(Airdate: February 24, 2026) We’re in Xinjiang Province, 50 kilometers east of Turfaan, in a gorge in the Flaming Mountains in a place called Bezeklik. Bezeklik is a Uyghur word for what we call “art gallery.” It was in fact a repository of Buddhist art, and until 1905 it had pretty much been forgotten. The man who rediscovered its treasure was the German archeologist Albert von Le Coq.
Captain Edward Sims
(Airdate: February 23, 2026 – Captain Edward Sims) – Who is Sims Way named for?
Key City Public Theatre
(Airdate: February 23, 2026) Key City Public Theatre, in the persons of actress Maritess Zurbano, Kat Agudo, assistant director, and Gabs Nathanson, stage manager, invite listeners to “I Love You, I Miss You, I’m Glad You’re Gone”. Then, for Empty Bowl Press, Holly Hughes and John Pierce present their recent book, “Waveshock”.
County Connections
(Airdate: February 20, 2026) Jim Burke and Commissioner Heidi Eisenhour welcome Laura Tucker, Education and Outreach Specialist with JeffCo Sold Waste, and Phil Sonne, a member of the Solid Waste Advisory Committee. The discussion centers on upcoming changes to Solid Waste and Recycling programs here in Jefferson County, coming up April 1. There is a two-page flyer about these changes in everyone’s electric bill this month, and anyone can access it by going to
jeffersoncountysolidwaste.com/
Local News for 2/19/26
Brewocracy Now – 2/19/26
KPTZ’s Taylor Clark was joined by Port Townsend Director of Public Works Steve King. We covered the history of the Port Townsend water system, the current lease with the mill, water conservation issues as well as the upcoming process that the city will be doing to adjust water rates for next year. Factoid… the in-stream-flow minimum for the Little Quilcene River is 27 CFS which must be maintained for salmon!
#761 Canopy of Titans
(Airdate: February 18, 2026) Join Jackie Canterbury as she talks with
Paul Koberstein, an award-winning environmental journalist and the
co-author of the book Canopy of Titans: The Life and Times of the
Great North American Temperate Rainforest. Join us today as we weave
together the relationship between salmon and our coastal temperate
rainforest. The Pacific Northwest was built on the relationship
between salmon and forests. The big takeaway: salmon don’t just swim
through our forest streams, salmon feed the forests, year after year,
century after century.
Local News for 2/18/26
Silk
(Airdate: February 17, 2026) We’ve left Turfan’s arbor-lined streets behind and entered a Gobi Desert bordered on the north by the flickering tongues of the flaming mountains, less than a kilometer away. We’ve already noted how Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, had to use a magic fan to blow out the flames in this land of fire before he and his band of fellow pilgrims could continue on to India. We had an easier time….
Silk
(Airdate: February 10, 2026) We’re in Xinjiang province in the oasis of Turfan and we’re touring the sites outside of town.The first site is the area’s most famous. It’s the eroded red slopes of the Flaming Mountains that begin just north of town. On a hot summer day the surface temperature on these mountains exceeds 80 degrees Celsius, hot enough to fry an egg or a monk. Which brings us to another story….
