Print Edition for the week of
May. 20 - 26, 2010

Vol. 19, No. 37

Savage Love

Bearded Lady

New Column!

Whoa, The Horror

Film/TV

180° South: The Joy Is in the Journey and the Barf Is in My Mouth

Shrek Forever After: Ogre Midlife Crises Are Just as Boring as Human Ones

MaaacGruuuuuber!

An SNL Movie That Won't Make You Want to Throw Yourself Off a Freeway Overpass

False Hope

The Systemically Anti-Choice Mother and Child

I, Anonymous

Music

What Does Genius Sound Like?

The Stranger Genius Awards Recognize Music—at Last

Heaven Ain't Happening

The Secular Spiritualism of Pearly Gate Music

Caffeine Buzz Band

Head Like a Kite Roast to the Occasion

Fucking in the Streets

Block Party Rumors and Penetration at the Unicorn

Up & Coming

This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties

It's a Hit

New Singles from RuPaul, Northern Portrait, and Distance

Data Breaker

A Story of Rats' Tailspin Drones

My Philosophy

New Releases from the Physics, Avatar Young Blaze, and Canary Sing

The Score

Chopin Is Better Than You Knew

Poster of the Week

Poster by DNA Designlab

Party Crasher

The Sexiest Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Party Ever

Underage

News, New Records, and Something for Headbangers

Books

Money Talks

In Modern Literature, Are Bankruptcy Woes the New Sex Scene?

Food & Drink

Bar Exam

Lust at Fonté

Seattle's Sandwich District

Is Pioneer Square Big Enough for Salumi, Tat's, and Delicatus?

News

Cops in the Newsroom

More Q13 Employees Claim That Station Executives Are Shaping News Coverage to Appease Seattle Police

Flirting with Change

Mayor McGinn's Best Candidate for Seattle's Next Police Chief Isn't from Seattle

Onward Christian Censors

A New Conservatism in the Seattle Archdiocese Has Catholic High-School Teachers Scared

Police Beat

Good Writing Means Good Police Work

I Love Television

System-Wide Shutdown

Public Editor

A Critical Overview of The Stranger

Last Days

The Week in Review

Slog

County Inaction on Tax Measure Would Cause Layoffs of 82 in Sheriff's Office, 36 Full-Time Prosecutors, and Add Costs

Justin Bieber Walks Into Glass Door! EEEEE!! HAHAHA! EEEEE!!!

Do You Want to See the Long Winters for Free?

Look, if You Don't Know How to Spell "Banana," Just Admit It.

Haley Blogger/Banger: Out With It Already, Dude

BREAKING: Chefs Smoke Pot, Pot Makes Food Taste Better

The Next Battle in the Great West Coast Newspaper War: June 11 at the California Court of Appeals.

Overheard on the Bainbridge Ferry

Happy Earth Day!

What's Twisting Maggie Gallagher's Panties Today?

Was There a Back-Room Deal in the 46th?

The Morning News: Scientists Create Synthetic Life, Rand Paul Still a Jackass

The Morning News: Chinese Suicides, Racist Bones, and the Last Lost Video You Ever Need to Watch

Lindsay Lohan Continues to Distinguish Herself

McGinn Says Legal Opinions Prove His Point

The Penultimate LOST Discussion Group... COMMENCE!

Get Your Ass Off the Couch

Some Thoughts on Time and the 19th Century

The Morning News: Gushing Sludge, Magic Islands, and Dead Boobz

Overrated, Underrated, or Rated: Handjobs

Pac Man on Google!

Traffic Report

Lunchtime Quickie: Are Brains Sexy Enough to Sell Cars?

The Winner Inside Me...

Broadway Grill Likely to Get New Owners

Dino's Dodging Days Are Over

Traffic Report

"Communism Works...in Theory."

More Resident Evil Than Resident Evil, More Silent Hill Than Silent Hill

A Religious Education

Britain to Malawi: Free Those Men Or Risk Losing Aid

Reading Today: War, Bleak Short Stories, and a Brilliant Cartoonist

LOST: Discuss

Lusty Haiku

Another "Family Values" Politician Flames Out

Regarding Mark Twain

Match Book: So You've Given Up Cable

Today's Washington Poll: What We Think About Gays, Arizona, Taxing the Rich, and More.

Gay Couple From Washington State Victims of Probable Hate Crime in Oklahoma

Weekend Calendar: No Stuff, Free Stuff, Cheap Stuff

Immigration Rally: A Sign of Victory or Defeat?

Will There Be a Color Kindle?

Drug Task Force Seizes Pot Petitions

The E-book Wars, in Convenient Puppet Form

Paging Richard Conlin: The Mayor Is in. Town Hall Is In. We're In. Are You Coming to Your Debate?

Bill the Butcher Responds, Sort Of

The App Bubble Cometh

Do You Love Wine and/or Cheese?

The War Is Making You Poor Act

What's Going on at QFC?

SIFF Picks of the Day: Turtle: The Incredible Journey, Cyrus, Holy Rollers

What Percentage of the Electorate In Kentucky Is African-American?

