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2002
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Dec. 19
Print Edition for the week of
Dec. 19 - 25, 2002
Vol. 12, No. 14
Savage Love
Don't Tell Mommy
by Dan Savage
New Column!
Grab Bag
I, Anonymous
When Misfits Attack
Film/TV
Gangs of Middle-Earth
Scorsese and Tolkien Find Common Ground
by Sean Nelson
Welcome to Nothingness
Alexander Payne Revives American Existentialism
by Charles Mudede
Unadaptability
Or, Notes on Failing to Interview Nicolas Cage
by Sean Nelson
On Screen
This Week's New Releases
This Week on TV
Movie Times
Film Shorts
Music
The Year Fun Broke (A Sweat) (Again)
Or, Why 2002 Rocked
by Jennifer Maerz
All Ages Action
by Megan Seling
Don't Leave It All Behind
Shoegazing's Slow Comeback
by Kathleen Wilson
All Apologies
Open Letter to Local Hiphop
by Charles Mudede
Poster of the Week
Smokin' in the Grrrls' Room
Feminism and Cock Rock
Club Directory
Bio: Club
CD Review Revue
Concerts
by Christopher DeLaurenti
Classical & Jazz
Jazz Duke Ellington
by Christopher DeLaurenti
Parties Listings
by Nicolae White
Live Music Listings
by Megan Seling
The Electronic Beat
Mo' Funky Christmas
by Nicolae White
DJ Listings
by Megan Seling
More Up & Coming
Underage
At The Showbox
by Megan Seling
Up & Coming
Theater
On Stage
Three Holiday Extravaganzas, One Dark Psychodrama
Theater Listings
by Zac Pennington
Visual Art
Office Works
Two Artists in Unusual Spaces
by Emily Hall
In Arts News
by Emily Hall
Visual Arts Listings
by Zac Pennington
Books
All Shook Up
Haruki Murakami's Fault Lines
An Ethics for Activists?
French Philosopher Proposes Something New
Readings Listings
by Zac Pennington
Food & Drink
Fairview Bar & Grill
The Green Room
by Min Liao
Good Cook's Sense
Trust Your Instincts
by Emily Hall
Bio: Chow
News
Our Literary Emissary
Local and Successful Agent Elizabeth Wales
Big City of Dreams
No to the Ka-Thunk of Regional Small Presses, Yes to the Big Bucks of Corporate Publishers
Never Mind the Arithmetic
From Soft City to Waxwings, the Narrative of Jonathan Raban
WAR GAMES
If you're trying to stop the war on Iraq-- if you're even thinking about Iraq--then you must be one of the few, the powerless, the marginal
by Sandeep Kaushik
Standard Rap
City and Club Square Off over Hiphop Music
by Amy Jenniges
Holy Sheet
Prison Pissing Match Over Ujaama's Sheet Hints at Fed Strategy
by Josh Feit
Another One Bites the Dust
King County Lawyer Takes Down Impound Law
by Amy Jenniges
Bland Band
Seattle Radio Rapidly Consolidating
by Sandeep Kaushik
Smack the State
Coalition of Local Groups Says State Violates Law on Methadone Treatment
by Sandeep Kaushik
In Other News...
Police Beat
by Charles Mudede
Five to Four
by Josh Feit
Letters to the Editor
Last Days
The Week in Review
by David Schmader
Calendar
Stranger Suggests
I Love Television
Your X-Mas Snap Quiz
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
It's My Party
Sleigh Bells and Scandals
by Kathleen Wilson
Celebrity I Saw U
You Ain't Seen Nothin'
by Adrian Ryan
Obits
by Clark Humphrey
Control Tower
You Don't Know Jack
by Mistress Matisse
Public Editor
The Stranger: A Critical Overview
by A. Birch Steen, Stranger Public Editor and OSHA Board of Governors Member (Retired)