Print Edition for the week of
May. 6 - 12, 2010

Vol. 19, No. 35

Savage Love

Round Up

Film/TV

Cultural Relativism Makes Me Uncomfortable!

Lindy West Cannot Lie: She Would Be the White Baby

Iron Man 2: More Iron, Less Fun

Art House

Breath Made Visible at NWFF

Concessions

It Came from 1996!

The Secret in Their Eyes: Love and Death and Not Making Out

I, Anonymous

You Skinny Bitch

Music

Gas Giant

The Sight Below's Uncontainable Ambient Atmospheres

Brevity's Rainbow

Unnatural Helpers' Quick-Tease Garage-Rock Act

Further Away

An Extended Interview with the Sight Below

Up & Coming

This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties

Fucking in the Streets

Sleepy Eyes of Death and Feral Children

It's a Hit

New Singles from LCD Soundsystem and M.I.A.

Data Breaker

Dosh’s Weird Beat Science, Monster Planet’s Odd Ambience

My Philosophy

A Fresh Dose of Vitamin D

Poster of the Week

Sasquatch! Poster Show

The Score

Rare as Hell: Two Brand-New Operas

Party Crasher

Eating Steak and Destroying the Planet on Earth Day

Underage

Ben Barnett's New Band Blunt Mechanic

Theater

We Stink!

A Choreographer Reviews The Stranger's Dance Coverage

Theater News

Lauren Weedman Uses Herself as a Punching Bag

Visual Art

Loving 'Fleeting Beauty: Japanese Woodblock Prints'

With Just One Suggestion to Improve the Show at SAAM

In Art News

The Hand-Wringing About SAM

'James Ensor and Georg Baselitz' Fight it Out at SAM

It is a Rout; Ensor Is Declared the Winner

Books

Meet Your New Neighbors

Hotbed of Gay Sex, Meet Hotbed of Literature

Constant Reader

I am Chuck Palahniuk's New Novel

Food & Drink

There's No Wrong Way to Eat Dessert

Poppy's Dana Cree Is a Magical Human Being

Bar Exam

The Secret Identity of Kristos on Eastlake

Chow Bio

Green Tea at the Japanese Garden

The Happiest Hour

The Owl N' Thistle

Features

To Be or Not to Be?

More people die of suicide in King County than from traffic accidents or murder, but no one likes to talk about it. A few words about the history, meaning, and practice of suicide, from third-century Christian death cults to the Aurora Bridge.

News

Supreme Ironies

Anti-Gay Bigots Get Smacked Down by a Conservative Supreme Court Justice and a Republican Politician During the Arguments over the R-71 Signatures Case

Chief Concern

South Seattle Leaders Want a Changing of the Guard in New Police Chief

In Other News

Public Editor

A Critical Overview of The Stranger

Crossword Solution

Down and Around (May 6)

Control Tower

The Naked Truth Is Not Online

I Love Television

Stephen Hawking Gets More Tail Than Me

Last Days

The Week in Review

Slog

You Guys Are Never Gonna Guess Who Made Fortune Magazine's "Ten Most Accountable Big Companies"

The Five Thousandth Corn Dog*

Brunch at the Twilight Exit

Man Allegedly Instigates One-Sided Bar Fight Over Spilt Booze

George "Rentboy" Rekers Talks To Teens About Sex!

Goodnight, Sweet Prince

Frank Frazetta

My Birthday Is Coming Up...

Can You Think of a Single, Itsy, Bitsy, Teensy, Weensy Defect In the Constitution as Originally Conceived?

Court: Rekers' Anti-Gay Testimony Not "Credible" Even Before He Got Caught Hiring Male Hookers

Let's Not Chew This One Up and Spit Him Out

Speaking of Mothers Day....

NASCAR Is Boring

Republicans on Why Terrorist Watch List Members Should Get to Keep Their Guns

A Big Day for Truthers

Joe the Plumber...

iBooks Down, Kindle Up

The Morning News

The Ms. Pacman of Language Columnists

Simon and Schuster Digital Sales Up, Everything-Else-Sales Down

Finding a Place in the Church

Mayor McGinn Swings for Non-Car Transit

And the Winner Is...

Semi-Literate Former Gold Prospector Given Own Cable News Show

Get Your Ass Off the Couch

Unto Us a Child Is Born!

Betty White on SNL

Second Initiative Filed to Dismantle Statewide Monopoly on Liquor Sales

Cupcake Royale Cupcakes Now Available Via AmazonFresh

Required Viewing: Colbert on George "Rentboy" Rekers

This Is Only the Second-Dumbest Political Ad I've Seen All Day

Lunchtime Quickie: People Are F*cked

The Secret Identity of Kristos on Eastlake

Gun Owner Kills Intruder

Seattle U Professor Denied Job Over Sexual Orientation

Some Couples Have Very Different Understandings

How Did Your Cinco de Mayo End?

