Print Edition for the week of
Jun. 17 - 23, 2010

Vol. 19, No. 41

Savage Love

Boat Party

I, Anonymous

Dog the Virgin Hunter

Music

Demonic for the People

Rangda: A Three-Headed Psych-Noise Beast

Jimmy and Me

A Degrassi Superfan's Guide to Drake, Lil Wayne, and Irony

Fucking in the Streets

Dumb Eyes and Sleepy Eyes

Up & Coming

This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties

It's a Hit

Seriously, Pop Culture, No More Robots

Data Breaker

Matmos and So Percussion's Outlandish Exotica

My Philosophy

Dyme Def's New YUK Clothing Label

Poster of the Week

Poster by C. M. Ruiz

Party Crasher

Fighting Authority, Liberating Chickens

Underage

Videotapes Hanging in Trees Killed the Press Release

Theater

Get Off My Lawn!

An Early Morning Chat with Bill Cosby While He Takes a Break from Writing a Eulogy for His High-School Basketball Coach

Nasty, Brutish, and Short

A Quartet of Plays About the Banality of Evildoers

Burlesque Box

Jo Boobs and Deflowered Brides

Visual Art

Trashed, Burned, Abandoned

The Olympic Sculpture Park Finally Comes Alive

Books

The Curse of Dorothy Parker

Sloane Crosley Is More Than Just a Hilarious Lady

Constant Reader

Seattle Public Library Needs New Leadership

Food & Drink

Blue-Ribbon Batter

The Allen Brothers Bring Some Serious Golden-Fried Deliciousness to Rainier Valley

Bar Exam

The Sounders Guest-Bartend at Post

Chow Bio

George Coromilas of Fatty's Corner Pizzeria

The Happiest Hour

Blue C Sushi in Fremont

Features

What's wrong with art in Seattle? Our art schools, according to SAM's outgoing contemporary curator.

Michael Darling Schools the Schools

What Are You Doing?: The Innovators

The Stranger Walks In On an Inventor, a Paleontologist, an Underwater Explorer, and a Comic Artist Who Went Viral

What Do All These Drunk of the Week Photos Have in Common?

A Preview of Kelly O's Photography Show That Opens at Easy Street Records in West Seattle This Week

News

Ballot Boxing

Pissed at Lawmakers in Olympia, Washington Residents File a Record Number of Initiatives—Some Good, Some Terrifying, and Some Just Batshitcrazy

The Insufferable Neighborhood Activists

NIMBYs Have United Across the City to Defend the Worst Town Houses

Police Beat

Cone Heads

Control Tower

Spanks a Lot: BDSM Without Sex

I Love Television

Ten Reasons to Dislike Miley Cyrus

Public Editor

A Critical Overview of The Stranger

Last Days

The Week in Review

Slog

Morning News: It's Father's Day, Civil Unions Slated for Hawaii, and Rwanda Gets an Ice Cream Shop.

Uh-Oh, Marie Callender's

Lunchtime Quickie: Rocket Tooth

Shadow School Board Votes No Confidence in Seattle Public School Superintendant

Saddlebacking in the News

Full TILT

Reading Tonight: You Should Feel Totally Overwhelmed

Second-Most Attractive Obama Cabinet Official Leaving White House

The Weather Could Be Worse...

Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father

Holmes Charges Jaywalker Involved in Cop-Punch Incident

Top Republican Apologizes to BP for Obama's Action

Up In The Air

Morning News

Lawn Care in Los Angeles

Death Threats Aren't Helpful

Lunchtime Quickie: Khloe Kardashian's Hairy Situation

The Art of the City

Visualizing the Drug War

Guns Today

Eminem Comes Out...

"Significant Announcement" Coming Regarding South Park Bridge

Shamwow! + Eminem!

World Cupdate: Their Long, Gallic Nightmare Is Finally Over

Straight Parents Never Have Threeways

The Artist's Statement of a Subway Sandwich

A Little Good News

Sarah Palin Doesn't Want Pot Smokers Arrested

Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. Puts Playwrights on the Payroll

Lunchtime Quickie: Everybody Loves a Lesbian

Right Said Red Dead Redemption

Mayor Picks Ex-Judge as New Civilian Police Auditor

This Food is Terrible! And Such Small Portions!

Liveslogging Slovenia vs USA at The 5 Point an Undisclosed Location Where We're Late and the Internet Hates Us

Week in Review

On Abortion, Many Questions That Dino Rossi Still Won't Answer

Nature Abhors a Vacuum: The Design Commission Entertains Temporary Proposals for Vacant Places

Closing Arguments in the Prop 8 Trial

The Historic INS Building Wakes Up Again

The Ick Factor

Yes? No?

