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 Books are the best gift you can give. And this holiday season, our book besties are recommending their favorites of this year and more. Host Katie Campbell opens the mail bag with KUOW producer Brandi Fullwood to find out which books you'll want to give this year… and maybe a few you’ll want to keep for yourself.    Here's a list of some the books our book besties reco...

Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend. Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows.  LINKS:  Live Wire with Lindy West, Meagan Hatcher-Mays, Mohanad Elshieky, R. Eric Thomas, The Brudi Brothers, and Rick Steves WTO/99 - Northwest F...

The holiday season means trees, cookies, family, spirituality, or presents to many. For  Meet Me Here 's Dyer Oxley, it means it's time to watch his favorite Christmas movie — "Die Hard." This 1988 action flick staring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman has become a Christmas tradition for many, including the actors behind  "A Very Die Hard Christmas,"  a holiday musical performed...

Are you meeting up with family or friends over the holidays? Someone will likely be roasting meat and veggies, maybe mashing potatoes and someone else will likely be watching a loud football game on TV. Sports seem almost inevitable this time of year. But what if you’re not a fan? This week, we will give you all the tips and tricks you need to fake your way through a sports conversation this...

Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend. Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows.  THIS WEEK: Seattle Christmas Market Julefest 21+ Night Market Renegade Craft Fair - Seattle Winter Warren Miller's Sno-ciety | McCaw Hall Heart - Clima...

Men are reading less. Reading less than women, not reading as much as before. But Author Daniel James Brown has got the key. This week we’re getting lit with Author Daniel James Brown and tackling the ~discourse~ to find out how authors like him are writing authentic men, complex men. Plus we give you a ton of recommendations of books and authors that will make anybody want to read. If you n...

Before the bestsellers, before one of her bestsellers became a movie, before Meryl Streep (!) played her in that movie ...author Susan Orlean started her career in Portland, writing for the Willamette Week and the now-defunct Paper Rose. Orlean writes about her love of the PNW (among other things) in her new memoir Joyride.  Orlean talks with Katie Campbell about finding mentorship as a write...

Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend. Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows.  LINKS:  SIFF Cinema Italian Style 2025 Sew, Quilt, Needlework, Craft, Expo & Festival in Puyallup Gobble Up Northwest! - Urban Craft Uprising...

“There’s no right or wrong way to look at art,” according to arts writer Jas Keimig .   Which is good news because there’s a lot of art at the Telephone exhibit at both locations of Base Camp Studios in Belltown.  Jas explains how the exhibit was inspired by the kid’s game telephone, that game where you tell someone something and then they tell the next pers...

Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend. Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows.  LINKS: Port Gamble Ghost Conference Best of the Northwest Fall Show 2025 - Seattle NW's Largest Garage Sale & Vintage Sale Brew: A Clue-Themed Wint...

There’s no getting around it. It’s here … the big dark. Every year, Northwesterners battle with shorter and shorter days, and longer and longer nights. It’s cold, it’s wet, it’s dark. It’s kind of a bummer. But it doesn’t have to be!  All three Meet Me Here co-hosts join forces to share suggestions for defeating the Big Dark by getting out and...

Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend. Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows.  LINKS: Seattle Short King Contest Seattle Kraken vs NY Rangers - Sat 11/1 Short Run Comix Festival Seattle Opera - The Pirates of Penzance Brewallup 20...

There’s more to horror than Stephen King and it’s about time we all started reading it. This week we’re hitting the books with Roxanne Guiney, owner of Haunted Burrow Books in Seattle, and local author Sadie Hartmann, aka Mother Horror, about the new era of horror authors and how they're revolutionizing the genre. Plus, we tell you about the book you’ll definitely want to a...

In time, people can be like sequoia trees. That's the premise of the new graphic memoir by artist and writer Jeremy Collins. The memoir is called Eventually A Sequoia: Stories of Art, Adventure and the Wisdom of Giants. In this bonus episode, Jeannie Yandel talks with Jeremy about how ten years of travel became this graphic memoir, and the role time played in his travels and the making of the book...

Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend. Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows.  LINKS: Tacoma Holiday Festival Dustin Nickerson at the Neptune Seattle Kraken vs Edmonton Oilers 2025 PSMS Annual Wild Mushroom Show Seattle Coffee Fes...

Margo Vansynghel sometimes jokes that she’s the harbinger of doom. As the arts economy reporter for The Seattle Times, it's her job is to spell out the connections between the arts and the economy here in Seattle.  She’s written about the Bellevue Art Museum's sudden closure last year. Along with SIFF’s recent announcement that it’s leaving the historic Egyptian theate...

Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend. Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows.  LINKS: SPORTS!! Mariners!! - Thurs/Fri at home, (Sun/Mon in Toronto if needed) Reign vs Utah Royals FC Seahawks vs Houston - MNF! SIFF DocFest - starts...

Seen any good local movies lately? Take “M3GAN” and “The Boys in the Boat” for example. Two very different movies, very popular, which are set in Seattle, but they were not filmed in Seattle . That happens a lot. In fact, the film industry is largely absent from Washington state. So what can be done to get more local productions off the ground? Well, we’ve got a few f...

Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend. Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows.  LINKS: Tasveer Film Festival SPORTS! Mariners vs Tigers - Game 5 - Fri 10/10 5:08p Seattle Reign - Fri 10/10 vs Bay FC UW Husky Men’s Football -...

This week we’re hitting the books with Charlie Hunts, the owner of Charlie’s Queer Books. We’re catching up with this local bookselling bestie smack dab in the middle of banned books week. So, we’ll find out what readers at the store are vibing with and what the stakes are for booksellers during Banned Books Week. Plus, we’ve got banned book themed recommendations gal...

Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend. Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows.  LINKS: Oktoberfest Northwest - Washington State Fair Event Center Oktoberfest - Leavenworth Washington OktoBEARfest - Woodland Park Zoo 2025 Tacoma Gre...

The City of Seattle has invested a massive effort in rebuilding the city’s central waterfront, after removing the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Part of the city’s investment in the waterfront has gone towards public art. We talk with Brangien Davis , arts editor at Cascade PBS, and the host of the Cascade PBS show Art by Northwest. She highlights a few of her favorite art pieces along the new w...

This summer, the KUOW Book Club read Seattle author and environmental journalist Lynda V. Mapes' love letter to old-growth trees, "The Trees are Speaking: Dispatches from the Salmon Forests." Mapes traveled across the country, visiting some of the oldest trees we know about and the people who study and protect them. The result was a book that intricately depicts the importance of old trees, the hi...

Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend. Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows.  LINKS: SPORTS!! Mariners vs Dodgers - Final games of the season! Fri/Sat/Sun UW Huskies vs The Ohio State Buckeyes   Sat 12:30p Sounders vs Vancou...

There are a lot of events over October 2025, but a few stand out to our Meet Me Here hosts. Dyer, Jeannie, and Katie share happenings they think are worthy of your attention.    Jeannie suggests: “Refract: The Seattle Glass Art Experience,” Oct. 16-19, across the Seattle region. It features more than 70 glass artists at more than 60 events. The opening night kickoff party on...