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Anniversary Issue
- What Were We Thinking?!: Lapses in Taste, Errors in Judgment, and Just Plain Crap from The Stranger's First Ten Years
- proclamations: Best Wishes from Local Notables
- point/ counterpoint: Who Named The Stranger?
- WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
- TOP 10: MEMORABLE MUSIC EVENTS
- TOP 10: THINGS THAT ARE THE SAME NOW AS THEY WERE WHEN 'NEVERMIND' CAME OUT
- TOP10: PLACES WE GOT DRUNK AT A LOT
- TOP 10: GREAT FILM EVENTS
- TOP 10: RESOLUTIONS FOR OUR NEXT 10 YEARS
- TOP 10: PEOPLE WHO HATE US THE MOST
- TOP 10: GREAT LITERARY EVENTS
- TOP 10: GREAT THEATER EVENTS
- TOP 10: FORMER STRANGER EMPLOYEES WHO NOW WORK AT SEATTLE WEEKLY
- TOP 10: GREAT VISUAL ARTS EVENTS
- Where are they now?: Former Stranger Staffers
- The Stranger Timeline: Highlights of the Decade
WHY: We forced them to go from a paid publication (75 per copy) to a free one in 1995; we mocked their new logo before its publication in 2001; we produced a parody of their 2001 "Best of Seattle" issue before it hit the streets. Other reasons: the hundreds of potshots and snide remarks we've made about them over the years, usually with little or no reason; and the handful of David vs. Goliath stories that have appeared over the years in the local press, inspiring Weekly contributing editor Knute Berger to fire off defensive, pissy letters about how the Seattle Weekly is a real paper filled with real journalism and The Stranger is not. Yay, Knute!
2. Mark Sidran
Stranger Personals
WHY: We repeatedly compared him to Satan, and Josh Feit said he wasn't funny.
3. Tablet
WHY: We refused to sponsor the Capitol Hill Block Party in 2000; we are "too mean"; we don't devote enough print space to their friends' businesses and bands.
4. The Seattle Times
WHY: We sided with labor, not wealthy asshole publishers who like to shoot their neighbor's dog.
5. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
WHY: See above (though the P-I's publisher has yet to shoot a dog).
6. Q13 news anchor Leslie Miller
WHY: We appropriated her name for the parody column "Ramblin' Filler by Leslie Miller" without first licking her pasty, Muppety ass.
7. Ruth's Chris Steakhouse
WHY: We don't know. But it hurts.
8. Former Mayor Paul Schell
WHY: "Former."
9. The Seattle music community
WHY: Apparently we don't have enough good things to say about Seattle's shitty music scene.
10. Seattle Gay News
WHY: We have a fancy program on our computers called "spell check."
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