Print Edition for the week of
Apr. 1 - 7, 2010

Vol. 19, No. 30

Savage Love

After the Fuct

New Column!

I Once Strangled a Hitchhiker

Film/TV

Broken Record

Love and God and Chance and Terror and the Entire Universe in Brighton Rock

Concessions

Art House

The Man from London and the Condition of Cinema

Clash of the Titans: Unleash the Crappin’!

I, Anonymous

Bareback and Pregnant

Music

Give Up

God Hates You and Owl City Is Proof

Low on Fire

Retribution Gospel Choir Rock Like Hell

Up &Coming

This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties

It's a Hit

New Singles from Tensnake, I:Cube, and Deniz Kurtel

Data Breaker

Great New Releases by Nerd Revolt and the Sight Below

My Philosophy

A Fresh Dose of Vitamin D

The Score

What Gives, Philip Glass?

Poster of the Week

Poster by Trevor Basset and Gaelyn Woltz

Party Crasher

Trying to Find Booze at a Guerrilla Art Party

Underage

Greg Attonito of the Bouncing Souls Comes to Seattle

Visual Art

Last Resort

The Disturbing, Rich Banality of Tourist Pictures

Books

How to Learn to Love the 352nd Mediocre-Looking Book Handed to You by Your Books Editor

A Journey to the Center of Workaday Criticism via a Jewish Gangster Novel Titled The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats

Constant Reader

On Book Readings, Heart-Crushing and Not

Food & Drink

Ten Great Things About Thai Curry Simple

Number One: It's Awesome

Bar Exam

The Brand-New, Actually Old Greatness of the Diller Room

Chow Bio

Danielle and Adrienne Jeffrey of Sweet Iron Waffles

Features

How to Defeat a Pit Bull with Your Bare Hands

Because nothing can muck up a sweet Seattle spring like having your face ripped off by a dog.

News

Why Do You Hate Them, Rob?

State Attorney General Rob McKenna Wants to Block Health-Care Reform from These People

How Rob McKenna's Lawsuit Can Be Stopped

(And Why It Probably Won't Be)

Police Beat

The Officer Who Did Not Pull the Trigger

Crossword Puzzle

This Week's Puzzle

Catching On (Apr. 1)

Crossword Solution

Catching On (Apr. 1)

Dear Science

Public Editor

A Critical Overview of The Stranger

I Love Television

Beating a Dead Horse

Suggests

'Barton Fink'

Snacks!

Kiki Smith

William Vollmann

Morgan Thorson, Low

'Winky'

'Point No Point'

Tommy Tournament

Last Days

The Week in Review

Slog

Adventures in the Urban Jungle

Good Lady...

Reichert: The Congressman of "No."

33 years ago today

The Film Section Needs You!

Back to Work, Hammering Man

Flickr Photo(s) of the Day

State Attorney General Rob McKenna Is Not Transgender

Your Daily Dale

The Fabricated-Interviews-with-World-Famous-Writers Scandal Expands

Biden: "No man, under any condition other than self-defense, has the right to raise his hand to a woman."

On Defeating a Pit Bull with Your Bare Hands

First, the Bad News

Space Needle Says Gift Certificates for Chihuly Museum Fans Was a "Mistake"

Two German Women Attempt to Board a Plane With a Dead Man

To Do Today: Garbage Tours and Free Travel

February 20, 1967 - April 5, 1994

Pop Life at the Hidmo

Reading Tonight: Groups or One-on-One

How's That Hatey, Crazy Stuff Working Out For Ya?

Best Summary of Prom Controversy

Judge Declares Judicial Branch Still Exists, Orders End of NSA Warrantless Wiretapping

Readers Needed for Salon of Shame Tonight

"Teabonics"

Move Over "Keyboard Cat," Now There's "French Pop Standing Cat!"

Lunchtime Quickie: French Women Are Hot, Part II

Time Lords Among Us

Sounders Match Open Thread

Freezing cold and excellent choose hole, alright!

Borders Sticks Around

Bristol Palin Plays "What If?"

Reading Tonight: An Dantomine Eerly

Slog Happy! Let's Party!

Super-Fan Field Guide

This Week in Film: The Man from London

A Lesbian Walks Into a Comedy Club...

A Kick-Ass Playground Alternative to a Pay-for-Play Glass Museum

SL Letter of the Day: Two Simple Words

Today in Upsetting Questions

No Steak for You

Tonight! Frances Farmer Organ Karaoke

Man From Selah, Washington Arrested for Threatening to Kill Sen. Patty Murray

Strike Back Against the Chihuly Glasstroturf Campaign

The iPad and the Future of Media

Don't Mess with Lady Crystal

Lunchtime Quickie: Dear Old Spice...

"Do You Want Men Dressed as Women Teaching Your Kids?"

