Mossback Podcast | How Frango candies became a Northwest fixture For decades, department stores competed for customers. Knute Berger recalls how Frederick & Nelson lured them in with a chocolate mint truffle. by Knute Berger & Stephen Hegg / May 19, 2023
Mossback Podcast | Meet Ernest Darling, the proto-hippie of 1907 The Portland-born 'Nature Man' was a regular kid until an illness inspired him to shed his clothes and take to the woods. Fame followed. by Knute Berger & Stephen Hegg / May 12, 2023
Mossback Podcast | What Hollywood saw in Seattle The Emerald City has played many film roles, from gritty city to rom-com backdrop. Knute Berger reviews our cinematic history. by Knute Berger & Stephen Hegg / May 5, 2023
Mossback Podcast | How giant tree stumps inspired a Northwest craze During the timber boom, opportunists turned the remains of old-growth trees into homes and postcard spectacles. by Knute Berger & Stephen Hegg / April 28, 2023
Mossback Podcast | The Confederacy and Southern sympathizers in Seattle Decades after the Civil War, nostalgia for the 'Lost Cause' took hold in the Northwest. Knute Berger explains how. by Knute Berger & Stephen Hegg / April 21, 2023
Environment Podcast | How a wayward whale foretold decades of exploitation People flocked to see a young orca lost in a river near Portland. Then she was killed, pickled and left in a tank on a mountainside. by Knute Berger & Stephen Hegg / April 14, 2023
Mossback Podcast | The Northwest’s electrifying role in the New Deal From cheap power to rugged hiking trails, Franklin D. Roosevelt's government transformed the region. by Stephen Hegg & Knute Berger / April 7, 2023
Culture Mossback’s Northwest: The Black pioneer who launched the Puget Sound settlement Escaping a racist Oregon law, a man named George Bush became one of Washington’s most important homesteaders. by Knute Berger & Stephen Hegg / May 8, 2020
Culture Seattle Symphony’s new conductor feels the music in his hair Meet the maestro whose moves make him stand out from the rest. by Stephen Hegg / January 29, 2020
Culture Mossback’s Northwest: The tiny oyster that made Washington The Pacific Coast’s only indigenous oyster, the Olympia, was eaten into near-extinction. It could be making a comeback. by Knute Berger & Stephen Hegg / April 3, 2020