Family Matters

Stupid, Stupid mayor

Nihilistic Spiritual Narcissism

Fantasy, Identity, and the Schwarzeneggerian State

The Beatty Dilemma

"Shampoo", Vanity, and Republican Cynicism

Where Are the Sybarites?

Sexologist Deplores Union Documentary

The Living from the Dead

Anne Robertson's "Super-8 Diary"

This Week on TV

More Dogs!

The Stranger's Crack 10-Year-Old Critics on 102 Dalmatians

Unbearable

M. Night Shyamalan Cashes a Big, Blank Check

Film Shorts

Movie Times

BONEHEAD BARTENDERS BEWARE!

In the Name of Love

Chris Lopez of the Rock*A*Teens Gets It

Up & Coming

Live Music Listings

CD Review Revue

Club Directory

DJ Listings

All Ages Action

More Up & Coming

Karaoke

More Music Listings

Bio: DJ

Bio: Music

Sour Innocence

"Expressions": Child-like or Childish?

I Love Hedwig!

The World's Greatest Botched-Sex-Change Rock Musical

Floundering Farce

Our Reviewer Wasn't Drunk Enough to Like This Show

Theater Listings

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Fetish Education

Where Have All the Kinky People Gone?

Seeing Straight

The Encompassing Worlds of Uta Barth

Diversions

In Arts News

Visual Arts Listings

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Gulp Fiction

Warning Us Away from the Drunken Life

The Thing and Its Skin

John Olson's Poetry

Brutal Reckonings

David Means' Short Stories Fail

Book Review Revue

Top 10 Bestsellers

Readings Listings

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Harbour City

Hallelujah for HC

Where To Eat, What To Eat

City Hall of Heroes

Regular Genius

Bennett Haselton Attacks Censorship So We Can Say Fuck

No News Isn't Good News

Citing Irreconcilable Differences, "Times" and "P-I" Workers Form Picket Lines

Sims Bites

County Exec Endangers Tenants Union

Police Beat

Outside with the Prowlers and the Madmen

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The Week in Review

Stranger Suggests

Ode to Quacky

Beneficial

When the Levee Breaks

Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum

Think your family's fucked up? Our writers share their holiday memories, compare drunken relatives, and offer you the Stranger Christmas Experience. PLUS: The story of Candy Cane Lane, and our really useful Gift Guide 2000!

Holiday Fun with Unitarians

Fake African Christmas

My Mean Mom

Gratitude

No Gifts at Hanukkah

Christmas of Death

Grandma Bernice

Merry Christ-Ass!

Dog Bite

Christmas in Vegas

The Dark Ornament

Leaving Ohio

Craps for Christmas

Good Ol' Uncle Merrill

Riding Santa's Sleigh

Ho Ho Hork!

No More Christmas

Obsession & Lights

True Story of Candy Cane Lane

Christmas in Israel

Higher Than Jesus

Getting the Most Out of Midnight Mass

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Incredibly Useful and Puritanically Practical Gift Guide

Or What You Really Want

The Gift Bitch