Oh phooey! SAM won't be getting 'Chop Suey' In 2007 patron Barney Ebsworth promised an Edward Hopper painting to Seattle Art Museum. After Ebsworth's death, his heirs decided to put the painting and more than 80 valuable artworks up for auction. Marcie Sillman
Moving the Burke Museum’s entire collection is a dinosaur of a task The Burke Museum's new building is finished. Now comes the hard part: moving an enormous and fragile collection. Marcie Sillman
Podcast recs for that last summer road trip Kim Malcolm talks with KUOW's Jeannie Yandel about her podcast recommendations for road trips. Yandel is co-host of the KUOW podcast Battle Tactics for your Sexist Workplace. Kim Malcolm
Gender norms? What a drag! What happens to men who want to defy the system? To find out, we talk to Seattle drag queens. Hannah Schoettmer
Tom Hanks has two Best Actor Oscars, and it turns out he’s a writer, too And now for something maybe completely unexpected. Tom Hanks wrote a book. The prolific actor credits writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron with encouraging... John O'Brien
A Young Irish Mom's Painful Decision I was 16 and going to school; I lived in Dublin and was infatuated with this older fellow who was a jack-the-lad kind of fella . We met and had a... Sian Cullen
Liberal or conservative: I’m still trying to figure that out Before I went on this eye-opening journey, I was like any other teenager who thought they knew everything. Sometimes, we just don’t realize how much our... Huyen-Tran Phung
Why Seattle's Folklife Festival might not return next year Organizers of Seattle’s Folklife Festival don’t want you to take their annual event for granted: There’s a chance it won’t return next year. Angela Nhi Nguyen
A celebration of free speech and literature at 'Writers Resist' Authors around the country led a series of events recently called “Writers Resist: A Celebration of Free Speech.” Participants read from their own work... John O'Brien
