First Day to Add Your Support!
With 2023 upon us and operating dollars to raise, you can make a wonderful difference for your local public radio station with a contribution today. Every broadcast and every podcast…
Climate One – This Year in Climate
Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine sent shockwaves through global energy markets, destabilized international food security, and continues to keep the world wondering whether the war will accelerate the transition to…
Join KCPW’s Dedicated Public Radio Team!
Why work in public radio? Because you bring something of value to your community, every day. Because you love the medium, know the impact that it can have, and want…
Great Salt Lake Collaborative aims to highlight solutions for imperiled ecosystem
Shallow water, deep trouble. The myriad problems created by the drying up of the Great Salt Lake require our attention. Because of low water levels, scientists have been warning of…
KCPW and The Salt Lake Tribune present a fresh way for Utahns to process the headlines. Behind the Headlines, a live weekly broadcast, examines the week’s top local stories through the eyes of reporters on the beat.
BYU messaging, a social media crackdown and a new cancer treatment
Faculty members at Brigham Young University are urged to align their teaching and research better with tenets of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A bill to regulate social media companies and minors’ access to those apps receives unanimous approval in committee at the Utah Legislature. And a promising new therapy…
From local politics, to arts and culture, to history, the environment and beyond, “In the Hive” explores the issues and ideas that tie Utah together.
How Ogden native Bernard DeVoto and his wife Avis saved the West
This year marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of a once very famous Utah native. Today, though, the name Bernard DeVoto may not be familiar to you. Indeed, few people inside of his native state really know the story of DeVoto and the significant role he and his wife…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour is a weekly program featuring forums on local, national, and international issues important to people living in Utah. The program airs every Wednesday at 10 AM and Saturday at 9 AM. Hosted by Anthony Scoma, the program highlights and contextualizes the forums presented by the Hinckley Institute of Politics every fall and spring semester at the University of Utah.
Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics and How to Cure It
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Original Air Date: October 26, 2022) — This week on the program, a forum with election law expert Richard Hasen on his new book “Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics and How to Cure It.” According to a survey performed by the Pearson Institute and AP-NORC, 91…
Both Sides of the Aisle is a weekly debate over politics, policy and current issues facing the state of Utah, featuring voices representing the Right, the Center, and the Left.
Ending the COVID-19 emergency declaration, the vote for a new state flag and other bills on Capitol Hill
Both Sides of the Aisle – Natalie Gochnour is joined on The Right by John Dougall, Utah State Auditor, and on The Left by Shireen Ghorbani, former Salt Lake County Council member. The hosts discuss the ending of the federal COVID-19 emergency declaration, the murder of Tyre Nichols and a poll…
“Jazz Time with Steve Williams” features live performances, interviews, commentary, history, a local jazz calendar of events, and of course music – curated by legendary radio host Steve Williams. From ragtime to bop, from Havana to Paris to Salt Lake City, from Billie Holiday to Joe Lovano, Steve is your guide through the many varieties…
A tribute to Steve Williams – longtime anchor of Utah's jazz scene
After a 42-year career in broadcasting, local jazz music host Steve Williams has retired. Again. Williams was a beloved jazz DJ in Utah long before he landed at KCPW back in October of 2015. He first worked as a jazzman at KRCL in 1979 and then spent several decades at…
World News (BBC)
- Top US diplomat says China balloon over US is 'unacceptable'The US secretary of state abruptly cancels a trip to Beijing over the "violation of our sovereignty".
- Spy balloon row: High-altitude spying marks new low for US-China tiesRelations between the superpowers are in limbo as America's top diplomat postpones his trip to Beijing.
- Deep freeze: US north-east braces for record breaking wind chillsOver a dozen weather records are expected to be broken by Friday afternoon across the north-east.
- US court strikes down domestic violence gun lawThe ruling says the law barring domestic abusers from owning firearms is unconstitutional.
Community Calendar
LITTLE SATCHMO (virtual screening)**Limited screenings are available so register while you can.
It’s a dark and stormy night, and you’ve been invited to a very unusual dinner party, and the host is, well . . . dead. So whodunnit? Based on the cult classic film and the popular board game, Clue is a family friendly comedy that will keep you guessing until the final twist.
​Play, Comedy, 90 Minutes
February 2-25, 2023
Thurs-Sat 7:30 p.m., ​Sat matinee 3:00 p.m.
​​Individual ticket price: Adult $25.00, Youth (Under age 12) $18.00
This production is appropriate for ages 5+
It’s a dark and stormy night, and you’ve been invited to a very unusual dinner party, and the host is, well . . . dead. So whodunnit? Based on the cult classic film and the popular board game, Clue is a family friendly comedy that will keep you guessing until the final twist.
​Play, Comedy, 90 Minutes
February 2-25, 2023
Thurs-Sat 7:30 p.m., ​Sat matinee 3:00 p.m.
​​Individual ticket price: Adult $25.00, Youth (Under age 12) $18.00
This production is appropriate for ages 5+
Utah Film Center is excited to announce our upcoming free film screening of Hidden Letters Wednesday, February 8 at 7 pm at the Salt Lake Downtown Public Library.
Presented as part of the Utah Film Center’s Through the Lens Series and in partnership with KUER’s Radiowest, Hidden Letters is a story of two Chinese women trying to balance their lives as independent women in modern China while confronting the traditional identity that defines but also oppresses them.
For thousands of years women who were often forced into oppressive marriages and forbidden to read or write, shared a secret language among themselves called Nushu. Written with delicate strokes made from sharpened bamboo sticks dipped in ink, Nushu bonded generations of Chinese women in a clandestine support system of sisterhood and survival.
Join us afterward as KUER’s Radiowest host, Doug Fabrizio, hosts a lively discussion with film director, Violet Du Feng via zoom cinematically exploring China’s gender issues as portrayed by this sensitive and stirring documentary.
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