Issue Archive for the Week of
Nov 19 -
25,
2009
Vol. 19, No. 11
Features
How Mike McGinn Broke the Seattle Machine—and Why the City Will Never Be the Same
By Grant Cogswell
News
Lucky to Be Alive
By Charles Mudede
House Speaker Frank Chopp has long pissed off progressives with his plodding, centrist ways. Now they're threatening to run a liberal challenger against him.
By Eli Sanders
Who's Trying to Keep Joe McDermott off the County Council?
By Dominic Holden
Music
Foscil Flip the Spaghetti-Western Soundtrack Script
By Dave Segal
Chris Mansfield Gets His Shit Together with Fences
By Eric Grandy
Make-up Sex in the Sky
By RACHAEL PULLIN
Expo 87's 2009 Lineup
By Megan Seling
This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties
By Stranger Staff
Poster by David Gallo
By Aaron Huffman
Plump DJs' Levity and Joker's Gravity
By Dave Segal
War Room for Sale; Ben Hills, RIP
By Eric Grandy
Rihanna, Chris Brown, and "Russian Roulette"
By Michaelangelo Matos
War Room, RIP
By Larry Mizell Jr.
Vapor Music
By Christopher DeLaurenti
Film
BURNING FUSE FILM FESTIVAL
By Lindy West
New Italian Cinema Festival
By Charles Mudede
Cover Art
Cover art: Top of the World
(Holy Mountain)
by Gala Bent
www.galabent.com
Columns
Top Types
By Mistress Matisse
By A. Birch Steen, Stranger Public Editor and OSHA Board of Governors Member (Retired)
Time for Reflection (Nov. 19)
By Brendan Emmett Quigley
Time for Reflection (Nov. 19)
By Brendan Emmett Quigley
Look Who's Coming to Dinner
By Wm. Steven Humphrey
Co-Workers of the World
By Dan Savage
Cougin' Out, with Gloria Trout
Visual Art
The Spare, Bare Geography of Heide Hinrichs
By Charles Mudede
Books
On The Simpsons' History-Making Collision of Art and Commerce
By David Schmader
A Serious Northwest Fetish
By Paul Constant
Restaurants
Castleberry's at the Summit Is a Beautiful, Anti-Fancy Thing
By Bethany Jean Clement
Get Your Thanksgiving Questions Answered By Seattle's Food Experts
Smash Putt!
By Bethany Jean Clement