Because You Can't Spell "SIFF" Without...T

Who Should Win the First Annual Stranger Genius Award For Music?

The Morning News: Fighting Gays, Evil Beavers, and Lying Mayors

Is it a C.H.U.D., or Did We Open the Gate?

A Tiny Increase in Independent Bookstores

A Possible Meaning of the Tesla and Toyota Deal

"I'm trying to remember an absurdly specific and long word." (Or: Questionland is the smartest place on the planet.)

Enter Artificial Life

Rossi Launches His Campaign to "Restore the Dream"

Killer Commute

Reading Tonight: Pavement and Land

Who Should McGinn Pick for the Next Police Chief?

Good News for Books, Great News for E-Books

The First-Ever World Poutine Eating Competition, or: BARF

Gulf of Mexico: Plan B Sounds Pretty Weak Too

Brittany Murphy's Husband Is Now Also Dead

Youth Pastor Watch

Malawi Is Jailing Gays Who Want to Get Married, China Is Jailing Straights Who Want to...

Things Are Looking Grim For Nikki Haley

Forty Protesters Downtown Are Trying to Be Arrested to Draw Support for Immigration Reform

A Good Look at Women in Sports

Reichert: Voting for the Environment Only to Hold Swing District

The Tea Baggers Are Patriots Concerned About Massive Federal Deficits...

Slog Babies 1, Asshole Spider, 0

Council Fails to Override Veto

Tom Carr Appointed City Attorney of Boulder

The End of Our Planet

SIFF Picks of the Day: The Freebie, The Oath, Mugabe and the White African

Bear Man Fined for Feeding Bears

The Great C.H.U.D. Siege of 2010: Day 2

Life in the Walled Garden

More On Criminalizing HIV Transmission

If You Like Cheap Books...

ACLU Calls to Remove Surveillance Cameras in Cal Anderson Park

Whatever Lifts Your Luggage, Cato Institute

Rally Today for Canadian Targeted for Politics

I, Anonymous: Fuck You, Bike to Work Day People!

Police Refuse to Arrest Protesters

New G.O.P. Election Site Built with Help of Microsoft

Flickr Photo of the Day

Meanwhile in Georgia

Rand Paul: The Fresh New Face of the Right White Wing

Constance McMillen vs. The Lying Douchebags Who Run Her Former High School

Your Money Is No Good at the Apple Store

Overheard at the Dinner Table

A Fine, Gory Start to Your SIFF

Conlin Refuses to Debate McGinn on Tunnel Cost Overruns

Another Way to Criticize the Critic

O'Brien Threatens to Vote Against the Downtown Tunnel Contract

Constance McMillen Update: Constance Is Out, Westboro Is In, Mayor Is Clueless

Who Peed the Bed?

Tonight: Free Pot at Town Hall!

City Attorney on Tunnel Cost Overruns: "The City Cannot Be Forced to Pay"

The Morning News

Chicken Run

Seattle's Latest Fancy Restaurant Casualty: Union

Cantwell's Dissent

Sorry, LOST! Mr. Belvedere Wins Again.

Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Cocks in the Yard, Dicks in the Field

Victim Foils Robbery By Shaming Suspect

A Criminal HIV Transmission

Lunchtime Quickie: Insert Blonde Joke Here...

A French Thriller for Sunday

The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill from Outer Space

And Bristol Palin Shall Lead Them

Dan Savage Is Answering Your Questions Now!

Joni Balter Gets It Wrong

Take a Drink...

The Pocket Altar Boy

Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Coyotes, Car Theft, and Naked Death Threats

Making Star Wars Even More Retro

New Restaurant and Brewery to Open at Pike & 10th in Eight Months or So

Today in Attempting to Render the Entire Gulf of Mexico Lifeless

Part One: Deception in the Animal Kingdom

Google Wants Your Face

Savage Is Answering Your Questions Today in Questionland

Weather Report

Unemployment Claims on the Rise Again

Gay Couple Enters Crass Win-Your-Dream-Wedding Contest...

Who's Afraid of Nancy Pelosi?

Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father

The Morning News: Pollution, Draw Mohammed Day, and Rand Paul

The Guns of Kingston

"You Better Get Out of Here Before I Cut Your Dick Off."

Another Prom Story

There Is No Morality Without Religion

Reading Today: Two Big Book Events and a Reading

SL Letter of the Day: A Timely Inquiry

Lunchtime Quickie: And They Will Teach the Bears Marital Martial Arts

LOST: The Casting Tapes

BREAKING: Free Pillow and Some Other Crap

A World Without Rape...

Youth Pastor Watch

Cops in the Newsroom

I Really Only Have One Thing to Say About Lost.

Who Is Pastor Jeff Owens?

Public Safety Tax Measure Appears Dead

Currently Hanging

Four Teabaggers on the King County Council

Rand Paul Distances Himself From Rand Paul

SL Letter of the Day: Feelings

"Can you recommend a book for my mother?"

DADT: Meetings at the White House, Promise from Pelosi, And What You Can Do To Help

Owens Family Values

How Do You Make a Competitive Eater?

Lunchtime Quickie: Fun with Tattoos!

Re: A World Without Rape...

