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Eli Sanders on the Great West Coast Newspaper War
"San Francisco in 2010 is a strange place for an old-school newspaper war. This center of the new, paperless world order has now become ground zero in a seemingly endless battle to the death between two struggling print publications..."

An Interview with Justin Bond about His Latest Gender-Bending Pop-Music Mindfuck
We talked about Yoko Ono, the Scissor Sisters, wishing you were poolside in Los Angeles in the 1970s, Charles Manson, John Cassavetes, Joan Didion, Helen Reddy's new career as a psychic healer in Australia ("I swear to god"), sticking it to the president of Poland ("I stuck my ass out the window at the presidential palace while I was there, in solidarity with the Polish queers"), and the joys of zoning out.

Charles Mudede's Exegesis on Fried Chicken
"Now, in a perfect world, only a few meals would go by without some fried part of a chicken. But I live in the imperfect world..."

What Just Happened in Olympia?
Our drunken, texting-while-driving look in the rearview mirror at the state legislative session.

Spring Arts: What We're Dying to See
Our editors select the best of what's coming in visual art, music, theater, books, and film.

Satanic Concession Stand: Pastor Mark Driscoll's Latest "New Column!"
"Did you know that 'popcorn' is an anagram of 'cop porn,' Satan's favorite genre of homosexual pornography?"

Plus! Savage Love, Bar Exam, Concessions, Dear Science, Last Days, Public Editor, In Memoriam: Slats, and much more.