Tim Summers

David Schmader is a Stranger associate editor and columnist, writing the pop culture-and-politics column "Last Days" since 1998. Outside of The Stranger, Schmader's the author of the solo plays Straight, Mansize, and Letter to Axl, which he's performed in Seattle and across the U.S. He's also the world's foremost authority on the brilliant horribleness of Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls, performing annotated Showgirls screenings at film festivals across the U.S. and providing the commentary track to MGM's special editon Showgirls DVD in 2004. A film of Schmader's play Straight is available from Netflix.com and other places like that.

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