Meet Me Here
Meet Me Here is your podcast guide to the most exciting arts and culture events in Seattle. In each episode, we’re fighting the freeze and meeting you around the region for art shows, concerts, author talks, geeky get-togethers, and more. There’s a lot to do in this region, so let’s make some plans and go experience it together.
HOSTS
- Jeannie Yandel covers arts and culture events. Jeannie's goal is to get you out and about in the city's arts and culture scenes, especially stuff that's free or inexpensive or doesn't make your typical critic's list.
- Katie Campbell covers Seattle’s literary scene, including visiting authors on tour, local writers, and maybe even cozy places to read in and around Seattle. Katie is your book club bestie, here to help you build community around reading.
- Dyer Oxley covers pop culture and how it intersects with life in the Puget Sound region. We’re a geeky place, and Dyer will dig into the conversations and debates overheard at local comic-cons, movie theaters, and happy hours with your friends
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Episodes
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Pop Culture: Can games like Dungeons and Dragons combat disinformation?
Find out how Dungeon and Dragons could save the nation. With lies on social media traveling faster than reason, could this nerdy role playing game be the answer to combating disinformation?
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Books: A Safe Space for Horror
From haunted haciendas to demon possessed heroines, Seattle author Isabel Cañas is serving up Gothic horror with a twist. The genre bending author tells us a thing or two about how even scaredy cat readers can tap into the horror genre, plus we find out what keeps her up at night.
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Art: Zines Are A Treasure Trove Of Humanity's Obsessions
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Pop Culture: Should you name your child after a movie character?
Should you name your baby after a character in pop culture? I’m Dyer Oxley and on the latest episode of Meet Me Here, my pregnant wife joins me in the studio to ask that question to two baby name experts.
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Books: Our Book Bestie's Mid-Year Reality Check
It’s time for a midyear reading round up, and we’re gonna find out what books Seattle readers are actually devouring. Elliott Bay Book Company’s Sofia Brekkan joins us for some literary hot takes, staff pick hacks, and controversial reading habits
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Books: Nothing Says Summer Like The End Of The World
Seattle summers just make everything feel possible. You can see the silver linings a little better in the sunshine. And that makes it a little easier to enjoy some sad summer reads. Right? If you want proof, check out Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark, a speculative fiction masterpiece published in 2022 that still has Meet Me Here co-host Katie Campbell reeling.
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Art: How To Make Art Friends
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Pop Culture: Have Full Album Concerts Gone Too Far?
Meet Me Here producer Matt Martin and Lilly Ana Fowler who produces the afternoon drive show for KEXP as well as the In Your Headphones podcast, join Host Dyer Oxley to debate the value of a full album concert.
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Books: Seattle Sci-Fi Needs More Escapism
What’s stranger than fiction? Maybe the present. Even so, sci-fi writers are pushing themselves to imagine new futures during Clarion West’s annual write-a-thon.
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Books: Why Corinne Manning Thinks The LGBTQ Shelf Is The Best In The Bookstore
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Mesmerized by glass? Tips to exploring Seattle's world-class glass art scene
“Glass is mesmerizing,” says artist and KUOW project manager Hilary Lee. “It’s just kind of all around us, but then in a contemporary art form, it's really fun, and you can do lots of things with it.” Thankfully, Western Washington is a world-class region for glass arts — from glassblowing to kiln casting to neon.
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Pop Culture: Has Hollywood lost its creativity?