Print Edition for the week of
Dec. 17 - 23, 2014

At the Neptune

Your Fill-in-the-Blank Holiday Form Letter!

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: A Film Review in Three Parts: Part One

The Introduction of the Premise

Annie: Annie Is Dead, Long Live Annie

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: A Film Review in Three Parts: Part Two

The Elaboration of the Theme

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: A Film Review in Three Parts: Part Three

The Third and Final Part

Hoop Dreams Is a Ghost Story Set in a Vanished World

Groundbreaking Documentary Is Even More Powerful Today

Foxcatcher: Wrestler's Paradise

Elsa & Fred: Unconvincing Sentimentality

You Are Not My Mother

Who Should Be Crowned Drunk of the Year?

Scene and Heard

Music News from the 206 and Beyond

Is Swedish Rapper Yung Lean a Genius or a Gentrifier?

He Doesn't Care and Neither Do His Fans

My Philosophy

Extended Player, Player

Never Heard of 'Em

The Magnetic Fields

Data Breaker

The Homosexual Agenda

Poster of the Week

For the Week of Dec 17

Seattle Rep's Epic LBJ Play The Great Society Tries to Contain Too Much History in Too Little Time

A Brilliant Production That Suffers from Its Own Audacious Ambition

Writing About Shopping: Women in Clothes and A Bunch of Pretty Things I Did Not Buy Defy Fashion Lit Stereotypes

Everybody Wears Clothes, So Why Are We Ashamed to Write About Them?

Nate's Wings & Waffles Is Always Good and Sometimes Unfuckwithably Great

NBA Slam-Dunk Champ Nate Robinson's Rainier Beach Restaurant Doesn't Mess Around

Lunchtime!

Investigating Market House Meats' Claim of "SEATTLE'S BEST REUBEN"

Eden Was a Scary Movie About Sex-Trafficking Based on a True Story—Or Was It?

What does art that claims to be "based on a true story" owe its audience? When the "true" part gets called into question, and the art-makers go silent, what are we supposed to think?

Why Does the Mayor Want to Put Your Weed Delivery Guy Out of Business?

Blame Legalization

Is the Seattle Police Intelligence Auditor Doing His Job?

Meet the Auditor Who Rarely Presents His Own Audits

Last Days: The Week in Review

Exposed Torture, Impassioned Protest, and More Cosby Creepiness

The Only Gift You're Gonna Get!