Print Edition for the week of
Jan. 27 - Feb. 2, 2011

Vol. 20, No. 21

Savage Love

That Said

Film/TV

Working Girl

Mike Leigh on Middle-Class Perfection

Why We Don't Eat Swans

Birds, Bugs, Bollywood, and Boredom at the Children's Film Festival

Art House

BAARÌA

The Final Countdown

Sylvain Chomet's Sad, Sweet The Illusionist

I, Anonymous

Music

Dave Segal's Tweets

Seven Days on Dave Segal's Twitter Account

Album Review

Death: SpiritualMentalPhysical

Album Review

Shackleton: Fabric 55

Granted

Too Many Hot Dogs, Pailhead, and Rock Box

Album Review

Say Hi: Um, Uh Oh

Never Forget

Blake Schwarzenbach's War on Sentimentality

My Philosophy

All City Chop 3.0, Mac Miller, and Macklemore

Up & Coming

Lose your pants every night this week!

New Column!

God Only Knows

Data Breaker

Gadi Mizrahi's Suave Techno, Wallpaper's Hipster Hop, and More

Sound Check

Fit for Hounds in the Sound Off! Semifinals

Underage

All-Ages shows

Chuckletown, USA

Pop. Jokes

Poster of the Week

Poster by Brain Standeford

The Homosexual Agenda

Lily Tomlin and Dickslap

Party Crasher

Steamy, Punky

It's a Hit

M.I.A. and Brad Paisley Do Damage Control

Theater

Does Whatever a Spidercann

A Bootleg Superhero Musical Learns to Love Bono

Visual Art

There's No Home Like Place

If Iggy Pop and Gore-Tex Had a Baby, It Would Be Victoria Haven

The Ghosts of Children

Introducing Carolina Silva, a Spanish Artist Hovering Over Seattle

Books

The Miserable Contortionist

Local Author's Yoga Memoir Is a Bit of a Stretch

Features

Soup!

Our Favorite Bowls

News

Eight Days

Inside the Courtroom During the Inquest into the Death of John T. Williams

Gangbanger

Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna's Gang Bill Is Bad Policy—but Great Politics

Slog

Pence Is Out

Seattle City Council Members: Who's Slacking on the Job?

Mubarak Is Speaking

Amazon Announces Kindle Singles

The Morning News

And Here I Thought the Purpose of the Op/Ed Page Was to Promote Debate, Not Crush It

AA Meeting: The Complaints of Plastic Head Icons and Ozark Noir

Justice Department Unlikely to File Lawsuit Against Seattle Police

Rocky 6 7: Wing Chun Tonight

Two Things that Happened at the Comet Last Night and Some Advice I Need about What to Do with this Ayn Rand Book

The Morning News

Ava Is the Teabagger Walter Cronkite

About the Super Bowl and Its Reason for Being

It's Pretty Today

Don't Do the Crime, If You Can't Do the Time (Being Humiliated on YouTube)

Another Picture of Fog and the City

Boeing Plant #2 Being Demolished

This Week in Film: Another Year

Rob McKenna: Gangbanger

The Future of Princess Leia's Hologram

Lunchtime Quickie: Baby Lu-Lu Sings About Jesus

Voted Off the Island

The Most Heartwarming Story About Military Bureaucracy You'll Ever Read

"The Pegged Boyfriend"

That Should Settle It

SL Letter of the Day: Cut Him Off Already

This Is Your Brain on Soup

Mayor Says He'll Veto Tunnel Agreements

Florida Judge Calls Health Care Reform Unconstitutional

The Latest from Egypt

Just Words? As You Watch the Events in Egypt, Remember Obama's Cairo Speech

Good Afternoon, Justin Bieber!

State: New 520 Bridge Would Increase I-5 Congestion for One Hour Per Day

Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father

The Council's Fancy Footwork on the Tunnel

Regarding the Questionable At-Largeness of Billy Chambers

Possible Gallagher Meltdown in Progress

The Color of Yemen's Revolution?

Lunchtime Quickie: Today In Crappy Signs

This Will Not Save Publishing: Special Beddy-Bye Edition

The New York Times Is Set to Release an E-Book on WikiLeaks Next Week

AA Meeting: The Stammering King Rules with an Iron Fist

Your New Superman

Humans Love Objects

'I am planning to return like Christ in the temple...turning over this conceptualism!"

Our Man in Mexico City Update

A Collaboration Between Songwriter and Novelist

Human Ideology: Chimps and Us

Pledging for Harper's

BRAND NEW NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN IMAGES FROM DREAMWORKS'S UPCOMING SUSPENSE THRILLER I AM NUMBER FOUR!!!!!

Today's Protest at 4th and Pine

Fremont's Quirky Reputation Goes Global

When Citizens Do a Disservice to Their Cause

Want to Watch Al Jazeera?

