Upisode 34: Seattle poet, playwright, longtime former advice columnist, and book-publishing industry impresario Greg Brisendine popped by the bookstore for a c... Read More...
Upisode 33: Longtime advocate and former mayoral finalist Cary Moon swings by the bookstore and raps with Ian about growing up in the Midwest, land planning i... Read More...
Upisode 32: University of Washington Law School professor Hugh Spitzer stopped by the bookstore for a free-flowing discussion on how Washington State's fo... Read More...
Upisode 31: It's showtime! Ian interviews Ellen Abram and Ryan Purcell of the Williams Project about their desire to pay good actors a living wage to... Read More...
Upisode 30: In celebration of Capitol Hill Art Walk, UpZones hosted its first ever live recording, with three of the key voices in the Seattle arts scene. Icon... Read More...
Upisode 29: Designer and Amplifier Deputy Director Cleo Barnett talks with Ian about the difference between New Zealand and the US. Cleo then recounts the story... Read More...
Upisode 28: Longtime decorated PNW architect and Lid I-5 co-founder John Feit stops by the bookstore to clarify the confusion around his name, then he brin... Read More...
Upisode 27: A new season! Aiko Schaefer has worked for 20 years to promote economic justice and elect good people to office; she stopped by the bookstore to cha... Read More...
Upisode 26: Season One Finale! After a brief celebration of one season of UpZones under the books, Ian hears from Boundless founder and CEO Xiao Wang, a Chinese... Read More...
Upisode 25: After a championship-level rant about the Showbox and related housing issues, Ian sits with poet, photographer, and public artist Shin Yu Pai, a 201... Read More...
Ian Martinez, a former journalist and Obama Administration adviser, brings his unique conversational manner to long-form interviews with community leaders in the arts, politics and activism, business, and general civic life. UpZones focuses on the changes occurring in the Seattle region as its economy and demography change.