This Shit Is Really Getting To Me

Chloe Sevigny's Summer Plans

And Another Thing About Rossi v. Murray

What's for Lunch?

American Press Stressing that BP Is a British Company

Today in Appropriate Penis Mutilation

American Fucking Meets American Breastfeeding

What Song Is In Your Head Today?

Joe Barton Would Like to Apologize To...

Capitol Hill Acquires a New Park

In the 34th, a Clash of Generations and Endorsements

David Mamet on The Colbert Report: "Is Theater a Creep Magnet?"

iOS 4 Update

New Microsoft Office Kinda Weird

Mariners v. Cubs

Palin: Government Not Solving Your Oil Spill Problems? Try God!

This Week in Film: The City of Your Final Destination

Ladies and Gentlemen, I Give You the Tongue

Vuvuzela-Be-Gone!

First They Came For Our Salt Shakers

Upskirt Update

K-Strass on His Dark Past

The Progressive Slate for the Primary Election

Hardware Retailer Exposes Gays to Temptations of Home Improvement

Clean Energy Legislation, Made Simple

The Texan Taliban

SL Letter of the Day: One From the Archives...

Last Night's "Work of Art" on Bravo

Headline of the Day

Female Genital Mutilation at Cornell University

My Head Has Exploded

Until The Sexbots Come Along...

The Punched Jaywalker Apologizes

Sharks!

The GOP's Misconstrued Misconstruction

New Taxes Save State Budget

Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense, it is not resentful...

It Takes a Big Man to Hilariously Mock a Teenage Girl

Today in Sentences That Will Send Your Hat Flying Upwards from Your Head in Surprise

Got a Question for the Gays?

Bias Attacks in Seattle Target Racial Minorities, Gays

If His Son Is Happy...

This Week in Film: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

More Bad News From/For The Gulf

How to Ruin A City

This Week in Questionland: Gays!

Super Dave's Super Sushi Is Coming to Capitol Hill

Nice Day...

Today's Agenda

Get Your Ass Off the Couch

All Vuvuzela, All the Time

County Officials Dispute Information in Unflattering State Audit

"La Toya Jackson + Bubbles the Chimp = Holy Shiiii..."

Space Shuttle May Be Entombed in Seattle

The World Cup Matches We'll Be Covering on Slog This Week

Morning News: The Brain in God's Neck; Seal Pups Aren't Your Play Things; Water Takes Its Revenge

Morning News: Taiwan Faces Baby Deficit; Novelist Wakes up Illiterate; and the Ocean is Still Broke but BP Isn't (Yet)

Flames At Sea

What Did You Dream About Last Night?

Viagra Doesn't Increase Desire

Belltown Residents, Business Owners Skeptical of SPD's Plan to Improve Nightlife

What I Learned at Dino Rossi's Second Financial Seminar

Could A Democrat...

Blacks and BP

Who Do These Sounders Like to Win the World Cup?

Strap-On Tools

Nothing Can Make Female Genital Mutilation at Cornell University Less Horrifying

"Human Rights Are Gay Rights and Gay Rights Are Human Rights"

I Have Been to the New Olympic Sculpture Park, and the New Olympic Sculpture Park Is Good

Maybe We Should Offer BP A Tax Break To Drill & Spill In Lake Union

SL Letter of the Day: Don't Hate the Player...

Liquor-Law Backers Ready to Turn In Petitions

Last Call

Discovering How Enormous Your Interior Is

Not The Onion

Reagan, Objectively, Ruined This Country...

The Thing I Didn't Mention in My Review of Harmony Korine's New Movie "Trash Humpers"...

It's Going To Be Beautiful Tomorrow Night...

There's a Silent Reading Party Tonight

SL Letter of the Day: Sucks To Be You?

Lunchtime Quickie: The Breakfast Club XXX Remake

SL Letter of the Day: Lying Low

An Eye For Life on Earth

Liveslogging France vs. Mexico (with Grant Cogswell) at Cafe Presse, Where the Lady Next to Me Just Yelled "It's Too Loud in Here!"

Today in Making Light of Ongoing Tragedies for Fun and Profit

Dino Rossi's Web Site: Still No Issues.

Currently Hanging: Martha Colburn

Council Changing Its Position on the Tunnel?

A Nighttime Request

The Spaceman Across the Street Still Haunts Me

Youth Pastor Watch

Finally, a Suitable Replacement for the Vuvuzela

Seattle Cop Punch Goes Worldwide

More Than This

Fangirl Elena Kagan Backs "Religious Liberty" Over Anti-Discrimination Laws

Screw the World Cup and Happy Father's Day!

Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Dog-Hating A-Holes, Creeps With Goatees, Carnival Queers

I'm Feeling Sexually Attracted to Ted Danson Today. How Are You?

Morning News

New Seattle Nightlife Safety Plan Puts 20 More Officers on Patrol Downtown

Obama to Back Family Leave for Gays

Throwing a Pride Party?

Tunnel Graffiti

"Burqavaganza": Satire Banned in Pakistan

I Never Even Knew This Song Existed

Where Bad Books Come to Die

Re: Female Genital Mutilation at Cornell University

World Cup: USA vs. Algeria

June 18 Memorial Service for Fremont Fire Victims

Possible Graffiti = 911 Emergency

Get Your Ass Off the Couch

McKenna Backs "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Repeal

Graffiti and Tubs!!!

Whoever Let Me Go an Entire Day Without Hearing This Story Is BEYOND FIRED.

Notes from the Prayer Warrior

It's the New Trailer for The Smurfs, Guys! (What Do You Mean, 'You Don't Care'?)

In Case You Were Doing Some Ralph Macchio Research But Having Trouble Pronouncing "Ralph Macchio"

Art Fight: Are Seattle's Art Schools Good Enough?

Hey, Your Mom's Getting Drunk in the Park, and It Ain't Pretty

The Night Museum

Greek Active Macbeth

The USA Is Playing in the World Cup Tomorrow Morning at 7 am...

Morning News

Geek Love

McChrystal's Out

Totally SFW Pin-Ups!

FBI Destroyed Hiphop!, Schoolly D's Birthday, and the Chemical Brothers' "Where Do I Begin?" Revisited

Dedicated Cycle Tracks Proposed for Dexter Avenue North

Wayne Rooney

Convincing People to Drink Less Soda

Mayor Won't Re-Open Seattle Police Chief Search

All Apologies

A Exciting Note About Two Useful Words

The Best Sentence I Have Read All Year

Anthony Bourdain's Nasty Bits

Currently Hanging: Bad Renoirs

To the Person or People Giving the Squirrel Nuts: Please Stop

Bill Cosby on His Stranger Interview

19-Year-Old Attacked For Being Directionless

Shamwow + Eminem, Hanson Fans Riot!!!, a Nicolas Cage Cartoon, Norse Horse, Another Worst Song of 2010 (So Far), an HOLY SHIT JEN GRAVES MAKES A LINE OUT POST.

It's a Fine Day for a Fro-Turd*

The Continuing Tragedy of Boy A

Dueling Booze Initiatives Could Each Cost the State Millions

Anything Is Possible Through God

China Shows Confidence in Obama

Twittered to Death

Shockingly, a Woman is Mistaken for Justin Bieber

Dems to Force Vote on Stricter Campaign Financing

Morning News: Mike Huckabee Makes a Joke.

What UW Students Need to Know About Drugs

Apple is the New Mantracker

God Isn't the First Fictional Character...

More Bad Music!

More Jaywalker Punch Fallout: Police Guild Throws Tantrum at City Attorney

The Ultimate Gun Lover

Yes We Can (Barely Meet the Minimum Requirement to Stay in the World Cup)!

Youthful Pastor Watch

Jamaican Drug Lord Is Captured

GOAL!: Argentina Futbol Club Is A Movie You Will Love

Georgetown, Belltown Residents Confront Cops on Recent Neighborhood Shootings

The Many Uses of Twitter

"The Spectacle" Is Coming Tomorrow

Recreation Minister Watch

The Man and Amanda Knox

Man Robbed of $1,375 at ATM

In Case You Missed It...

The Didier Bubble, as Inflated by Didier

Lunchtime Quickie: Salma Hayek's Boo, I Mean, Bugs

What's That Stench?!

What Is the Worst Song EVER?

Uh-Oh, SpaghettiOs

The New UK Is an Ugly UK

Why The Stranger Accepted the Ad on Page 15 of This Week's Paper

Florida Less Hot on Drilling Somehow

Slamming!

SL Letter of the Day: Big Lies, Small Dick

Morning News: Dino Rossi, Rat Poison, Tony Hayward, Golf Clubs, and Other Assaults on Decency

Suggests

'Save Face'

'Splice'

Matt Browning, Andrew Dadson, Peter Sutherland

Mamma's Rock & Roll Circus

'Paved Paradise: Redux'

Beer & Bingo

Matmos and So Percussion

Colson Whitehead