Issue Archive for the Week of
Apr 2 -
8,
2009
Vol. 18, No. 29
Features
A Complete List
By Lindy West
News
I Like Mike
By Erica C. Barnett
City Targets Lake City Bar for Drugs and Violence
By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee
A Final Strategy to Stop a Mall in Rainier Valley
By Dominic Holden
City Attorney Opponent's Staffer Bolts—to City Attorney's Campaign
By Erica C. Barnett
Bank Protesters Take It to the Streets
By Eli Sanders
South End Residents Fight to Keep Their Grocery Store
By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee
Music
Twenty-five Years of Mecca Normal
By Casey Catherwood
Breezy Does It for Okie Blues Brother JJ Cale
By Dave Segal
Why Don't I Love Mirah's New Album as Much as I Want To?
By Eric Grandy
The Unbearable Niceness of U.S.E
By Eric Grandy
This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties
By Stranger Staff
Black Dice: Repo
By Dave Segal
Gui Boratto: Take My Breath Away
By Eric Grandy
Peter Bjorn and John: Living Thing
By Eric Grandy
Egyptian Lover and CLP
By Dave Segal
Kelly Clarkson's "I Do Not Hook Up" and K'naan's "T.I.A."
By Michaelangelo Matos
Moped Operandi
By AARON PICKUS
Logics and Avatar Young Blaze
By Larry Mizell Jr.
April Showers
By Christopher DeLaurenti
Lyrical Beatdown: Merle Haggard vs. Lily Allen
Film
Alien Trespass: Expensive Junk
By Lindy West
Tokyo!: The Greatness of Michel Gondry
By Charles Mudede
Adventureland: Horny Twentysomethings in Love
By Paul Constant
Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before. AGAIN.
By Kelly O
Skills Like This: A Scrappy Little Indie Odyssey
By Lindy West
Moscow, Belgium: Belgians—They're Just Like Us!
By Paul Constant
Cover Art
Columns
As You Like It (Apr. 2)
By Brendan Emmett Quigley
Why Minds Wander
By Jonathan Golob
A Critical Overview of The Stranger
By A. Birch Steen, Stranger Public Editor and OSHA Board of Governors Member (Retired)
The Week in Review
By David Schmader
Escape from Eden of the Chimps
By Wm. Steven Humphrey
A Didjaknow™ Guide to Emerald City Comicon
High People Just Wanna Chill, You Dumbass
By Anonymous
Tara Thomas, Bride-to-Be
By Kelly O
Craig's Last Hit
By Dan Savage
Visual Art
What the New Director of EMP—and Art Itself—Never Recovered From
By Jen Graves
Sweet Messes
By Jen Graves
Books
Young American Goes to China, Finds Rockers, Slackers, and Drugs
By Brendan Kiley
The Local News: Teenage Abduction and Other Annoyances
By Paul Constant
Last Days: Murder in a Cult of Self-Mutilating Monks
By Paul Constant
Toward 2012 puts the "T.M.I." in "end times."
By Paul Constant
Theater
Three Reviews and One Tragic Preview
By Stranger Staff
Restaurants
One Very Bad Day and Two Great Ones at Elliott Bay
By Bethany Jean Clement
Cafe Racer's Genuine Accumulation
By Bethany Jean Clement
Connie's Rimrock
By Marti Jonjak