The Brand-New, Actually Old Greatness of the Diller Room

Dirty Deals Dino

Tomorrow is a Brighter Day: After the iPad

Man Plunges to His Death from the Empire State Building, Authorities Find Suicide Note in His Dorm Room

Currently Hanging: Your Ship

iPhone OS 4 to Be Revealed Thursday

How Much Is Tuition?

The Morning News: Three Dead in Anacortes Refinery Blast, Many Governors Have Received Threatening Letters, and Last Month Employers Added More Jobs Than They Have in Three Years

Teenage F-Bomb Bandit Gets $25 for Robbing Banks

McGinn 520 Report: State Plan Creates Insurmountable Obstacles for Ever Building Light Rail on Bridge, but, by Adjusting Plans Now, "Light Rail Could Be a Reality"

Only the Best for the RNC

Nice Work There

Signs of the Revolution?

PR Firms and Tourism Interests Steamroll Chihuly Meeting

John McCain Is Not a Maverick

The Catholic Church Is Like the Jews...

Icon Grill Facade Falls to Pavement, Injuring Pedestrians

Lunchtime Quickie: Don't Use Your Cell While Driving or... GINGERS WILL HAVE SEX?

U.S. Authorizes Targeted Killing of Anwar al-Awlaki

This Just In

Today in Ridiculously Exciting Facebook Updates

Wall Street Today

Bullshit, Scrabble

Are Chihuly Fans Being Bribed for Their Support?

SL Letter of the Day: You Tried

Another angle on E-Books

Reading Today: Following a Dead Man

Virus Attack!

Betty the Gentle Pit Bull

A Word on Group Shows

You Have to Read This Week's Books Lead

Yesterday The Stranger Suggested: Paul Verhoeven

Are You Packed with $300 Worth of Talent?

Required Reading: New York Times Magazine On Whether Animals—Besides Humans—Can Be Gay

Lindsay Lohan: No Money, Mo' Problems

Is Cheating Good For Marriage?

Reading Tonight: Blurbed by Dan Rather

Comment on the Chihuly Museum Tonight

Ask Mayor McGinn Your Questions Now!

Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Robbery, Quakes, and Beavers!

Currently Hanging: Euan Macdonald's Mountain Goats and Sheet Music

City Asks Supreme Court to Release Names of People Who Signed R-71

Catholicism and a 500-year-old Cemetery in Peru

A First Look Inside the Hunter Gatherer Lodge

Cliff Mass: "BIG Storm Coming"

Stupid Fucking Credulous Editorial Board

Could 2012 Be Ron Paul's Year?

Get Rid of the U.S. Senate?

100 Attorneys Against McKenna's Lawsuit

Reading Tonight: The Past and the Future

KFC's Quest to Kill Us All, or: When Is a Sandwich No Longer a Sandwich?

Flickr Photo of the Day

SL Letter of the Day: Woman On The Verge...

Anna Paquin Comes Out As Bisexual

Are You Packed with $300 Worth of Talent?

Teal + Orange = Perfect

Jailbreak Your iPad

Things I Have Found on the Ground, Part 2 in a Series

Youth Pastor Watch

Hugo House Makes National Poetry Month as Painless as Possible

Department of Too Soon to Tell, Amazon Edition

This Week in Film: Brighton Rock

Tech People Aren't That Funny*

Not Safe for Vegetarians: Burning Beast

This Week in Film: The Exploding Girl

Morning News: Brought to You by the Letter S

This Week in The Stranger

If You Don't Agree With Regina Hackett, You're an "Anti-Art Teabagger"

Morning News

Chihuly Cheerleaders Don't Address Why The Project Doesn't Belong on Private Land

Txori in Belltown Closing

Tarragon Is the King of Herbs

The Morning News: The Vatican Says the Pope Has Immunity, Scientists Say Frogs Can Predict Earthquakes, and Russia's President Calls for "More Cruel" Measures Against Terrorists

Reading Tonight: Crime, Science, and Mask-Kissing

Africa on the Rise?

A Pattern of Canadian Deaths

On Eroticizing Jean-Luc Picard

McGinn Seems Ready to Recommend Broadway Streetcar Alignment

Fruit-On-Fruit Crime

DON'T FILL OUT YOUR CENSUS FORMS*

Pro-Chihuly Museum Officials Should Recuse Themselves From Considering Bids

RIP, Kandahar Burger King

Flickr Photo of the Day

Book Sales Decline in 2009

Census! Due Today! (Ish!)

Comic Book Review: American Vampire #1

An Art Project Artists Don't Support

Speaking of National Poetry Month

The Cow and the Country Doctor

Your Weekend Calendar: Christ-Free Edition

More from the Nexus of Art and Science

They Can't Do It All

Silent Reading Party Is Tomorrow Night

Free Dance Classes at Velocity

City Council Approves Expanding Children's Hospital

Zoning Issues May Impede Real Change's Move to Pioneer Square

Neighborhood Blog Roundup

"What's the best game-plan for 'the big one' in the Downtown area?"

