Frank Herbert's "Dune": Interstellar intrigue! Psychedelic mind trips, swordplay, and a righteous triumph! It's time to re-read the most enduringly popular science fiction book in history.

Music: "Music for String Instruments, Percussion, and Celesta." Bela Bartok. Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, Harold Byrns, conductor. Recorded 1949.

Alan gives "the treatment" to Hiromasa Yonebyashi's anime masterwork, a worthy successor to such masterpieces as "Princess Mononoke," and "Spirited Away."

Jug band, hokum, whatever you call it, the Pacific Northwest has it.

Cameron Johnson is the Lone Reader. Kranz's book is the inside story of the geek squad that made the space program possible: Mission Control.

Music: "Beats," by Crooked Vision.

Alan pays homage to a film that "transcends the superhero genre to emerge as an epic of operatic proportions."

Mr. Neutron's panegyric to the varieties of current Pacific Northwest Punk.

The Lone Reader holds forth on David Buerge's magisterial take on the life and significance of Chief Seattle.

Music: Wind Quintet op. 43, by Carl Nielsen, performed by James Galway and the Carion Quintet.

Alan gives The Treatment to Kathryn Bigelow's riveting depiction of Detroit's 12th Street Riot of 1967.

Mr. Neutron pontificates on the profusion of fine surf bands in the Pacific Northwest

The Lone Reader talks about Dr. Coll Thrush's book Native Seattle, which credits native peoples' contributions to early Seattle. The book's second edition was published in 2017.

Music is "Klincek stojo pod oblokom," by Tomo Sombolac.