Issue Archive for the Week of
May 30 -
Jun 5,
2012
Vol. 21, No. 39
Pullout
Two Shootings, Six Victims in Seattle
By Stranger Staff
Features
The Initiative Process Is Turning Washington State into a Destitute Shithole
By Goldy
This Year's Seattle International Film Festival Is Freakishly Dense with Goodness
By David Schmader
News
Can Seattle's Liberal Catholics Contain Their Out-of-Control Bishop's National Agenda?
By Dominic Holden
CEO Jeff Bezos Caves After Months of Bad Press and Public Pressure
By Goldy
Two New Complaints Against Rob McKenna
By Eli Sanders
Mike McGinn's Wife Cancels Her Family's Subscription to the Seattle Times
By Eli Sanders
A Terrible Theme, Ostracized Lawmakers, and Pissed-Off Allies
By Dominic Holden
News and Gossip Dropped Straight into Your Yawning Maw
By Nicole Brodeur
Music
The Duke Spirit Ride Fast and Bare
By Trent Moorman
The Top 10 Worst Pop Songs About Africa and Africans
By Charles Mudede
Sleep's Dopesmoker
and Other Top Pot Jams
By Dave Segal
Lose your vegan dreadlock hive every night this week!
By Stranger Staff
LMFAO Are an Embarrassment to Electronic Music
By Dave Segal
The Birthday Party
By Anna Minard
Boombox Massacre and More
By Larry Mizell, Jr.
Who Was at the Music Festival?
By Derek Erdman
Underwear Bacon, Danny Streets, Broadway Babes
By Adrian Ryan
Poster by C.M. Ruiz
By Aaron Huffman
Ground Zero, Footwork, Big Eyes
By Brittnie Fuller
Film
Freakishly Dense with Goodness
By David Schmader
TV Trailer Park!
By Wm. Steven Humphrey
Cover Art
Columns
For the Week of May 30
By Rob Brezsny
A Critical Overview of The Stranger
By Dewar Bob Hobart, Author of Scienetics and founder of the Church of Scienetics
The Week in Review
By David Schmader
TV Trailer Park!
By Wm. Steven Humphrey
South Lake Union Is Not Interested in Nostalgia
By Sherman Alexie
Ask a Conchologist!
By Dr. Stanley S. Merringus
Isis Aquarian: Beards and Velvet
By Marti Jonjak
Virgin Escort
By Dan Savage
Wack Tactics (But Not Your Fault)
By Anonymous
Visual Art
King Tut in a Corporate World
By Erin Langner
A Not-Entirely-Successful Attempt at Summoning the Past of Suyama Space
By Jen Graves
Books
It's a Good Year for Nancy Kress's High-Viscosity Apocalyptic Fiction
By Paul Constant
Theater
This Wide Night at Seattle Public Theatre
By Brendan Kiley
Restaurants
There's a Reason Crumble & Flake Sells Out of Pastries Within One Hour of Opening Its Doors
By Megan Seling
Timothy Czarnetzki and David Powell, Owners of Urban Family Public House
By Sarah Galvin
Restaurants That Recently Went Away
By Bethany Jean Clement