Issue Archive for the Week of
Sep 5 -
11,
2012
Vol. 22, No. 1
Features
The heat this summer was our generation’s Hiroshima. Wake up, people! If you’re not terrified about the future, you’re an idiot.
By Jonathan Golob
News
Council Member Bruce Harrell Wants
to Help 40,000 Ex-Cons Get Jobs in Seattle
By Cienna Madrid
Three Commissioners Raise Concerns
About the Port CEO's Lucrative Second Job
By Dominic Holden
Your RDA of Sniping, Infighting, and Rumors
By Obama’s Empty Chair
Music
Fifteen Bullets, a 17-Year Sentence, and a New Hiphop Career
By Brendan Kiley
Lose your death sax every night this week!
By Stranger Staff
Silversun Pickups on the Late-Night TV Rounds
By Trent Moorman
Purity Ring, Evian Christ, Nite Jewel
By Dave Segal
New A$AP Mob Album, Starr Spazzin, Rogers Thriftway
By Larry Mizell, Jr.
Chastity Belt and This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb
By Brittnie Fuller
Collide-O-Scope, Stoned in the Disney Vaults
By Adrian Ryan
Poster by Rick G
By Aaron Huffman
Everything Happening in Classical Music and Opera This Season
By Jen Graves
What I'm Most Looking Forward to This Season
By Charles Mudede
Film
The Bad Girls of Bachelorette
By Marjorie Skinner
An Interview with the West Memphis Three's Jason Baldwin
By David Schmader
Julie Delpy’s Aggressively Unfun 2 Days in New York
By Alison Hallett
Everything Happening in Film This Season
By David Schmader
The Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Is (Awesome) Living History
By David Schmader
The Ambassador: Africa Is Not for Borat
By Charles Mudede
Columns
For the Week of September 5
By Rob Brezsny
A Critical Overview of The Stranger
By Bill Hitchert, Chief Visionary Officer of BH Ideas
The Week in Review
By Cienna Madrid
Symphony
By Sherman Alexie
Modesty: Dirty Parts and Dry Ice
By Marti Jonjak
It's 1:37 a.m. Is this girl being squashed on the corner of Pine and Broadway because...
By Kelly O
I'm Going to Steal Your Boyfriend
By Anonymous
C'mon! Let's (Feign Some) EXCITEMENT!!
By Wm. Steven Humphrey
Ask Becca & Trish, Two Teenagers Texting in a Movie Theater
Visual Art
A Guided Tour of The Celestial Chariot
By Jen Graves
With Glass-Bottomed Pools, Submarine Shuttles, Mini Forests, Lights for Scared Fish, and Arches Made of Viaduct Ruins
One Man, One Window, One Hilarious Obsession
By Marti Jonjak
(It's a Weekly Half-Hour TV Show Devoted to Seattle's Art Scene)
By Nancy Guppy
A Morbid Quarterly Column of Unbridled Praise
Photographer Sedat Pakay's Images of a Writer in Exile
By Charles Mudede
Everything Happening in Art This Season
By Jen Graves
If You Don't Already Have a Bottle, It's Too Late
Books
Galya Diment's Book on an Unknown Member of the Bloomsbury Set
By Charles Mudede
A Short Story
By Rebecca Brown
Everything Happening in Readings and Lectures This Season
By Paul Constant
Theater
Ira Glass Shows How Your This American Life Sausage Is Made and Then Battles Dan Savage on the Decks
By David Schmader
Interviews with Choreographers, Artists, a Deputy Director, and a Video,
By Brendan Kiley, Jen Graves, Sarah Galvin and Melody Datz
A bunch of anarchist-hearted artists set out to make an opera about WTO. What could possibly go wrong?
By Jen Graves
Everything Happening in Theater and Dance This Season
By Brendan Kiley
Two Directors, Two Playwrights, Two Years in the Making
By Brendan Kiley
Restaurants
Should a food critic always be undercover? Is it important—or even possible—anymore?
By Bethany Jean Clement
One Vegan, Two Vegetarians, and One Carnivore Review the Brand-New Veggie Grill
By Dave Segal, Megan Seling, Jen Graves and Bethany Jean Clement
Outlander's Sexy Furniture and Peanut Butter Beer
By Sarah Galvin
Recent Restaurant RIPs
By Bethany Jean Clement