Meet Me Here

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.

HOST: Soundside Producer Jason Megatron Burrows

LINKS:

• Seattle International Film Festival
• Seattle Beer Week
•  Maifest - Leavenworth Washington
• Get Intimate with the Shrub-Steppe | KEEN
• World Migratory Bird Day Celebration! · Seward Park Audubon Center
• Beat the Bridge for Breakthrough T1D
• Spring Walk n Wag
• Penn Cove Water Festival
• 18th Annual Flower Festival - Pike Place Market
• BonsaiFEST! | Pacific Bonsai Museum
• Sounders vs San Diego FC
• Seattle Reign vs Washington Spirit - MOTHER’S DAY

Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/meet 

Meet Me Here is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network. 

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Looking for a home can be overwhelming. There’s this fear that you might choose wrong. This week, Seattle author Kim Fu's new novel, The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts, brings your wildest real estate nightmares to life.

The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts unfurls quickly. The main character Eleanor’s mother has died and left her enough money for a down payment on a house. It’s not a ton of money, though, so Eleanor goes through a process that will sound pretty familiar to anyone who’s bought a house in recent years.

She makes a few offers but gets beat, or she’s just not impressed with the properties in her price range. That is until she’s shown a dream house. It’s big and stylish and is flooded with natural light from the floor-to-ceiling windows. As other prospective buyers approach, she moves fast to put in her offer. The problem is she waives an inspection and all the other contingencies that are there to notice, for example, that those beautiful windows will leak when it rains.

What follows is a true nightmare, built on the crummy foundation of Eleanor’s new home and of her own adulthood. 

Read more about Kim Fu (and all the authors who stop by for a chat with our host Katie Campbell) at kuow.org/books.

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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.

HOST: Soundside Producer Jason Megatron Burrows

LINKS: 

• Seattle May Day 2026
• Seattle Black Film Festival
• Sequim Irrigation Festival
• Mariners vs KC Royals
• Kentucky Derby Day Party at Emerald Downs
• May the Fourth | The Museum of Flight
• Seattle Erotic Art Festival
• PNW Burlesque Festival

Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/meet 

Meet Me Here is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network. 

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Laura LeMoon decided to create portraits of women and girls who were victimized by the Green River killer. She was moved to begin the project when she saw pink daisies in bloom, in the parking lot of a hotel where one of the girls was last seen.

"It was almost like a glitch in the Matrix," she told KUOW’s Jeannie Yandel. "Part of the reason I felt that way was because I knew the history of the hotel I was at. I knew somebody had been working here and had disappeared and then was murdered."

How do you create a portrait of someone who's long departed and you know little about? Laura LeMoon describes her "portraits in absence" on the latest Meet Me Here.

Laura LeMoon is the resident artist of Lottie’s Lounge in Seattle. Her portraits are on display in her exhibit, "What the Earth Knows."

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Part of the fun of living in this literary era is seeing how modern authors take old concepts, sometimes even cliches, and make them new again.

Seattle author and educator Molly Olguín is one of those authors. Her debut short-story collection “The Sea Gives Up the Dead” takes some classic elements of folklore and fairytales – even some biblical references – and gives them new life.

The KUOW Book Club read Molly’s collection of short stories in April. KUOW’s Katie Campbell sat down with her on April 23 in front of a live audience at the Seattle Central Library to talk about folk lore and fairytales and the power of queering old stories.

Sign up for the next talk in our Book Talks series in partnership with the Seattle Public Library at kuow.org/events. And join the KUOW Book Club at kuow.org/books.

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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.

HOST: Soundside producer Jason Megatron Burrows

LINKS: 

• Seattle/King County Clinic at Seattle Center
• Washington State Apple Blossom Festival
• Melissa Auf der Maur: Even the Good Girls Will Cry, A '90s Rock Memoir
• Professional Bull Riding - Tacoma Dome
• The Pancakes & Booze Art Show
• Carnival of Cocktails — Seattle Cocktail Week 2026
• Seattle Independent Bookstore Day
• The Tacoma Flea
• Seattle Seawolves Rugby vs Chicago Hounds
• Seattle Sounders vs FC Dallas
• Seattle Reign vs Utah Royals
• Seattle Torrent vs Montreal Victoire
  
  • Pre-game "Tailgate" will be held at the corner of 1st Ave N & Lenny Wilkins Way from 4pm until the doors open at 5:30!

Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/meet 

Meet Me Here is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network. 

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Looking for a great place to stay on the Oregon coast? Maybe you just want to find a good restaurant and a show in downtown Seattle? It's likely you turn to social media for answers. But when you're actually exploring these places, does having a phone out all the time affect your experience, and everyone else's? How have phones and social media changed the recommendations we're getting and the experiences we're having? 

On the next episode of Meet Me Here, travel expert Rick Steves and Seattle content creators Two Seattle Girls discuss how phones are changing the way we travel and experience culture. 

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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.

HOST: Soundside producer Jason Megatron Burrows

LINKS: 

• Mariners vs Texas Rangers
• Seattle Torrent vs Vancouver Goldeneyes
• Seattle Sounders vs St Louis City SC
• Indoor Plant Festival
• Oddmall Emporium of the Weird: SPRUNG
• Tilted Thunder Roller Derby
• POP Cats Seattle 2026: Pacific Northwest’s Ultimate Cat Convention
• International Children's Friendship Festival
• Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival
• RSD 2026 List | RECORD STORE DAY

Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/meet 

Meet Me Here is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network. 

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What do we do with our fear? Fear can paralyze us, befuddle us, lead us to inexplicably run up the stairs to escape a killer when the front door is right there. But in Stephen Graham Jones’ world(s), fear can empower and be used as a tool against that which caused it. We’ll ask Jones what it means to harness terror and become the terrible.

And… if you need some help filling the horror shaped void, here’s Stephen Graham Jones' and Katie’s Recommended If You Liked (RIYL):

• Cliffhanger (1993)
• The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Read more about Stephen Graham Jones (and all the authors who stop by for a chat with our host Katie Campbell) at kuow.org/books.

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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.

HOST: Soundside producer Jason Megatron Burrows

LINKS: 

• Fin de Fest - Latin Film Festival
• MARINERS vs Houston Astros
• Seattle Cherry Blossom & Japanese Cultural Festival
• Spring Fair | Washington State Fair Event Center
• NW Model Hobby Expo
• SDFF 2026 - Deaf Spotlight
• WA State Toy Show
• 2026 Tea Festival - April 11th | Cascadia Tea Fest
• iDiOM Theater - “All Our Tragic” 4 part series
• Dungeons and Drag Queens Brunch Show
• SIFF 2026 Annual Volunteer Meeting

Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/meet 

Meet Me Here is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network. 

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