Cock Locked

The Winner of The Stranger's Design a Christian Starbucks Cup Contest!

Cate Blanchett Drifts Through Carol in a Cloud of Elegance

Mustang Has a Kick-Ass Heroine

The Hateful Eight Is Good but Not That Good

Greed Isn't Good in The Big Short

Ryan Gosling, in Maybe His Best Performance Ever, Is Scathing and Hilarious

Success Is a Miracle Mop in Joy

Will Smith’s Performance of a Nigerian Doctor in Concussion Is Subversively Not Entertaining

Postal Props

How Christianity Infiltrated Seattle Music with a Little Help from Mars Hill Church and the City Council

For the Week of December 23

We Saw You Laughing About Cock Soup, Instagramming Your Abs at the Gym, and Dislocating Your Shoulder at Westlake

Stranger Staffers Were There As It Happened

We're Overweight for the Same Reason We're in Debt

A Review of Kima Cargill's The Psychology of Overeating

In Search of the Meaning of Hot-and-Sour Soup on Christmas

What Makes the Union of Chinese Restaurants and Religious Minorities Work?

Why I Am Probably Going to Send the Drunk Driver Who Killed My Parents a Christmas Card

The 10th anniversary of my parents' death brings up many emotions. Hate isn't one of them.

Taking the Christ Out of Christmas

How My Family Does the Holidays

The Seattle Activist Who Wants to Redesign the World

Susan Surface Believes Architects Need to Radically Change Their Approach to Social Responsibility

Person of Interest

Krampus, Christmas Man-Beast

Local Cannabusinesses Get Shut Down on Social Media