Local Poet On Trying To Hold On To Love's Beginning Washington state poet laureate Elizabeth Austen presents a "darkly beautiful love poem" from Tacoma-based poet Rick Barot. In his poem "After Darwish,"... Elizabeth Austen
Nancy Pearl's Pick Asks: Can We Really Transform Public Education? Marcie Sillman gets the week's reading recommendations from Nancy Pearl, "The Prize: Who's in Charge of America's Schools?" by Dale Russakoff. This new... Marcie Sillman
How A French Teenager Helped Save Us From 'The Fatal Tendency Of Disunion' In 1777 Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette was a French aristocrat looking for military glory. Since the French weren’t at war,... John O'Brien
Who Stole Music First? It Might Have Been Debussy Pop music has always borrowed liberally from classical themes: think Al Jolson’s 1920 hit “Avalon” lifting Puccini’s opera “Tosca,” 1970s disco... Amanda Wilde
Ursula K. Le Guin On Getting ‘Permission’ To Write Like A Woman Legendary science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin visited Seattle University recently to meet with students and read from her novel "The Lathe of... John O'Brien
Ballet: First You Need The Right Body, Then You Need A Chance Long before Misty Copeland grabbed international headlines as the first African American woman named principal dancer at American Ballet Theater in New... Marcie Sillman
Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein On The Pacific Northwest Mindset Rocker/actress/writer Carrie Brownstein spoke with The Record’s Ross Reynolds about the music scene in Olympia in the 1990s and why she thinks of... Ross Reynolds
Stories Of The Pacific Ocean Ross Reynolds talks to writer Simon Winchester about his book "Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators and... Ross Reynolds
Join KUOW For French Fun At The Symphony Calling all Francophiles! Front Row Center is headed to the Seattle Symphony on Dec. 6 for Gabriel Fauré's "Requiem," which the Symphony calls "a... Marcie Sillman
Nancy Pearl Chooses Timeless Kids' Classics Marcie Sillman talks with reading guru Nancy Pearl about a series of reprints of classic children's books, including "The Highly Trained Dogs of... Marcie Sillman
