Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend.

Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows. 

LINKS: 

• Live Wire with Lindy West, Meagan Hatcher-Mays, Mohanad Elshieky, R. Eric Thomas, The Brudi Brothers, and Rick Steves
• WTO/99 - Northwest Film Forum
• 21st Annual Urban Craft Uprising Winter Show
• Figgy Pudding Caroling Competition | PMSC-FB
• KRAMPUS BREMERTON
• Seattle SantaCon
• Scintillating sci-fi striptease
• Kraken vs Detroit - Sat 12/6
• Kraken vs Minnesota - Mon 12/8

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The holiday season means trees, cookies, family, spirituality, or presents to many. For Meet Me Here's Dyer Oxley, it means it's time to watch his favorite Christmas movie — "Die Hard." This 1988 action flick staring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman has become a Christmas tradition for many, including the actors behind "A Very Die Hard Christmas," a holiday musical performed at Seattle's Green Lake Bathhouse Theatre each year.

But not everyone agrees that "Die Hard" can be a Christmas tradition. Week in Review host Bill Radke is in that camp. He challenges Dyer's "Die Hard" opinion in a special holiday throw down. Bill and Dyer debate a modern holiday question: Is "Die Hard" a Christmas movie?

EVENT RECOMENDATION:
Seattle Krampus: Go see Krampus at various holiday events in December. Krampus will show up at the Seattle Christmas Market at Seattle Center on Dec. 12-13.

 

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Are you meeting up with family or friends over the holidays? Someone will likely be roasting meat and veggies, maybe mashing potatoes and someone else will likely be watching a loud football game on TV. Sports seem almost inevitable this time of year. But what if you’re not a fan? This week, we will give you all the tips and tricks you need to fake your way through a sports conversation this holiday season. No need to fumble that conversation with your uncle.

Event Recommendation:

Holiday Magic Cabaret - Dec 14 and 20 

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Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend.

Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows. 

THIS WEEK:

• Seattle Christmas Market
• Julefest 21+ Night Market
• Renegade Craft Fair - Seattle Winter
• Warren Miller's Sno-ciety | McCaw Hall
• Heart - Climate Pledge Arena

NEXT WEEK:

• SPORTS
  • PWHL Home Opener! Seattle Torrent vs Minnesota Frost - Fri 11/28
  • UW Men’s Football vs Oregon Ducks - Sat 11/29
  • Kraken vs Edmonton - Sat 11/29
  • Seahawks vs Vikings - Sun 11/30
  • Seattle Marathon - Sun 11/30
• GeekCraft Expo
• NOVEMBER ART MARKET — Duwamish Tribe

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Men are reading less. Reading less than women, not reading as much as before. But Author Daniel James Brown has got the key.

This week we’re getting lit with Author Daniel James Brown and tackling the ~discourse~ to find out how authors like him are writing authentic men, complex men. Plus we give you a ton of recommendations of books and authors that will make anybody want to read.

If you need some help filling that book shaped void, here’s Daniel James Brown and Katie’s Recommended If You Liked (RIYL): 

• The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides
• Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
• The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
• Tim Egan

Ok, your turn! Tell us what to do after ugly-crying over The Boys in The Boat. Send us your picks--books, movies, exhibits, events whatever fills that space. Email [email protected].

What we read about when we talk about men not reading:

• The Anxiety Plaguing Male Fiction Writers - Vulture
• Why Did the Novel-Reading Man Disappear? - The New York Times
• The Real Reason Men Should Read Fiction - The Atlantic
• We're Doing ‘Men Don’t Read Books' Discourse Again. Here's What We're Missing - GQ 
   

Event recommendations from this week’s episode:
Livewire with Luke Burbank: Mohanad Elshieky, R. Eric Thomas, and The Brudi Brothers at Benaroya Hall on December 5th
 

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Before the bestsellers, before one of her bestsellers became a movie, before Meryl Streep (!) played her in that movie...author Susan Orlean started her career in Portland, writing for the Willamette Week and the now-defunct Paper Rose. Orlean writes about her love of the PNW (among other things) in her new memoir Joyride. 

Orlean talks with Katie Campbell about finding mentorship as a writer, the changing landscape of long-form journalism, and more in this bonus episode of Meet Me Here. 

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Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend.

Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows. 

LINKS: 

• SIFF Cinema Italian Style 2025
• Sew, Quilt, Needlework, Craft, Expo & Festival in Puyallup
• Gobble Up Northwest! - Urban Craft Uprising
• Seattle International Auto Show
• The 2025 DB Cooper Conference
• Seattle Kraken vs San Jose Sharks
• Gilman Village 2025 Winter Fest
• Grit City Comic Show
• UW Huskies Men’s Football vs Purdue
• Death and Music | Town Hall Seattle

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“There’s no right or wrong way to look at art,” according to arts writer Jas Keimig.   Which is good news because there’s a lot of art at the Telephone exhibit at both locations of Base Camp Studios in Belltown. 

Jas explains how the exhibit was inspired by the kid’s game telephone, that game where you tell someone something and then they tell the next person and so on. When the final person has been told, that person says what they heard and everyone compares how the message changed as it was passed along. Jas says the game of telephone exists in different ways all around the world.

Since the exhibit spans two different locations, Jas suggests how to approach it. One tip: if Telephone seems overwhelming, think about memes and how often you alter them and send them in the group chat, and how memes can communicate everything from a simple response to more complex feelings. Then, think of the pieces of art in the exhibit as if they were memes. 

In other words: whether you realize it or not, you’re playing a version of the game telephone pretty regularly. And the exhibit Telephone is a fun, clever, artist-imagined way of demonstrating how we’re all riffing off each other, all the time. 

 

Also recommended in this episode:

Drag performer Dina Martina has been doing her Seattle holiday show for 25 years. Meet Me Here host Jeannie Yandel is a huge fan and says, “Her shows are surreal and hilarious and some of the best, weirdest theater I've ever seen.” The Dina Martina Christmas Show runs from December 5-24 at Union Arts Center.  

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Meet Me Here listeners, if you still don't have any plans for this weekend, fear not. The Weekend Warmup is here to help with a whole bunch of ideas for fun things to do around the region this weekend.

Hosted by KUOW's Jason Megatron Burrows. 

LINKS:

• Port Gamble Ghost Conference
• Best of the Northwest Fall Show 2025 - Seattle
• NW's Largest Garage Sale & Vintage Sale
• Brew: A Clue-Themed Winter Beer Festival
• America's Test Kitchen Live at Food Fight with Rachel Belle
• GeekGirlCon - 15th Year!
• Captain Slinky Presents Oddmall Emporium of The Weird
• Light the Forest: Pilchuck Glass School
• Seahawks vs. Cardinals
• SIFF Talking Pictures: Ken Jennings presents Quiz Show

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There’s no getting around it. It’s here … the big dark. Every year, Northwesterners battle with shorter and shorter days, and longer and longer nights. It’s cold, it’s wet, it’s dark. It’s kind of a bummer. But it doesn’t have to be! 

All three Meet Me Here co-hosts join forces to share suggestions for defeating the Big Dark by getting out and immersing yourself in some great local arts and culture events. 

 

• The Geometry of Light - Seattle Asian Art Museum
• Netse Mot: One Heart, One Mind Gathering - The Paramount, Nov 18
• A Evening with David Sedaris - Benaroya Hall, Nov 16
• Yume Kitasei w/ Katie Campbell on Saltcrop, - Elliot Bay Books, Dec 7
• "Holidaze" Black Night Market - Tacoma Armory, Dec 1 and Dec 6
• Julefest - Poulsbo, Dec 6

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