NEWS When I heard that this week's news section featured a story about stalking, I assumed it was going to be a how-to written by City Hall groupie ERICA C. BARNETT. But no, it's just another attempt at "serious journalism" by one of the Cheech & Chong extras who populate this flophouse for burnouts and deviants. The author of the piece, JONAH SPANGENTHAL-LEE, deserves mention only for being able to tap out such a ridiculous byline while goofed up on "ganja." In other stoners: DOMINIC HOLDEN stops begging for medical-marijuana prescriptions long enough to file a bit of hagiographic copy on a so-called "student pot activist" (in my day, Mr. Holden, we were more honest and just called them "dope pushers"). And rounding out this week's hazy offerings is Ms. Barnett, who appears to be attempting, through a piece about road capacity, to prove that the sleep-inducing properties of cannabis are transitive. PLUS: In the Hall, In Other Neighborhoods, and Police Beat.

FEATURE Car Dealer's DaughterAlways a case study in devolution, The Stranger's feature section now appears to be abandoning writing itself in favor of a more primitive form of communication: pictures. Will anyone be shocked to find that this is a huge improvement? TONI WOLF should be commended, not only for sweeping aside the usual failed attempts at forming complete sentences that one finds here, but also for offering, in comic form, a compelling and heartbreaking portrait of a family in grief.

PULLOUT Sasquatch! Music FestivalFor some unfathomable reason, the creators of what I'm told is a rather sizeable two-day music festival have seen fit to allow this typo-ridden, deviant-sodden publication to print the official guide—hence the 24 pages of critically handicapped tripe sandwiched into the middle of this issue.