Issue Archive for the Week of
Aug 6 -
12,
2009
Vol. 18, No. 47
Features
Seattle is leading the charge to make soccer into an American sport. If "we" don't do it, who will?
By Sean Nelson
Music
The Incredible Shrinking Decade
Brings Back the 45-Minute Album
By Michaelangelo Matos
The Garage-Soul-Blues Gospel
According to Night Beats
By Dave Segal
This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties
By Stranger Staff
A South Beach Thunderstorm
By COREY KAHLER
Gird Thyself
By Christopher DeLaurenti
Amon Tobin and Jega: Return of the Abstract
By Dave Segal
Everything Counts in Small Amounts
By Eric Grandy
New Singles from Ben Kweller, Muse, Kings of Leon, and Lil Wayne
By Michaelangelo Matos
Blue Scholars Stop Chasing That Big Record-Deal Unicorn
By Larry Mizell Jr.
Jill Labieniec
By Aaron Huffman
The Best Band Name Ever
By Megan Seling
Film
Paper Heart
By Lindy West
Cover Art
Cover art: Mike McGinn by Kyle Johnson. See more at www.kjphotos.com.
Columns
At the Crossroads (August 6)
By Brendan Emmett Quigley
At the Crossroads (August 6)
By Brendan Emmett Quigley
Heat Makes You, Objectively, Dumb
By Jonathan Golob
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)
Dick Tank!
By Wm. Steven Humphrey
Self-Love Affair
By Anonymous
Look at This Asshat
By Kelly O
Skin-to-Skin Contact
By Dan Savage
Hot New Conspiracy Theories!
Visual Art
New Smartness
By Jen Graves
Notes Toward a Review of Zach Rockhill's
Videocollage Performance
By Jen Graves
Books
Two New Anticorporate Books
By Paul Constant
Theater
Artists, Academics, and a Philanthropist on Merce Cunningham
By Brendan Kiley
A Cure for Pain
By Brendan Kiley
John Longenbaugh's Sweet, Sloppy Time Capsule
By David Schmader
Restaurants
Drinking in Style
By Bethany Jean Clement
Me and You and Everyone We Know Should Go to A Caprice Kitchen
By Bethany Jean Clement