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2011
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Jan. 20
Print Edition for the week of
Jan. 20 - 26, 2011
Vol. 20, No. 20
Savage Love
Symptomatic
by Dan Savage
New Column!
Rick Tyner Is a Lying Dickshit
by Maureen Keller
Film/TV
Our Part of the World
Cosmic Sensuality on Whidbey Island
by Charles Mudede
There and Back Again
Eliaichi Kimaro's Hard Truths
by Lindy West
Art House
Kuroneko
by Charles Mudede
An Unholy Mess
The Inane, Nonsensical
Season of the Witch
by Ned Lannamann
No Strings Attached
: Refreshingly Nonsucky
by Anna Minard
The Company Men
: Like Good TV, but More Middling!
by Andrew Wright
Undertow
: The Ghost of a Good Idea
by Charles Mudede
I, Anonymous
My Forever Fantasy
by Anonymous
Music
Album Review
The Thoughts:
I Won't Keep You Here
by Grant Brissey
Dave Segal's Tweets
Seven Days on Dave Segal's Twitter Account
Up & Coming
Lose your shit every night this week!
by Stranger Staff
Data Breaker
Broken Beats and Molten Bleeps
by Dave Segal
Underage
This Week's All-Ages Action
by Megan Seling
Sound Check
The Time Darwin Met George W. Bush
by Trent Moorman
Poster of the Week
Poster by Tyson Pickerel
by Aaron Huffman
Party Crasher
Adulthood Gone Wild
by Anna Minard
Robust & Bodacious
Megan McConnel's Raw, Operatic R&B
by Dave Segal
My Philosophy
Malice & Mario Sweet, Shaprece, and More
by Larry Mizell Jr.
The Homosexual Agenda
Glass Candy, Pee-Wee, and Pucker Up
by Adrian Ryan
Chuckletown, USA
Week of Fun and Nick Cannon
by Lindy West
Theater
Into the Future with Scot and Scotto
Two Seattle Playwright Stars
by Brendan Kiley
Visual Art
The Stubborn Loves of Catherine Ellis
A Painter Expresses Her Guts, Her Conflicts, and, Occasionally, Her Peace
by Jen Graves
Books
Real Artists Ship
Scott Berkun Demystifies and Democratizes Innovation
by Paul Constant
Food & Drink
Pizza Paaaaarrrr-tay
Primo Delivers Its Deliciousness Directly to Your Mouth
by Bethany Jean Clement
Features
Lezzbook.com Is the Premier Site for Lesbian Everything
A Look Inside "the Facebook for Lesbians"—Where Everyone Is Welcome, Except Dudes
by Cienna Madrid
News
Meet Governor Eyman
Chris Gregoire Has Thrown in the Towel, Leaving One Man Really Running the Debate in Olympia: Tim Eyman
by Eli Sanders
No Way Out
John T. Williams's Final Moments, as Described at This Week's Police Shooting Inquest
by Cienna Madrid
A Place for Nomads
People Who Could Work Anywhere Choose to Work Here
by Dominic Holden
Clouds
Testing Auto-Twooter
by Anthony Hecht
Last Try
by Anthony Hecht
Okay, let's try this again with a long title. Longer? Okay, longer.
by Anthony Hecht
Still Not Working Right...
by Anthony Hecht
A Flibbertigibbet, A Clown
by Anthony Hecht
This one has a much much much much longer title
by Anthony Hecht
Doobee Doobee Dooo
by Anthony Hecht
Testing to see if we get a basename and all that nice stuff on the first try here
by Anthony Hecht
Here We Go Agaain
by Anthony Hecht
Here's a post with a pretttttty long title. It's still going!
by Anthony Hecht
Testing New Url Shortener
by Anthony Hecht
Okay, now the push thing is turned off. Still?
by Anthony Hecht
Slog
It Takes Balz
by Dennis Dale
State of the Union: It's a Trap!
by Cienna Madrid
Dorn to Push Math And Science Bills in Olympia Today
by Riya Bhattacharjee
Crispin Glover at Northwest Film Forum
by Lindy West
The Lord's Our Shepherd Says the Psalm...
by Dan Savage
You're Going To Get Around to Creating Jobs Any Time Now, Right, Guys?
by Paul Constant
Williams Inquest Day Eight: Jurors Doubt Birk's Version of Williams Shooting
by Cienna Madrid
Who Would You Pick for Washington's Cartoonist Laureate?
