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Meet you where? Share your favorite places to gather around arts and culture in Seattle

Are you a Seattleite who loves the arts and culture? Are you also looking for your people, your community, your fandom? KUOW's newest podcast is for you.
- Dyer Oxley
'You Are Here' and you are writing. Readers get creative for National Poetry Month

This is the KUOW Book Club, and we're reading "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World" edited by 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. I'm your guide, Katie Campbell. I asked y'all to try writing a poem of your own — you delivered.
- Katie Campbell
Magically horrific: ‘Death of a Unicorn’ leans more into laughs than screams

Some horror movies are funny because they’re morbidly grotesque. Others are funny because they’re appalling and tragic. “Death of a Unicorn” falls into the latter category.
- Dyer Oxley
Beauty and the geek: Emerald City Comic Con swoons for romantasy

Among the comic book heroes and anime cosplayers of Emerald City Comic con, another fandom exists: romantasy readers.
- Katie Campbell
Former NPR host cracks the whip at Emerald City Comic Con

Avid public radio listeners may recall the name Jack Lepiarz as a WBUR host in Boston, but these days he’s going by his other name, Jacques ze Whipper, as he performs in travelling circuses. He cracks a whip while singing renditions of pop hits at Renaissance Faires, comedy clubs, and at this weekend’s Emerald City Comic Con.
- Jason Burrows
Action, comedy, and Beastmode. 'Love Hurts' is classic movie theater fun

"Love Hurts" is a short and sweet punch-em-up movie with plenty of extravagant, over-the-top displays that add up to a simple good time. Don't overthink it. Just have fun.
- Dyer Oxley
Washington’s Congressmembers have been sharing one 'ugly' painting for 50 years

Every new Congress, the painting known as “The Chick” goes to the newest member of the Washington delegation.
- Scott Greenstone
Seattle author Juan Carlos Reyes explores the good, the bad, and the ugly of the human experience in 'Three Alarm Fire'

This is KUOW's book club, and we just read through the first half of Juan Carlos Reyes' fiction collection "Three Alarm Fire."
- Katie Campbell
2024: A year in KUOW's arts and pop culture

It wasn't just film reviews and arguments about whether or not "Die Hard" is a Christmas movie. KUOW covered a lot of arts, a lot of culture, and bit of pop culture in 2024.
- KUOW Staff
The great 'Die Hard' debate: Yes, it's a Christmas movie (or not?)

When the holiday season arrives, with the tree decorated, and the stockings hung, I will gather my loved ones close for an annual Christmas tradition — watching my favorite Christmas movie "Die Hard."
- Dyer Oxley

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