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Print Edition for the week of
Jun. 25 - Jul. 1, 2009

Vol. 18, No. 41

Savage Love

Face Time

by Dan Savage

New Column!

Kweer Kwiz Korner!

I, Anonymous

I KNOW HOW I'M GOING TO DIE

by Anonymous

Film/TV

Dear Nerds, I Have Some Questions

Lindy West Doesn't Understand a Word of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

by Lindy West

Moon: Slow-Burning Sci-Fi

by Paul Constant

Chéri: Even Cougars Get the Blues

by Brendan Kiley

My Sister's Keeper: The Best Pharmaceutical Commercial You've Ever Seen

by ALEX HAGENAH

Concessions

What's in My Mailbox?

by Lindy West

Music

Data Breaker

Joy Von Spain Elegantly Raises Hell

by Dave Segal

Personal Space

Thee Satisfaction's Queered-Up Extraterrestrial Hiphop

by Larry Mizell Jr.

Let's (Not) Get It On

Or, Fucking to Songs About Fucking and Other Uncomfortable Developments in the Awkward Relationship Between What We’re Going to Have to Just Agree to Call Indie Rock and Sexuality in the 1990s

by Sean Nelson

Fucking in the Streets

Uneasy Listening

by Eric Grandy

Joke About Jamaica

Major Lazer's Cartoon Dancehall

by Eric Grandy

Cruising

An Interview with Gay Garage-Rock Heartthrob (and Wet T-Shirt Model) Seth Bogart of Hunx and His Punx

by Kelly O

World Unraveler

Sir Richard Bishop's Middle-East Piece

by Dave Segal

My Philosophy

Neema Unplugged

by Larry Mizell Jr.

The Score

Stretching Spring

by Christopher DeLaurenti

It's a Hit

by Michaelangelo Matos

Up &Coming

This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties

by Stranger Staff

Underage

New All-Ages Venue the Slab

by Casey Catherwood

Party Crasher

Come Sail Away

by Jesse Vernon

Poster of the Week

by Aaron Huffman

Theater

Marc Bamuthi Joseph's Masterfully Executed Trifle

by David Schmader

Self-Actualize This!

Muffin Face Exploits the Comedy of Discomfort

by Paul Constant

Slumprov Millionaire

American Indian

by Charles Mudede

Shakespeare Needed an Editor

Macbeth, Rewritten

by Brendan Kiley

Theater News

The New Kids at Intiman

by Brendan Kiley

Visual Art

Gawking at Brutes

Who Were the Ignorant Savages at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition? And Who Are They Now?

by Charles Mudede

Books

Because a Penis Wants to Be an Astronaut

Monkeybicycle Is Better Than the Rest of the Litmags

by Paul Constant

About Suicide, Japan, and Mono No Aware

by Paul Constant

How Much of Your Fiction Is Real?

by Paul Constant

Constant Reader

All Grown-Up

by Paul Constant

Food & Drink

Sandwiches We Have Loved

The Staff of The Stranger Sings the Praises of the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread

Chow Bio

Ben Friedman and Brad Gillis of Homegrown Sustainable Sandwich Shop

by Steven Blum

Features

Queer Issue 2009

Our Dangerous, Depraved, Sometimes Hilarious Sex Lives

by Stranger Staff

My Kinky Normal Life

The Other Night I Did the Wildest Thing: I Made Peanut-Butter Cookies for My Family

by Dan Savage

Pride 2009 Event Listings

by Megan Seling

My Kinky Polyamorous Life

How to Date Butch Dykes and Gay Boys and Beautiful Femmes and Tranny Fags and Big Hairy Guys—Sometimes Simultaneously—Without Losing Your Mind

by Jesse Vernon

My Nights at the Human Vending Machine that Is the Internet

How I Learned That Sometimes I Want to Date and Sometimes I Want to Get Laid

by Dominic Holden

My Nights Getting Tied Up

(And/Or Tying My Girlfriend Up)

by Madeline Macomber

My Alleged Night(s) of (Group) Sex

A Few Words About the Halls of Spooge and Shadow (Wear a Condom!)

by Adrian Ryan

My Night Getting Peed On

To Say Nothing of My Nights Being Shaved, Being Beaten, and Being Fucked on Every Floor of a Park Avenue Office Building at Midnight by the Cuban Night Watchman

by Edmund White

My Night With a Muslim Terrorist

The Perils of Going Home with Someone You've Only Known for 45 Minutes

by Christopher Frizzelle

My Kinky Relationship with Barack

A Season of Obamasochism

by David Schmader

My Adventures Playing Both Fields

The Kinkiest Thing I've Ever Done Is Women

by Eli Sanders

My Nights Being Watched

The Sadomasochistic Life of a Musician

by Gina Young

News

Kill the Lights

The City's New LED Streetlights Could Drive You Crazy and Make You Fat—Seriously

by Dominic Holden

What's Up with Maria Cantwell?

The Senator, Bafflingly, Doesn't Support Real Health-Care Reform

by Eli Sanders

The Gall

Officials Raid a Madison Park Apartment Looking for Black-Market Bear

by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee

Last Days

The Week in Review

by David Schmader

Illustrated Comment of the Week

by Greg Stump

Crossword Puzzle

This Week's Puzzle

Class of '48 (June 25)

by Brendan Emmett Quigley

Crossword Solution

Class of '48 (June 25)

by Brendan Emmett Quigley

Dear Science

by Jonathan Golob

Drunk of the Week

These Leather Dads vs. Your Dad

by Kelly O

Public Editor

by A. Birch Steen, Stranger Public Editor and OSHA Board of Governors Member (Retired)

I Love Television

Virtual-Reality Boyfriend

by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey

Suggests

Hard Times

by Christopher Frizzelle

'E.T.'

by Brendan Kiley

The Gayest Drink in Seattle

by Dominic Holden

Dyke March

by Dominic Holden

The Double Header

by David Schmader

Bend-It Festival

by Eric Grandy

Seattle Pride 2009

by David Schmader

Sex Toy Drag Race

by Kelly O

Michael Jackson: A Remembrance

On a Half Century of Unparalleled American Genius and Freakery

by David Schmader

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

Growing Up with Michael Jackson (Who Never Grew Up)

by Dave Segal

How Michael Jackson Touched Me as a Child #1

The Kiddie-Pleasing Linguistic Inventions of the King of Pop

by Eli Sanders

How Michael Jackson Touched Me as a Child #2

You Never Forget Your First Time

by Megan Seling

Dying in Slow-Motion

How Achieving the American Dream Broke Michael Jackson’s Brain

by David Schmader

No, Really

Michael Jackson Was Crazier Than Anyone Else Has Ever Dreamed of Being

by Lindy West

Michael Jackson, Mon Amour

Farewell to the Best Friend a Young Boy Could Ever Have

by Kid X, Age 12

Michael Jackson Moved Me

Posthumous Ruminations of One Pissed Angel

by Farrah Fawcett

RIP, Kate Jackson

Dead at the Age of Aquarius

by Adrian Ryan