by Paul Constant
The Last Airbender! Sex & the City 2! Cher!
by David Schmader
They Were There
by Anthony Hecht
The Morning News
by David Schmader
"Mild Speech Doesn't Need Protection"
by Dominic Holden
Lunchtime Quickie: And Now, On Masterpiece [Subway] Theater
by Kelly O
Cisgender, Able-Bodied, Thin Privileged, Class Privileged, White Male Body
by Dan Savage
Art You Didn't Know Was Art: Sound Transit's Installation for the Blind
by Jen Graves
What Should Obama Say on Tuesday? Dan Savage Has Some Ideas
by Eli Sanders
Today's Dinosaur News
by Mary P. Traverse
You Asked for it, America! Now You've Got it!
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
One of These Things Is Not Like the Others
by Goldy
It's Not About Free Speech
by Dominic Holden
And Now for a Moment Brought to You by Money
by Charles Mudede
Seattle Times
Picks Up Coverage on Seattle Police Union Newspaper
by Dominic Holden
Unity in Levity
by Dennis Dale
Co-founder Larry Page to Become CEO of Google
by Riya Bhattacharjee
Crap. Guys... I've Been Handed Over to Satan!!
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
I Resent That Netiquette Requires Me to Place This Adorable and Slightly NSFW Photo After the Jump.
by David Schmader
A Sign From God?
by Dan Savage
Pope Gives Half-Blessing to YourStrangerFace
by Eli Sanders
Overheard in the Office
by Lindy West
A Bill Against Agenda-Driven Pregnancy Centers
by Eli Sanders
Spokane to Lose Its Art Museum
by Jen Graves
A Dark Matter at Town Hall Tonight
by Paul Constant
Lunchtime Quickie: Why Don't You Just Go Play On The Train Tracks
by Kelly O
Reading This Weekend
: Brunch for Self-Described "Brilliant" People, Twilight, and Cameras
by Paul Constant
Reynolds Price
by Paul Constant
Spike Lee, Folks, Has Been Tweeted
by Jen Graves
Lance Lundsten: Cause of Death Still Undetermined
by Dan Savage
Today in Sticking to Your Guns
by Paul Constant
Qwiki Is Live
by Paul Constant
Neatness!
by Jen Graves
Week in Review
by Eli Sanders
Air Break
by Dennis Dale
...the Darndest Things
by Dennis Dale
State of the Union Live-Slog
by Paul Constant
Winning the War on Drugs
by Dominic Holden
Film Question:
True Grit
by Grant Brissey
Mass Animal Deaths: Maps and Legends
by Brendan Kiley
The Realm of Perfect Cinema
by Charles Mudede
Hooliganism 101
by Lindy West
SL Letter of the Day: Good Working Order
by Dan Savage
Something's Terribly Wrong With This Picture
by Riya Bhattacharjee
The Morning News
by David Schmader
The Romney Stratagem
by Paul Constant
And Now For Something Completely Diffident
by Dennis Dale
Shut Down!
by Bethany Jean Clement
The Morning News
by David Schmader
Older Than Seattle?
by Charles Mudede
Sometimes It's a Good Idea to Discuss a Bad Idea
by Goldy
Yoshi Is Dead! Long Live Yoshi!
by The Stranger Testing Department
A List of the 100 Programs Republicans Want to Abolish or Cut
by Paul Constant
Biggest Show Ever at SAM Got Bigger
by Jen Graves
King County Settles with Family of Brain Trauma Victim for $10 Million
by Cienna Madrid
Dept. of Justice Begins Review of Seattle Police
by Dominic Holden
"
Slickled
," she thought. "
I'm slickling his peeny
."
by Paul Constant
Lazy Fire-tending Mailman!
by Grant Brissey
Do Not Feed Donuts To Your Obese Children
by Dan Savage
A Musical Genre You May Not Have Heard Of
by Grant Brissey
Whoa, This Is What Is Happening in Egypt Right Now
by Jen Graves
House Budget Could Increase Class Sizes, Slash 2,000 Teaching Jobs
by Riya Bhattacharjee
Keith Olbermann Quits MSNBC
by Dan Savage
How Many Planes Has "The Gay Activist Left" Hijacked?
by Dan Savage
Today the Legislature Considers Overhauling the State's Dysfunctional Rules for Medical Cannabis
by Ben Livingston
I Hope This Doesn't Undermine My Pro-Choice Cred...