Human Rights Commission to Discuss Burgess’s Civility Bill Tonight

How to Get Attention with New Work

All Your Wonderflonium Are Belong to Us

Man Stabs Other Man Downtown After Aggressive Panhandling

Amazon Wants You to Know Who Is to Blame

Professional Journalists of Western Washington, Prepare to Be Teabagged

Judging a Date by His Books

Wind, Baby, Wind!

Stay Away from Peanut Brittle Today.

There Are Days That I Am Ashamed to Associate with the Publishing Industry

Fourth of July Fireworks Canceled

Opening Day, Watching the Mariners . . .

You Have a Few Hours to Ask Mayor McGinn Your Questions!

Today in Crushed Dreams (and Hilarious Parenting)

The New iPad Can Do a Lot of Things...

"I'm Charlie."

Today in Steve Scher's Brain

"Disturbing Easter Bunny with Dogs"

SL Letter of the Day: An Update & A Message For Constance

First Hands-On iPad Reviews

Sound Transit May Hike Light-Rail Fares

A Death In Oklahoma

Flickr Photo(s) of the Day

Todd Moore

Hari Kondabolu on the Health Care Plan

Unboxing Photos

Old Lady Titman and the World's Oldest Bun

Do You Agree with Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna's Decision to Fight the New Health Care Legislation?

America Still Blames W

RNC, You Sexy Beast

Meanwhile in Egypt

Meat-Seeking Meathead

I Couldn't Have Said It Better: The Case for Questioning the Chihuly Museum

Such Nice Dogs...

This Morning I Was Really Cranky...

Today in What the Fuck Is Congressman Hank Johnson Even Talking About?

Don't Forget: The Mayor's in Questionland Today!

In Response to the Question

Yesterday The Stranger Suggested: Ocho

Slog Commenter Book Report: Enigma Tackles El Monstruo

Red Five Standing By

Nursing Assistant Suspended for Being Pantsless in a Resident's Room

WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder

IFL Update

Guitar-Wielding Man Tells Police "Bring It"

Microsoft and Starbucks Chip In $250,000 for Fireworks Show

Nerd Ragnarok

Lunchtime Quickie: Unicorn Girl Goes to the Dentist

NASA Announces New Mission

McGinn Backs Broadway Streetcar

Cherie Priest's Year Keeps Getting Better

Those Damning Undercover ACORN Tapes? A "Highly Selective Editing of Reality"

Seattle Human Rights Commission Overwhelmingly Votes to Reject Burgess's Aggressive Solicitation Bill

First Hill Improvement Assocation Rejoices at High-Speed Escalators From Light Rail to Top of First Hill

Kirkland's Bernie Madoff: Rhonda Breard

City’s 520 Consultants Send Discouraging Report

RIP, Chez Gaudy

Counting Sleep

The Return of the Repressed: Sinead O'Connor Attacks Pope

On the Ethics of Book Piracy

Fourth of July Firework Show Saved

Week in Review

Seattle Center Quietly Killed a Proposal for the Fun Forest Site and Then Backed Chihuly Museum

Yet Another Earthquake

Hate!

Black Skin Is not All That

Match Book: Books About Hong Kong

Re: Your Daily Dale

This Morning I Made Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes: A Photo Essay

Reading Today: Carmindy!

So He's Not Just Immune To Simple Human Decency Then?

Morning News

Tonight's Artwalk Is Huge

I Like This

The Last of the West

Liberal Allies of City Hall Say Officials Are Failing to Protect City Interests from State Tunnel

Chechen Militant Claims Responsibility for Russian Subway Bombings

The Pope Protected Pedophiles

Morning News

Hang Your Head in Shame, Tabasco

Oh, OH!

Burgess Stacks Public Safety Committee With Propoganda in Favor of His Agressive Solicitation Bill, Omits City Human Rights Commission Report

Jeffrey Wright, Who Would Profit From Chihuly Museum, Is a Major Republican Donor

For the Record

Dave Ross and Businesses Pledge Money to Help Rescue 4th of July Fireworks Show

Teabagging by the Numbers

Glasstroturfing (Or, the Newest Chihuly-Related Art)

Burgess Amends Aggressive Solicitation Bill—For Third Time—And Licata Proposes Counter Amendments

So How Was Constance McMillen's Prom?

A Restaurant and Bar That No One's Ever Been to Except Me Closes

Rob McKenna for Governor

Golob's Position on Animal Testing and More

Who Will Be the New Kid 'n Play*?

Today in Free Food and Drink

How Not to Publish J.D. Salinger

Morning News: The It's-Practically-Afternoon-Already Edition

City Council Releases Draft Report on 520 Bridge Options