Basics, Bitches

The K Is Silent, as in “I’m Knowledgeable About Knives from Vermont” by Kshama Sawant

Thank You for Sending Me an Angel

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: A Relevant and Complex Distraction

Big Delusions and Quiet Revelations in Alexander Payne's Nebraska

Blue Is the Warmest Color: The Most Controversial Film About French Lesbians You'll See All Year

Festive

Chris Marker's Revolutionary Cinema

Take Two

The Crutchfields Go Their Separate Ways, Together

Of Autumn Leaves and 206 Beats

A Survey of New Local Hiphop EPs and LPs

Up & Coming

Lose your codpiece and all every night this week!

What's Crappening?

Megan Seling Is Leaving?!

Sound Check

James Blake Threads a Gospel of Ice

Never Heard of 'Em: Boards of Canada

My Philosophy

In the News, This Week's Shows

Data Breaker

Borgore, Lunice, Deastro, Clark, Jon Hopkins

The Homosexual Agenda

Fresh Shade and Bloody Club Kids

Underage

James Blake, Julianna Barwick, Hannah Epperson

Poster of the Week

Poster by Burgess Studio

Shooting from the Hip

The Habit's Latest Sketch Comedy

An Exercise in Ambiguity

Buckshot Is an Unsettling Family Drama

For the Week of Nov 20

Loose Lips

Cherdonna's Big Break, an Actor Breaks His Foot, and a Parker Posey Sighting

Modern Romance

Rainbow Rowell Pisses Off Conservatives and Thrills Young Readers

Every Day Is Election Day

A Civics Book Every High-School Girl Should Read

Chow Bio

Sophisticated Peeps at Vif

Good-Bye, Seattle

I Will Miss You and Your Most Delicious Food

Drinkiing with Charlse Mudede

What the Furniture Says at Triumph Bar

The Widow

What Happens to Everyone When the Person They Love Most Dies

Kshama Sawant's Brash Style Catapulted Her to Victory

Will It Also Be Her Demise?

The Emperor's New Staff

City Council Gives Murray Money That It Took from McGinn

Hood vs. Hood

Will Council Districts Result in More Fights Between Neighborhoods?

Turn Off

Police Disable Massive Surveillance Network After The Stranger Reports Its Existence

Sources Say

Who Will Push My Iceberg Out to Sea?

News to Make You Weep with Rage and Happiness

I Love TV

Here's Everything I Know About Doctor Who. (Not much.)

Rob Delaney

A John Waters Christmas

Devo Cover Night

'Monstrous'

Reign Supreme

Next Dance Cinema

Last Hurrah at Francine Seders

'Boys, Jokes, and Things'

Tavi Gevinson's Dreamy Yearbook Fashions

Questions for The Stranger, Volume 23, Issue 12