Monday: VoxPotter

Hope you had a good weekend. I spent a chunk of it reading.

Spoiler Alert (8:30)
How do Harry Potter books impact communities? Book sellers and movie theatre owners love the series, but reading the books can have a negative social effect. We also share our favorite lines from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (we promise not to spoil the ending).

Pretty much everyone, including Weekday host Steve Scher, contributed to this show.

A few items of business

-Music credit: this show features two wonderful songs found on CCMixter, "Summer Never Came" by Grapes, and "Just Talk Beat" by Ashwan. Go find songs in the creative commons there, if you want.)
-VoxPod's on MySpace. Wanna be our friends?
-Our system will only hold the last five podcasts, so if you really want last Monday's show, get it before Tuesday morning.

Finally, the ultimate question:
Harry Potter: love him or leave him?

Show #3: Pike's Peak

As you might have read in the Seattle Times or the P-I, Pike Place Market is marking its centennial this year. What can VoxPod (and KUOW) bring you that those dailies can't?
Sounds. Here's the show:
A Pike Place Postcard (4:55)
Today on VoxPod, an audio postcard of Pike Place Market. Though it turns 100 years old this year, the market still is a vital part of Seattle. Our reporters talk to a farmer, a fortune teller, a tour guide and an art vendor about what makes Pike Place so distinctive.

Amina Al-Sadi, Annie Stoller-Patterson, Sophia Skalbania and Molly McGill gathered stories that appear on this show.

Interactive question: What's your favorite place in the market?
My answer: The little Mexican Grocery that's next to the Starbucks (yes, the original Starbucks). I get the tamales and the cheap day-old pan dulce.
Your answer? Post it in the comments.