Issue Archive for the Week of
May 9 -
15,
2012
Vol. 21, No. 36
Features
The May Day Smashup Was the Spectacular Tip of a Mundane Iceberg
By Brendan Kiley
And Other Messages in Self-Taught Painter Darryl Ary’s Work
By Derek Erdman
News
This Isn't the First Time the Wannabe Governor Has Been Caught Arguing One Thing in a Court of Law and Another in the Court of Public Opinion
By Goldy
Indian Community Mobilizes to Buy Up State Liquor Stores
By Cienna Madrid
Meet One of the 90 Women Brave Enough to Fight Back
By Cienna Madrid
A Roundup of Local News
By Brian Brown
Music
K Records' Calvin Johnson Is a Cultural Protagonist
By Trent Moorman
Psychic Circle Enters Seattle's Festival Circuit
By Dave Segal
Getting Up to Black Dice’s Post-Human Avant Boogie
By Dave Segal
Demdike Stare, Rammstein, Bassnectar, Splatinum
By Dave Segal
Lose your light waves from the sun every night this week!
By Stranger Staff
X's John Doe Will Not Be Hypnotized
By Trent Moorman
The-Dream and Kendrick Lamar
By Jackson Hathorn
Gay Attentions and Gay Apparel
By Adrian Ryan
Poster by Darin Shuler
By Aaron Huffman
Film
A Quietly Harrowing Drama
About a Terrible, Terrible Man
By David Schmader
But Johnny Depp’s Face and Neck Are Thickening In An Interesting Way
By Paul Constant
Patience (After Sebald)
By Charles Mudede
Six Films Worth Getting Excited About in Advance of SIFF 2012
By David Schmader
Uncle Charlie, the Internet
By Wm. Steven Humphrey
Cover Art
Columns
For the Week of May 9
By Rob Brezsny
The Week in Review
By Ann Romano
SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM FOR RESEARCH MATERIALS
Uncle Charlie, the Internet
By Wm. Steven Humphrey
Watching Workers Tear Shit Down
By Sherman Alexie
Nylon: Chemistry and Fashion
By Marti Jonjak
Dead Musician Turns Up in Greenwood!
By Kelly O
Pulling the Trigger
By Anonymous
Unscrew the Pooch
By Dan Savage
Visual Art
This Show Makes Me Want to Die
By Jen Graves
Books
Rain Dragon Is a History of the Pacific Northwest Disguised as a Novel About an Organic Yogurt Farm
By Paul Constant
Theater
Nobody Threw Tomatoes
By Rebecca Brown
Sideshow's Nostalgia Redux
By Brendan Kiley
Restaurants
The Ever-Changing Pleasures of the Wurst Place
By Paul Constant
Naked City Brewery & Taphouse
By Marti Jonjak