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Sep. 10
Print Edition for the week of
Sep. 10 - 16, 2014
Vol. 24, No. 2
Savage Love
Quick and Dirty
by Dan Savage
New Column!
Returning Column!
Dear God: Sometimes I Feel Like a Childless DILF
I, Anonymous
Aggressive Dog, Chickenshit Man
by Anonymous
Film/TV
Love Is Strange
: An Elliptically Epic Romance
by David Schmader
The Musical by Belle and Sebastian's Frontman Is About Girl Trouble
by Emily Nokes
Why
Flashdance
Is So Different from
Saturday Night Fever
by Charles Mudede
Fall Film Calendar
by Charles Mudede and Krishanu Ray
Music
What Would Katy Perry Do?
Scenarios Where Katy Perry Is Your Super-Fun (But Also Kind of Horrible) Best Friend
by Megan Seling
Major Scores and Sci-Fi Revisionism
Puget Soundtracks Seeks to Reimagine Film Music
by Kyle Fleck
An Intimate Conversation with Yanni
One of the Greatest Composers of Our Time Discusses Jet Lag, Freestyle Swimming, and Not Getting Struck by Lightning
by Trent Moorman
Scene and Heard
Music News from the 206 and Beyond
by Dave Segal
Some of That Jazz
What I'm Most Looking Forward to This Season
by Charles Mudede
Never Heard of 'Em
De La Soul
by Anna Minard
Data Breaker
by Dave Segal
The Homosexual Agenda
by Adrian Ryan
My Philosophy
Real Names Be Proof
by Larry Mizell Jr.
Poster of the Week
by Aaron Huffman
Underage
by Brittnie Fuller
Theater
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett
The Staging of the Invisible
by Heather McHugh
How Do You Pronounce “Godot,” Anyway?
Seattle Shakespeare’s Faithful but Lively Production of
Waiting for Godot
, the Play That Taught Me About Adulthood
by Brendan Kiley
Seattle's First Samuel Beckett Theater Festival Is Under Way
Here's the Schedule
by Brendan Kiley
Part Two of
Angels in America
Is Better Than Part One
If
Millennium Approaches
Was a Fever Dream,
Perestroika
Is a Kaleidoscopic Seizure
by Brendan Kiley
The Inexplicable, Fascinating Cherdonna Shinatra, the Drag Queen Who's Not a Drag Queen
But She's Definitely a Star—Twinkling... Hard to Reach...
by Christopher Frizzelle
Free Will Astrology
For the Week of Sept 10
by Rob Brezsny
Visual Art
MadArt Storefront in South Lake Union
Hey, What Is This Place?
by Jen Graves
Susan Robb Is Going from Mexico to Canada Like No Artist Has Gone Before
On her five-month walk along the Pacific Crest Trail, the artist is Instagramming nature, replicating rocks, and Facebooking the sublime. Why on earth would someone go out into the wild to blog?
by Jen Graves
Books
Neil deGrasse Tyson Is Made of Star Stuff, but His Books Are Black Holes
Like
Cosmos
, Only in Print and Kind of Dull
by Paul Constant
Food & Drink
In Food News: Four New Pioneer Square Places, Good-Bye to the Erotic Bakery, and Tons More
Openings, Closings, and Eater's Digest
by Bethany Jean Clement
Carmine's Place, Old and New
A Seattle Classic and Its Brand-New Little Sister
by Bethany Jean Clement
Chow Bio
Beloved Cassis, Now at the Beach
by Sarah Galvin
Features
The Fall Is Hard—Just Look at All the Art That's Been Made About It
This is the season of Frank Sinatra and Neil Young and Beat Happening and Herman Melville and Percy and Mary Shelley and Adam and Eve and you.
by Rebecca Brown
Artist Makes a Feminist Dating App and Calls It Siren
Susie Lee's Interactive Public Art About Sex, Power, and Meeting People
by Jen Graves
Northwest African American Museum Just Became a Lot More Relevant
How Did a Historical Institution Get with the Current Moment So Quickly?
by Charles Mudede
Welcome to Fall
A&P
Table of Contents
News
Young Blood on the Aging City Council?
26-Year-Old Halei Watkins Thinks New Rules for Local Elections Give Her a Chance to Win
by Anna Minard
Why a Seattle Cop's "Embarrassing Facebook Rant" Matters
West Precinct Sergeant Sounds Off on Race, Ferguson, and Police Militarization
by Ansel Herz
Why Won't the City Council Back Up Bike-Safety Plans with Adequate Funding?
Records Show a Major Bill Had All Financial Pledges Removed
by Dominic Holden
I Love Television
Peter Pansexual
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Comic
Comic by Marti Jonjak & Seth Goodkind
Suggests
Samantha Scherer + Chris Crites
by Jen Graves
Eat Out on Capitol Hill
by Bethany Jean Clement
Decibel Festival
by Dave Segal
Metal Skate Night
by Kyle Fleck
Robert Reich
by Anna Minard
Mimosas with Mama
by David Schmader
Haunted Horses
by Kelly O
Astronomy Enthusiasts
by Brendan Kiley