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Dec. 18
Print Edition for the week of
Dec. 18 - 24, 2013
Vol. 23, No. 16
Savage Love
Change Agent
by Dan Savage
New Column!
Holiday Charity Challenge!
I, Anonymous
Studs Suck
by Anonymous
Film/TV
American Hustle
: Christian Bale Leads a Smarmy Scorsese Riff into the Gaudy 1970s
by Paul Constant
Inside Llewyn Davis
: Folk Music and Fur Balls
by Ned Lannamann
Music
Bey Day
Beyoncé's Intensely Beautiful Album Is a Giant Middle Finger to Anyone Who Claims She Isn't a Real Feminist
by Danielle Henderson
The Unbearable Heaviness of Being
Feeling Doom-Drone Classic
Earth 2
's Tremors 20 Years On
by Dave Segal
Burial's Slow Year
The King of UK Dubstep Releases an EP with No Dubstep Beats
by Charles Mudede
What's Crappening?
News, Reviews, and Pizza
by Kevin McCallister
Data Breaker
RL Grime, Pete Swanson, Mike Servito, Made Like a Tree
by Dave Segal
The Homosexual Agenda
by Adrian Ryan
Never Heard of 'Em
Phil Spector's
A Christmas Gift for You
by Anna Minard
My Philosophy
Nacho Picasso, the Physics, Nottus Tre
by Larry Mizell Jr.
Poster of the Week
by Aaron Huffman
Underage
by Jackson Hathorn
Up & Coming
Lose what your mama gave ya every night this week!
Sound Check
He Whose Ox Is Gored Holiday Stop-Motion Ox Special
by Trent Moorman
Theater
Queer Holiday Cheer
Homo for the Holidays
and
Holiday of Errors (Or, Much Ado About Stockings)
by Brendan Kiley
Free Will Astrology
For the Week of December 18
by Rob Brezsny
Visual Art
Loose Lips
Arts Gossip
by Stranger Scurrilous-Hearsay Harvesters ("SSHH")
Mortal Combat
LaToya Ruby Frazier, Levi's, and Fierce Photography
by Jen Graves
Books
A Writer's Prayer
Before Flannery O'Connor Wrote, She Talked to God
by Rebecca Brown
Food & Drink
Less Would Be More
Le Petit Cochon Is Not Perfected Yet
by Bethany Jean Clement
Drinking with Charles Mudede
The Between Space at El Quetzal
by Charles Mudede
Chow Bio
Olaf's Tunnel of Love and Corn Dogs
by Sarah Galvin
Falling Off the Sleigh
Where to Drink on Christmas Day
by Krishanu Ray
Features
Good Grief and Great Tits
Sitting Down to Read Sarah Palin's Christmas Book While I Bake Christmas Cookies for My Family
by Dan Savage
Property Management
My Standoff with a Landlord After I Kept Getting Rent-Increase Notices in Violation of My Lease
by Marti Jonjak
News
To Serve and Reject?
City Hall Could Push Away the SPD's Best Option for a Chief
by Dominic Holden
Let Adults Grow Three Plants Each
The State Is Already Amending the Pot Law, so It Should Do This, Too
by Ben Livingston
A State-Run Marijuana Bank
It Would Solve Two Problems at Once
by Goldy
Murray Spends More
The New Mayor Boosts Salaries for Top Staff at City Hall by Tens of Thousands of Dollars
by Anna Minard
Sources Say
Fired Up, Ready to Go (Collect My Pension)
by Boeing Machinists
Last Days
The Week in Review
by David Schmader
I Love Television
The Specials Before Xmas
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Comics
Comic
Comic by Greg Stump
Worn Out
The Durantastic Fashions of Duran Duran
by Marti Jonjak
Study Guide
Questions for
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