A Reminder to Stop at the Bookstore Before You Head Home

Going Rogue: Palin Tweets for Didier

White House Admits What Everyone Else Already Knows

My New Favorite Porn Site

"A Commercial for Abortion"

The German Soul Kitchen

McGinn Foresees Tax-Hike Measure

Winning the War on Drugs

"When are people going to stop getting fired?"

BP, Coast Guard Accused of Blocking Press

The Walmart iPhone: A Deal with the Devil?

It's True: Brasa Is Closed

KOMO: Rossi to Announce This Week That He's Running Against Murray.

LOST: It's Almost Over!

"Gulf Oil Leaks Could Gush for Years"

Washington Poll: Murray (Just Barely) Beats Rossi

Nerd Quote of the Day

An Asian Girl With a Blond Doll Found Wandering the Streets of Vancouver

One Day, This Will Help Explain Our Culture to the People of the Future

Finance-Overhaul Vote Possible Today

A Last Word On My Daughter

Burning Beast 2010 Tickets on Sale Now!

SIFF Picks of the Day: The Actresses, Air Doll, Mount St. Elias

Cliff Mass TLDR

Dino Rossi On Gay Rights

Does Conlin Accept McGinn's Debate Challenge?

Fergie's Downfall

The Morning News

Reading Tonight: Playing Rock and Roll and Playing Cards

Whatever Lifts Your Luggage, Boys

Learn Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Cheese

Neoliberalism and Ideology

For One Shining Moment, Stranger Commenters Cared More About Music than Sex

Lunchtime Quickie: 7-Year Olds Dance to My Boyfriend's Back

Greenwood Woman Robbed of Everything But Her Dignity

Tea Dummies

Game Changer: An Accomplsihed Athlete with a Vagina

LOST: The Return of Evil Ben

Human Centipede: The Game

Flickr Photo of the Day

Today in... GAHHHHH!!

Gulf of Mexico: This Just Keeps Getting Better

The Stuff in Her Hair

What Are You Reading? And What Are You Doing After Work?

Reading Today: Marking Twain

One Day We'll Live In a World Where...

SIFF Picks of the Day: Castaway on the Moon, Air Doll, Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll

There Will Be a Small-Press Fair This Weekend

Here Is a Video of a Baby Otter Learning How to Swim

Kids These Days

This Week in The Stranger

A Crash Involving a Bee Truck

Sitka & Spruce Reopens in One Week!

SL Letter of the Day: A Straight Mess, a Gay Mess, Or Just A Mess Mess?

"Where is the best Lost finale watching party going to be in Seattle on Sunday?"

Urgent Question! Help!

Oopsie! Who Peed the Bed?

The Twittered End

"If I'm going along a street without a bike lane should I ride in the parking lane or always stay to the right in the travel lane?"

Unleash the Beastesses

Overheard in the Office

The Winner Inside Me

Headline of the Day

Deepwater Horizon Progression

One For The Sales Department

Shelton Residents Take On Wood-Burning Power Plant Slated for Their Town

Council Won't Overturn Mayor's Veto

The Language of Cuts

Google TV

The Most Influential Twitterers

Neither Rain Nor Gloom of Afternoon Will Keep These Democrats from Hitting Rossi

Re: Today the Stranger Suggests Full Tilt Ice Cream

Currently Hanging: The De La Torre Brothers

R.I.P., Cursive

Lust at Fonté: "I've had several threesomes," the lady said.

Week in Review

Wear Clown Shoes. Get the Giggles. Blow Come Out Your Nose. Just Be Careful You Don't Look At All Dignified When You're Having Sex.

What's Patty Murray's Message Now?

Live: Town Hall on Pot

New Pioneer Square Blog: La La La La La It Can't Hear You!

Idiots and Guns

Just a Picture of a Baby Humboldt Penguin, That's All

Twice-Divorced, Four Children By Two Different Women...

Black Hair and White Racism

The Trans Community Will Understand...

The Spilling Trend

SPD Opens Investigation into Allegations That Officers Colluded With Q13 to Suppress "Mexican Piss" Video

Sex Sells Hollywood

Flickr Photo of the Day

Flickr Photo of the Day

Reading Tonight: Classical Music and Almond with a Side of Rock

Lindsey Lohan's Drinking Problem

Today in Dumb Ideas: Atheist Superhero Edition

Female Politicians Don't Have Sex Scandals...

Future Youth Pastor Watch Inductee?

What's for Lunch?

Would You Live with a Man Who Tracks His Bowel Movements?

Today in Things Tila Tequila Enjoys Snorting

Gay Couple in Malawi Sentenced to 14 Years in Prison...

The Penitent Man Should Be Ashamed of Itself

SL Letter of the Day: A Referral

Rally for Real Change Tonight in Pioneer Square

Jeff Owens: I've Changed My Mind! Please Don't Kill The Gays!

LOST: As Summarized By Cats

Suggests

'Into the Void: The Battle of the Martyr as Told by Ingres'

'love fear pleasure lust pain glamour death'

'The Freebie'

Spectrum

Shaun Scott

Full Tilt Ice Cream

SIFF Opening Night

Tim Johnston