Jennifer Wing
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Residents at Seattle care facility 'absolutely giddy' about return of indoor visits
Outdoor visits have been allowed to happen, from a distance, but now after a year of protecting residents from COVID, long-term care facilities and nursing → Read More
Getting a vaccine is 'kind of like trying to get concert tickets – you just have to be lucky'
South King County is an area of Washington hit especially hard by COVID-19. Positive test rates in this part of the county are very high compared to places → Read More
This Christmas, a direct line to a socially distant Santa
Maybe this year, because of the pandemic, you haven’t been able to make it out to see Santa. KNKX’s Jennifer Wing spent some time with him and tells us how → Read More
King County prosecutors say pandemic may be one cause of uptick in hate crime cases
King County prosecutors say the number of hate crime cases they are overseeing is on the rise — and the pandemic might be partly to blame. In 2018, → Read More
Fantasy A's Fantasy Is A Stable Home In Seattle: Sound Effect, Episode 159.5
If you’ve spent any time walking around Seattle neighborhoods, you’ve probably spotted a “Fantasy A” poster bearing the name and image of a young African → Read More
How A House Fire In Alaska And A Doctor In Seattle Forever Changed Medicine In The Northwest
At Harborview Medical Center, it is not uncommon for people to work there for decades. Over time, these individuals whose passion for work is as unwavering → Read More
Almost 30 years In The Making, A Seattle Man Gets Ahold Of Two Boats From Taiwan
There is that saying that pops up in fortune cookies and is spoken often by parents of antsy kids: Good things come to those who wait. Michael Jacobson of → Read More
Sound Effect
Sound Effect is your weekly tour of ideas, inspired by the place we live. The show is hosted by knkx's Jennifer Wing. Each week's show explores a different theme. Sound Effect is on iTunes. Subscribe to our podcast. Got a story idea? Email us! → Read More
Before UFOs In Roswell, There Was The Maury Island Incident
In the summer of 1947, off the coast of Maury Island in South Puget Sound, a man named Harold Dahl was out on his boat with his son, Christopher, their dog → Read More
Kitsap Forest Theater Combines Pacific Northwest Beauty With The Stage
Kitsap Forest Theater is a natural outdoor amphitheater just outside of Bremerton, Wash. It's been run by the Mountaineers for 93 years, and sits on a 640 → Read More
Sisters Find Peace In Alzheimer's Diagnoses
One of the hardest things a person might have to find peace with is the diagnosis of a life changing disease like Alzheimer’s. For sisters Tamara Cullen → Read More
A Painting Taken By The Nazis Is Returned Decades Later
Have you ever lost something that’s really important to you? Have you ever had something taken from you? Maybe it was a house that was always one payment → Read More
Discovering His History Made Ken Workman See Himself In A New Light
Ken Workman always new that part of his family tree was rooted in the Duwamish Indian Tribe. But, being Native American when he was growing up in the 1960s → Read More
A Conversation With An Immigration Attorney
According to a recent Pew Research Center study , there are more than 200,000 undocumented people living in Washington State. Seattle-based immigration → Read More
How A Mentorship Became A Two-Way Street
When Brian McDonald, a screenwriter, teacher and author was living in Seattle in the mid-90s, he says that, while talented, he had seen about 15 years of → Read More
Inside The The World Of A Glass Artist In The Northwest
For hundreds of years, really, for millennia, the world epicenter for working with glass as an art form has been Morano, Italy. It's an island just north → Read More
The Writing On The Wall: A Mother Tries To Reach Her Autistic Son
Sometimes a mess serves a very special purpose. For the Pyles family in Lake Stevens, Wash., words scrawled across their home help them communicate with → Read More
Going On A Walk With The Brokenhearted
Hearts are usually broken in a moment, at a specific place. Michelle Penaloza, a poet who lives in Seattle, understands that memories, good, bad and → Read More
How Years Of Unforgivable Theft And Lies Became Forgivable
Anthony Curcio and his wife Emily met in sixth grade in Monroe, Washington. Emily remembers a young Anthony as good and kind. But in college, after a → Read More
Pulling Back The Curtain On 'This American Life'
Ira Glass, the host and creator of This American Life, is coming to Seattle to give a talk about radio this weekend. Glass talked to 88.5’s Jennifer Wing, → Read More