Print Edition for the week of
Jan. 20 - 26, 2011

Vol. 20, No. 20

Savage Love

Symptomatic

New Column!

Rick Tyner Is a Lying Dickshit

Film/TV

Our Part of the World

Cosmic Sensuality on Whidbey Island

There and Back Again

Eliaichi Kimaro's Hard Truths

Art House

Kuroneko

An Unholy Mess

The Inane, Nonsensical Season of the Witch

No Strings Attached: Refreshingly Nonsucky

The Company Men: Like Good TV, but More Middling!

Undertow: The Ghost of a Good Idea

I, Anonymous

My Forever Fantasy

Music

Album Review

The Thoughts: I Won't Keep You Here

Dave Segal's Tweets

Seven Days on Dave Segal's Twitter Account

Up & Coming

Lose your shit every night this week!

Data Breaker

Broken Beats and Molten Bleeps

Underage

This Week's All-Ages Action

Sound Check

The Time Darwin Met George W. Bush

Poster of the Week

Poster by Tyson Pickerel

Party Crasher

Adulthood Gone Wild

Robust & Bodacious

Megan McConnel's Raw, Operatic R&B

My Philosophy

Malice & Mario Sweet, Shaprece, and More

The Homosexual Agenda

Glass Candy, Pee-Wee, and Pucker Up

Chuckletown, USA

Week of Fun and Nick Cannon

Theater

Into the Future with Scot and Scotto

Two Seattle Playwright Stars

Visual Art

The Stubborn Loves of Catherine Ellis

A Painter Expresses Her Guts, Her Conflicts, and, Occasionally, Her Peace

Books

Real Artists Ship

Scott Berkun Demystifies and Democratizes Innovation

Food & Drink

Pizza Paaaaarrrr-tay

Primo Delivers Its Deliciousness Directly to Your Mouth

Features

Lezzbook.com Is the Premier Site for Lesbian Everything

A Look Inside "the Facebook for Lesbians"—Where Everyone Is Welcome, Except Dudes

News

Meet Governor Eyman

Chris Gregoire Has Thrown in the Towel, Leaving One Man Really Running the Debate in Olympia: Tim Eyman

No Way Out

John T. Williams's Final Moments, as Described at This Week's Police Shooting Inquest

A Place for Nomads

People Who Could Work Anywhere Choose to Work Here

Slog

Two Great Tastes That Go Great Together

Name This Band: Special John Hughes Edition!

Internet Superstar May Sue Those Who Made Her a Star

Next Thursday

This Weekend Only: A Musical Called Spidermann

Currently Hanging: Eric Eley

Today the Legislature Will Learn How Limited Service Pregnancy Centers are Endangering Women's Health

Lunchtime Quickie: TGIF! Don't Eat Too Much Couch This Weekend

It Takes Balz

Pope Gives Half-Blessing to YourStrangerFace

Crispin Glover at Northwest Film Forum

The Morning News

You Asked for it, America! Now You've Got it!

Cisgender, Able-Bodied, Thin Privileged, Class Privileged, White Male Body

Crap. Guys... I've Been Handed Over to Satan!!

And Now for a Moment Brought to You by Money

'Rage Is A Terrible Thing to Waste'

The Free Market Does Not Exist

It's Almost Lunchtime!

Daily Beast's Best and Worst Health Care Cities List

The S&P for A&E

Dear Chicago Fan

Want Light: Brazilian Regimes, Swimming Pools, Muhammad Ali

The Price of Discrimination

"Slickled," she thought. "I'm slickling his peeny."

How Many Planes Has "The Gay Activist Left" Hijacked?

Your Pen Pal Will Return in a Few Months

The Writing on the Stall

Williams Inquest Day Seven: … And Nothing’s Happening Today, Folks

The King's Shit All Over the Academy Awards

Republican Senator Wants to Repeal Protections for Pocket Gophers

The Morning News

Local Author Wins 3-Day Novel Writing Contest

Get a Job!

Maybe Jesus Wants a Good President First and a Good Christian Second?

Kirby Wilbur Trounces Incumbent Luke Esser for State GOP Chair

Dear Fellow Nerds: Here Is the Tunnel Contract

Mail Carrier Burns Mail Instead of Delivering It

Dear Henry, SAM, and Frye, Can We Have This?

Nick Licata: Forget About Surface/Transit

Why Not Feed Donuts To Your Obese Children

Williams Inquest Day Eight—The Verdict is In: I Have a Face Made for Blogging

Flickr Photo of the Day

Today's Dinosaur News

Economy of Washington State = Greece...

Today in Awesome Mini-Golf Shots

Spike Lee, Folks, Has Been Tweeted

A Dark Matter at Town Hall Tonight

...the Darndest Things

Qwiki Is Live

Film Question: True Grit

The Romney Stratagem

A List of the 100 Programs Republicans Want to Abolish or Cut

The Morning News

Local Hip Hop Guy Macklemore Just Sold Out Three Upcoming Shows at the Showbox

Catholic Church to Italian Prime Minister: You're Doing Child Rape All Wrong!

Hey! No More Watching TV While Driving!