by Dan Savage
The Writing on the Stall
by Dan Savage
Sic, Sic, Sic
by Brendan Kiley
Happy National Pie Day!
by Megan Seling
The Crystal Meth Hallucination Championships
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Your Pen Pal Will Return in a Few Months
by Paul Constant
Today's Dinosaur News
by Mary P. Traverse
Only In America
by Dan Savage
The King's Shit All Over the Academy Awards
by Charles Mudede
Traffic Report
by Grant Brissey
Hearing to Hold Christian-Powered Pregnancy Centers Accountable to Patients
by Cienna Madrid
Invictus
: Total Piece of Shit (Late Pass)
by Grant Brissey
Williams Inquest Day Seven: … And Nothing’s Happening Today, Folks
by Cienna Madrid
Arkansas Grocery Store Deploys "Family Shield"...
by David Schmader
Since Red Counties Enjoy a Disproportionate Share of the State Budget, They Should Expect a Disproportionate Share of the Cuts
by Goldy
Republican Senator Wants to Repeal Protections for Pocket Gophers
by Ryan T. Hicks
After the Block Is Busted: The Director of SAM on Post-Picasso Life at the Museum
by Jen Graves
Washington Has the Nation's Highest Minimum Wage, and House Republicans Want Employers to Pay Less
by Ryan T. Hicks
Newsflash: Rick Santorum Says Something Stupid About Abortion and Black People
by Paul Constant
Name This Band: Special John Hughes Edition!
by Grant Brissey
AA Meeting: The Nomineezzzzzzzzzzzz
by David Schmader
Comment on These Mesmerizing Mock-Ups of the Seawall!
by Cienna Madrid
The Best McDonalds Idea Ever...
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Two Great Tastes That Go Great Together
by Paul Constant
What He Said: Michael Kinsley on the Tucson Shooter
by Dan Savage
Two Lunch-Related Things I Learned Yesterday That You Might Want to Know
by Bethany Jean Clement
Next Thursday
by Dominic Holden
Rahm Can't Run
by Paul Constant
That Wasn't So Bad, Was It?
by Dennis Dale
The Internet or the Washing Machine?
by Charles Mudede
Internet Superstar May Sue Those Who Made Her a Star
by David Schmader
Meet Governor Eyman
by Dominic Holden
A New Beginning
by Charles Mudede
Currently Hanging
: Eric Eley
by Jen Graves
Any sloggers know a guy named Ben Burns?
by Chicago Fan
The Bright Side of Tropical Deforestation
by Brendan Kiley
A Lack of Acceptance of Mental Illness Is the Real Cause of the Arizona Shooting
by Jennifer Stuber, Ph.D.
This Weekend Only: A Musical Called
Spidermann
by Paul Constant
Today in Tech: "Let the hacking begin!"
by Paul Constant
Listening to Victoria Haven's Drawing
by Jen Graves
Today the Legislature Will Learn How Limited Service Pregnancy Centers are Endangering Women's Health
by Elaine Rose
Overheard in the Office
by Bethany Jean Clement
Do Prisons Deserve Art During a Recession?
by Eli Sanders
Dick Cheney Has No Heart, but He's Growing Common Sense
by Paul Constant
Something to Help Us Wake Right Up
by Charles Mudede
Hate: Theory & Practice
by Dan Savage
STATE OF THE UNION HAPPY HOUR LIVEBLOG!!!
by Cienna Madrid
Lunchtime Quickie: TGIF! Don't Eat Too Much Couch This Weekend
by Kelly O
Chocolate for Choice
by Goldy
Happy Birthday from Schmitty the
Asshole
Weather Dog
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Texas Is a Welfare Queen
by Paul Constant
Postal Service Desperately Trying to Close Thousands of Branches
by Paul Constant
Nick Licata: Forget About Surface/Transit
by Dominic Holden
SL Letter of the Day: She Who Will Not Be Ignored
by Dan Savage
A Proposed Letter to the President (and Tons of Other People), from the Washington State Legislature
by Eli Sanders
SPD Accountability Forum, February 3
by Dominic Holden
Lunchtime Quickie: Today In Ritualistic Satanic Homicide...
by Kelly O
Never Been to An Art Fair?
by Jen Graves
Here's Waldo
by Jen Graves
Why Not Feed Donuts To Your Obese Children
by Dan Savage
Reading Tonight
: A Party, Celebrated Authors, Cheap Beer, and Son of Reagan
by Paul Constant
Hippies Go Home!
