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Feb 2024
13m 26s

Come to the cabaret

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Can Can Culinary Cabaret is nestled in Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market. But the COVID-19 pandemic radically transformed the business, its audiences and the performers who keep the show going. Today, we’ll hear about its return to something that resembles “normal” and what that path was like for onstage storytellers and artists. We’ll also look at how U.S. inflation figures and interest rates affect economies around the globe.

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