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Seattle Now is KUOW's flagship daily news podcast. Seattle Now brings you quick headlines, smart analysis, and award-winning local news. New episodes every weekday morning and afternoon. Start and end your day with Seattle Now, from KUOW and the NPR Network.

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Episodes

  • At SIFF, the show goes on, with fewer staff

    SIFF is more than just a local indie movie theater chain - its yearly festival brings hundreds of movies, big and small, to screens across the city. But even as SIFF the organization faces monetary challenges, the show must go on at SIFF the festival. We’ll hear more about the state of SIFF and get some festival recommendations from arts reporter Chase Hutchinson.

  • Tuesday Evening Headlines

    Seattle matching up dollars with World Cup expenses, King County Assessor ordered to wear ankle monitor, and new Amazon venture rocks the shipping industry. 

  • Washington has local news deserts. WSU has a plan to stop them

    The Murrow News Fellowship gives early career journalists the opportunity to report from places that are underserved by journalism. There are 16 fellows spread throughout Washington. Earlier this year, the program announced an ambitious goal of placing a news fellow in all 39 counties. We talk with Benjamin Shors, who directs the Murrow News Fellowship program.

  • Monday Evening Headlines

    The Washington state Supreme Court has ruled against a conservative-backed challenge to the income tax, Washington State hit its all-time high in gas prices again Monday, and Seattle Police are looking for information regarding a fully submerged Toyota in Lake Washington. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.

  • The future of Ezell's Famous Chicken may be outside the family that built it

    Ezell’s Famous Chicken is a decades-old Seattle institution. It’s also family run. But its next chapter might look a little different – nationwide expansion steered from outside of the family. We’ll talk about it with owner Lewis Rudd and reporter Egan Ward in a minute.

  • Friday Evening Headlines

    Legal challenges move quickly against WA's new requirements for elected sheriffs, Seattle opens its first warehouse for salvaged lumber, and the Mariners will retire Randy Johnson's number this weekend.

  • Casual Friday with Andrew Walsh and Geraldine DeRuiter

    This week… Washington state is suing Albertson’s for deceptive BOGO deals. New stats from Pike Place Market say the car-free pilot could be helping increase business. And a “good samaritan” from Richland turned in a couple of overdue library books 64 years late. Too Beautiful to Live Co-Host Andrew Walsh and author Geraldine DeRuiter are here to break down the week.

  • Thursday Evening Headlines

    Judge pauses new law creating standards for sheriff candidates, health officials fear measles is spreading undetected, and WA gas prices hit an all time record.

  • WA is taking the NW ICE Processing Center to court, again

    Washington state is going back to court with the Northwest ICE Processing Center. The state argues they should be able to inspect the facility. But the federally contracted detention center owners disagree. We’ll unpack what’s going on with the Washington State Standard’s Jake Goldenstein-Street.

  • Wednesday Evening Headlines

    Amazon launches new AI tools, smartphone rules to get stricter for Seattle students, and Starbucks says it's turning things around.

  • We go "Beyond Mysticism" at SAM's modern art exhibition

    In 1953, Life Magazine published a widely read story titled “Mystic Painters of the Northwest.” It put Seattle in the spotlight as a creative hub of modernist art. A new exhibition at Seattle Art Museum explores modernist art in the Northwest, beyond the major artists. Theresa Papanikolas curated “Beyond Mysticism: The Modern Northwest.” We met recently at the museum to get a tour of the exhibition.

  • Tuesday Evening Headlines

    State officials are demanding that health inspectors be allowed inside an immigration detention facility in Tacoma, Seattle police have increased drug-possession arrests despite a recent law meant to bring arrests down, and WSU researchers are fighting bacteria that's threatening our apple orchards. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.