A Brush with Perversity

Ask Mr. "GET A BRAIN! MORANS (Go USA)"

Saint John of Las Vegas: Comedy on Klonopin

Screw This Happily Ever After Stuff: Rarities and Rediscoveries at Noir City 2010

Shutter Island: Martin Scorsese's Second Least Great Horror Movie Yet!

Concessions

God of Thunder, King of Party

The Messenger: The War at Home

Art House

For the Love of Movies

Ladies' Man

A Love Cry Supreme

Four Tet Makes Your Soul Dance, Blissfully

The Pains of Being Perverse at Heart

Xiu Xiu Goes to Chocolate City

The Magnetic Fields: Realism

Stephin Merritt's Fond, Folky Fakery

It’s All in the Editing

An Interview with Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields

Up & Coming

This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties

Grease and Cheese

An Interview with Personal of Personal & the Pizzas

Fucking in the Streets

Sasquatch! 2010's Killer Lineup

It's a Hit

Four New Dance-Music Releases

Data Breaker

SOS, a Far-Out Cosmos Girl

My Philosophy

The Return of Goodie Mob

The Score

Swaggers and Fights at the Seattle Symphony

Poster of the Week

Riot in Stereo

Party Crasher

Go Back to Bed's Launch Party in the Land of the Plastic People

Underage

Help the All-Ages Music Project Win $50,000

Glengarry Glen Ross: A Triumph of Dysfunctional Masculine Rage

Trout Stanley: Suicide and Romance by the Small-Town Dump

The Cody Rivers Show: Where the Genius Never Stops

Burlesque Box

Hellfire Variety Show by Pure Cirkus/the 4 Horsemen

Phantoms in the Woods

Anne Siems's Haunted Old-Time Paintings of the Young

Western: Look at That Bug Crawling on John Wayne's Boot!

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky: A Novel About Race and Falling from a Great Height

Constant Reader

Tequila Dreams

A Local Man's Quest to Make the World's Best Tequila

Bar Exam

STILL Liquor Finds a Place on Capitol Hill

The Happiest Hour

The Signature on Queen Anne

Is the Treasury Secretary Doing a Good Job?

Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner has become the government whipping boy of the financial crisis. One of his loudest critics is Senator Maria Cantwell, who has openly wondered why he still has a job. Is she on to something?

It's Time

Pressure Rises to End State's Monopoly on Liquor Stores

News Quips: Baristas Fight Prostitution Charges, First Hill Streetcar

Police Beat

Do Dinka Warriors Hate Women?

Does the Funky Microwave Spread Stink?

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What Is Funny?

The Week in Review

The Vaunted MoCA Collection

Headline of the Day

Missing Boner

"You are never going to do away with the worlds oldest profession. Washington should do like Nevada. Legalize it, tax it, and require prostitutes to be licensed and have periodic health checks."

Them's Fighting Words: Seattle vs. Portland

Today's "Favorite" "Bird" of the Day Is...

When Miscarriages Are a Crime...

Pre-Afternoon News

Metro Transit Authorities Won't Renew Private Security Contract

Yesterday the Stranger Suggested: the Spits, Personal & the Pizzas at Chop Suey

Taxis Win a Round Against the Port

Man Says He Will "Go Columbine," Then Kicks Transient

The Suburbs Also Have to Take Responsibility for the Suburbs

Whitney Biennial 2010

Lunchtime Quickie: Old Spice, Unplugged

"Every little boy should be so lucky as to turn into me. That's all I have to say."

Lunchtime Quickie: AC Transit aka Epic Beard Man Speaks

House Budget Plan: $857 Million in New Taxes

Spring Books Have Sprung

Times are Tough, and Cockatoos Are Really Great

Justice, Dark Knight-Style

City Hires Consultant for 520 Bridge

If You Missed Me Last Night

Curling's Days Are Numbered

SL Letter of the Day: The Good Cheat

The Age of Consent in Vatican City—Seriously, Vatican City—is Twelve

Useless Books I Have Gotten in the Mail, Part 19: God Made Me Do It

Some People Involuntarily Flash When Bon Jovi Takes the Stage

This Week in Film: Saint John of Las Vegas

Senate Budget Plan: $900 Million in New Taxes

"This is what I wish burlesque were actually like."

Twitter: Get Used to It

I Will Read You a Bedtime Story Tonight

You Gonna Eat That?

Another Day, Another Major Factual Error in a Book

The Morning News*

Currently Hanging: Mandy Greer at OHGE Ltd.

Coming Thursday to Daytime Television

"She couldn't entertain a dead rat, to be honest."

Confidential to Barack Obama

Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla Has a New Major Label Imprint

Bill Gates Versus Microsoft

Reading Tonight: Job, Geek, or Sex?

Hope Is That Place with Peacocks

Flickr Photo of the Day

The NSFW Typeface You've Been Waiting For

Bob Dole Says Bob Dole Caught Pneumonia and Needed Leg Surgery, but that Bob Dole Is Getting Better

Gun Kills Groom

Sacred Temple Alleged Madam Charged

An Interview with Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields

Love It

The Overrepresentated Tea People

Sexy Curling

Required Viewing: Elimination Hockey Wednesday

SL Letter of the Day: Should I Risk Destroying My Parents' Marriage Over Third-Hand Information?

From Conservative Hero To Conservative Zero...

Flickr Photo(s) of the Day

Reading Tonight: Silence, Reality, and China

This Is Not What Our Country Needs

Hollywood Investing in White Women

The Unstoppable Insanity of Wall Street

Yesterday The Stranger Suggested: Unmistaken Child

When Neo-Nazis Wax Poetic

The Future of Retail

City Council Priorities for 2010

Perhaps They Could Come in a Suppository Form?

Seattle Art Barter

No More Arts at Magnuson Park?

Fun While It Lasted

Glenn Beckwatch: "I Went to the Library, Where Books Are Free"

A Proposed Moratorium

This Week in Film: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Re: Overheard in the Office

This Week in Film: Shutter Island

The (Great) Rush Experiment

The Dalai Lama Puts It in Perspective

Food Stamps in Los Angeles

You Gonna Rent That?

Snookered By an E-Reader

Virginia Lawmaker Limply Apologizes for Pronouncing Handicapped Children God's Vengeance for Abortion

And My New Favorite Bird Of the Day Is...

Top Three Skyscrapers of 2009

Something for Everyone

They Say This Fountain Causes Weeping

Credit Card Reform

Overheard in the Office

Meat Is the Next Tobacco?

Um... What?

Found in a Seattle Parking Lot

Re: Reading Tonight: Sex (and Cupcakes)

Lent is Here

Reading Tonight: Science!

Here We Go Again

US Fish and Wildlife Auctioning off Confiscated Goods

Man Stuck in Chimney Charged With Burglary

'We Shit Disturb': The Olympics and the Arts Cuts

Youth Pastor Watch: Jonathan Hartman, Jonathan Hartman

Re: A Pain in the Chest

The Bloom Box

A Pain in the Chest

Karl and Michael Are Getting Married

The New Credit Card Responsibility Act

Thomas Pynchon Would Prefer Not To

Jeff Weinstein on Larry Sultan

Give The Customer What He Wants...

What To Expect From A Friendly President (Very, Very Little)

Don't Tread on Me

Currently Hanging: Robert Longo at Wright Exhibition Space

Just Because Some People Can't Handle Their Porn...

David Shields

'De Kooning's Women'

The Spits' Last Annual Midwinter Chinese New Year Blazing Blowout

The Magnetic Fields

Claudia Fitch

'Unmistaken Child'

Moon Duo

Tinariwen

This Week's Puzzle

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