Issue Archive for the Week of
Jul 9 -
15,
2009
Vol. 18, No. 43
Features
The Eight People Fighting to Be Your Next Mayor
By Dominic Holden
News
Community Centers Are Funded By the City and Supposed to Be Safe. Instead, they're Becoming Hubs for Crime.
By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee
Her Natural Allies Can't Make Sense of Her Refusal to Lead
By Eli Sanders
If You Need the Help of the Tenants Union—Let's Say Your Landlord Is Trying to Illegally Evict You—You'd Better Call Soon
By Dominic Holden
Music
Wisp Heads Another Stellar Bonkers! Bill
By Dave Segal
Portable Shrines Alters the Local Soundscape
By Dave Segal
The West Seattle Summer
Fest Isn't That Far Away
By Megan Seling
A Journey into Cage's Internal Hiphop Inferno
By Charles Mudede
This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties
By Stranger Staff
Drinking for the Kids
By Eric Grandy
New Singles from the Game, Dead Weather, DJ Koze, Fiery Furnaces, and More
By Michaelangelo Matos
Age Is Nothing but a Number That Kills You
By COREY KAHLER
Grynch's Good Chemistry
By Larry Mizell Jr.
Devi Pellerin
By Aaron Huffman
Frozen Fantasy
By Christopher DeLaurenti
Seahouse's PNW
By Casey Catherwood
Film
Disney's A Christmas Carol: the Movie, the Train!!!!!!!
By Lindy West
Sadly, Brüno Is but a Piffle at the End of a Press Blitz
By David Schmader
After a Triumphant World Tour, Lynn Shelton's Humpday Comes Home
By David Schmader
Cover Art
Cover art by Danny Snell. See more at www.dannysnell.com.
Columns
The Week in Review
By David Schmader
The Stranger: A Critical Overview
By A. Birch Steen, Stranger Public Editor and OSHA Board of Governors Member (Retired)
What Should I Use to Fertilize My Tomato Plants?
By Jonathan Golob
Three Across (July 9)
By Brendan Emmett Quigley
Three Across (July 9)
By Brendan Emmett Quigley
Friends: Who Needs 'Em?
By Wm. Steven Humphrey
What's that Wailin'?
By Sarah Palin
Have You No Sense of Decency, Seattle?
By Anonymous
Michael Ffffffff-fell-pssss*
By Kelly O
Humpday at Harvard Exit
By Dan Savage
Visual Art
The Torture of Painting After World War II at SAM
By Jen Graves
Books
Summer Robinson Created Pilot Books with
a Little Money and Not Much of a Plan
By Paul Constant
Theater
The Borscht-Belt Stage
Magic of the Edwards Twins
By David Schmader
Rats, Beer, and What's in Your Pipes
By Brendan Kiley
Restaurants
Chasing Down Seattle's New Pork-on-Wheels Mobiles
By Dominic Holden
Checking Out the Lookout
By Bethany Jean Clement
Martins Off Madison
By Marti Jonjak
Gorgeous George's Gorgeous George
By Steven Blum