The Stranger

A&P: Seattle's Only Art & Performance Quarterly!:

Full spring season! Plus, new pieces by Sherman Alexie, Rebecca Brown, and the staff of The Stranger

Preschooling Olympia:

High-Quality Early Education Pays for Itself. So Why Won't Lawmakers Fund It?

"Wonderwall" Is the Moneymaker:

Derek Erdman Interviews Four Buskers and a Security Guard

Geniuses: Where Are They Now?

Fame:

A Short Story by Sherman Alexie

Running from Office:

Can a Staffer for an Anti-Gay Senator Get Elected in Seattle?

Sources Say:

I’m Not a Faggot, I Swear!

Meet Greg Nickels:

He Wants to Be the First Democrat to Capture the Secretary of State's Office Since 1956

Here's the Kicker:

A Head-Kicking Cop Gets Off the Hook and the Cop Union Scores a Political Victory

The Clash:

One Hundred Punks Protest Demolition of Their Favorite Bar

A Starbucks Boycott Backfires:

How an Anti-Gay Group Made Coffee Lovers of Us All

Never Lose That Feeling:

Raise an FX Pedal (or Two) to Swervedriver's Fuzzed-Out Rock Maelstrom

Granted:

Hot Snakes Strike Again

Up & Coming:

Lose your modernized take on the genre every night this week!

Sound Check:

The Ting Tings' Stripped-Down, Club-Sparked Sound

Sounds of Yesterday:

This Week: Silly Killers

What Killed Mozart:

The Search for the Saddest Notes in the Requiem, Western Music's Morbid Masterpiece

My Philosophy:

Trayvon Martin, Hiphop, and America

Chuckletown, USA:

Comedian Neil Hamburger Talks Internet Dating, Bow Wow Wow, and Retirement

Data Breaker:

Yuksek, X-Bit 1 Chiptune Showcase, Caspa, Emancipator

The Homosexual Agenda:

Phyllis Stein and the Broadway Grill

Complaints Box:

Why Doesn't Anyone Write Murder Ballads Anymore?

Never Heard of 'Em:

Royal Trux

Underage:

Babysitter Watch Over Smoldering Ennui, Rodrigo y Gabriela Joined By 13-Piece Orchestra

Poster of the Week:

Poster by James Scheall

Charles Mudede Picks Up the Telephone:

Jazz Pianist McCoy Tyner Answers

Spring Classical Calendar:

Everything Happening in Classical Music and Opera This Season

All That Jazz:

A Guide to Jazz Clubs in Seattle

Some of That Jazz:

What I'm Most Looking Forward to This Spring

Impossible Perfection:

Even If You Hate Sushi, You Must See Jiro Dreams of Sushi

The Landlord from Hell:

The Raid: Redemption: Is a Run-on Sentence of a Kung Fu Movie

Art House:

Kati with An I

I Love Television:

Dear Jeff Foxworthy

Angry Young Boy:

There’s a Bike-Ridin’ Kid in The Kid with a Bike!

Spring Film Calendar:

Everything Happening in Film This Season

Public Editor:

A Critical Overview of The Stranger

Last Days:

The Week in Review

Free Will Astrology:

For the Week of March 28

I Love Television:

Dear Jeff Foxworthy

I, Anonymous:

Two Years Later, Thank You

Savage Love:

Boys, Boys, Boys

Drunk of the Week:

Vote for the Winner of Drunk Animal Month

Text from South Lake Union:

Jimmy John's Delivers Pickles

New Column!:

Meet Wooly Willard!

Gilded Turds:

The Yum and the Yuck Bump Uglies in Alwyn O'Brien's New Show

Obsessive, Crawling, Joyful:

The Five Decades of Alden Mason

Anatomy of a Painting:

A Guided Tour of Cranach the Elder's The Judgment of Paris

In Her Pants:

Forty years after the rise of feminist art, Seattle artist Lynn Schirmer discovers something shocking.

Architecture:

The Walrus Heads on the Arctic Building

Spring Art Calendar:

Everything Happening in Art This Season

A Multitude of One:

Elizabeth Ellen Breaks Herself Up Into Sharp Pieces in Fast Machine

More Anecdotal Evidence

Spring Readings Calendar:

Everything Happening in Readings and Lectures This Season

Literary Map of the Olympic Peninsula

Overlong and Overwrought:

A Bitter New Play About Seattle

The Lineup:

Interviews with a Ballerina, a Modern-Dance B-Boy, and the New Director of Velocity

White Man's Early Light:

The History of Puccini's Madame Butterfly Is the History of Sex Tourists Being Scumwads

Now You Can Die Happy, Stephen Hando:

A Morbid Way of Praising Amazing Artists

Spring Performance Calendar:

Everything Happening in Theater and Dance This Season

New Burlesque Breaks the Routine

Chinese Food and Cake:

The Weird and Wonderful Regent

Happiest Hour:

Bisato

Now Closed:

Recent Restaurant RIPs

Le Good-Bye:

If You Possibly Can, You Should Go to Le Gourmand Before It Closes Forever

Chow Bio:

Rich Fox and Allen Macleod, Managers, Macleod's Scottish Pub