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Sound Effect, Episode 26: Growing Pains

A book cover drawing, featuring a creature holding a flower with the Seattle Space Needle in the background.
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"Sound Effect" is your weekly tour of ideas, inspired by the place we live. The show is hosted by KNKX's Gabriel Spitzer. Each week's show explores a different theme, and this week we discuss growing pains. 

Gabriel Spitzer gets a look at the growing neighborhood of Capitol Hill through the eyes of business owner Jen Dietrich. Dietrich opened Dr. Jen's House Of Beauty in Seattle's "gayborhood" because it felt like the perfect place for the artists and the misfits, and she fit. But as the neighborhood changes Dietrich feels financially and emotionally displaced. 

KNKX's Kevin Kniestedt speaks to Heather Corinna of the sex advice website scarleteen.com about how she got into the business of the online birds and bees. 

Growing up can be painful and according to Dr. Robert Pretlow, an anonymous online community can serve as a safe space for kids dealing with obesity and food addiction. Pretlow shares some of what he has learned  in his years of practice with KNKX's Kevin Kniestedt. 

And what says growing pains more than a kid's book about a Sasquatch? Stay with me. Steven Cosgrove is a father and storyteller who used his gift for weaving intricate narratives to spin the tale of Wheedle on the Needle, a fictional children’s story that's really a parable of growth,  building bridges between Seattle's residents old and new.