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Grammy nominee Brandi Carlile's best songs, according to our in-house super fan

Northwest legend Brandi Carlile is up for six Grammy Awards on Sunday, including top honors Record of the Year and Album of the Year.
- Kara McDermott
A tale of Sub Pop, the record label that put Seattle on the map

The sound of Seattle was shaped in part by a record label called Sub Pop. Thirty years ago, that label was just a fanzine in Olympia called Subterranean Pop.
- Marcie Sillman
The music that moved us in 2018

Marcie Sillman speaks to Liz Riley of Three Imaginary Girls and SassyBlack about their anthems of the year.
- Alison Bruzek
Performance artist Karen Finley on tearing down female tropes

You may know Karen Finley as one of the artists who was denied federal arts funding, after the Supreme Court ruled against her in 1998. That decision said the government could strip funding from artists because their work was considered indecent.
- Bill Radke
How to turn Amazon workers into art patrons? Technology

What advice would Seattle nonprofits give to their peers in Long Island City, Queens, where Amazon is opening another headquarters? Listener Lisa Myers Bulmash, an artist who lives north of Seattle, wanted to know.
- Joshua McNichols
Seattle gallery highlights hidden features of everyday food

You might know Nathan Myhrvold from his part cookbook, part encyclopedia "Modernist Cuisine" book series. The former Microsoft executive has opened a Seattle gallery to highlight his passion for food photography.
- Ruby de Luna
I was the saddest kid. The tears finally slowed when I started writing

There was a time when the one emotion I knew better than the rest was sadness. I have never met a kid as sad as I was. I cried at school, at the Boys and Girls Club, at home, at my cousins' house — everywhere. It wasn't until I started writing that the tears slowed down.
- Tre'vion Sinclair
These are the prettiest Thanksgiving pies we've ever seen
- Kara McDermott
Transforming Black pain into beauty: The story of an Alvin Ailey protégé in Seattle

When Donald Byrd arrived at Seattle’s Spectrum Dance Theater in 2002, he was an emigrant from New York’s high-octane contemporary art world, a scene that demanded all of his energy but provided little financial or emotional security.
- Marcie Sillman
Eric Idle on Cockney accents and yachting with Paul Allen

Bill Radke talks to actor and comedian Eric Idle about his Monty Python days and always looking on the bright side of life.
- Bill Radke

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