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Friday on Sound Focus

5/9/2008 at 2:00 p.m.

Laura Daugereau and her sled dog team

Seattle Kazoo and Running the Iditarod

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Few people can describe what it's like to see their dogs witness the Northern Lights. But Laura Daugereau can. This February, she became the first Washington woman to compete in the Iditarod sled dog race. She brings us stories from the trail. We also get movie reviews.

At 2:05 p.m. – Seattle Kazoo Museum
If you can hum, you can play the kazoo. That may explain why the kazoo is seen more as a novelty gag than an actual musical instrument. But, Boaz Frankel hopes to change that perception. When he Frankel moved to Seattle a year ago for a new job, he brought with him a collection of kazoos. They range from metal to plastic, wood to electronic. And, they now make up Seattle's first Kazoo Museum.

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At 2:20 p.m. – Running The Iditarod
Very few people can describe what it's like to see their dogs witness the Northern Lights for the first time. But Laura Daugereau can. She was there as her dogs looked up and stared at the Northern Lights this past February. That happened during their run of the Iditarod. It's a grueling sled dog race over more than 1,000 miles of Alaska's frozen interior. And Laura is the first woman from Washington state to complete it. But she dreamed of dogsledding long before her family showed up in the Pacific Northwest.

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At 2:40 p.m. – Robert Horton Movie Reviews
Robert Horton reviews Hollywood Blockbusters and art house rarities every Friday on Sound Focus. He joins us with a look at films screening in our region this weekend. Today, Robert reviews the French spoof OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies and David Mamet's Redbelt.

At 2:50 p.m. – Literature as Religion
Seattle is one of the most literate cities in the nation. It's also one of the most unchurched. Christopher Frizzelle is the editor of The Stranger newspaper. Today, he shares his personal connection between the love of literature and lack of organized religion.

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