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Outdoors
10:00 am
Tue February 26, 2013

Greendays Gardening: Get Ready For Spring

Credit Flickr Photo/Amanda Nichols
Warming temperatures mean new flowers will begin blooming.

Daffodils are pushing through the soil, temperatures are going up (a little). Are you planning your garden?  How can you get the kids involved? Garden experts Greg Rabourn, Marty Wingate and Lisa Taylor are here to answer your questions. Call us at 206.543.5869 or send an email to weekday@kuow.org.

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Film
12:16 pm
Fri February 22, 2013

A Man, A Woman And A Gun: Seattle Noir Festival

Jean-Luc Godard used to say that all you needed to make a noir film was “a man, a woman and a gun.” Many movies still use that basic premise, but how do the Film Noir movies hold up some 60 years later?

Ross Reynolds talks with the "Czar of Noir" Eddie Muller about the notoriously dark film genre, the role it plays in film today and the noir festival that kicks off in Seattle tonight.

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Celebrating The Past
5:00 pm
Wed February 20, 2013

New Life For Restored Memories From Seattle’s Female Rockers

You probably know the bands that put Seattle on the international music map in the early 1990s. Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam have become legends, but they're only part of the Seattle music story. Women rocked the scene, too. Gretta Harley came to Seattle in 1990, looking for her tribe, and she says she found it.

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Culture
8:00 am
Wed February 20, 2013

Jared Diamond: Learning From Traditional Societies

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Professor Jared Diamond lecturing at Maria Theresia College, Belgium, November 2008.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond joins Ross Reynolds in front of a live studio audience. For decades he has studied Papua New Guinea cultures. He writes about what we can learn from traditional social organizations in his new book "The World Until Yesterday." Below are highlights from the interview.

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