Here Is a Thing That Exists

House Votes to Repeal Health Care Reform

Bipartisan Buddies: Who Cantwell, Murray, and McDermott are Sitting Next to for the State of the Union

Japanese, Narration, Beauty, and the Central Dogma

What He Said: Michael Kinsley on the Tucson Shooter

AA Meeting: The Nomineezzzzzzzzzzzz

Meet Governor Eyman

Rahm Can't Run

Any sloggers know a guy named Ben Burns?

Overheard in the Office

Chocolate for Choice

Something to Help Us Wake Right Up

Overheard in the Office

The Lord's Our Shepherd Says the Psalm...

"Mild Speech Doesn't Need Protection"

Who Would You Pick for Washington's Cartoonist Laureate?

One of These Things Is Not Like the Others

Art You Didn't Know Was Art: Sound Transit's Installation for the Blind

Seattle Times Picks Up Coverage on Seattle Police Union Newspaper

Join Us for the State of the Union Live-Slog Tonight!

From the Mailbag: Jared Loughner Is a Progressive

SL Letter of the Day: Real Or No Real?

Morning News

On MTV's Skins, Kiddie Porn, and the Promotional Power of Outrage

However! More TV Watching from the Passenger Seat!

Did This Make Slog Yesterday?

Most Commented

Lazy Fire-tending Mailman!

Today the Legislature Considers Overhauling the State's Dysfunctional Rules for Medical Cannabis

Whoa, This Is What Is Happening in Egypt Right Now

Today's Dinosaur News

Sic, Sic, Sic

Traffic Report

After the Block Is Busted: The Director of SAM on Post-Picasso Life at the Museum

Williams Inquest Day Seven: The Jury Deliberates

Wizard Magazine

SL Letter of the Day: The Rules of Cheating, Cont.

The Military and the Dead

Chinese Women Are Noisy

My Thoughts on the State of the Union

Double the Vic Haven

Council Consultant: Tunnel Tolls Will Cause "Significant Diversion of Traffic" and Risk to "Vulnerable Roadway Users"

SL Letter of the Day: She Who Will Not Be Ignored

Reading Tonight: A Party, Celebrated Authors, Cheap Beer, and Son of Reagan

Lunchtime Quickie: Today In Ritualistic Satanic Homicide...

McKenna's Gang Bill Gets a Hearing

Buy a Kindle's Worth of Books

Fact Fight! The ACLU vs. Rob McKenna's Gang Bill

Parents Emerge Victorious Over Boundary Wars With School Board

Lance Lundsten: Cause of Death Still Undetermined

Lunchtime Quickie: Why Don't You Just Go Play On The Train Tracks

Neatness!

Mass Animal Deaths: Maps and Legends

And Now For Something Completely Diffident

SL Letter of the Day: Good Working Order

Biggest Show Ever at SAM Got Bigger

Older Than Seattle?

The Uncomfortable Shame of Rectal Itch

Goodloe-Johnson Discloses Positions On Two Boards

I'm the Jaguar, You're the Monkey

SL Letter of the Day: One More Time... It's a Relationship, Not a Deposition.

Anti-Abortion Activists Pack Hearing on Pregancy Center Bill

Gonna Have to Start Watching Football

Abraxus Books Is Closing

Two Lunch-Related Things I Learned Yesterday That You Might Want to Know

Comment on These Mesmerizing Mock-Ups of the Seawall!

That Wasn't So Bad, Was It?

The Bright Side of Tropical Deforestation

Do Prisons Deserve Art During a Recession?

Today in Tech: "Let the hacking begin!"

Happy Birthday from Schmitty the Asshole Weather Dog

Hate: Theory & Practice

A Bill Against Agenda-Driven Pregnancy Centers

I Resent That Netiquette Requires Me to Place This Adorable and Slightly NSFW Photo After the Jump.

You're Going To Get Around to Creating Jobs Any Time Now, Right, Guys?

State of the Union: It's a Trap!

Lunchtime Quickie: And Now, On Masterpiece [Subway] Theater

The Last Airbender! Sex & the City 2! Cher!

What Should Obama Say on Tuesday? Dan Savage Has Some Ideas

Unity in Levity

Confidential to Alex Blaze

Glenn Beckwatch: The Smoking Gun

Obama the Socialist

Holmes Asks Olympia to Allow Legal Pot Stores in Seattle

Welfare State

"The dead get petty. And selfish."

High School Student Comes Out At MLK Day Assembly

Arkansas Grocery Store Deploys "Family Shield"...

Do Not Feed Donuts To Your Obese Children

King County Settles with Family of Brain Trauma Victim for $10 Million

I Hope This Doesn't Undermine My Pro-Choice Cred...

House Budget Could Increase Class Sizes, Slash 2,000 Teaching Jobs

Happy National Pie Day!

Hearing to Hold Christian-Powered Pregnancy Centers Accountable to Patients

Washington Has the Nation's Highest Minimum Wage, and House Republicans Want Employers to Pay Less

The Yellow Pages Folks Want To Be My Friend!

