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Sep. 4
Print Edition for the week of
Sep. 4 - 10, 2013
Vol. 23, No. 1
Savage Love
Quickies
by Dan Savage
New Column!
Introducing...
The Stranger
’s New Film-Rating System!
I, Anonymous
Live to Tell
by Anonymous
Film/TV
Adore
: The Seaside Fucking of Mothers and Sons
by Charles Mudede
Short Term 12
: Damaged Kids Helped by Damaged Heroes
by David Schmader
Drinking Buddies:
Is It Possible to Be "Just Friends" with Olivia Wilde?
by Alison Hallett
Music
What's Crappening?
News, Reviews, and Snoop
by Smiley Virus
The Chart Thickens
America's Top 10 Songs Don't Rock—at All
by Dave Segal
Never Heard of 'Em
Daniel Johnston:
Songs of Pain
by Anna Minard
Up & Coming
Lose your brains, bongs, and basements every night this week!
by Stranger Staff
My Philosophy
Trapped Lords and Spiritual Depression
by Larry Mizell Jr.
Sound Check
The Psychedelic Furs: The Feel Is Everything
by Trent Moorman
Data Breaker
Austra, Poolside, Gold Wolf Galaxy, Prefuse 73
by Dave Segal
Underage
Poets, Puppets, and Folk, Muhammadali, WHY?
by Brittnie Fuller
The Homosexual Agenda
The Atomic Bombshells Return, Julia's Does Drag Brunch
by Adrian Ryan
Theater
Spin Cycle
The Whirling of Daniel Linehan
by Melody Datz Hansen
Free Will Astrology
For the Week of Sept 4
by Rob Brezsny
Visual Art
Loose Lips
Arts News and Gossip
by George C. Scott
Being Beaten About the Mind and Eyes
The 55th Venice Biennale Is a High-Speed Train Very Focused on a Destination, and Prone to Crashing
by Jen Graves
Books
Out of Rage
Shin Yu Pai's
Aux Arcs
Rails Against Injustice
by Paul Constant
Food & Drink
Chow Bio
Lucky and Apple at Silver Tray
by Sarah Galvin
Super Food
We Heart Salads! Especially These Ones!
by Megan Seling
DRNIKING WIHT CHARLSE MUDEDE
The Great Wheel of Drinking Fortune
by Charles Mudede
Features
The First 
Pot President
Obama decides to let legalization in Washington and Colorado stand. 
This is a landmark moment in the dismantling of the war on drugs created by his predecessors.
by Dominic Holden
The Sawhorse Revolution
Why Inner-City High-School Kids Learning to Build Bridges, Towers, and Tree Houses at a Farm North of Seattle Every Summer Matters to the Rest of Us
by Brendan Kiley
News
State Apologizes to Pot Dispensary
Enforcement Officer Made an Uninvited Visit
by Ben Livingston
Fast-Food Stroke
Conservatives Throw Fits as Fast-Food Strikers Seize Control of Living-Wage Debate
by Goldy
Sources Say
Don't Stand So Close to Me
by Pete Holmes
Last Days
The Week in Review
by Cienna Madrid
I Love Television
Let's Get Subversive!
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Suggests
Savages
by Dave Segal
Sly and Robbie
by Charles Mudede
Seattle Fringe Festival
by Brendan Kiley
Neko Case
by Anna Minard
The Inhabitant Sessions
by Jen Graves
Oktoberfest Buxom Royalty Contest
by Kelly O
Bite Nite for Yes on 522
by Bethany Jean Clement
Jonathan Lethem
by Paul Constant
Wedding Crasher
Tom Monday and Rubén Polendo's Bond from Beyond
by Sarah Galvin
Magic: The Wedding Gathering of Erika Taylor and Steven Birklid
by Sarah Galvin
Study Guide
Questions for
The Stranger
, Volume 23, Issue 1