Issue Archive for the Week of
May 23 -
29,
2012
Vol. 21, No. 38
Features
How to Explain Why You Feel How You Feel When You’re Standing in Dale Chihuly’s New Museum
By Jen Graves
This Year's Seattle International Film Festival Is Freakishly Dense with Goodness
By David Schmader
News
Is Light Rail Driving Racial Minorities Out of Rainier Valley?
By Cienna Madrid
Inside the Mind of a Wealthy Man Who Wants to Bring Back Basketball—Even If He Loses Money
By Goldy
Andrew Hughes, 30, Plans to Attack Seattle's Longtime Congressman by Land, Sea, and Sky
By Eli Sanders
News You Can Like
By Mark Zuckerberg
Music
Only Jack White Can S(t)ave Rock and Roll from Obscurity
By It's Paul Constant's Birthday, Everybody!!!
Spiritualized, Spectrum, and Spacemen 3's Soul-Piercing Fallout
By Dave Segal
Julia Holter Takes Pop to Graduate School
By Dave Segal
Lose your legendary wankathon every night this week!
By Stranger Staff
Nick Waterhouse Moves a Throwback Forward
By Trent Moorman
Av Young Blaze, Nacho Picasso, and Darktime Sunshine's ANX
By Larry Mizell, Jr.
Hari Kondabolu Challenges Kirkland Audiences to Laugh at Rich White People
By Cienna Madrid
Julia Holter, Jib Kidder, Hedflux, Cause 4 Concern
By Dave Segal
The Dicso Boys Ride Again, Bottom 40
By Adrian Ryan
Posters for Sasquatch!
By Aaron Huffman
U-District Alley Art Party
By Jackson Hathorn
Film
(And How We Can Keep the Same Thing from Happening Here)
By Dominic Holden
Blood, Shit, and Spader Hair in Headhunters
By Ned Lannamann
Hard Boiled
By Charles Mudede
In Memoriam
By Wm. Steven Humphrey
Columns
For the Week of May 23
By Rob Brezsny
The Week in Review
By David Schmader
A Critical Overview of The Stranger
By Din Tindleson, Spiritual Leader and Maker of Dr. Tindleson’s Hygiene Products
Midnight Haiku!
By Kelly O
Disappointing Monorail, Disappointing Streetcar
By Sherman Alexie
Wedding Gay Blues
By Anonymous
Walter DeMarsh: Hammertoes and Snake Pelts
By Marti Jonjak
This Ain’t SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED XXX!
Visual Art
Buddy Bunting's Breakthrough
By Jen Graves
How to Explain Why You Feel How You Feel When You’re Standing in Dale Chihuly’s New Museum
By Jen Graves
Books
Even Heather McHugh's Small Talk Is Poetry
By Catherine R. Smyka
Ritual America Takes the "Secret" out of Secret Societies
By It's Paul Constant's Birthday, Everybody!!!
Theater
Trayvon Martin Theater
By Anna Minard
A Four-Course Fiction
By It's Paul Constant's Birthday, Everybody!!!
Restaurants
Genuine Goodness Times Two at Afrikando Banadir
By Charles Mudede
Michael Lee and Val Kiossovski, Owners, Saint John's Bar and Eatery
By Sarah Galvin
The Sexton
By Marti Jonjak