Ted Haggard: Yep, I'm Bi

The Egyptian Death Star

Are You Terrified of Having/Attending a Dinner Party?

Traffic Report

Today in Anonymous Art Thievery

The King of Stutterland

Robbery in South King County becomes 9-1-1 nightmare

Caperin': Who's Zoomin' Who?

In the Words of An Egyptian Just Now By Landline: 'Just Make Sure Everyone Knows We Are Cut Off From the World'

Behind Closed Doors at Google's Power Summit

Egyptians for Mubarak? Not Exactly

Mubarak Finally Speaks

India's Terminator Makes Our Terminator Look Like Poopinator

O, It's That Guy?

Q: How Do You Know When A Vegan Is Coming Over For Dinner?

What's that Gray and Burgundy Logo in All the Ad Slots on Slog Today?

Barbara Bush—George Bush's Daughter—Supports Marriage Equality!

"A Stupid Thing to Do"

The Hat Tip Daisy Chain Is Complete

RE: Tunnel Critic Will Challenge Bruce Harrell on City Council

Enviro Groups Try to Sell Clean-Up Bill by Touting Jobs

You Can Help Raise $250K For GLSEN

One Night Count Records Drop in Homeless Population

Man Charged in Lincoln Park Attack Linked to Additional Assaults

Egypt

Ugandan Gay Rights Activist Murdered

Has Borders Evaded Death Again?

This Could Eat Up the Rest of Your Day

Latest in Smithsonian Censorship Flap

Man Arrested for Allegedly Threatening Governor Gregoire

The Current Cost of a Jaywalking Ticket in Seattle?

It Doesn't Get Much Stathamier Than This

Dozens of Attractive Apocalypses

How to Sell Pot

Gallagher's First Five Tweets

A Man Attempts to Bomb a Mosque in Detroit

Egypt Today

Ladies and Gentlemen, Wm. Steven Humphrey

The Morning News

Reading Party Lineup for February 2: Lynn Shelton, Megan Griffiths, and Lindy West!!

Get You Laid or Sex Blockade?

City Files Lawsuit to Close Jiggles Strip Club

Enviro Groups Plan to Clash with Waterway-Polluting Oil Refineries

Remember Tunisia

Bar Lovers and City Officials Scrap with Residents Over Outdoor Seating at the 5 Point

African Americanization Month

WORN OUT: The Stranger's First Ever Fashion Show

SPD Investigation of Williams Shooting Deemed "Thorough" and "Unbiased" By Peer Reviewer

Tunnel Critic Will Challenge Bruce Harrell on City Council

What Does Prince's Candy Bar Taste Like?

Two Words, People: Drug Catapult

After Long Court Battle, Ingraham High School Trees Finally Come Down Today

Cat Packs: CONDEMN OR ALLOW?!?

Shorter Conlin: "The Mayor Is an Idiot"

In Other Waterfall Art News: Peter de Lory

Valentine's Day Is Right Around the Corner—Don't Fuck it Up!

Do You Appreciate a Singlet Boner?

Joe Bar Transformed!

Three Histories of the Current Revolution in Egypt

Lunchtime Quickie: Meat Water? The World Might As Well Just End Now

Sled Dog Slaughter at Whistler

Mormons on Top

Couples, Divided By War and Advice Columns

The Off Hours Makes Some Noise in Sundance

If I Ever Write a Book

Morning News

UK to Deport Lesbian Asylum Seeker—To Uganda

Saigon Vietnam Deli Is Back

The Otherness of Female Nudity

Rumor: Tunnel Contracts Face Complications, Delay

Bobby Forch Will Run for Council (Again), this Time to Challenge Jean Godden

The A.W.A.R.D. Show! Starts Tonight

Eight Days in the Courtroom

Because No Time Is Better for Convincing People to Adopt a Pious Lifestyle than When They Are Drunk, Watching Scantily Clad Dancers, and Seething with Competitive Rage

Bill Would Alert Schools of Sex Offenders From Adult Detention Centers

Speaking of Floating Bridges

What Does Golf Have to Do with Gay Marriage?

Remember: You Have the Right to Remain Silent

The Mall Is Weird.

American Solipsism

RIP Gladys Horton

SL Letter of the Day: A Piece of Cake

Do You Have Two Books to Spare? Do You Want a New Book?

It's Recovery Week in Questionland

For the Cat Who Demands Privacy and High Quality Furnishings...

Events for Two Different Kinds of Book Nerds

Lunchtime Quickie: More Naked PETA Girls

An Open Letter to Twilight's Kristen Stewart

Council Drops Phone Book Recycling Fee in Response to Lawsuit

Quote of the Day?

The Lit-Nerd Rapture Finally Has a Date

Kinect is Microsoft's Latest Savior

Morning News

Yapping on KUOW Today

Remember, We've Given Facebook Everything ...

