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“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...

This summer, the KUOW Book Club read Seattle author Kim Fu's surreal story collection, "Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century." It was the winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Prize among many other accolades. In it, Fu takes average, even mundane human experiences and makes them utterly bizarre and delightfully weird. The collection dives into modern-day anxieties, turning them into the...

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:  West End Beer Fest - Spokane Oktoberfest | Rotary Club of Edmonds Fremont Oktoberfest Whidbey Island Cider Festival | PRI Saint Demetrios...

What happens when friendship becomes a form of possession? A hive mind so alluring, so consuming you forget yourself along the way. This week we’re hitting the books with Author Mona Awad. Her books “Bunny” and the upcoming “We Love You Bunny” expose the sinister and surreal undercurrents of female friendship… and MFA programs! We’ll take a look into the...

This summer, one of our KUOW Book Club selections was Seattle author Ijeoma Oluo’s 2024 bestseller, "Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World – and How You Can, Too." In it, Oluo shows how people across the nation are creating positive change for racial equity within our most important systems – like the media, policing, education, and m...

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 -  LA Angels - 9/11-14 Sounders -  LA Galaxy - 9/13 Reign -  Racing Louisville FC - 9/14 Seahawks -  A...

Judith Rinehart owns J. Rinehart Gallery in Pioneer Square. And she wants everyone in Seattle to know: art galleries are for all of us. "They are one of the few spaces anybody is allowed to come in", says Judith. "You can look at what's on the wall. You can like it or not. You can have an opinion about it or not… maybe you just want to come in and take a look, see what's even out there, and...

The Jaipur Literature Festival in India is one of the biggest lit festivals on the planet. Hundreds of thousands of people attend to hear writers and artists talk about the rich, multilingual literary traditions of South Asia.  JLF is big in another way too. Since its beginning in 2006, the festival has expanded to cities around the globe. And Seattle is one of them. The Jaipur Literature Fes...

We’re digging our teeth into the Northwest and its relationship with vampires. In this episode, I’m bringing in my two co-hosts Jeannie Yandel and Katie Campbell to talk NW and vampires – so let me ask you, do you like monstrous vampires? What about metaphorical vampires? Of course, can’t forget the sensitive, sparkly, brooding vampires that just want you to love them...