The Latest Politics 'The helpers need help'. Food banks brace for impact as SNAP cliff looms. Food banks have already been contending with higher food prices and increased need. Administrators say demand will skyrocket if federal nutrition benefits stop in a few days because of the government shutdown. Barbara Sprunt Health How will the dismantling of USAID affect U.S. relief efforts in Jamaica? USAID was the lead American agency in disaster response. Now that it's been dismantled, questions are arising about how effective U.S. relief efforts will be in Jamaica after the hurricane. Fatma Tanis Immigration "Defend American culture": DHS pledge leaves some Latinos rattled DHS's social media campaign promises to defend American identity and culture from an invasion. For many Latinos, it's a message that does not sit well. Jasmine Garsd Technology Microsoft deploys a fix to Azure cloud service that’s hit with outage NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with its global content delivery network services. Associated Press Technology Amazon cuts over 2,300 jobs in Washington as employees warn of AI risks The local impact of Amazon’s latest round of layoffs is coming into focus. Monica Nickelsburg 9 families, 1 roof: Urban cohousing in Seattle Seattle’s housing scene is defined by high prices and shrinking apartments, leaving many people feeling both financially squeezed and socially disconnected. Cohousing offers an alternative. Joshua McNichols Arts & Life From horror to Ibsen's 'Hedda,' filmmaker Nia DaCosta pursues the genres she loves DaCosta has directed blockbusters like Candyman and The Marvels. Her latest is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play, Hedda Gabler, recasting the main character as a queer, mixed-race Black woman. Tonya Mosley Music Jazz bassist Linda May Han Oh proves less is more on 'Strange Heavens' Oh took the fast track to jazz prominence, emerging on the scene in the 2000s and becoming the bass player in bands led by Pat Metheny and Vijay Iyer. Her new album is a look back at her early work. Martin Johnson Books Horror is bigger than Stephen King. These spooky Seattleites help find the right scare for you Since it's spooky season, and readers of all sorts may be looking for scares, KUOW's Katie Campbell called up a couple of local literary horror experts to talk about how the genre has evolved and who we should be reading. Katie Campbell Arts & Life Is that really Washington? Why more movies could be made in the Evergreen State Dyer Oxley Prev 692 of 1645 Next Sponsored
Politics 'The helpers need help'. Food banks brace for impact as SNAP cliff looms. Food banks have already been contending with higher food prices and increased need. Administrators say demand will skyrocket if federal nutrition benefits stop in a few days because of the government shutdown. Barbara Sprunt
Health How will the dismantling of USAID affect U.S. relief efforts in Jamaica? USAID was the lead American agency in disaster response. Now that it's been dismantled, questions are arising about how effective U.S. relief efforts will be in Jamaica after the hurricane. Fatma Tanis
Immigration "Defend American culture": DHS pledge leaves some Latinos rattled DHS's social media campaign promises to defend American identity and culture from an invasion. For many Latinos, it's a message that does not sit well. Jasmine Garsd
Technology Microsoft deploys a fix to Azure cloud service that’s hit with outage NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with its global content delivery network services. Associated Press
Technology Amazon cuts over 2,300 jobs in Washington as employees warn of AI risks The local impact of Amazon’s latest round of layoffs is coming into focus. Monica Nickelsburg
9 families, 1 roof: Urban cohousing in Seattle Seattle’s housing scene is defined by high prices and shrinking apartments, leaving many people feeling both financially squeezed and socially disconnected. Cohousing offers an alternative. Joshua McNichols
Arts & Life From horror to Ibsen's 'Hedda,' filmmaker Nia DaCosta pursues the genres she loves DaCosta has directed blockbusters like Candyman and The Marvels. Her latest is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play, Hedda Gabler, recasting the main character as a queer, mixed-race Black woman. Tonya Mosley
Music Jazz bassist Linda May Han Oh proves less is more on 'Strange Heavens' Oh took the fast track to jazz prominence, emerging on the scene in the 2000s and becoming the bass player in bands led by Pat Metheny and Vijay Iyer. Her new album is a look back at her early work. Martin Johnson
Books Horror is bigger than Stephen King. These spooky Seattleites help find the right scare for you Since it's spooky season, and readers of all sorts may be looking for scares, KUOW's Katie Campbell called up a couple of local literary horror experts to talk about how the genre has evolved and who we should be reading. Katie Campbell
Arts & Life Is that really Washington? Why more movies could be made in the Evergreen State Dyer Oxley
