Issue Archive for the Week of
Dec 8 -
14,
2005
Vol. 15, No. 13
Features
Seattle's Move to De-Prioritize Marijuana Arrests Is Working—Arrests for Marijuana Use Are Down, Pot Smoking Is Not Up, and Other Cities Are Following Our Lead. So What's Next? How About Ending the War on Drugs?
By Eli Sanders
News
Glass Houses
By Josh Feit
The Replacements
By Erica C. Barnett
All the Blankets We Had
By Charles Mudede
City's Club Monitors Target Blue Moon Tavern—Again
By Thomas Francis
Mayor Proposes Strip-Club District South of Downtown
By Erica C. Barnett
Music
Black Eyes and Broken Hearts
By Jennifer Maerz
Hiphop Ya Don't Stop
By Larry Mizell Jr.
Chug the Lite Frat-tastic
By Paul Constant
A Roundtable of NW Noisemakers
By Grant Brissey
Black Lips' Garage Ruckus
By Jennifer Maerz
Roots & Americana
By Kurt B. Reighley
CANADIAN INVASION
By Dave Segal
Classical, Jazz, & Avant
By Christopher DeLaurenti
MCR vs. My Eighth-Grade Poetry
Seattle in the Mix
By Larry Mizell Jr.
No-Neck Band's "Problem"
By Dave Segal
A History of MF Doom
By Charles Mudede
Christmas Pageant 2005
By Kurt B. Reighley
The Force Is with Kanye
By Larry Mizell Jr.
Film
$400 Million Dollar Baby
By John Tynes
Wading into the Muck of the Oil Industry
By Bradley Steinbacher
Missed Opportunities
By Annie Wagner
Decent Entertainment–If You Like Insidious Messages
By Annie Wagner
Cover Art
Photo by Paul Bel-Air
Columns
Breathalyzed and Kooky
By Adrian Ryan
Mistress May I?
By Mistress Matisse
Don "Wokka-Wokka" Leonardo
Tacoma Boys Produce
By Kelly O
This Week in Review
By David Schmader
By A. Birch Steen, Stranger Public Editor and OSHA Board of Governors Member (Retired)
Roller Pervy
By Dan Savage
Visual Art
The Big Show and Its Discontents
By Emily Hall
Books
The Roar of the Store
By Christopher Frizzelle
The 'Internationalist' Is Edutainment
By Brendan Kiley
Theater
A Daring Bloody Mess
By Brendan Kiley
Googlewhack, Scarlatina, and a Baghdad T&A Cabaret
By Lindy West, Annie Wagner and Adrian Ryan
Restaurants
Jews 'n' Brews
By Bethany Jean Clement
15th Avenue Is a Magnet for Mediocrity
By Sara Dickerman