The Stranger

While South Park Slept:

A Gruesome Murder, a Beloved Bar, and a Week on the Edge

How They Lie:

The Religious Right Lies to Get Signatures for Its Anti-Gay Petition

He's Our Only Chance for an Actual Debate:

Inside Mike McGinn's Underdog Campaign for Mayor

Crime Scene

The 12 Best Songs by Seattle Band Throw Me the Statue:

(Plus Five Songs About Which We Have Some Reservations—and By the Way, They Only Have Two Albums)

Incredible Drive:

Talbot Tagora's Spontaneous Post-Punk Combustion

Up & Coming:

This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties

Data Breaker:

Beatless in Seattle

Poster of the Week:

Ivan Minsloff

Underage:

Shook Ones' Soundtrack for Summer

Party Crasher:

The Opposite of a Book Burning

It's a Hit:

Rickrolling Nirvana

The Score:

No More Freebies

My Philosophy:

Big Tunes: BattleCat and DJ Quik

Fucking in the Streets:

Recapping the Block Party

Concessions:

Almost Unbearable

Funny People: Apatow, Overstuffed

Soul Power: The Happiest Africans in the World

Overwhelming Farce:

Finally, Someone Made a Funny Political Satire

Pure Love:

Two Hobbits to Rival Rockefeller

Shrink: Kevin Spacey, Psychiatrist to the Stars

The Art of Saying Nothing with Total Conviction:

An Interview with Armando Iannucci, Director of In the Loop

Crossword Solution:

Entry Form (July 30)

This Week's Puzzle:

Entry Form (July 30)

Control Tower:

Color of Money

Last Days:

The Week in Review

Public Editor:

A Critical Overview of The Stranger

I Love Television:

Me and Uranus

I, Anonymous:

I Wish I Could Charge You with Murder

Drunk of the Week:

Shawn!

Savage Love:

Only the Lonely

New Column!:

Hump! Heat Wave

The Dancer at the Lightbulb Factory:

A Coincidental Illumination at the Henry

Constant Reader:

First Runner-Up

Backwash from the Woodstock Generation:

Peeling Back the Layers of Thomas Pynchon's New Pulp Mystery

No Regrets:

Ubiquitous They Has a Brand, a Plan, and Jokes to Deliver

Go-Tell Motel:

Love and Death in Room 11

Bar Exam:

Whammy Bar

I Was Part of the Problem:

Because It's in Ballard, It Has to Have a Fucking Viking

The Happiest Hour:

Kelly's