICE detention center in Tacoma that started a week ago has now ended. About a dozen people joined the hunger strike to protest conditions and the spread of COVID at the facility.
http://knkx.org/social-justice/2022-05-19/some-held-at-tacoma-ice-detention-center-fear-covid-spread
The "Spirit of the Waters" totem journey makes its final stop in Tacoma this evening, before returning to Bellingham.
@KNKXBellamy spoke with organizers earlier this month, at the beginning of the journey calling for dam removal on the Lower Snake River
http://knkx.org/environment/2022-05-05/on-totem-journey-lummi-carvers-call-for-lower-snake-dam-removal
((((so no-one says "people really get upset when we do this humanizing shtick?" to killers of black people?))))
I want to tell a quick story.
The Buffalo shooter had a toothache.
Congrats to the KNKX newsroom!
Congratulations @knkxfm for your winning entries!
Funk @ 5 with Ron Adkins - 🎵James Brown starts the weekend with some help from New Orleans groove masters🎵
Christian Cooper, the bird-watching Black man who was the target of false accusations during an encounter in New York City's Central Park in 2020, has a new TV show airing on National Geographic.
http://knkx.org/2022-05-19/bird-watcher-wrongfully-accused-in-central-park-video-gets-a-bird-watching-tv-show
The a-bit-less-pomp-and-a-lot-more-circumstance humble beginnings of the man, the myth, the mustache behind America's most recognizable commencement song.
@CRBClassical's @itsedynmae tells the story of English composer Edward Elgar → http://bit.ly/3G6I2Wj
After more than eight years at KNKX and seven years as All Things Considered host, our beloved colleague @edronco is returning home to Michigan. We will miss him greatly! His final show starts today at 3 p.m. 📻
http://knkx.org/term/news-0/2022-05-20/a-fond-farewell-to-all-things-consider-host-ed-ronco
Nine people held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma have joined in a hunger strike to protest what they say are unclean conditions amid worries about a COVID spread.
Some held at Tacoma ICE detention center fear COVID spread
Nine people held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma have joined in a hunger strike to protest what...
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Tonight, we're dipping into the Ronnie Scott's archive to unearth some of the greatest artists and performances from the club 🎶
Ronnie Scott's Radio Show with Ian Shaw, Friday evenings from 9pm 📻
| @officialronnies @ianshawjazz @michaelvitti |
So happy to celebrate the release of our new project “Entre eux deux” with @philippepowell Out Today ! We can’t wait to share it with you as we make our way around Europe this summer and into the US in the fall ! 💙
To listen or get tickets, visit http://melodygardot.com
Jennifer Allen, CEO of @PPAAWest, says even in states like Washington, where there's strong support for abortion rights, “it’s going to take a whole lot more to be ready for the future.”
http://knkx.org/politics/2022-05-19/heres-how-abortion-clinics-are-preparing-for-roe-to-fall