Print Edition for the week of
Sep. 30 - Oct. 6, 2010

Vol. 20, No. 4

Savage Love

Boy on the Side

Film/TV

Liked and Unfriended

The Social Network Is Barely in English, but It Rocks

Let Me In: A Knockout Remake of a Vampire Classic

I Am Secretly an Important Man: Steven Jesse Bernstein Gets the Documentary Treatment

Concessions

Thanks for the Tension Headache, Spain!

Freakonomics: Like 9/11, Only with More Sumo Wrestling

Art House

RIP, Pape Sidy Niang, Young Star of Police Beat

I, Anonymous

Music

Top of the Class

The Best Electronic Musicians at UW and Beyond

The Smartest Dumb Guys in the Room

Did Going to College Make Das Racist Better Rappers?

Up & Coming

This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties

Fucking in the Streets

The Head and the Heart's Stagey Sincerity

It's a Hit

A Roundup of Late-Pass Hiphop

Data Breaker

Rusko's Party-Monster Dubstep, Emeralds' Zen Ambience

My Philosophy

Blue Sky Black Death, E-40, Das Racist, and Ladies First

Thomas Hunter: White China Gold

Underage

Run Vera Run Is Right Around the Corner

Poster of the Week

Poster by Steve Quenell

Party Crasher

Supporting a Child's Education with Alcohol

The Homosexual Agenda

Working Girls, Lick!, and Choice—Ono!

Theater

Swords and Glass

Director's Choice at Pacific Northwest Ballet

Visual Art

Neighborhood for Lease

Storefronts Seattle Skims the Surface of the Deep, Dark, Empty Spaces in Pioneer Square

Step Up to the Joystick

In SuttonBeresCuller's New Work, a Giant Mechanical Arm Zooms In on Art

Books

Where All the Money Went

Clinton's First Secretary of Labor Has a Bold Plan to Save Us

What You Did Last Summer

Darin Strauss's Grief-Soaked Memoir About Killing a Girl

Food & Drink

Delicious Senselessness

The Magic of Memo's at Two O'Clock in the Morning

Happiest Hour

Mike's Chili Parlor

Bar Exam

Island Time Without the Plane Ticket at 'Ohana

Chow Bio

Luis Rodriguez of the Station

News

Plotting a Revolution

A New Generation Plans to Take Over American Agriculture—and Make It Profitable

The Witt Standard

After Her Victory Over "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," Major Margaret Witt Talks About What's Next

Pay More, Get More (Infighting)

Budget Shortfall Pits Council Against Mayor

Police Beat

Men in Ski Masks

Vote for a Tax Increase or He'll Cut Us

Dow Constantine's Big Budget-Slashing Gambit

Illustrated Comment of the Week

Dear Science

The Science of Happiness

Public Editor

A Critical Overview of The Stranger

I Love Television

The Land of Spotted Dick

Suggests

'The Social Network'

Smash Putt

'Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole'

Das Racist

Sir Richard Bishop, Bill Orcutt

Caribou, Emeralds

'Breaking the Code'

Party at the Henry

Last Days

The Week in Review

Slog

"There's No One in This Platoon That Agrees This Is Wrong."

Blog Commenter Fired for Offensive Remark

Derek Erdman Meets Goddess Kring

Saturday Nights Live

Mmm, Polygamy Bus Tour

The Happiest Hour: Mike's Chili Parlor

Bus Rapid Transit Is Basically Just Like Bus Transit

Get Ready to Opt-Out of Yellow Pages Delivery

Gay Oregon Teacher Reassigned to Teaching in Closet

Baby Monkey (Going Backwards On A Pig)

Name Glenn Danzig's Cat!

Think You're So Smart? PROVE IT.

Sham Marriage

What Is "The Ultimate Elbow Against Families"?