Mothers Day

Sixth Grade Gaga

Literary Hero Baseball Shirts

White Power in Vancouver, WA and Rose City Antifa

Obama Intros Kagan

Rekers' Rentboys: How Many Well-Hung Skeletons Are In His Closet?

Did Q-13 Fox Suppress Police Brutality Video?

The Morning News

You Should Read iZombie

The Russians Are Coming

Name This Band: Special Haircut Edition!

Reading Tonight: Here Be Dragons

'A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter' in Action Again

Human Centipede Does Not Appeal to Me...

Traffic Report

Add This to Your First Thursday List

Jon Stewart: Yes, Kagan Is Just Like Miers...

SL Letter of the Day: One Year Later...

Who's Playing the Capitol Hill Block Party?

Need Help Making Sense of the Music Industry?

Bill Murray Reads Poetry to Construction Workers

You Can't Escape Superhero Movies

Officer Being Investigated for Misconduct Apologizes

Reading Today: Snacks for Teens, the Immigrant Experience, and Other Thrizzles

Libraries Can Filter Web Content for Adults, State Supreme Court Rules

Bonus SL Letter of the Day

Dan Fanelli Can Spot a Terrorist. Can You?

You Don't Say

Brand-New Restaurants: June and Luc

George "Rentboy" Rekers Lifts His Own Luggage

Are E-Books a Two-Horse Race?

Welcome to Seattle!

Borders Gets In On This Whole "E-Book" Thing

Against Fan Fiction

Not to say I told you so. . .

Unlikely Bedfellows

Please Do Not Engage in Sock Puppetry, Authors...

Vashon Island Woman Allegedly Attacks King County Sheriff; Witnesses Tell a Different Story

Morning News: Hugo Chavez, Tea Party Activists, BP Oil All Rage Against the Machine

Required Viewing: The Daily Show on Immigration and Cinco de Mayo

Mix-Books?

Twit of the Day

Required Reading: Brendan Kiley on Suicide, the Aurora Bridge, Other Common Methods, Men vs. Women, Whether Suicide Is Actually a Sin in the Christian Tradition, Assisted Suicide, and More

Police Misconduct Tape: Q13 Says It Is "Committed to Doing Better"

Latest Poll: Murray Beats Rossi by 17 Points

Pope Admits That the Greatest Enemy of the Catholic Church Is the Catholic Church

Gay Rights Groups Do The Right Thing

Wangalodeon!

Is Graffiti Ruining Your Life?

Farewell, Bounty of Free Parking

Morning News: Ethnic Chauvinists, Giant Squid, and Environmentalists Work to Change Their Public Images

Perhaps It Was Intended to Inspire a Moment of Quiet Introspection

You Haven't Lived Until You've Heard Andy Rooney Say "Lady Gaga"

Reading Tonight: Opera, Plummeting, and Highsmith-like

Neoliberalism, Ideology, and Pop Life at Hidmo

Today in Great Opening Sentences; or, Happy Birthday, Pill!

How a Post About Shabazz Palaces Turned into a Discussion about the Importance of Pitchfork and the Relevancy of Music Criticism in General

Graffiti or Tag?

The New British Government Seen Through the Eyes of Boris Johnson

Ways To Scar Your Children

This Is a Shameful Admission That Will No Doubt Follow Me to the Ends of the Internet...

Get Your Ass Off the Couch

YES. (A Thing Is Occurring at the Sculpture Park.)

Lunchtime Quickie: A Big Sword Makes "It" Look Easy

While In Galesburg, IL...

Reading Tonight: Ralph Nader Wants You to Buy His Book

Google Chrome Is Fast

Facebook Is Coming to Town and Is Hiring

Armed Robbery in Wallingford Area

What Roger Valdez Said About HIghways

Tonight in Witches Who Are Also Teens

Jenna Bissell Has Two Mommies...

Pope o' the Mornin' to Ya!

About That Heroic Drug Bust in Pioneer Square

Parks Department: There's No Easy Solution to Volunteer Park Encroachments

Getting Dead, Socrates-Style

Polls, Polls, Polls

Does Your Computer There Have a Mouse? Do You Like to Click on Things?

If You Know How to Read, You Should Come to the Reading Party Tonight

A Big Box of Hair

iDouche Redux

This Week in The Stranger

SL Letter of the Day: You'd Better Sit Down

Re: The Ultimate Distillation of Tetris Evil: Hatetris

Headline of the Day

Today in Technology, Tablet-Shaped and Otherwise

My Teenager Is Innocent...

What Does Obama See in Elena Kagan?

Yesterday...

Lunchtime Quickie: Today in Stupid American Tourists

The Miracle of Birth

Reading Tonight: Swing a Stick, Hit a Great Novelist

Noodle King Action Shots

On Loss, and Regretting Something You Lost, and Putting That Regret into Perspective

'Kurt' Press Preview Is Today

SL Letter of the Day: Guys and Dolls

American Academy of Pediatrics Endorses a Kinder, Gentler Form of Female Genital Mutilation

The Best Question to Ever Be Asked on Questionland!

Re: Is Graffiti Ruining Your Life?

