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May. 8
Print Edition for the week of
May. 8 - 14, 2013
Vol. 22, No. 36
Savage Love
Reading Comprehension Fail
by Dan Savage
New Column!
HUMP! 2013 Call for Submissions!
I, Anonymous
To Catch a Thief (And Do Nothing About It)
by Anonymous
Film/TV
The Spazz Age
Baz Luhrmann Glitter-Bombs Fitzgerald in the Explosively Entertaining
Gatsby
by Paul Constant
Festive
Translations: The Transgender Film Festival
by David Schmader
Music
Sound Check
Jim James Is My Morning Frankie
by Trent Moorman
How Teddy Riley Saved R&B
A Short History of the Man Behind "Rump Shaker"
by Charles Mudede
Up & Coming
Lose your spaceship made of LSD every night this week!
by Stranger Staff
Cruel Summer
Laura Stevenson Talks Feminism, Depression, and Sugary Pop Music
by Megan Seling
What's Crappening?
News, Reviews, and Boobs
by SPF 70
My Philosophy
One-World Order, Joe Budden, Teddy Riley & Blackstreet, Machine Gun Kelly, Mobb Deep
by Larry Mizell Jr.
Data Breaker
Zombie Nation, Phil Western, Indignant Senility, OCnotes
by Dave Segal
Never Heard of 'Em
Radiohead's
Kid A
by Anna Minard
Underage
Being Alone Is Okay with Colleen Green
by Jackson Hathorn
Poster of the Week
Poster by Luke Matkins
by Aaron Huffman
The Homosexual Agenda
Tammie Brown Comes for (and with) You;
Drag Race
Finale
by Adrian Ryan
Theater
"Mild Daisey" Returns to Seattle
On Watching a Performer in the Intermission of His Career
by Brendan Kiley
Look at Those Gams!
Zoe Scofield, Rainbow Fletcher, and Other Choreographers at
Co-LAB 5
by Melody Datz Hansen
All the Single Ladies
One-Acts and Free Drinks at Seattle Opera
by Dominic Holden
A Fistful of Salt
Cafe Nordo's Latest Limps into the Sunset
by Kim Fu
Free Will Astrology
For the Week of May 8
by Rob Brezsny
Visual Art
Dematerialized
A 1969 Exhibition on Index Cards
by Jen Graves
Loose Lips
Arts Gossip
by We're Not Telling
Books
A Date with Kay Ryan
Daydreaming About a Poet Laureate
by Sarah Galvin
Food & Drink
Drinkungg with Charlse MudDede
I Wish I Wasn't So Drunk When I Met Henry Louis Gates Jr
by Charles Mudede
Stop Eating Dessert
You Should Drink It Instead!
by Megan Seling
Recommended!
Seattle Beer Week!
by Stranger Staff
Features
The Fight Against Small Apartments
Why Neighborhood Groups Are Uniting to Stop Developers from Building Tiny, Affordable Units
by Dominic Holden
No Two Performances Will Be the Same
Ezra Dickinson’s New Piece About Mental Illness, His Mother, and the Streets of Seattle
by Melody Datz Hansen
News
Downtown Business Goes After Hempfest Hippies
And the Hippies Win—Again
by Anna Minard
Seattle Police Chief Will Speak at Pot Rally
It's Historic, but a Nonissue Thanks to Legalization
by Ben Livingston
Sources Say
I'm Making Trouble on the Way Out the Door
by Elizabeth Scott
Last Days
The Week in Review
by Cienna Madrid
I Love Television
Season Finales That Should Definitely... Just... STOP!
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Public Editor
A Critical Overview of
The Stranger
by Bruce Ramsey, Writer,
Seattle Times
Editorial Board
Suggests
Flying Lotus
by Charles Mudede
Matthew Simmons
by Paul Constant
24-Hour Eating
by Bethany Jean Clement
‘Touchy Feely’
by Paul Constant
Don’t Talk to the Cops!, Katie Kate
by Megan Seling
Joan Jett
by Megan Seling
Sherry Markovitz
by Jen Graves
‘Fateful Findings’
by David Schmader