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What’s a Nice Jewish Boy Doing in a Graveyard Shift Like This?:

Meet Alex Ruder, KEXP’s Overnight Sensation and the Most Underrated DJ at the Station

Mitt Happens:

After the New Hampshire Primaries, Mitt Romney Stoops to Collect the Republican Crown

How Much Is the State Underfunding Education?

Preserving the Right to Choose:

Washington Bucks a National Trend with New Women's Rights Bill

Benefit Barriers:

New High-Security Checkpoints Stand Between the Elderly and Their Benefits

Vacating Occupy Seattle:

Factions That Endorse Violence Are Driving Away What's Left of Occupy Seattle

Sources Say:

News You Can Strap to the Roof of Your Car

Senate Vote Count on Marriage Equality:

Who's a Yes, Who's a No, and Who's Undecided

How to Make It in the Music Industry:

Theophilus London™ Wants to Sell You Theophilus London™

Turning Air into Sculpture:

New Principal Flute Demarre McGill Makes You Crane Your Neck at Seattle Symphony

Album Review: Indie-Rock It Girl Cate Le Bon's Cyrk

Album Review: Orkestar Zirkonium's Too Hot for Sleep

Up & Coming:

Lose your spandex, hair, and air every night this week!

Sound Check:

Allen Stone: In a Car Headed to Portland with His Parents

Granted:

Random Upcoming Goodness in 2012

My Philosophy:

Ripynt, Theophilus London, and Brother Ali

Chuckletown, USA:

Ashley Judd Is as Funny as She Looks

Data Breaker:

Max Cooper, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Panabrite, Early Atoms

Underage:

Cat Jokes: No Longer Just on the Internet

The Homosexual Agenda:

Lezbro, Soul Music, and Dancing on Jesus (or Something)

Poster of the Week:

Poster by PonyHomie

Interview with an Assassin:

A Narco Tells His Own Story in El Sicario, Room 164

The Iron Lady: Meryl Streep’s (and Margaret Thatcher’s) Awesome Political Performance

Contraband: A Dumb Action Movie Laced with Clever Bits (and Mark Wahlberg)

Oh, the Humanity:

Carnage Will Make You Feel Sad for Everyone Involved

Art House:

House of Bamboo: The World of Samuel Fuller

I Love Television:

In with the Old!

Sports Blotter:

People in Sports Behaving Badly

Free Will Astrology:

For the Week of January 11

Public Editor:

A Critical Overview of The Stranger

Last Days:

The Week in Review

I Love Television:

In with the Old!

Drunk of the Week:

Oh Deer!

I, Anonymous:

Ex Guy to the Next Guy

New Column!:

Lady Crystal’s Predictions for 2012—and Beyond!

Savage Love:

Santorum Surges

The Fast and the Frozen:

Photography, Past and Present Tense

A Totem Pole Made of Christmas Lights:

Bringing Superwrongness to Life

I'll Show You the Life of the Mind

BDSM in the Forest:

Spring Awakening's Teutonic Puberty

Roman Rambo:

Coriolanus Is a Revved-Up Frat Boy

Stop Laughing:

There Are Better Things to Do with Your Mouth at Guanaco's Tacos Pupuseria

Now Open:

Little Uncle, Belle Clementine, Manhattan Drugs, MORE!