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Dec. 21
Print Edition for the week of
Dec. 21 - 27, 2011
Vol. 21, No. 16
Savage Love
Good Friends
by Dan Savage
New Column!
The Slog vs. Gawker Holiday Challenge!
I, Anonymous
LURC (Lesbian Until Regaining Consciousness)
by Anonymous
Film/TV
A Dangerous Method
: David Cronenberg's Cinema of the Anus
by Charles Mudede
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
: An Entertaining, Inessential American Remake
by Paul Constant
The Adventures of Tintin
: Motion-Capture Animation That Miraculously Skirts the Uncanny Valley
by Paul Constant
Music
Cloud Burst
Cloud Nice Envelop the Earth in 2011
by Larry Mizell Jr.
Random Remembrances While Watching Sting at the Paramount
It Was So Boring My Mind Drifted Back to a Bunch of '80s Pop Stars, a Stadium in Zimbabwe, and Two Swedish Girls
by Charles Mudede
Up & Coming
Lose your underrated talents every night this week!
by Stranger Staff
Genital Hospital Are More Than Just Good Old-Fashioned Pun
by Kelly O
Wounded Lion's
IVXLCDM
Makes Art in the Garage
by Dave Segal
Sound Check
Nacho Picasso Is Dipping for Renaissance Cheese
by Trent Moorman
Chuckletown, USA
A Little Ham for the Shut-Ins
by Cienna Madrid
Data Breaker
Best Electronic Music of 2011, in Six Tiny Slices
by Dave Segal
My Philosophy
Dyme Def Have Returned from Space with
Yuk the World
by Larry Mizell Jr.
The Homosexual Agenda
Everything Electric, Cool Yule, and Xmess
by Adrian Ryan
Poster of the Week
Poster by Sacha Maxim
by Aaron Huffman
Underage
Holiday Tunes from Swamp Meat and Forrest Friends
by Brittnie Fuller
Theater
Vague and Permanent Discontent
Watching
A Christmas Carol
with Occupy in Mind
by Brendan Kiley
Free Will Astrology
For the Week of Dec 21
by Rob Brezsny
Visual Art
Robin Held Is Leaving the Frye
Will Her Position Be Cut?
by Jen Graves
Books
In Defense of Cookbooks
Unlike Porn, Some Things Are Best Printed and Left on Your Kitchen Table
by Dominic Holden
How Richard Dawkins Stole Christmas
Ruining the Holidays with a Children's Treasury of Atheism
by Charles Mudede
New Column!
Christopher Hitchens “Nonplussed” at Finding Himself in Heaven
Food & Drink
Eat at the Blind Pig
Chalkboards and Sturgeon Where Sitka & Spruce Used to Be
by Bethany Jean Clement
Chow Bio
James Stofleth (Host) and Tori Brewster (Baker): Highline’s Cake-arokee
by Sarah Galvin
The Happiest Hour
Ravioli Station
by Marti Jonjak
Features
Am Night Before Christmas
Poem by Hulk
by Hulk
Moss, Meth, and Mount Rainier
All I Want for Christmas Is to Forage in the Woods for Decorations
by Cienna Madrid
News
Video Evidence
Pushing Back Against Claims of Police Brutality, SPD Reveals Footage of Protesters Throwing Stuff at Cops
by Eli Sanders
What Is SPD Thinking?
By Resisting Orders from the Department of Justice, Stubborn Cops May Be Inviting a Federal Lawsuit
by Dominic Holden
Don't Donate to the Salvation Army
Those Bell-Ringers Are Raising Money for an Anti-Gay Organization—Donate Somewhere Else
by Dan Savage
Bag Ban Passes
Corporate Grocery Stores Could Be Key to the City's Latest Attempt to Restrict Plastic Bags
by Dominic Holden
Sources Say
News Approved by the Dear Leader
by Kim Jong-Un
Last Days
The Week in Review
by David Schmader
Podcasts
Savage Love Episode 271
by Dan Savage
Public Editor
A Critical Overview of
The Stranger
by A. Birch Steen, Stranger Public Editor and OSHA Board of Governors Member (Retired)
Suggests
Silent Reading Party
by Christopher Frizzelle
‘The Beat Is the Law’
by David Schmader
Seattle Symphony Plays ‘Doctor Atomic’
by Jen Graves
Forever Young: The Films of François Truffaut
by Charles Mudede
Kate’s Pub Happy Hour
by Anna Minard
Burke Artifact ID Day
by Brendan Kiley
The Off Hours Reading
by Paul Constant
‘Pariah’
by Jen Graves
Dear Science
What Is Snot?
by Jonathan Golob
Sports Blotter
Barry Bonds's Conviction, a Kilo of Coke, and a Mad Dad
by Goldy
Worn Out
Anna Telcs: Sexy Cult Wear
by Marti Jonjak