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Print Edition for the week of
Jul. 17 - 23, 2013
Vol. 22, No. 46
Savage Love
Boy Trouble
by Dan Savage
New Column!
HUMP! 2013 Call for Submissions
I, Anonymous
Thank You for Singing with Me
by Anonymous
Film/TV
Big Star:
Nothing Can Hurt Me
: Cult Rock Band Big Star Get the Doc They Deserve
by Dave Segal
Hannah Arendt
: Not All Films About Philosophers Are Boring
by Charles Mudede
Only God Forgives
: It's No
Drive
by Paul Constant
I’m So Excited
: Almodóvar Goes Retro
by Marjorie Skinner
The Conjuring
: A Scary Movie to Make You SCREEEEEEAAAMMMM!
by Kelly O
Festive
The ByDesign 13 Film Festival
by Charles Mudede
Music
Grown-Up Things
Shelby Earl Isn't Hiding Anything
by Megan Seling
What Kind of Shit Is This?
Three 206 Albums That Were Made to Sound Like a Million Bucks
by Charles Mudede
Up & Coming
Lose your born-yesterday ears every night this week!
by Stranger Staff
Sound Check
Ben Gibbard, True and Tranquil Marathon Troubadour
by Trent Moorman
What's Crappening?
News, Reviews, and Love
by I'm on Top of the Space Needle!
Never Heard of 'Em: Betty Davis
by Anna Minard
Data Breaker
Substrata Fest Hears the World in a Grain of Sound
by Dave Segal
My Philosophy
Jay-Z, Yasiin Bey, Nacho Picasso, Grayskul, Qwel & Maker, Run the Jewels
by Larry Mizell Jr.
The Homosexual Agenda
Invasion of the Red Dresses
by Adrian Ryan
Underage
A Xylophone Master and Punks of Every Kind
by Jackson Hathorn
Theater
The Lord of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien Denied
The Lord of the Rings
Was Inspired by Wagner's Operas, but I Find That Hard to Swallow
by Rebecca Brown
Both Kinds of Marxist
Intiman Opens Its Second Summer Festival with the Subversive Clowning of Dario Fo
by Brendan Kiley
Free Will Astrology
For the Week of July 17
by Rob Brezsny
Visual Art
Loose Lips
Arts Gossip
by Zombie Paul Allen
Books
The Profane and the Ridiculous
Tampa
and
My Education
Are Two Very Different Sexual Encounters
by Paul Constant
Food & Drink
Restaurant Overload
Three New Places I Would Totally Go Back to If I Had Limitless Time and Stomach-Space
by Bethany Jean Clement
Drinkening with Charlse Mudede
Who Is the Boss Around Here?
by Charles Mudede
Chow Bio
A Barrage of Biscuits at Morsel
by Sarah Galvin
Now Closed
Recent Restaurant RIPs
by Bethany Jean Clement
Features
My Parents Told Me the Sad Truth About America
Thirty Years Later, I Had to Tell My Black Son
by Charles Mudede
Death of a Regular
Joel Reuter's Friends—and the Staff of a Neighborhood Bar Where He Used to Hang Out—Remember What He Was Like Before Illness Struck
by Cienna Madrid
News
Bitter Pills
Medical Pot Activists Still Protesting Legalization Supporters
by Ben Livingston
Last Days
The Week in Review
by David Schmader
I Love Television
Get Out of My Nose
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Public Editor
Study Guide Questions for
The Stranger
, Volume 22, Issue 46
Suggests
Night of Genius: Film
by David Schmader
Crab!
by Bethany Jean Clement
White Fence
by Dave Segal
‘Metropolis’
by Charles Mudede
Lacey Jane Henson
by Paul Constant
Hoogs + Skoog
by Paul Constant
Pickathon
by Emily Nokes
Deborah Lawrence
by Jen Graves
Worn Out
Cops in Short Shorts!
by Marti Jonjak