Walter Mosley On Being Black: 'You Don't Ever Completely Belong' People usually remember as far back as the generation that raises them, says writer Walter Mosley. Mosley had come into KUOW’s studios to speak with... Ross Reynolds
Writer Ursula K. Le Guin on 'an odd little virgin' “If you have a person who is both male and female, what’s the pronoun you use?” Ursula K. Le Guin posed that question in 1988 when she came in to the... Ross Reynolds
Matt Groening Explains Why Akbar And Jeff Were Gay Before The Simpsons , there were crazy rabbits and Akbar and Jeff. Matt Groening, who created television’s most iconic cartoon family, spoke with Ross... Ross Reynolds
Seattle Kids Used To Get 95 Minutes Of Lunch And Recess There was a time Seattle students got 95 minutes of lunch and recess. Most of that time was for a languid midday break that allowed plenty of time to... Ann Dornfeld
My Grandfather And The Plane That Changed Seattle There’s an old photograph in my father’s office that I’ve always wondered about. In it my grandfather and nine other young airmen stand in front of... Ashley Ahearn
Battle Continues Over Racist Lake Name In Washington Several years ago a Seattle man hiked into a lake in the North Cascades that had an unusual name: Coon Lake. Jonathan Rosenblum thought that sounded... David Hyde Gil Aegerter
Not Always So Progressive: Early Seattle Mayor Was An Avowed White Supremacist Jeannie Yandel talks with Crosscut's Knute Berger about his article on Beriah Brown, a mover and shaker in early Seattle who also had a long body of... Jeannie Yandel
What Music Can Teach Us About The Lasting Impact Of WWI How can we make sense of the staggering history of loss -- loss of reason, life, and hope for the future -- represented by World War I? In 2014... John O'Brien
When Seattle Commuted By 'Mosquito Fleet' Jeannie Yandel speaks to Leonard Garfield, director of the Museum of History and Industry, about a time when Seattleites got around on a "swarm of... Posey Gruener Jeannie Yandel
POW's Suffering Didn't End When World War II Did In 1945 President Harry Truman declared Sept. 2 as Victory Over Japan Day. Japan surrendered aboard the USS Missouri. It was the official end of World W... Patricia Murphy
