(Airdate: September 9. 2025) We’re at Yanguan Pass, 75 kilometers west of Danghuan. For centuries, the Chinese got their finest jade from the kingdom of Khotan, the capital of an oasis state on the southern branch of the Silk Road. The name of the place where the jade arrived became “Jade Gate Pass.”
Local News for 9/09/25
The Road / DJ Karen
Join DJ Karen, The Truck Driver’s Daughter, on The Road, where you’ll hear country music, country-adjacent music, and other stuff that’s not country music because…you never know where The Road will take you. Airs Thursdays from 8:00 to 9:30am. Email Karen.
Chicken Scratch / Tate Munnich
Chicken Scratch, hosted by Tate Munnich, airs Thursdays from 9-10pm. Email Tate.
Booklovers’ Cafe – Thor Hanson, Close to Home
(Airdate: September 9, 2025) Cris welcomes back Thor Hanson. In an era of global environmental challenges, Close to Home argues that hyper-local, hands-on efforts to connect with nature have never been more important. Hanson shows readers the myriad, simple ways to improve biodiversity. Moving and reverent, Close to Home provides a much-needed lesson in curiosity and community, one that reminds us to slow down and invest in the world waiting for us just outside our doors.
Synthpop Nonstop
(Airing Saturdays from 9-10pm, Synthopo Nonstop is hosted by DJ Patrick, Synthpop Nonstop is a beat-mixed, one-hour, weekly music show that features a diverse selection of classic and contemporary electronic and indie dance music with brisk, informational mic breaks.
Spiral
Airing Mondays from 9-10pm, Spiral is a weekly mix of avant-garde pop, electronica, and vintage exotica, hosted by longtime Port Townsendite Daniel McCurdy. Expect to hear Cocteau Twins, Ryuchi Sakamoto, Trentemoller, and stranger sounds. It’s the perfect post-sunset playlist for taming the coyotes who stalk your backyard, or plotting your next (benevolent) crime spree. Tune into Spiral on Mondays from 9 to 10 PM, or listen to previous episodes anytime on the KPTZ Program Archive. Email Daniel.
Modern Jetset
Airing Wednesdays from 8-10pm, host Iris Berkeley is your pilot for Modern Jetset, a weekly round-the-world trip through music from soul to synthpop, reggae to R&B, Latin to lounge, and more. With a strong focus on new and recent releases, Modern Jetset also connects the dots between fresh new favorites and the vintage sounds and retro selections that inspire today’s independent music landscape. In other words … it’s the soundtrack to your utterly fabulous, secret-agent, oh-so-funky life.
The Wall That Heals
(Airdate: September 8, 2025) The Vietnam Memorial Wall is here in town for a visit from today until Sunday at 2pm. The Wall, a 300-foot-long three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, is a traveling exhibit that honors the more than three million Americans who served in the Vietnam War. The Wall That Heals is hosted by the Port Townsend American Legion, Marvin G. Shields Memorial Post 26, and Port Hadlock VFW Post 7498.
County Connections
(Airdate: September 5, 2025) This week, Jim Burke and co-host Commissioner Heather Dudley-Nollette welcome Superior Court Judge Brandon Mack. Part of Heather’s County 101 series, we learn about how the superior Court is set up in Jefferson County and how it serves the people: all the people. We also learn a bit about Judge Mack’s journey to the bench.
