Arts & Life

Music to cure the winter blues

Today is the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year. Between the short days and the holidays, this time of year can be a lot for many of us. Music can help. KEXP host Kennady Quille shares some of her favorite local music to play when the winter blues are in full force.

Science says declining social invites is OK. Here are 3 tips for doing it

A new study has examined the potential ramifications of declining an invitation for a social outing, and found that people tend to overestimate just how much it matters.

How Bellevue became home to Ukraine's ballet diaspora

This Holiday season, the Grand Kyiv Ballet, will perform “Snow White” at the Paramount theater in Seattle. But the Ukraine-based ballet company’s connection to the Pacific Northwest goes much deeper than this production.

Comedian Roy Wood Jr. on 'The Daily Show,' politics, and the future of comedy

A former church in Ohio may have largest collection of Christmas movie memorabilia

A former church in Ohio houses what's believed to be the world's largest privately owned collection of Christmas movie memorabilia.

At an Alaska maker's space, Indigenous artists connect with millennia of tradition

In the northernmost town in the U.S., there's no Santa's workshop. But there is a unique maker's space where Indigenous artists can come anytime to make traditional artwork.