NWPB Classical is excited to announce new additions to the weekend music lineup beginning January 9, 2026, bringing even more discovery, creativity, and fresh perspectives to your listening experience. From rising classical talent and cutting-edge contemporary works to genre-spanning conversations and celebrated NPR favorites, there’s something new to tune in for every weekend.
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20th Century StudiosIf you’re planning a return visit to Pandora, bring your imagination and your patience. -
Brian Vega/NWPBUp to 800,000 LED lights cover the park this year. Included with that is the lighted arch walkway, bright dancing penguins, a lighted igloo — and even a fireplace to warm up. -
Jordan Eby/NWPBOn this edition of PNW Bites, host Jordan Eby brings you a regionally inspired recipe for loaded potato stacks.
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On this edition of PNW Bites, host Jordan Eby brings you a regionally inspired recipe for winter apple salad. -
Imagine a small-scale roller coaster but for bikes and skateboards. That’s called a pump track. Kennewick officially opened the first one in the Tri-Cities. -
So, you probably wouldn’t think of pondering eternity as a casual, much less comedic, exercise. Yet that’s what you get in Eternity, which wants to balance fantasy, romance, pathos and humor. -
In writer-director Chloé Zhao’s heartbreaking new film, love is transformed twice, first by grief and then by art. It’s an exquisite conceit, thoughtfully realized and superbly acted. -
A new project at Washington State University Tri-Cities is documenting the history of Latinas in central Washington. It will be a lasting archive of stories of immigrant life and resilience. -
Part of the Northwest Coast is often referred to as the “Graveyard of the Pacific.” That's because it's home to thousands of shipwrecks. NWPB's Anna King talks with host Phineas Pope about our new short documentary, "Wrecked: Sinking Ships & Colliding Cultures on the Northwest Coast." -
Historian Coll Thrush’s book titled “Wrecked” traces the history of iconic shipwrecks on the Pacific Northwest Coast and what impacts the wrecks have had on the Indigenous communities there. -
Johann Strauss, Jr. was born in an outlying district of Vienna two centuries ago, on October 25, 1825. His music has been celebrated at the annual New Year’s concerts given by the Vienna Philharmonic since 1939. Champagne glasses at the ready, then. Let’s raise a toast to the immortal “Waltz King.” -
Luca Guadagnino makes impeccable movies. No matter what their relative merits, every aspect of his work reveals conscious, detailed choices. No matter how complex the emotions of his characters, his direction exhibits a distinct vision. -
This Disney project has been fifteen years in the making, renewing a franchise spawned in the 1980s.
