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Dec. 4
Print Edition for the week of
Dec. 4 - 17, 2019
Vol. 29, No. 8
Lester Black
Savage Love
Quickies
by Dan Savage
Film/TV
Someone Had to Die for You to See This Documentary. Seriously.
by Chase Burns
I, Anonymous
Stop for Pedestrians! We Don't Want to Die Today, Thanks.
by Anonymous
Music
Local Musicians and Writers Band Together to Raise Spirits and Funds at Depression Fest
by Dave Segal
Free Will Astrology
December 4–10
by Rob Brezsny
Theater
The Seattle Man Who Is Memorizing an Unreadable Novel
Neal Kosaly-Meyer continues his project to recite all of
Finnegans Wake
off the top of his head.
by Charles Mudede
Visual Art
Art in the Age of Single-Use Plastic
Maria Phillips's
Undercurrent: Plasticene
at Bellevue Arts Museum is weirdly alluring.
by Jas Keimig
Books
This Seattle Bus Driver Has Seen Some Shit
But somehow he hasn't let it get to him.
by Rich Smith
Food & Drink
Chicken, Peri-Peri Sauce, Flame-Charred Flesh, and the Juices in That Flesh
Get a taste of the Portuguese empire at Galos Flame Grilled Chicken in Ballard.
by Charles Mudede
Features
Lid I-5 or Get Rid of I-5?
A look at two plans that would totally change the city.
by Lester Black
Editor's Note
Porn festival attendee irritated by people going to the bathroom.
Crossword Solution
Crossword Solution: Special K
by Brendan Emmett Quigley
Weed
Washington State May Finally Legalize Growing Pot at Home
Could 2020 be the year this happens?
by Lester Black
Art and Performance Winter 2019
The Bachelor
, Unedited
I can't wait to see the live stage version of the reality TV shitshow.
by Leilani Polk
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Korean Genius
E.J. Koh's memoir
The Magical Language of Others
is a moving meditation on inherited trauma.
by Rich Smith
Black American Rideshare
August Wilson's
Jitney
reveals working-class blacks discovered the Uber economy.
by Charles Mudede
The Music That Transforms Me into a Merman
Although I'm an atheist, I believe in the God in Fauré's
Requiem
.
by Charles Mudede
I Heard God in a Grain of Sound
A few thoughts about the minimalist-music deity Terry Riley.
by Dave Segal
Anatomy of a Sculpture
The Weaver's Welcome
and the symbols and motifs that inspired it.
by Jas Keimig