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Dec. 11
Print Edition for the week of
Dec. 11 - 17, 2013
Vol. 23, No. 15
Secret Bike Path by Bettina Mcentyre: 
knotpile.com
Savage Love
LGBT&P?
by Dan Savage
New Column!
Holiday Charity Challenge!
Film/TV
Ms. 45
: Abel Ferrara's "Feminist" Revenge Fantasy
by Kelly O
The Hobbit
: Holy Shit, You Guys! It's Incredible!
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?
: Michel Gondry's New Documentary Finds a Beautifully Sad Crack in the Philosopher's Stone
by Charles Mudede
I, Anonymous
Post-Mushroom Remorse
by Anonymous
Music
Sound Check
Built to Spill, Deep-Sea Mountain Journeyers
by Trent Moorman
What's Crappening?
News, Reviews, and Cat Food
by Jax Teller
Data Breaker
Caspa, DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn, Jimi Jaxon, Rustie
by Dave Segal
The Homosexual Agenda
Homo-ish Holidays, Amanda Lepore's Lips, Jinkx, Unwrapped
by Adrian Ryan
Never Heard of 'Em
Stereolab
by Anna Minard
My Philosophy
Byrdie Lives
by Larry Mizell Jr.
Poster of the Week
Poster by Tireman Studio
by Aaron Huffman
Underage
Black Hat, Lo-Fi Pop Night at Heartland, Christian Mistress
by Brittnie Fuller
Up & Coming
Lose your pernicious sort of nostalgia every night this week!
Krule Fall
How King Krule's
6 Feet Beneath the Moon
Helped a Few People Through a Difficult Season
by Mike Ramos
Theater
Spoiler Alert: He Dies at the Beginning
The Splinter Group Imagines Willy Loman's Afterlife
by Brendan Kiley
Consider Yourself Warned
Oliver!
at the 5th Avenue Theatre Is Not Up to the 5th Avenue's Standards
by Christopher Frizzelle
Free Will Astrology
For the Week of Dec 11
by Rob Brezsny
Visual Art
The Forecast
Photographs of Alaskan Hunting Shelters and the Plans of Children
by Jen Graves
Loose Lips
BenDeLaCreme Is on
RuPaul
, Dayna Hanson Blows Minds, and Christopher Evan Welch Passes Away
by Stranger Scurrilous-Hearsay Harvesters ("SSHH")
Books
His Kampf: Morrissey's Wonderful and Horrible
Autobiography
by David Schmader
Food & Drink
Okay, All Right, and Good
Great Expectations for Blind Pig at Eastlake Teriyaki
by Bethany Jean Clement
Now Open
New Places for Stuffing Faces
by Bethany Jean Clement
Features
Why Black Weirdos Are Real and a Postracial Society Is Not
THEESatisfaction Provide a New Socially Meaningful Way of Thinking About Race in Our Times
by Charles Mudede
News
Fuck the State
Seattle's Secret Plan to Save Metro Bus Service
by Goldy
A Good Cop Is Hard to Find—in Seattle
New Rule Would Allow High-Ranking Officers to Join from Other Cities
by Anna Minard
Sources Say
Coming Soon to a Street Near You
by Rich O'Neill
Fast Food Is Artificially Cheap
Seattle Can Raise the Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour While Barely Raising the Price of Your Burger
by Goldy
Was It Worth It, Seattle City Council?
You Put On a Great Show, but the Voters Were Not Amused
by Dominic Holden
I Love Television
Grinch Pop Quiz
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Last Days
The Week in Review
by David Schmader
Suggests
'Fiddler on the Roof' Sing-Along
by David Schmader
Be Nice
by Bethany Jean Clement
Scarecrow Video
by Anna Minard
Ellington Sacred Music
by Charles Mudede
Seattle Seahawks vs. St. Louis Rams
by David Schmader
Santa Maria Tri-Tip Steak Sandwich
by Paul Constant
Blackened Catfish Sandwich
by Brendan Kiley
"The Rolling Stones"
by Kelly O
Black-Eyed Peas
by Bethany Jean Clement
Japanese Winter Foods
by Gillian Anderson
Beethoven's Ninth at Seattle Symphony
by Jen Graves
The Spits Post-NYE Party
by Kelly O
'The Thin Man': CANCELED!
Curtis Steiner
by Jen Graves
'Young Frankenstein'
by Gillian Anderson
Andy Stern
by Paul Constant
Study Guide
Questions for
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