The Stranger

Fear and Loving:

Macklemore and Marriage Equality

The Domestication of Downtown:

What the New Target Will Do to Second and Pike

Endorsements for the August 7 Primary Election (PLUS CHEAT SHEET!):

Vote Or We'll Kill You

Will the Bike Lobby Abandon the Mayor?:

They Say That Under McGinn, Seattle Is "Slipping Behind" on Cycling Improvements

Runaway Train:

Eighteen dirty, noisy, car-stopping coal trains a day are barreling toward Seattle. And there may not be anything we can do to stop them.

SPD's Big Job Opening:

The City's Next Priority Is Choosing a Trustworthy Monitor to Oversee the Cops

2012:

The New Tax Form That Might Spell Doom for Romney

Never Heard of 'Em: Brian Eno

Please Eat Me:

An Oral History of the Greasiest Punk Fest That Ever Was

John Cameron Mitchell Wants to Dance with Somebody:

The Star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Director of Shortbus Brings His Queer Dance Party Mattachine to Seattle—One Night Only!

Up & Coming:

Lose your rabid goblin every night this week!

The World Was Their Öyster:

Five Things About that Band that Wrote "(Don't Fear) the Reaper"

Sound Check:

Strong Killings Sip Apertifs, Think Funyuns

What's Crappening?:

News, Reviews, and Puke

My Philosophy:

The Physics, Nipsey Hussle, Flavr Blue, Elzhi, 206hopradio.com

The Homosexual Agenda:

John Cameron Mitchell and the Mattachines

Poster of the Week:

Posters by Dax Anderson and C.M. Ruiz

Underage:

Fang Island, Zechs Marquise, Sharon Van Etten, Tennis

Data Breaker:

Substrata 1.2 Fest, Parallels, dBridge

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry: Always Interesting, Never Insightful

Art House:

The End of an Empire

Dark Horse: History Is Written by the Losers

Ruby Sparks: Building the Perfect Girlfriend (with Your Brain)

Dickless:

The Total Recall Remake Needs More Drugs

I Love Television:

Honey Boo Boo of the Apocalypse

Free Will Astrology:

For the Week of August 1

Public Editor:

A Critical Overview of The Stranger

Last Days:

The Week in Review

Text From South Lake Union:

Hidden Halfway Houses

Worn Out:

Aubrey McMillan: Pinstripes and Firecrackers

Drunk of the Week:

Grab Your Headphones

Savage Love:

Sex Etiquette

I, Anonymous:

Squirm, Bitches

New Column!:

Ask an Ear, Nose, and Throat Hooker

Solar Power:

On Seattle's Unrequited Love for the Sun

Tell Me More:

And What Do You Do with Your Spare Time, Neal Stephenson?

Enemies Foreign and Domestic:

Dave Eggers and Ben Fountain Have Written Two of the Best Novels of the Year (So Far)

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Rent?:

The Aging Musical Gets a Makeover

Heaving Bosoms in Cellblock Three!:

The Femme-sploitation Prison Satire of Kittens in a Cage

Going Out for Pizza:

Ballard's Stylish New Outpost for the Great American Unifier

Happiest Hour:

Mestizo Tequila Lounge and Grill

Chow Bio:

Nick Simonton, Owner of Nick’s Off Market