Issue Archive for the Week of
Dec 28, 2011 -
Jan 3,
2012
Vol. 21, No. 17
Features
The Best Moments of the Year Included a Basement Show in the U-District, a Badly Dressed Legend at Wall of Sound, and a Pop Star’s Worldwide Victory Lap
By Stranger Staff
KELLY O chose her six favorite drunks from 2011. You pick the winner! The drunk with the most votes gets to be on the cover of our Regrets Issue next week.
By Kelly O
News
When the only program for kids in a low-income neighborhood shuts off its lights, what happens to those kids?
By Jen Graves
Job Listing for Union Organizer Sends Right-Wingers into Paranoid Tizzy
By Goldy
Shorter Than Books and Longer Than Proverbs
By Tim Tebow
Seattle's Congressman Angrily Stands Up to an Anti-Terrorism Bill and Loses
By Eli Sanders
Music
Dude York's Pop Takes You Back to Your High School Crush
By Jackson Hathorn
The Best Moments of the Year Included a Basement Show in the U-District, a Badly Dressed Legend at Wall of Sound, and a Pop Star’s Worldwide Victory Lap
By Stranger Staff
Lose your keeling over from exhaustion every night this week!
By Stranger Staff
Every Damn Party
(and Concert, and Fancy Dinner)
We Know Of!
By Stranger Staff
KJ Sawka Is Pendulum's Metronome Wrecking Ball
By Trent Moorman
DJ Rama, John Tejada, Pezzner vs. Hanssen, Lusine
By Dave Segal
Sta Hi Brothas' Christmas Trees, Macklemore, and New Year's Eve
By Larry Mizell Jr.
New Year's Eve—The Most Vomit-Filled Time... of the Year!
By Adrian Ryan
Poster by NKO
By Aaron Huffman
Come See Who Scotland's Minister of Culture Has Been Raving About
By Cienna Madrid
New Year's in a Trance
By Brittnie Fuller
Film
The Artist Will Delight the Shit Out of You
By Paul Constant
War Horse Brings Spinoza into the Multiplex
By Charles Mudede
Summer Pasture
By Charles Mudede
2011: The Year in Stuff I Said
By Wm. Steven Humphrey
Cover Art
Don’t Talk to the Cops! by Jake Clifford
Columns
A Critical Overview of The Stranger
By A. Birch Steen, Stranger Public Editor and OSHA Board of Governors Member (Retired)
The Intensity of Kinky Critique
By Mistress Matisse
For the Week of Dec 28
By Rob Brezsny
The Week in Review
By David Schmader
Sports Blotter's Favorite Drunks of the Year
By Goldy
2011: The Year in Stuff I Said
By Wm. Steven Humphrey
Jackie Hell:
Used-Up Beauty
By Marti Jonjak
Poetry from Whiskers the Cat!
By Whiskers
Creepy Is Creepy
By Anonymous
The Sub's Paradox
By Dan Savage
Visual Art
The Disruptive Silence of Vanessa Place's Poetry
By Jen Graves
When the only program for kids in a low-income neighborhood shuts off its lights, what happens to those kids?
By Jen Graves
Books
A Sushi Master's Memoir (with Tons of Photos)
By Bethany Jean Clement
Arundhati Roy's Visits with India's Maoist Guerillas
By Brendan Kiley
Theater
Theater Anonymous Tries Its First Seattle Experiment
By Brendan Kiley
Restaurants
Plus, It Has Every Kind of Mezcal in the State
By Bethany Jean Clement
Won Williamson: Turkey Thermometers and Microbrews at Thomas Street Market
By Sarah Galvin
Loretta's Northwesterner
By Marti Jonjak