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Jun. 13
Print Edition for the week of
Jun. 13 - 19, 2012
Vol. 21, No. 41
Savage Love
Dumped
by Dan Savage
New Column!
Triple Polo Shirts: Why Aren’t You Wearing Them?
Film/TV
Glee
—with More Hair!
Rock of Ages
: Not the Good Kind of Stupid
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
All in the Family
Lynn Shelton's Latest Is a Charming Rom-Com with an Itchy Underbelly
by David Schmader
The Least Fun I've Ever Had with an Orgasm
Hysteria
Fails to Excite
by Cienna Madrid
Possession
: The Monster, the Wife, and the Secret Agent
by Charles Mudede
I Love Television
Girl-on-Girl Action!
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Summer Film Calendar
Everything Happening in Film This Season
by David Schmader
I, Anonymous
Booze Blues
by Anonymous
Music
Wussy Kicks Ass
How a Ragtag Group of Musicians with Day Jobs Became a Great American Band
by David Schmader
Sol on a World Tour
The Burgeoning Seattle Hiphopper Gets a Fellowship and Puts His Career on Hold to Roam the Planet
by Charles Mudede
Up & Coming
Lose your perfect shamanic guide every night this week!
by Stranger Staff
Sound Check
My Goodness Toured the UK and Didn't Inject Drugs into Their Eyes
by Trent Moorman
Chuckletown, USA
The Last Anita Goodman Experience and Romance in Tukwila
by Cienna Madrid
Data Breaker
Porter Robinson, Blockhead, the New Law, Jonti, Sonnymoon
by Dave Segal
The Homosexual Agenda
Savage Loves Live For Matrimony, Dicks Get Slapped, Sisters Get Scissored
by Adrian Ryan
My Philosophy
Sol's Sabbatical, Fresh Espresso's
Bossalona
, and Raz's "They'll Speak"
by Larry Mizell Jr.
Poster of the Week
Poster by David Gallo
by Aaron Huffman
Underage
Brite Futures' Last Show
by Brittnie Fuller
Some of That Jazz
What I'm Most Looking Forward to This Season
by Charles Mudede
Summer Festival Calendar
All the Festivals You Need to Know About This Summer
by Megan Seling
Summer Classical Calendar
Everything Happening in Classical Music and Opera This Season
by Jen Graves
Theater
Anarchy in the UK
Shakespeare's Most Subversive Play
by Brendan Kiley
Gigantic Women
Fantasies About the Fairer Sex—Plus My Own Fantasy Opera
by Rebecca Brown
The Lineup
Interviews with Three Individuals Involved in Intiman's Insane Summer Season
by Brendan Kiley
Summer Performance Calendar
Everything Happening in Theater and Dance This Season
by Brendan Kiley
Free Will Astrology
For the Week of June 13
by Rob Brezsny
Visual Art
The Art That Failed
Some Thoughts from a Juror of This Year's Seattle Erotic Art Festival—Plus, a Shout-Out to a Few of the Knockouts
by Mistress Matisse
Inhabiting Landscapes
Two Theses by Rodrigo Valenzuela
by Charles Mudede
Fashion of the Christ
A Critique of What Jesus Is Wearing in Dalmasio Scannabecchi's
The Flagellation
by Marti Jonjak
Summer Art Calendar
Everything Happening in Art This Season
by Jen Graves
Charles Mudede Reviews Jupiter
(That's a Photo, Not a Painting)
by Charles Mudede
The Season That Was
Brief Reviews of Things We Saw This Spring
by Stranger Staff
Books
History Deletes Itself
What Do We Do When Everyone Who Lived Through World War II Is Dead?
by Paul Constant
Summer Readings Calendar
Everything Happening in Readings and Lectures This Season
by Paul Constant
Nice Box
What Are All Those Things in It?
by Catherine R. Smyka
Poetry
Aphorisms 116 and 92
by James Richardson
Food & Drink
With or Without a Lake of Melted Cheese
A Digressive, Incomplete History of Mexican Food in Seattle
by Bethany Jean Clement
Where to Eat (and Drink) Outside This Season
by Bethany Jean Clement
Features
Road Trip Through Hell
Driving (Like a Dumbass) up Mexico’s Gulf Coast
by Grant Cogswell
News
Not Necessarily the Best or the Brightest—but Definitely the Richest
By shuffling money from one campaign to the next, unremarkable city officials can scare off election opponents and essentially keep jobs for life. But now the election commission says it's time to stop.
by Dominic Holden
Power to the People!
Where to Grab Free Electricity for Your Phone or Laptop—but Not Your Damn Mini Fridge, Okay?
by Eli Sanders
No Slam Dunk
Political Opposition Is Aligning to Kill the Sodo Arena
by Goldy
City Officials Are Calling for Stricter Gun Laws
But Would They Be Legal?
by Cienna Madrid
Sources Say
News Even Spain Can Afford
by Mariano Rajoy Brey
Worn Out
Christine Chaney: Silk Scarves, Clouds of Flies
by Marti Jonjak
Text From South Lake Union
Shitty Résumé
by Sherman Alexie
Last Days
The Week in Review
by David Schmader
Podcasts
Savage Love Episode 296
by Dan Savage
Suggests
Little Castro on Beacon Hill
by David Schmader
Pulled Pork and Kimchi Pizza
by Cienna Madrid
Olympic Sculpture Park
by Jen Graves
Pony
by Christopher Frizzelle
‘Tune in Tokyo’
by Brendan Kiley
The Gay
by Megan Seling
‘God Bless America’
by Goldy
Wildrose Taco Tuesday
by Kelly O
‘The Killer’
by Charles Mudede
George R. R. Martin
by Lindy West
The Numbs
by Dave Segal
Dyke March
by Dominic Holden
And You Will Know Me (By the Trail of My Purse)
by Kelly O
Genius Awards
Genius Awards Shortlist
The Most Fascinating Artists in the City Are...
by Stranger Staff
2012 Genius Awards Visual Art Shortlist: Sarah Bergmann, Amanda Manitach, and Dan Webb
by Jen Graves
Theater Shortlist
by Brendan Kiley and David Schmader
Music Shortlist
by Jen Graves, Dave Segal and Charles Mudede
Literature Shortlist
by Paul Constant and Christopher Frizzelle
Film Shortlist
by Charles Mudede and David Schmader