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Thursday, July 20, 2023

Death Wish Blues is the debut album from veteran musicians Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton. Dayton says that the album goes beyond the limits of a typical blues-rock record. He also adds that the record was a true collaboration between he, Fish, and producer Jon Spencer. Jesse Dayton and Samantha Fish perform at Temple Live tonight.

Plus more on these stories:

  • A Koch-funded nonprofit will open an experimental school in Wichita this fall — part of a trend that could pull more students from public schools.
  • A preliminary report says a plane piloted by anti-abortion activist Mark Gietzen was flying low in dark, rainy conditions shortly before it crashed last May.
  • Sedgwick County will help fund a planned expansion at Exploration Place. County commissioners voted Wednesday to give $2.5 million dollars to the science museum.
  • A Wichita group is hosting community watch parties to support the U-S soccer team as the Women’s World Cup kicks off this week.
  • A federal judge will consider arguments from Governor Laura Kelly’s administration in a case that deals with changing the sex listing on transgender people’s birth certificates.
  • The nominee picked to lead the Kansas Highway Patrol told state lawmakers Wednesday that he would focus on improving morale within the agency.

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Beth Golay is KMUW's Director of Marketing and Digital Content. She is the host of the KMUW podcast Marginalia, co-host with Suzanne Perez of the Books & Whatnot podcast, creator of the podcast You're Saying It Wrong, creator of KMUW's daily news podcast Wichita's Early Edition, and NPR StoryLab Workshop team member on the award-winning podcast My Fellow Kansans.