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Apr. 2
Print Edition for the week of
Apr. 2 - 8, 2009
Vol. 18, No. 29
Savage Love
Craig's Last Hit
by Dan Savage
New Column!
A Didjaknow™ Guide to Emerald City Comicon
I, Anonymous
High People Just Wanna Chill, You Dumbass
by Anonymous
Film/TV
On Screen
Tokyo!
: The Greatness of Michel Gondry
by Charles Mudede
On Screen
Adventureland
: Horny Twentysomethings in Love
by Paul Constant
On Screen
Alien Trespass
: Expensive Junk
by Lindy West
Porn: The Final Frontier
Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before. AGAIN.
by Kelly O
On Screen
Moscow, Belgium
: Belgians—They're Just Like Us!
by Paul Constant
Concessions
Skills Like This
: A Scrappy Little Indie Odyssey
by Lindy West
Music
It's Simple and So Complicated
Why Don't I Love Mirah's New Album as Much as I Want To?
by Eric Grandy
Call It a Laid-Back Comeback
Breezy Does It for Okie Blues Brother JJ Cale
by Dave Segal
Fucking in the Strreets
The Unbearable Niceness of U.S.E
by Eric Grandy
Up & Coming
This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties
by Stranger Staff
Album Review
Black Dice:
Repo
by Dave Segal
Album Review
Gui Boratto:
Take My Breath Away
by Eric Grandy
Album Review
Peter Bjorn and John:
Living Thing
by Eric Grandy
Data Breaker
Egyptian Lover and CLP
by Dave Segal
It's a Hit
Kelly Clarkson's "I Do Not Hook Up" and K'naan's "T.I.A."
by Michaelangelo Matos
Party Crasher
Moped Operandi
by AARON PICKUS
Poster of the Week
by Aaron Huffman
My Philosophy
Logics and Avatar Young Blaze
by Larry Mizell Jr.
The Score
April Showers
by Christopher DeLaurenti
Underage
Twenty-five Years of Mecca Normal
by Casey Catherwood
New Column!
Lyrical Beatdown: Merle Haggard vs. Lily Allen
Theater
Will Eno Is Overrated
Three Reviews and One Tragic Preview
by Stranger Staff
Visual Art
Grappling with a Nonissue
What the New Director of EMP—and Art Itself—Never Recovered From
by Jen Graves
In Art News
Sweet Messes
by Jen Graves
Books
Breaking Out the Good China
Young American Goes to China, Finds Rockers, Slackers, and Drugs
by Brendan Kiley
New in Books
The Local News
: Teenage Abduction and Other Annoyances
by Paul Constant
New in Books
Last Days
: Murder in a Cult of Self-Mutilating Monks
by Paul Constant
New in Books
Toward 2012
puts the "T.M.I." in "end times."
by Paul Constant
Food & Drink
Redemption at the Cafe
One Very Bad Day and Two Great Ones at Elliott Bay
by Bethany Jean Clement
Bar Exam
Cafe Racer's Genuine Accumulation
by Bethany Jean Clement
The Happiest Hour
Connie's Rimrock
by Marti Jonjak
Features
The Different Kinds of People That There Are
A Complete List
by Lindy West
News
Every Rose Has Its Thorn
City Targets Lake City Bar for Drugs and Violence
by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee
Grand Mall Seizure
A Final Strategy to Stop a Mall in Rainier Valley
by Dominic Holden
Playing the Field
City Attorney Opponent's Staffer Bolts—to City Attorney's Campaign
by Erica C. Barnett
Break the Banks
Bank Protesters Take It to the Streets
by Eli Sanders
Save the... Safeway?
South End Residents Fight to Keep Their Grocery Store
by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee
In the Hall
I Like Mike
by Erica C. Barnett
Last Days
The Week in Review
by David Schmader
Suggests
'Duplicity'
by Lindy West
'Nowhere, Anywhere, Everywhere'
by Jen Graves
'Gustafer Yellowgold Show'
by David Schmader
'History in the Making'
by Jen Graves
'Closer'
by Brendan Kiley
'Silent Light'
by Charles Mudede
Mirah
by Eric Grandy
Alexi Murdoch
by Dave Segal
I Love Television
Escape from Eden of the Chimps
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Public Editor
A Critical Overview of
The Stranger
by A. Birch Steen, Stranger Public Editor and OSHA Board of Governors Member (Retired)
Dear Science
Why Minds Wander
by Jonathan Golob
Crossword Solution
As You Like It (Apr. 2)
Crossword Puzzle
This Week's Puzzle
As You Like It (Apr. 2)
by Brendan Emmett Quigley
Illustrated Comment of the Week
by Greg Stump