Poet Quenton Baker On America's Black/White Split Elizabeth Austen talks with Marcie Sillman about a new chapbook from Seattle poet and teacher Quenton Baker. Baker peels back layers of language to... Elizabeth Austen
Nancy Pearl's Visual Take On Steve Jobs Marcie Sillman talks with Nancy Pearl about this week's reading pick: a new graphic biography of the famous Apple co-founder called "Steve Jobs:... Marcie Sillman
This Seattle Student Defied The Curfew Imposed On Japanese-Americans When Jeanne Sakata was growing up near Watsonville, California, her parents never talked about what happened to them during World War II. Like thousands... Marcie Sillman
A Writer Tackled The Oregon Trail (He Did Not Die Of Dysentery) Ross Reynolds interviews Rinker Buck about his new book,“The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey.” Buck and his brother took a mule-drawn wagon more... Ross Reynolds
Nancy Pearl's Pick For Your Next Summer Road Trip Marcie Sillman talks with Nancy Pearl about this week's reading recommendation: Rinker Buck's first hand account of recreating in the 21st century the... Marcie Sillman
New Maya Lin Art Installments Track The Route Of Lewis And Clark Ross Reynolds interviews artist Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, about the Confluence Project. Since 2001 Lin has been working on... Ross Reynolds
Meet Seattle's First Civic Poet: Claudia Castro Luna Seattle’s first-ever civic poet sees fertile ground for verse in this city’s “time of transition” amid rapid growth. Claudia Castro Luna, appointed... Jason Pagano
Does Seattle Need Its Own Book Reviewing? Ross Reynolds interviews former Stranger writer Paul Constant about why he created Seattle Review of Books. Constant says he intends to reflect the... Ross Reynolds
Finding The Seattle In The Seattle Art Fair Marcie Silman talks to Jen Graves, visual arts writer for The Stranger, about the inaugural Seattle Art Fair and whether or not it will be good for... Amina Al-Sadi
Goddesses, Politics And Porn: When Public Access TV Ruled Seattle Think back to a time before the Internet, before Netflix … a time when cable TV had a mere 57 channels. It was the 1980s and ’90s, the heyday of public... Ross Reynolds