Here Is What I Have To Say About the Recall and Subsequent Pulping of the UK Edition of Freedom, as Well as the Fact That Someone Stole Jonathan Franzen's Glasses and Then Put Them Up for 100,000 Ransom:

Complaint Says DUI Lawyers Broke Rules by Coordinating With Judicial Campaign

A Correction about the Plot of The Great Gatsby

Went For a Walk

Reading Today: A Tragic Bicycle Accident

Name This Band!: The Four Asian Dudes Edition!

Sorry, Liberals, the Initiatives Are Not Going Your Way

Belltown Gets Its Own Melrose-Project-Type Thing

"Our Justice System Is Not for Sale," Assert Anti-CJE Lawyers

It Gets Better: You're Reaching Them

"Student Lives Always Matter"

College Freshman Commits Suicide After Roommate Uses Hidden Cameras to Stream Live Images of Him Having Sex Over The Internet

Flickr Photo of the Day

Who Killed Tyler Clementi?

Obama's Speech Last Night

Broadway Meets Rock 'n' Roll: Too Little, Too Late

Did Anyone Else...

The Return of the 20th Century.

It Gets Better: Tim Gunn Made It Work...

Are You Thinking About Playing the Lottery?

America Saves England's Ass AGAIN

It Gets Better: A Theological Response

And Now a Word from a Concerned Commenter

Library Fines for Kids Nothing New

Man, How About that Arcade Fire?

White Papers and Foot Soldiers

Steven Jesse Bernstein Was An Important Seattle Man

Sentence of the Day

Caption This Photo: Dog Poo in a Dollar Bill!

Spider of the Day: Cthulhu R'lyeh edition

The Times Are A-Changin': Moe Tucker, Drummer for The Velvet Underground, Is a Teabagger

Required Reading

That Cocaine, Officer? It's Not Mine.

Gliese 581-g: A New Planet to Destroy (Maybe)

Re: Advice for McGinn, from the Man Who Built Bellevue

What Would Ewe Do?

Required Listening: "You don't follow the Bible! You're a liar!"

The Zooms

These are the Flight Attendants I Want to Die With

Week in Review

Judge Says Candidate Switched to Get "Financial Support" of Attorney Group

My Favorite Chimp Goes to Chimp Heaven at 52

SL Letter of the Day: Don't Santorum Me!

Heeee's Back

This Week in Film: The Social Network

James Ensor Is a Pisser

Woman Sentenced for Gross Counterfitness

Lower Queen Anne Sports Bar Celebrates Grand Opening With Free Food

But Isn't Song of Bernadette Playing on AMC This Week?

City Received Ineligible Federal Funds For King Street Station Project

Good Lord.

What Does It Take for a Student to Get Suspended From a Middle School in the Cy-Fair Independent School District?

Learn Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Baking!

It's HUMP Day! Have You Started Your HUMP! Film Yet?

Today in Novelty Throw Rugs

New Twitter Design

Three Short Notes on Movies About Sluts, Facebook, and Vampires

An Email

So, I Finally Got Around to Watching The Book of Eli Last Night

We Are Not That Far Away from Mass-Market Quantum Computing

The Godfather on Vashon Island, for a Good Cause

The Morning News

You Win, Snickers! I Will Never Eat Your Candy Bar Again.

Inside Marc Jacobs' Fashionable New Bookstore

Linda's Tavern Burglarized Early Sunday

The Morning News

Your Pro-KEXP/Open Platform Form Letter

The Best Legs in Seattle Are Leaving—Early?

I Like to Think of Local Octopuses as Giant, Intelligent, Mystical Monsters...

Dads? Try to "Out-Dad" This Dad.

Reading Tonight: It's Ladies Night!

Are Washington Voters About to Give Away the Store?

Lunchtime Quickie: Spike's Patented Protein Shake-Shake

Shhhhhhhh! The Reading Party at the Sorrento Is Back! Now Once a Month and with Special Guests!

Wasted Tax Dollars? Prove It.