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Flickr Photo of the Day
by Aaron Huffman
Buy a Kindle's Worth of Books
by Paul Constant
Morning News
by Ryan T. Hicks
Um, Okay, but
Then
You Republicans Are Going to Get Started on Creating Jobs, Right?
by Paul Constant
Williams Inquest Day Eight—The Verdict is In: I Have a Face Made for Blogging
by Cienna Madrid
McKenna's Gang Bill Gets a Hearing
by Eli Sanders
Who's Accusing a Seattle Cop of "Intellectual Sloppiness, "At Least Implied Insubordination," and "Compounded Distrust"?
by Dominic Holden
Economy of Washington State = Greece...
by Charles Mudede
Fact Fight! The ACLU vs. Rob McKenna's Gang Bill
by Eli Sanders
Farty Farty Fartcast
by Lindy West
TV News Discovers Trolling
by Paul Constant
Today's Dinosaur News
by Mary P. Traverse
She's No Sarah Palin
by Paul Constant
County Prosecutor Considers Running for City Council
by Dominic Holden
Today in Awesome Mini-Golf Shots
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Parents Emerge Victorious Over Boundary Wars With School Board
by Riya Bhattacharjee
"It's Been Too Long Since Slog Had a Cat"
by Megan Seling
Evlyone's a Ritter Bit Lacist
by Dan Savage
It's Almost Lunchtime!
by David Schmader
SL Letter of the Day: Real Or No Real?
by Dan Savage
Glenn Beckwatch
: The Smoking Gun
by Paul Constant
Guess Who Didn't Think Federal Health Care Mandates—the Feds Requiring You to Buy Health Insurance—Were Unconstitutional
by Dan Savage
The Free Market Does Not Exist
by Charles Mudede
From the Mailbag: Jared Loughner Is a Progressive
by Paul Constant
Nutritional Information Coming to Booze?
by Paul Constant
The S&P for A&E
by Jen Graves
Morning News
by Ryan T. Hicks
Obama the Socialist
by Charles Mudede
The Imitations of Emperor Yongzheng
by Charles Mudede
Daily Beast's Best and Worst Health Care Cities List
by Jen Graves
Welfare State
by Goldy
This Is What A Seattle Steampunk Exhibition Looks Like
by Kelly O
Dear Chicago Fan
by Grant Brissey
On MTV's
Skins
, Kiddie Porn, and the Promotional Power of Outrage
by David Schmader
Holmes Asks Olympia to Allow Legal Pot Stores in Seattle
by Dominic Holden
'Art and Politics Now': A Book and a Call to Action by Susan Noyes Platt
by Jen Graves
Did This Make Slog Yesterday?
by Dan Savage
High School Student Comes Out At MLK Day Assembly
by Dan Savage
AA Meeting: Nominees for 2011 Academy Awards Announced Tomorrow
by David Schmader
Want Light: Brazilian Regimes, Swimming Pools, Muhammad Ali
by Jen Graves
However! More TV Watching from the Passenger Seat!
by Eli Sanders
"The dead get petty. And selfish."
by Paul Constant
'Rage Is A Terrible Thing to Waste'
by Jen Graves
Join Us for the State of the Union Live-Slog Tonight!
by Paul Constant
Confidential to Alex Blaze
by Dan Savage
Comic Book Reviews
: A Troubling Misstep, and a Crazy-Romantic Epic
by Paul Constant
The Price of Discrimination
by Dan Savage
Most Commented
by Bethany Jean Clement
New Public Art Installation at Olive and Bellevue
by Cienna Madrid
The Things You Learn from Gawker...
by David Schmader
Local Hip Hop Guy Macklemore Just Sold Out Three Upcoming Shows at the Showbox
by Grant Brissey
The Uncomfortable Shame of Rectal Itch
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
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
by Grant Brissey
County Sued in Federal Court for Banning Political Bus Ads
by Dominic Holden
I'm the Jaguar, You're the Monkey
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Business Leaders Say City Unjustified in Raising Parking Rates
by Dominic Holden
Anti-Tunnel Campaign Ready to Turn in Signatures
by Dominic Holden
Catholic Church to Italian Prime Minister: You're Doing Child Rape All Wrong!
