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Northwest Beat: Sleater-Kinney – Little Rope
The cover of Little Rope by Sleater-Kinney. Listen (Runtime 4:54) Read Olympia (now Portland-based) rockers Sleater-Kinney are back with another offering. Unlike their previous two releases, Little Rope gets loud.
![A mobile home community filled with grey and white trailer houses can be seen surrounded by tall golden grass under a cloudy sky.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/JPEG_The-Appaloosa-Community-mobile-home-park-near-Moscow_Idaho_by-Lauren-Paterson_JPEG-500x500.jpg)
As housing crisis deepens, local author explores how trailer parks might be “last affordable option”
The Appaloosa Community mobile home park outside Moscow, Idaho. Professor Leontina Hormel’s new book explains how trailer parks are some of the last affordable housing options left for people across
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Educators share mariachi knowledge
We are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month and here is a story about how music programs and certificates are expanding Mariachi knowledge among younger generations in Washington.
![An illustration shows the Governor's Mansion on a hillside. Light shines out of some of the windows while spooky trees surround the mansion and bats flat above through a full-moon sky.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Outside-the-Masion-500x500.jpg)
Mysteries of the Governor’s Mansion: A spooky audio tour
All Hallow’s Eve is just around the corner, and the home of the Washington State Governor has some mysteries of the mansion to unveil — just in time for spooky season!
![Author Jeffrey Dunn, whose novel, "Radio Free Olympia," releases Oct. 10. // Courtesy of Kelly Tareski.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Jeffrey-Dunn-Author-Photo-by-Kelly-Tareski-500x500.jpg)
Q&A: Northwest writer Jeffrey Dunn on his novel “Radio Free Olympia”
“Radio Free Olympia” is a book about a handful of characters, one of whom, Petr, is raised on the Olympic Peninsula. Without traditional parents, he’s also raised by the landscape. Petr guides readers through folklore of the peninsula by broadcasting spirits on a homemade radio. Reporter Lauren Gallup sat down with Jeffrey Dunn to discuss what inspired this surreal story about the Pacific Northwest.
![Lupita Infante, mariachi singer, in Moses Lake.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Lupita-Infante-Concert-in-MosesLake_WA-500x500.jpg)
Lupita Infante, the living legacy of classic, regional Mexican music
We are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month and NWPB tells us about Lupita Infante, a prominent American singer and heir of the Infante’s legacy. She recently visited Central Washington and inspired younger mariachis.
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Mariachi culture’s deep roots in Central Washington
We are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month and it is a story on how the Mariachi Culture has settled into Central Washington and how different organizations are helping grow this tradition.
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Washington State Book Award winners talk lineage, generational storytelling
The 2023 Washington State Book Awards were announced Tuesday, Sept. 26. (Courtesy: The Washington Center for the Book) Listen (Runtime 3:57) Read By Johanna Bejarano and Lauren Gallup The Washington
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As the money grows, Washington’s film and TV industry is taking root
Director Dan Merchant signals to actors on set during a “Going Home” scene filmed in Rosalia, Washington. (Credit: D.S. Schaefer / Outlier Imaging) Listen (Runtime 1:02) Read While the writer’s
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Reeder’s Movie Reviews: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Welcome back to the Multiverse. If the most recent Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Everything Everywhere All at Once, stoked your interest in compelling alternate realities, then the latest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe merits your attention, too. This movie has intelligence, humor, relatable themes and dazzlingly crafted animation.
![Elise Richman, associate professor of art, left, and Britt Freda, of the Northwest Artists Against Extinction, at the group's exhibition Honor: People and Salmon at the Kittredge Gallery on the University of Puget Sound campus. The two stand in front of Richman's piece, Confluence, which was included in the exhibition. Photo by Lauren Gallup.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/DSC_0512-500x500.jpg)
PNW artists’ work evokes salmon to educate, inspire change
Northwest artists have drawn inspiration from salmon as long as people have walked along the running streams. But, the movement to close four dams on the lower Snake River has some artists, activists and naturalists hopeful that their pieces will not only tug at heartstrings, but also move forward the conversation of salmon conservation and restoration.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee recently signed budget bills to study removal of the four dams. Activists have been calling for the dam removals in order to preserve and restore salmon populations.
![Grassroots craftivist Laura Fielding, who started Red Berets for Medicare for All, knits a beret at Tacoma's Wright Park. Photo by Lauren Gallup.](https://www.nwpb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_4955-500x500.jpg)
Tacoma ‘craftivist’ featured in documentary on ‘health care for all’ movement
A new documentary, Healing US, premieres in Tacoma at the Grand Cinema on May 19. The documentary tells the story of the national movement for Medicare for All, where folks are advocating for an universal healthcare system. One of the key players in that story is Laura Fielding, founder of the Red Berets for Medicare for All coalition in Tacoma.