What Would Slog Ice Cream Taste Like?

Never Heard of Her, Don't Care What Her Deal Is, Wouldn't Piss On Her If She Was On Fire...

Dick Cheney and the Oil Spill

And Unto Us a Name Is...Um, Picked

This Week in Film: Babies

Mayor to Gov: You Said State Would Pay for Tunnel Cost Overruns

Ya Hear That, Grandpa!?

Victim Beaten with His Own Cane, Still Thwarts Four Georgetown Car Jackers

Reading Tonight: Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Mayor McGinn Vows to Veto Any Bill That Puts City on the Hook for Tunnel Cost Overruns

Slog Happy Is This Thursday, With Free Ice Cream!

Map of the Day: Seattle Vice

About That Simpsons "Tik Tok" Lip Dub

Sacrifice to the Lottery Gods?

Maddow On Rekers

Reading Today: David Sedaris

Police Will Reject Applicants with Enlarged Penises

"Whatever lifts your luggage, George."

K-Strass and Zip Zap, LLC

The Ultimate Distillation of Tetris Evil: Hatetris

"Can anyone tell me how to make a Zorba the Greek Omelette?"

Home Owners Fighting to Keep Park Land as Private Backyards

David Sedaris Is Incredibly Funny

The Morning News

Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Jilted Lovers, Serial Masturbators, Cross-dressing Robbers

Congressman Expected to Introduce Bill to Clean Up Dirty Trucking Industry

Today In Homonyms

Afternoon Vicarious Adrenaline Rush

A Dancer/Theater Person/Artist Rips Us a New One

Homemade Nutter Butters

Lena Horne

Slog Happy Ice Cream: The Poll

While We Were Not Thinking About the Stock Market This Morning...

Can They Blame This On Gay Marriage?

Creepy Baby Roomba

Cheyenne Jackson

We Might Not Want To Kick All The Illegal Immigrants Out of the Country Just Yet

The Return of the Prodigal Gun

On Europe's Trillion

Gabbin' with Sally Blogshaw

Sarah Palin, "Your a rino!"

SL Letter of the Day: Good Question!

Rekers' Rentboy: We Had Sex, Rekers Is Gay

Case Closed

Winning the War on Drugs

Local Women's Rights Advocates Weigh in on Kagan Nomination

Initiative Would Renovate Key Arena to Woo NBA Back to Seattle

Werner Herzog Reads Where's Waldo

Parks Department Downplays Volunteer Park Land Use Fight

Who I'm Hating Most Right Now

The Decapitated Obese: A Small Sampling

The Return of the Horse Judge

You Should Watch Peacock

Currently Hanging: Jason Dodge

Sen. Murray Joins Effort to Make Oil Companies Like BP Pay More for Spills

Compromised Position

Don't Forget About Nashville

What's Wrong With a Black Person Adopting a White Baby?

"We're Going to Need A Bigger Piranha Fighting Boat."

Police Chief Search Down to Nine Candidates

Lunchtime Quickie: Way to Blow the Forecast

Word to the Wise: If You Drive Your Car Until the Little Light Comes on and Tells You Your Car Is Almost Out of Gas, and then You Keep Driving It Anyway Until It Burns Up All the Gas in the Gas Tank and There's None Left, Your Car Will Stop Running.

Silversun Pickups Are Coming to Seattle July 31st

Unpalatable

Get Your Ass Off the Couch

Suspect Believed Responsible for Prolific Bank Robberies Now in Police Custody

We Pause Now For This Imported Message

Last Night a Musical About the Home Life of The Stranger's Editorial Director Opened in New York City

The Morning News

Today in Neck Snapping Science Experiments

June 5

Ken Griffey Jr. and the Mariners

Barack Obama Has a Deep-Seated Hatred of White Male People...

This Does Not Bode Well for Body Scanners and Privacy

Map of the Day: Seattle Suicides

Today in Softcore Child Porn

The Main Criticism Against Mudede

Flickr Photo of the Day

The Horrors of Regulation

Morning News: A Contrite Pope, Police Brutality, Demonic Peaches, and Other Fine Examples of When to Trust Your Gut

GOP on Kagan: She Had the Gall to Quote Thurgood Marshall

PooTrapâ„¢ Finally!

Celebrate the New CakeSpy Shop Tomorrow!

Go See Lauren Weedman Tonight

Seattle's Next Police Chief Narrowed to Interim Chief Diaz and Two Californians

Congressional Dems Promise Investigation Into Port Trucking Problems

The Criminal Produces Crime

Out With the Cheesy, In With the Vegan

You Cannot Iron Out These Brain Wrinkles Once They Are Formed

Suggests

'Babies'

Michael Kupperman

Monsoon Crab Feast

Einar and Jamex de la Torre

'Willy Wonka' in Smell-O-Vision!

Starfucker/Pyramiddd, Truckasauras, Copy

Rimini Protokoll

'We Used to Get So High'

Crossword Puzzle

This Week's Puzzle

Down and Around (May 6)