We'll Be Talking About Cops on KIRO Radio

Dow Constantine: Ballsy, Chickenshit, or Just Wrong?

Watch an an Hour-Long Stevie Wonder Documentary

Big Week in Seattle Art: Steve Davis, Eric Eley, 'Beneath the Picture,' 'Light in Darkness'

The Morning News

The Curators at the Official Bad Art Museum of Art...

A Proposed Letter to the President (and Tons of Other People), from the Washington State Legislature

Texas Is a Welfare Queen

Hippies Go Home!

Never Been to An Art Fair?

Morning News

Farty Farty Fartcast

"It's Been Too Long Since Slog Had a Cat"

She's No Sarah Palin

Reading This Weekend: Brunch for Self-Described "Brilliant" People, Twilight, and Cameras

Week in Review

The Realm of Perfect Cinema

State of the Union Live-Slog

Shut Down!

Something's Terribly Wrong With This Picture

Sometimes It's a Good Idea to Discuss a Bad Idea

Sound Check This Week: Trent Moorman Interviews Darwin of Mad Rad About Throwing Raves in the Hull of Aircraft Carrier Abraham Lincoln and Meeting George W. Bush Minutes Before the "Mission Accomplished" Speech

New Public Art Installation at Olive and Bellevue

Currently Hanging: Keith Murakata

Business Leaders Say City Unjustified in Raising Parking Rates

My Daughter Is in the News Again

Can You Quantifiably Prove That Balls Are Droopy?

Ask for a Natalie Portman/Brendan Fraser Mash-Up and Ye Shall Receive. Twice!

The Return of 12,000

The Best McDonalds Idea Ever...

The Internet or the Washing Machine?

A Lack of Acceptance of Mental Illness Is the Real Cause of the Arizona Shooting

A New Beginning

Dick Cheney Has No Heart, but He's Growing Common Sense

Listening to Victoria Haven's Drawing

STATE OF THE UNION HAPPY HOUR LIVEBLOG!!!

Spokane to Lose Its Art Museum

A Sign From God?

Williams Inquest Day Eight: Jurors Doubt Birk's Version of Williams Shooting

Dorn to Push Math And Science Bills in Olympia Today

They Were There

Today's Dinosaur News

Co-founder Larry Page to Become CEO of Google

It's Not About Free Speech

Comic Book Reviews: A Troubling Misstep, and a Crazy-Romantic Epic

Guess Who Didn't Think Federal Health Care Mandates—the Feds Requiring You to Buy Health Insurance—Were Unconstitutional

The Imitations of Emperor Yongzheng

Nutritional Information Coming to Booze?

'Art and Politics Now': A Book and a Call to Action by Susan Noyes Platt

This Is What A Seattle Steampunk Exhibition Looks Like

AA Meeting: Nominees for 2011 Academy Awards Announced Tomorrow

Since Red Counties Enjoy a Disproportionate Share of the State Budget, They Should Expect a Disproportionate Share of the Cuts

A Musical Genre You May Not Have Heard Of

Dept. of Justice Begins Review of Seattle Police

Keith Olbermann Quits MSNBC

The Crystal Meth Hallucination Championships

Invictus: Total Piece of Shit (Late Pass)

Only In America

Newsflash: Rick Santorum Says Something Stupid About Abortion and Black People

Good Ad, Bad Ad

Mysterious McDonald's Ad

Seattle: You're Doing It Wrong

Berlusconi's "Bunga Bunga" Bashes

Just Sayin'

Gun-Crazy Country

Tonight: Karaoke at the Paramount

SPD Accountability Forum, February 3

Postal Service Desperately Trying to Close Thousands of Branches

Here's Waldo

Um, Okay, but Then You Republicans Are Going to Get Started on Creating Jobs, Right?

TV News Discovers Trolling

Who's Accusing a Seattle Cop of "Intellectual Sloppiness, "At Least Implied Insubordination," and "Compounded Distrust"?

Evlyone's a Ritter Bit Lacist

County Prosecutor Considers Running for City Council

Reynolds Price

Air Break

Today in Sticking to Your Guns

Hooliganism 101

Winning the War on Drugs

The Morning News

Yoshi Is Dead! Long Live Yoshi!

County Sued in Federal Court for Banning Political Bus Ads

The Things You Learn from Gawker...

Anti-Tunnel Campaign Ready to Turn in Signatures

Seattle Times Should Recuse Itself From Covering the 2012 Gubernatorial Race

Let's Help Freep—Re-Freep? De-Freep? Freep-Freep?—This Poll

National Preservation Group Chides State for Plans to Destroy Western Building

OMG U GUYZ DID YOU HEAR?

The Volcano Done Did It

Underworld

Maakies

Dear Science

Public Editor

A Critical Overview of The Stranger

I Love Television

Let's Go Nowhere

Suggests

Joketeller's Union

Orally Fixated

Super Mega Art Show

'Adventure Buddies: Episode V'

Bloody Weird

Weird and Awesome with Emmett Montgomery

Celebrity Open Mic

Male Hello Kitty Appreciation Day

Last Days

The Week in Review

Podcasts

Savage Love Episode 223