About That Creepy Assistant Attorney General from Michigan Who's Stalking An Openly Gay Campus Leader at His, the Creepy AAG's, Alma Mater

The Morning News

It Gets Better: Thank You, Old Marrieds

Smart Money's on McCarthy

Fuck You, Scentless Internet

You Don't Know Me

Reading Tonight: Michele Norris, The Daily Kos, and the Company Store

The Michael Moore Plan for Democratic Victory in November

Final 520 Report Shows Conflict Over Feasibility of Light Rail

A God of Love

The Buzz in the Space Community

Local Man Starts Fund to Pay Weezer to STFU!

Not Registered to Vote? You Have Five Days

Reading Tonight: A Plan to Save Our Economy, a Steampunk Event

Vive Airbus!

O They Will Know We Are Christians...

Lunchtime Quickie: A Boy And His Crocodile

For Your Stomach's Consideration: The Magic of Memo's

This Should Be Interesting

Audit Finds King County Is Not Complying With Federal Grant Requirements

California Pot Watch

Hey! Come to Sex Trivia Tonight!

What's Taking Google Editions So Long?

HANK IS SLEEPY.

Now You Can Pubit On Your Nook!

SL Letter of the Day: Almost Sorry

It Gets Better: This One Goes Out to All the Teenage Musical Theater Queens

Lunchtime Quickie: God Sperm?

Second Murray-Rossi Debate Set for Oct. 17

What Recession?

Slower Than a Falling Spartan and Other Thoughts on the Superman Movie

Gordon Ramsay Is a Fucking Blowhard

Lunchtime Quickie: The McDonalds Un-Happy Meal Deal

Get Your Ass Off the Couch

Expansion of the World's Most Wonderfully Weird Museum

How "Christian" Parents Kill Their Gay Children

It Gets Better: Take It From Some Card-Carrying Members of the ACLU

"How Do I Have Sex with That Thing?"

Seattle's Tunnel Will Be a Magical Tunnel That Won't Have this Happen

Sarah Kavage and 1,000 Bushels of Wheat

The Latest Murray/Rossi Poll

GOP and the Pledge of Nothingness

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! There's a Spider on my Rolodex!!!!

Congratulations, Brand New Obama Intern!

At Least His Taxes Were a Bit Lower Before his House Burnt Down

Lunchtime Quickie: Mmm, Mechanically Separated Chicken!

It Gets Better: We're Giving Them Hope

Why Are So Many Gay Kids Killing Themselves?

First Thursday Is Here

Fuck with Elmo? Elmo Fucks with YOU.

It Gets Better: A Programming Note

The 'Ack!' Fades to Black: RIP Cathy

Ethnic Media Feels Ignored This Election Season

Seattle's Ladymayor!

The Ghost of Dead Neoliberalism: Austerity

Your Blue Cat-People Fantasies Come True

Todd Palin Is Terrible at Writing E-Mails

RIP, Greg Giraldo

The Morning News

The Secret of Whether the Tree Will Break the Glass

Ready Your Gut: 12 Distilleries Soon Operating in Seattle

Reading Tonight: Gigantic

Today in "What? WHAT??? BOOOOO!!! BOOOOO!!!"

The Morning News

"Any ideas to help get motivated to organize?"

Strangercrombie Wants to Know: Who Is Your Favorite Local Charity?

A Rant (Sorry): It's About Money, Not About Art

Reading Last Night: Last of the Living Spankstra and Friends

Alyson Books to Go E-Only

Don't Ask Dino Rossi about DADT, Because He Won't Tell

Reading Today: Right-Wing Radicals Are America's Taliban

50Cent Tells Gay Men to Commit Suicide?

An Example of Wasteful Government Spending

Colombia Sues Drug Traffickers—the Makers of Smirnoff, Captain Morgan, Johnnie Walker, Etc.—for Criminal Racketeering

Slog Poll: King Mayor for the Day

So Much Local Art It Hurts: Fourteen—14!—Shows

Restaurantsplosion Continues on Capitol Hill

You Can Now Pay Hot Women to Play Video Games with You

"What is your favorite kind of pie?"

The Morning News

Let's Go to the Bay: Seattle vs. San Francisco

Are Your Apps Spying on You? And Can Amazon Save Us?

