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Music Meets Politics at the 2017 MoPop Pop Conference

Music Meets Politics at the 2017 MoPop Pop Conference

2017 Pop Con discussion, “Voicing Change: The Artist and the Political Life.” Left to right: Tanya Tagaq, Mike Hadreas (Perfume Genius), Meredith Graves and moderator Ann Powers

Alexa Peters

ZomBcon 2011, or Why I Shared Chapstick with a Stranger

ZomBcon 2011, or Why I Shared Chapstick with a Stranger

I am in line to meet True Blood’s Sam Trammell at Seattle’s second annual ZomBcon, a conference dedicated to zombie culture. By 11 a.m., I have stood in two different 45-minute lines and bumped into 16 other people in the exact same Sookie outfit as me (“Just another soon-to-be-dead waitress at Merlotte’s”). My make-up needs…

Jessica Day

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