The Stranger

Stop the Coal Trains:

Everybody knows that coal trains are bad for our health, our economy, and our planet. So how do we stop them?

Mike McGinn Is Running for Reelection:

The Mayor Who Has Bucked Conventional Wisdom Before Says He Can Do It Again

Sources Say:

Small Talk for Shared Urinal Cakes

What Ed Murray Says Progressives Need to Understand About the Gun Control Debate

Buying Back Guns:

Seattle and King County Announce Buyback and Free Trigger Locks

The What Is It Now? Game:

Match What the Location Once Was with What It Has Become!

Lady Gaga:

On Ferns, Fear, and Her Singing Toothbrush

Up & Coming:

Lose your drone-based minimalism every night this week!

Where Have Pleasureboaters Been?:

Having Babies, Making Sausage, and Flying Around the World

My Philosophy:

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, BSBD, Skull & Bones, Kung Foo Grip

Data Breaker:

J.Phlip, Judge Jules, Dil Withers, Nice Nate, DJAO, Pezzner

The Homosexual Agenda:

Bacon Strip Divorces Re-bar, Moves to Chop Suey

Poster of the Week:

Poster by Dax Anderson

Underage:

Heartland Benefit Show and Unstoppable Death Machines

Zero Dark Thirty: Like Where's Waldo?, but with Osama bin Laden!

Gangster Squad: Lovingly Smothered in Clichés

Rust and Bone: Killer Whales and Legless Sex

Art House:

Holy Motors: The Surprising Erection in a Great Movie

Last Days:

The Week in Review

Free Will Astrology:

For the Week of Jan 9

Fiction:

CPR

New Column!:

My Nipples: Rate 'Em!

Drunk of the Week:

Go 'Hawks!

Savage Love:

Gay Panic Attack

I, Anonymous:

Puff Puff Pass

I Love Television:

Fact: Everything Can Be Improved with Donkeys

How to Say No and What Art Has to Do with It:

You Have a Week Left to Figure Out What Makes You Uncomfortable in Elles at SAM

A Puzzle of Mismatched Pieces:

PageBoy Shows All the Other Literary Magazines How It's Done

Enjoy the Silence:

I Can Find Almost Nothing Wrong with Seattle Shakespeare Company's A Doll's House

Little Things:

The Transformation of a Capitol Hill Gem