Good fences don't always make good neighbors
Robert Frost’s famous poem dealt with adjoining fields. Had he lived in the suburbs, it might have gone a bit differently.
Interviews from today
Native Gardens, September 18th 2018
Intiman Theater is screening a play called “Native Gardens,” which you can see through September 30th. It features a young Latinx family who moves into a tony DC neighborhood. All is well between them and their next door neighbors, until a border dispute breaks out over a manicured garden vs native plants. Actor Phillip Ray Guevara and Intiman executive director Phillip Chavira say the show is about who belongs on our land, and what is necessary for us to live together.
Head Tax Texts, September 18th 2018
Like a real live Texts from Last Night, conversations between Jenny Durkan and a host of others (including venture capitalist Nick Hanauer) were released. Other than the fact that the mayor is quite fond of the word mañana, what did we learn? Daniel Beekman and Lewis Kamb of the Seattle Times joined Bill Radke to explain.
Battle Tactics: Lactation September 18th 2018
There’s an infamous electrical closet at KUOW – one that has scarred generations of breastfeeding new moms. Why aren’t workplaces more supportive of working mothers? Jeannie Yandel and co-host Eula Scott Bynoe asked that question in the most recent episode of Battle Tactics for Your Sexist Workplace.
Girl in the River 9.18.2018
Director Sharmeen Obaid’s film, “A Girl in the River,” follows a Pakistani woman named Saba who survives an attempted honor killing by her father and uncle. In the trial that follows, she must decide whether or not she can forgive. Obaid was in town to screen the film at the Tasveer South Asian Film Festival.
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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