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Print Archives
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2020
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Jan. 29
Print Edition for the week of
Jan. 29 - Feb. 11, 2020
Vol. 29, No. 12
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Elaine Lin
Savage Love
Rain Checks
by Dan Savage
I, Anonymous
Hey, parking enforcement officer—you're a douchebag.
by Anonymous
Film/TV
Missing Link
Was a Box-Office Bomb... and Now It Might Win an Oscar
by Chase Burns
Mickey and the Bear
Offers a Feeling of Hope Amid All of Its Coming-of-Age Darkness
by Leilani Polk
The Widespread, Willful Ignorance of
We Believe in Dinosaurs
by Leilani Polk
Music
Sessa's Sensual
Grandeza
Is a Love Letter to Sublime Brazilian Music
by Dave Segal
Free Will Astrology
January 29–February 4
by Rob Brezsny
Theater
If
She Loves Me
Seems Like a Familiar Love Story to You... That's Because It Is.
by Nathalie Graham
Visual Art
After Almost Three Years and $56 Million in Renovations, Seattle Asian Art Museum Is Finally Reopening
by Jasmyne Keimig
Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose...
Emily Tanner-McLean obsesses over the flower in her multimedia exhibition at Vestibule.
by Jasmyne Keimig
Books
Anna Wiener Offers an Anthropological View of the Tech Industry in Her Memoir
Uncanny Valley
by Rich Smith
An Intensely Queer Novel
Garth Greenwell carries on in the tradition of Virginia Woolf—but with a lot more sex.
by Christopher Frizzelle
Food & Drink
At Kin Len Thai Night Bites, the Fun Atmosphere Pairs Well with the Craveable Drinking Food
by Julianne Bell
Features
The Horrors of Online Dating, the Science of Heartbreak, and the Mystery of Gas Station Sex Pills
Welcome to The Stranger's 2020 Love Issue
by Christopher Frizzelle
Seattle's Best Bathrooms for Fucking
If you can't go back to your place and you can't go back to your date's place, what are your other options?
by Rich Smith
Do Those Gas Station Horny Pills Work?
What happens when you take those over-the-counter "male enhancement" pills? Only one way to find out.
by Chase Burns
Can You Recycle (Used) Sex Toys?
It's not as easy as you'd think.
by Jasmyne Keimig
Online-Dating Horror Stories
The winners of our essay contest.
by Stranger Readers
Love Hurts
What science says about heartbreak—and how to get over it.
by Katie Herzog
Mixing Things Up
A cocktail class at Cure Cocktail in Capitol Hill makes for a fun date.
by Nathalie Graham
Love Lessons from Terrible Exes
Even a boyfriend who sucks can give you valuable life experience.
by Leilani Polk
Crossword Solution
Crossword Solution: Course Prep
by Brendan Emmett Quigley
Weed
Science Confirms What Stoners Already Knew
Sex and weed do mix.
by Katie Herzog
Columns
Ask Kendra the Kitten!
Editor's Note
What Lester Black was up to while someone pretended to be him.