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
Leaving The Convent And Finding Passion Through Poetry Madeline DeFrees published her first poem at the age of 12. It was called “Sympathy,” written for a Portland newspaper poetry contest. Marcie Sillman
Nancy Pearl Recommends The Life Of An Artist In Words And Pictures Marcie Sillman talks with book hugger Nancy Pearl about this week’s reading recommendation: artist Sally Mann’s memoir “Hold Still.” Mann is a... Marcie Sillman
Ann Rule: 'It's The Gentlest Of People Who Are Fascinated With The Cruelest' Marcie Sillman talks with The Stranger's Eli Sanders about bestselling true-crime writer Ann Rule, who died on Sunday at age 83. Sanders wrote an in... Marcie Sillman
10 Songs That Define Washington's Music History Washington state is on the edge – the geographical edge of the continental United States and the cutting edge of music. Amanda Wilde