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June 10, 2025 - 11:48 pm

Bellevue College and the King County Library System are partnering to celebrate alumnus Ross Ishikawa, a Northwest artist who illustrated the graphic novel, “We Hereby Refuse,” at an event on July 31 on the campus of Bellevue College. As part of King County Library’s 2025 One Bellevue One Book: Intergenerational Book Club, Ishikawa will discuss

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May 18, 2025 - 2:45 am

Join KBCS at the 54th Annual Northwest Folklife Festival, taking place May 23-26 at Seattle Center. The theme and cultural focus for this year’s festival is Ikigai (Pronounced: Ee-kee-guy), meaning “A life worth living”. The concept of Ikigai marks the next phase in our cultural focus exploration that began by looking inward at our personal …

May 13, 2025 - 11:59 am

The White House has put forth an annual budget that requests eliminating public media funding at the federal level for FY26. The proposal asks Congress to eliminate nearly all $1.1 billion in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which supports more than 1,500 non-profit stations across the country, including KBCS. As it stands,

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May 8, 2025 - 8:46 pm

We’re excited to announce that long-time KBCS program, The Caravan, hosted by John Gilbreath, will return to KBCS on Tuesday, May 13th.  

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May 2, 2025 - 1:44 pm

We are deeply concerned by the executive order to cut NPR and PBS funding. On May 1, 2025, the White House directed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and federal agencies to end funding for NPR and PBS. While KBCS is not directly affiliated with NPR, we stand firmly with our colleagues in public media

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April 30, 2025 - 6:00 pm

  April 30th marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese Army and the end of the Vietnam war.   Many thanks to Nam Nguyen, Executive Director of WA State Commissions on Asian Pacific Affairs, and Jennie Cecil Moore, Independent Journalist and Producer and KBCS Contributor for this interview featured on our

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April 24, 2025 - 6:00 am

In 2001, Mary Anne Moorman (Auntmama) was awarded a contract with Bellevue College to create an operational plan for KBCS. Consulting led to telling stories on Walkin’ the Floor and in 2003 she began co-hosting Sunday Folks on Sunday’s, 9am to Noon. “Playing music for the KBCS community is an honor.”

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April 10, 2025 - 6:00 am

Hi, I’m Levi Sweeney. I’m one of the newest hosts at KBCS, and I host the 12 AM to 1 AM Saturday show The KBCS Retro Radio Theatre. I’m a pioneer in applied AI audio and radio dramas. If you tune in to my late, late, show at midnight, you’ll hear me playing the character of “Jack Newman,” unlicensed, back-alley dealer of Old Time Radio.

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April 9, 2025 - 4:57 pm

KBCS 91.3FM Roots Rock + Soul brings listeners selections from the KBCS music library. Host Greg shares sound selections until 7pm Monday through Friday with Wednesday’s dipping into a selection from the KBCS Vinyl Library.   And today, April 9th, we share The Lebron Brothers Orchestra and their first release, Psychedelic Goes Latin!   Starting off this

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April 7, 2025 - 10:44 am

Flotation Device interview with Anna Thorvaldsdottir If Björk is Iceland’s best-known pop singer, then Anna Thorvaldsdottir is its best-known composer, noted for her visceral music that conveys—in its own distinctive way—the sounds of the sea and the mountains that surrounded her growing up in a small coastal town. She joined Flotation Device host Michael Schell

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