Sound Effect

This week on Sound Effect , we hear about changes of scenery. We bring you stories of people who were exposed to a whole different part of the world, a culture they weren't familiar with, or a lifestyle they never imagined. The Logging Camp Long before tech workers flocked to the shiny new apartments of Seattle and Bellevue, the Northwest offered a different kind of workforce housing. Logging camps were ready-made towns that lumber companies built specifically for loggers and their families deep

This week on Sound Effect, we look back at our favorite stories from 2016. The Tree Hunter Tacoma arborist Mik Miazio is a part of a national group of arborists and citizen scientists obsessed with finding the tallest trees of each species. He explains why he loves searching for these old growth forests.

This week on Sound Effect, we share stories of traditions. Tacoma Cotillion Tacoma has a very formal gathering where young women who’ve just graduated from high school are “presented” to society at a ball. Long white dresses, red roses, just the right shoes and knowing how to waltz are all requirements for taking part in this annual fete. Host Jennifer Wing takes us on a tour of the history of the Holiday Cotillion of Tacoma and finds that the tradition started in the winter of 1961 because of a

This week on Sound Effect, we bring you stories of odd couples and the unique ways people are drawn together. Man's Best Frenemy Knkx general manager Joey Cohn has worked hard to befriend one particular co-worker: Winston. He wonders why they just can't get along. The Up House Edith Macefield, owner of the iconic "Up" house in Ballard, has become a symbol of standing up to urban development. But Barry Martin, the construction foreman for the surrounding shopping center, was her closest friend

This week on Sound Effect, we share stories that take place underwater. A Meal Fit For An Otter At the Seattle Aquarium, sea otters get a diet that would make any seafood junkie jealous. Not only do they dine on restaurant grade salmon, crab, shrimp and other seafood, but they get fed up to nine times per day.

This week on Sound Effect, we share stories about the call of duty. Wake-Up Call Knkx Morning Edition host Kirsten Kendrick wakes up in the middle of the night so that she can be on air, sharing the news at 5 every morning. We listen in to her morning routine after she gets the literal call to duty: her alarm clock.

This week on Sound Effect, we share some of our favorite music-related stories from the past year. Charlie And The Rays We meet the musicians of a local band that just released their first record. While some members of the band are too young to patronize the establishments they perform in, that hasn't stopped them from having big hopes for the future. Bonnie Guitar Almost 60 years ago, Bonnie Guitar had one of the first “crossover” hits, climbing both the pop and country charts. She would go on

This week on Sound Effect, you are what you eat. We bring stories of food, and how it intersects with identity. We Eat War Seattle Civic Poet Claudia Castro Luna left her native El Salvador at age 14, fleeing civil war. “We’re still living through the aftermath of the war,” she says. A number of her poems touch on food and its connection with that war-riddled history, including her poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pupusa.” “We eat war / Each time / A pupusa is made,” she writes, explaining

This week on Sound Effect, we tell stories of the lies we hear and the lies we tell. Old Time Con Woman One woman became one of the most infamous liars in the Northwest in the early 1900s. Maude Wagnon, who went under the alias Maude Johnson, swindled railroad companies out of an estimated thousands of dollars. Student Scam This past spring, hundreds of thousands of dollars, possibly over a million, were stolen from Chinese international students going to school at the University of Washington.

This week on Sound Effect, we tell stories of risks and rewards and why people make the decision to take the leap. Up, Up And Away Astronaut Wendy Lawrence knows the risks and rewards of space travel very well. She remembers what it was like to travel into space on the first mission after the space shuttle Columbia exploded while returning to Earth, killing all seven crew members back in 2003. Stardew Valley After graduating college with a computer science degree, Eric Barone could have gotten