Autopsy Shows John T. Williams Wasn't Facing SPD Officer When Shot

Man Blows Up Own Mailbox to Prove Street Cred in Ponzi Scheme

Get Your Ass Off the Couch

An Interview With Maj. Margaret Witt, Slayer of DADT

Non-Profits, Business Groups Oppose Yellow Pages Opt-Out Bill

American Kids Eat 40% Junk Food: "Staggering"

Today in Twitter Wisdom

BIAW, Main Backer of the Workers' Comp Initiative (And This Insane Rap Video), Found to Have Mishandled Member Funds

That Hood Canal Story Is Depressing

Currently Hanging: Connie Watts

There Will Be a Cutting-Edge "Flash Mob" Tomorrow at Noon

Mayor Calls Council Resolution Meaningless, Plans Meeting with Governor

This Friday: Jennifer Coolidge at the Triple Door!

Why We're Screwed

The Morning News

The Putsch in Ecuador Continues

Attention, Hank Fans...

A Sister Lists the Advantages of Dating a White Man and the Disadvantage of Dating a Black Man

Slog Poll: What Should the Mayor Do with Seattle Center?

SL Letter of the Day: Does It Count?

You Can't Take Light Rail to the Airport

"How on earth can someone else’s simcha cause anyone 'pain and consternation'? If it does, that person needs therapy."

Advice for McGinn, from the Man Who Built Bellevue

What Can Straight People Do To Help?

The Gates!

Jaime Herrera: Slamming the Other Washington from... the Other Washington

What Do You Think Is the World's Best Cookie?

The Calm Before the Storm

Picasso, I Am in No Mood for You

Birther Queen Backs Rossi

The Myth of the Killer Instinct

What's New for You Under the Health Care Reform Act

Your Friday Pit Bull

Blackwater Wins Piece of $10 Billion Contract

Utah Poised to Criminalize Miscarriages

Reading Tonight: American Gothic, American Singer/Songwriter, American Afterlife

Yellow Pages Lobby Makes Final Plea to Run Its Own Opt-Out Registry

Vigilantes Kick Out Cops in Mexican Town

Tiger Breeding Ground Gains Traction in Fight for Seattle Center Site

City Council Voting on Conlin's Signature on Tunnel Study

It Gets Better: A Different Bridge

Hey There Stranger on TBTL: Cienna Madrid on Nubile Farmers (!), Lindy West on Some Prison Guard Named Juan (!), and Dan Savage on the It Gets Better Project

Man with Dementia Threatens Housemate with Handgun

Today in Anonymous Fury Directed at Seattle Streets

ABC News On The "It Gets Better" Project

[Insert Hand/Twilight Pun Here]

Tony Curtis.

The Amateur Gourmet Says "It Gets Better" With Braised Short Ribs

Currently Hanging: Primitivo Suarez-Wolfe

"No More Dithering, No More Time for Divisiveness"—City Council Moves Forward on Tunnel

Hey, Frizzelle... Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out

Between Two Ferns / The Social Network Mashup!

The Look of Hate

Your Design Eye-Candy of the Day

Open Studio Sale at the Washington Foundation TONIGHT

Reichert's Schedule Just Got Less "Filled Up"

Flickr Photo of the Day

Xerox Brings Us Closer to a Redbox for Books

First Murray-Rossi Debate Set for Oct. 14

Right Wing Radio Duck

Chow Bio: Luis Rodriguez of the Station

ABC News On Tyler Clemente and IGBP

Today in Awesome: Explode Slog!

For Those of You Calling on Democrats to Hit Hard...

Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Beacon Hill Gets Another Farmers Market, Crime Is Down in CD, and the Weather is a-Brewing.

The Passion of South American Presidents

Currently Hanging: Gerri Sayler

Marijuana Decriminalized in California—Totally Legal by Next Month?

Back To School 2010

The Stranger's 2010 Back to School Guide

What No One Else Is Going to Tell You About Drugs, Drinking, Sexual Positions, Stupid Majors, What the Music in Your Dorm Room Says About You, and More