Print Edition for the week of
Aug. 24 - 30, 2006

Vol. 15, No. 50

Savage Love

Support Hose

New Column!

Film/TV

Film Shorts

Hey Nah

OutKast’s Idlewild: Only Slightly More Touching than “November Rain”

This Week on TV

Movie Times

On Screen

'The Illusionist,' 'Heading South,' 'House of Sand,' 'Conversations with Other Women,' and More...

Games

A Headache This Big

Music

All Ages Action

Data Breaker

JEAN-JACQUES PERREY & DANA COUNTRYMAN

Live Music/ DJ Listings

Metal's Mystery Men

Tool's Subversive Stadium Rock

The Score

Classical, Jazz & Avant Plays Der Rosenkavalier

CD Reviews

Underage

Carousel Festival

My Philosopy

Hiphop Ya Don't Stop

Party Crasher

Metal Is as Metal Does

Classical, Jazz & Avant

Up & Coming

Freaking the Frequencies

A Reasonable Plan for Freeform Programming

Border Radio

Roots & Americana

Poster of the Week

SOS DIY

Why All-Ages Venues Are Crucial

Setlist

Listen to Local Bands Playing This Week

Rocka Rolla

Political Song for Darcy Burner

Theater

From Bed Hopping to Backstabbing

Drunk Puppets, a Mysterious Gypsy, and a Soap Opera Satire

Theater Listings

Theater News

Mewling and Puking

Visual Art

Goodbye Hoss, Another Loss

With Consolidated Works Closing, the Valuable and Beloved Barry McGee Graffiti Mural Leaves Town

Dust and the Promise of Water

Maryhill Museum of Art's Insane, Longing Mirage

Art Listings

In Art News

Sunshine, Please

Books

Readings Listings

Imagine a Great Headline Here

(I Couldn't Come Up with Anything)

New In Books

'The Left Bank Gang'

Nightstand

Love and Death

Food & Drink

Bar Exam

Breakin' 3: Drunken Spree

The Happiest Hour

Hot Dish

Glumi

A Not-So-Happy Hour at Umi Sake House

Features

War Crimes

Last Week, in a Small Hearing Room at Fort Lewis, a Young Soldier Put the Iraq War on Trial

Base Hit

Senator Maria Cantwell Has Finally Found an Antiwar Message, but What Is She Saying... Exactly?

News

Sphere of Influence

City Pushes UW to Discipline Off-Campus Students

Unhappy Customers

Nickels's Nightclub Clampdown Unpopular with Council, Clubs, and Neighbors

In Other News

In The Hall

Conflict Resolution

Police Beat

Your Money or Your Life

Extras

Get Uncomfortable

(COMEDY) An Interview with Mary Lynn Rajskub

On the Road

(LITERARY STUFF) Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour vs. Who’s That Girl Tour

“Awesome” vs. Time Itself

(PERFORMANCE) A Shorter, Better noSIGNAL

A Primer to the Pre-Event

Introducing John Hodgman, Smoosh, Stephin Merritt, Sarah Vowell, Colin Meloy, and Dave Eggers

Bummer in the Summer

(LITERARY STUFF) D’Ambrosio vs. the Short Story

Tied Up in Crazy

(LITERARY STUFF) Mary Gaitskill and George Saunders vs. Ayn Rand, George W. Bush, and Control Issues

Jamie Lidell vs. Your Boyfriend

(MUSIC) How Britain’s Blue-Eyed Soul Mechanic Is Stealing Seattle’s Hearts

One Actor in Search of Nine Characters

(PERFORMANCE) Troy Miszklevitz’s One-Man Show

Bumbershoot vs. The Stranger

TV on the Stage

(COMEDY) Trapped in the Closet and Best Week Ever Live! Mine Pop-Culture Crap for Comedy Gold

Icon in the Flesh

(MUSIC) Blondie’s Rapturous Return

The Flight of Originality

(PERFORMANCE) Degenerate Art Ensemble’s Cuckoo Crow

Prophetic Words

(LITERARY STUFF) Greil Marcus vs. America

Sean vs. Sean

(LITERARY STUFF) Wilsey Meets Nelson on the Train of Privilege

Shteyngart vs. Stereotypes

(LITERARY STUFF) The Stealth Missiles of Absurdistan

Quest Verses [sic] West

(MUSIC) Can Tribe Kick It? Yes, They Can

Digital Divide

(VISUAL ART) Handcrafters of Needle and Thread vs. the Art of an Online World

Goth, Damned

(MUSIC) AFI Have the Cure for Black Hearts

Western Mashups and an Irish Bloke’s Naked Mom

(FILM) Highlights from the 1 Reel Film Festival

Feeling Radical, Punk?

(MUSIC) Gossip vs. Erase Errata

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

(PERFORMANCE) Eight Facts About Spin the Bottle

Charles vs. Chuck

(LITERARY STUFF) What Would Happen if the Black Hole Guy Decided to Beat Up the Fight Club Guy?

Blue Scholars vs. Common Market

Mike Daisey vs. Matt Smith

CocoRosie vs. Cocoa Puffs

3 Inches of Blood vs. As I Lay Dying

Badass Slug vs. Pussy Slug

Slovin and Allen vs. Abbott and Costello

Battle of the Au-Courant Solo Artists: Jerry Quickley vs. Vijai Nathan

The Can't See vs. The Invisible Eyes

Sparta vs. The Fall of Troy

Letters to the Editor

Letters

Three for the load

Last Days

The Week In Review

Suggests

'A Small Pool of Time'

'Heartbreak House'

Impeachment Teach-In

The French Project

'Election'

The Clientele

'The Iron Mask'

I Love Television

Celebrity Outsourcing

Celebrity I Saw U

Murder Me Not!

Control Tower

Pubic-Hair Topiary

Public Editor

The Stranger: A Critical Overview