The Sticky Fingers of Bing Strike Again

City to Withdraw Higher Parking Rates

Glenn Beckwatch: Little Glenny's Guide to the Middle East

Lunchtime Quickie: Kentucky Fried Obama?

Tens of High School Students Protest Police Brutality with Walk-Out and Rally

Egypt Now

Wait... WHAT?!? NO GAY DORITOS ADS DURING THE SUPER BOWL?!?

Talk to Your Kids About Sex!

Private Sex Tape Lands Indonesian Pop Star In Prison

Ayn Rand Secretly Took Government Money and Health Care

LinkedIn Files To Go Public ...

Council Says Tunnel Deal Will Evade Public Vote

Required Reading: Johann Hari

Melissa Darby Joins Eli Anderson as Co-Talent Buyer at Crocodile

The State Should Create Gay Families, Punish Gay Families

Thank You for the Gigantic Box of Garbage, DreamWorks Publicists

Who Is the Front-running Republican Fundraiser?

Belgian Boy Growing Up In Ukrainian Orphanage Because Belgium Won't Let His Fathers Take Him Home

Gun-Crazy Country

How Do You Feel About Your Health Care Lawsuit Now, Rob McKenna?

Milton Levine

Gallagher's Manager Weighs in on GallagherStormsOffPodcastAndIsTheTwitterThing RealOrFakeGate!

Dept. of Stopped Clocks

Today in Tall, Complicated Things Created for No Good Reason

We Get "News" Tips

What Percentage of Male Pee Actually Makes It Into the Toilet or Urinal?

Catholic Bishops to Straight Marrieds: No More Oral, No More Handjobs, No More Anal

Geri Jewell Continues to Rule

The New Google Art Project

Like Stuff White People Like, Only Useful and Intelligent

A Paragraph Hiding in Every Stanza

Get Your Ass Off The Couch: The War On Cars, Police Accountibility, and Booze and Books!

Poland's First Black MP

Apple to Amazon: Give Us a Cut of Your E-Book Profits

Pot Legalization Initiative to Be Filed Today

Hunter Gatherer Lodge Space Changing Hands?

Northwest Noir: Murder in the Prison Chapel

Glenn Beckwatch: The Unlikely Feminist

Amazon Announces Phenomenal Quarter

Apple and News Corp's iPad Newspaper Launches

Coming Soon to Pacific Place...

Chief Diaz Takes More Active Leadership Role at Local Crime Meeting

Here Is a Thing That Exists (Military Horror Edition)

Bisexual Reluctant to Date Bisexuals

The Evangelical Master Plan

What Are Jackson Place Residents Running From?

Marc Maron Interviews Gallagher

Could've Told You Thats

The United States of Somalia

Audit Says Seattle Schools Could Have Managed Construction Projects Better

Israel Wants Mubarak to Stay in Power

Please Don't Sue Me, Chuck Palahniuk

Today's Dinosaur News

Straight Kid With Gay Parents Testifies At Hearing In Iowa During Debate Over Banning Gay Marriage

Size Matters: The High Cost of Maintaining Small Rural School Districts

Fence is Up At Green Lake Elementary School

This Weekend: Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Film Festival

In the Words of An Egyptian Just Now By Landline

AA Meeting: Hyperbolic Blowhards and Hilarious Kids

Jobs of Our Future

Goes Great with... Everything

Saturday! City Hall Brings You Political Transparency, Bacon Jam, and Puppies

Our ADD-iest President

Victory (or, a Victory) for the Protesters in Egypt

The Morning News

House Republicans: You Can't Rape The Willing... 13-Year-Old Girl?

Keep Charlie Sheen In Your Hearts

Next Up: Yemen

The Morning News

Bing Caught Cribbing Search Results from Google

City Scales Back Higher Parking Rates; Estimates Losing $3.5 Million in City Revenue

Not Everything Needs to Be Social, Netflix

MUBARAK IS OUT AT THE END OF HIS TERM

Now You Can Finally Play Games On Your Phone!

Half a Cinnabun Is Better Than One

Live: Council Advances Tunnel Contracts

American Company Sells Internet Blackout Program to Egypt

Currently Hanging: Steve Davis

Is Facebook Trying to Take Over Comments?

Is That a Four-Pointer, Then?

Sarah Palin: She's Good For Something

Today in Albanian Picnics

Jesus Roves the Rittle Childlen

About the Men's Bathroom at the Downtown Library

Twist and Pout

Underworld

Maakies

Public Editor

A Critical Overview of The Stranger

I Love Television

TLC: Best/Worst Network Ever!

Suggests

Steve Davis, Alexander Kroll

Lily Tomlin

'Secretary'

Meat Beat Manifesto

Lonely Christopher

Soup & Bread

'The African Queen'

Brian Greene

Last Days

The Week in Review

Podcasts

Savage Love Episode 224