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Mar. 13
Print Edition for the week of
Mar. 13 - 19, 2013
Vol. 22, No. 28
Savage Love
Best Foot Forward
by Dan Savage
New Column!
Ask Paddy O’Shamrock, The White Supremacist Leprechaun
Film/TV
West of Memphis
: Real Justice Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry
by Denis C. Theriault
Art House
The Matchmaker
: A Perfect Match Between Actor and Character
by Charles Mudede
The Rabbi’s Cat
: Bountifully Strange and Charming
by Bethany Jean Clement
Like Someone in Love
: Another Entrancing Puzzle from Kiarostami
by Krishanu Ray
War Witch
: More Africans Shooting Machine Guns
by Charles Mudede
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
: Makes Comedy Disappear!
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
The Gatekeepers
: The Price of National Security
by Ben Coleman
I, Anonymous
I'm Fat, Not Blind
by Anonymous
Music
Sweet 'n' Sour Punk
Wimps Wax Wacky on the Joys of Not Being Tough
by Emily Nokes
Up & Coming
Lose your green-minded anthems every night this week!
by Stranger Staff
Never Heard of 'Em
The Dead Milkmen
by Anna Minard
My Philosophy
Theoretics, Mega EvErs, Keyboard Kid, Sax G
by Larry Mizell Jr.
George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic Still Tearing the Roof Off
by Trent Moorman
Data Breaker
San Proper, Bicep, Joakim, Kindness, Ctrl_Alt_Dlt
by Dave Segal
The Homosexual Agenda
Willam Slaps Some Dick, Jinkx Kicks Some Ass
by Adrian Ryan
Poster of the Week
Poster by Jesse Codling
by Aaron Huffman
Underage
Pretty Old and the Numbs
by Jackson Hathorn
Theater
Dis/orient/ed
A Night of All-Female Asian Comedians Storms the Stage
by Cienna Madrid
Driving Off a Cliff
Allison Gregory's Uneven New Play
by Brendan Kiley
"Less Heave, More Ho"
Glue Guns Are a Showgirl's Best Friend
by Paul Constant
Free Will Astrology
For the Week of March 13
by Rob Brezsny
Visual Art
In the Long Run, We Are All Artifacts
Deborah Willis Kills Traditional Beauty Not-So-Softly
by Jen Kagan
Books
Dark Matter
Confronting the Winter Doldrums with Sam Lipsyte
by Paul Constant
The Best Mad Scientist
Surveying the Experimental Comics of Eroyn Franklin
by Paul Constant
Food & Drink
Along Gizzards Way
A Few Thoughts About the Second Stomachs of Chickens on Beacon Hill
by Charles Mudede
Happiest Hour
Speckled & Drake
by Marti Jonjak
Features
Bigotry in Bloom
A Flower Shop Is Refusing to Do Business with a Gay Couple Getting Married—Is That Blatantly Illegal?
by Dominic Holden
Don't Fuck This Up
In Advance of Our First Seattle Show Since 2004, Here Are Nine Lessons the Catheters Learned the Hard Way
by Brian Standeford, Catheters frontman
Getting on the Beer Bandwagon
I'm a Grade-A Beer Nerd and I Endorse Penumbra,
The Stranger
's Beer-and-Music Bash
by Kendall Jones
News
Socialist on the Ballot
Kshama Sawant Is Running Against Council Member Richard Conlin
by Dominic Holden
What Are They Hiding?
Two Activists Were Released from Prison, but Feds Still Won't Unseal Their Records
by Brendan Kiley
Are Seattle Schools Racist?
Recent Controversies Raise Questions About Fairness
by Anna Minard
The Thin Blue Whine
Seattle's Police Unions Sue to Block Police Reform Plan
by Cienna Madrid
Pothead Patients, Impatient Potheads
The Hope-Bestowing Allure (and Dream-Deferring Realities) of I-502
by David Schmader
Ganja Garbage May Become Jet Fuel
Local Biofuel Company Eyes Legal Pot Waste
by Ben Livingston
Sources Say
Pontificating for the Masses
by Your Relatively Scandal-Free New Pope
Worn Out
Janieta Eyre: Leech Gowns and Manicures
by Marti Jonjak
I Love Television
I Love TV
I Only Want to Be Serial-Murdered by the Best!
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Last Days
The Week in Review
by David Schmader
Podcasts
Savage Love Episode 334
by Dan Savage
Suggests
‘KINGS: A Boylesque Extravaganza’
by David Schmader
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ with Jinkx Monsoon
by Christopher Frizzelle
Eat a Giant See’s Egg for Easter!
by Cienna Madrid
‘xoxo’
by Jen Graves
LoPriore Bros. Meatball Sandwich
by Paul Constant
Mudhoney
by Emily Nokes
Verse Chapter Verse
by Paul Constant
Vox Mod
by Dave Segal
Fiction
Dementia
by Sherman Alexie