Marcie Sillman
Stories
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Nancy Pearl says you're never too old for picture books
Despite the allure of technology, librarian Nancy Pearl says picture books still draw in readers of all ages. She tells KUOW's Marcie Sillman about two...
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This artist is Navajo, but don't call his work 'Native American art'
John Feodorov is Native American. And he’s an artist. But don’t call his work “Native American art.” “Not everything I want to say needs to be adorned...
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Nancy Pearl finds crime fiction simply thrilling
In Great Britain, the term "crime fiction" refers to everything from a cozy mystery to a police procedural. Here in the U.S., we divide our crime...
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Author's experience with her own transgender child inspires new novel
What happens when a person decides their gender at birth is not that one they were meant to be? If that person is a child, the question has...
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'I'm gonna be me and screw you if you don't like it'
Ade Connere doesn’t have a personal gender pronoun preference. “It usually depends on what I’m wearing!”
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Meet the artist who captured these timeless portraits of 1980s Seattle
In the 1980s Marsha Burns prowled Seattle's streets, looking for people to photograph. “I was doing pictures of edgy people, people who didn’t fit into...
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A case for luring movies to Washington state
You may have seen the movie Captain Fantastic . This week, actor Viggo Mortensen got an Academy Award nomination for his work in it.
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Jacob Lawrence's art touched the world. His teaching changed Seattle
I first met the artist Jacob Lawrence in his attic. That was more than 30 years ago, on a gray day, not so unusual for Seattle.
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Seattle's Teatro Zinzanni must leave Queen Anne
Seattle’s long-running cabaret/dinner theater Teatro Zinzanni has been drawing crowds to its elegant vintage tent on lower Queen Anne since 2007. The...
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Why a Seattle artist had to channel her inner dragon lady
When Seattle theater artist Sara Porkalob was a kid, her family didn’t have much money. But they did have unconditional love for the little girl who...