by Dan Savage
Goodloe-Johnson Discloses Positions On Two Boards
by Riya Bhattacharjee
Currently Hanging
: Keith Murakata
by Jen Graves
Here Is a Thing That Exists
by David Schmader
Anti-Abortion Activists Pack Hearing on Pregancy Center Bill
by Cienna Madrid
My Daughter Is in the News Again
by Charles Mudede
Seattle Times Should Recuse Itself From Covering the 2012 Gubernatorial Race
by Goldy
Hey! No More Watching TV While Driving!
by Eli Sanders
SL Letter of the Day: One More Time... It's a Relationship, Not a Deposition.
by Dan Savage
National Preservation Group Chides State for Plans to Destroy Western Building
by Dominic Holden
Bipartisan Buddies: Who Cantwell, Murray, and McDermott are Sitting Next to for the State of the Union
by Eli Sanders
Gonna Have to Start Watching Football
by Dan Savage
Can You Quantifiably Prove That Balls Are Droopy?
by Paul Constant
Let's Help Freep—Re-Freep? De-Freep? Freep-Freep?—This Poll
by Dan Savage
House Votes to Repeal Health Care Reform
by Paul Constant
The Return of 12,000
by Charles Mudede
The Volcano Done Did It
by Charles Mudede
Japanese, Narration, Beauty, and the Central Dogma
by Charles Mudede
Abraxus Books Is Closing
by Paul Constant
Ask for a Natalie Portman/Brendan Fraser Mash-Up and Ye Shall Receive. Twice!
by Lindy West
OMG U GUYZ DID YOU HEAR?
by Mary P. Traverse
Local Author Wins 3-Day Novel Writing Contest
by Paul Constant
Wizard Magazine
by Paul Constant
The Yellow Pages Folks Want To Be My Friend!
by Riya Bhattacharjee
Good Ad, Bad Ad
by Anthony Hecht
The Morning News
by David Schmader
Williams Inquest Day Seven: The Jury Deliberates
by Cienna Madrid
Seattle: You're Doing It Wrong
by Paul Constant
Maybe Jesus Wants a Good President First and a Good Christian Second?
by Paul Constant
SL Letter of the Day: The Rules of Cheating, Cont.
by Dan Savage
We'll Be Talking About Cops on KIRO Radio
by Dominic Holden
Mysterious McDonald's Ad
by Anthony Hecht
Get a Job!
by Megan Seling
Watch an an Hour-Long Stevie Wonder Documentary
by Grant Brissey
Just Sayin'
by Dominic Holden
Kirby Wilbur Trounces Incumbent Luke Esser for State GOP Chair
by Goldy
The Military and the Dead
by Paul Constant
Dow Constantine: Ballsy, Chickenshit, or Just Wrong?
by Dominic Holden
Berlusconi's "Bunga Bunga" Bashes
by Zeugma
My Thoughts on the State of the Union
by Paul Constant
The Morning News
by David Schmader
Gun-Crazy Country
by Charles Mudede
Dear Fellow Nerds: Here Is the Tunnel Contract
by Dominic Holden
Chinese Women Are Noisy
by Charles Mudede
Big Week in Seattle Art: Steve Davis, Eric Eley, 'Beneath the Picture,' 'Light in Darkness'
by Jen Graves
Dear Henry, SAM, and Frye, Can We Have This?
by Jen Graves
Council Consultant: Tunnel Tolls Will Cause "Significant Diversion of Traffic" and Risk to "Vulnerable Roadway Users"
by Dominic Holden
The Curators at the Official Bad Art Museum of Art...
by Dan Savage
Tonight: Karaoke at the Paramount
by David Schmader
Mail Carrier Burns Mail Instead of Delivering It
by Gillian Anderson
Double the Vic Haven
by Jen Graves
Underworld
by Kaz
Maakies
by Tony Millionaire
Dear Science
The Fraud Perpetrated by Dr. Wakefield
by Jonathan Golob
Public Editor
A Critical Overview of
The Stranger
by A. Birch Steen, Stranger Public Editor and OSHA Board of Governors Member (Retired)
I Love Television
Let's Go Nowhere
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Suggests
Joketeller's Union
by Brett Hamil
Bloody Weird
by Dartanion London
'Adventure Buddies: Episode V'
by DE MAUPASSANT
Weird and Awesome with Emmett Montgomery
by Dartanion London
Orally Fixated
by Dartanion London
Celebrity Open Mic
by Dartanion London
Super Mega Art Show
by Dartanion London
Male Hello Kitty Appreciation Day
by Dartanion London
Last Days
The Week in Review
by David Schmader
Podcasts
Savage Love Episode 223
by Dan Savage