Print Edition for the week of
Feb. 3 - 9, 2011

Vol. 20, No. 22

Savage Love

Raw Dog

New Column!

Film/TV

I, Anonymous

Music

If I Have Ever Driven Drunk, I Was Not Apprehended

The musician and performance artist the Blow on working with her girlfriend, drunk driving, growing up on Queen Anne, Lindsay Lohan, Sting, and other stuff.

No Goddamn Son of a Bitch

The Godfather of Metal Is Actually a Nice Guy

Sound Check

Ononos: Sacrifice to the Wolf Moon

(Almost) Everything You Know About French Rock Is Wrong

And High Wolf Is the Latest Immortal Import from France

Up & Coming

Lose your cookies every night this week!

Data Breaker

Victory Rave, Bassnectar's Wompitude, White Rainbow's Soul Jams

My Philosophy

Scribes and DJ Jacks Green

Chuckletown, USA

Pop. Jokes

Poster of the Week

Poster by Max Nordile

The Homosexual Agenda

Girlyman and Bacon Goth

Underage

This Week’s All-Ages Action

Theater

Multiple Personalities and Excessive Flatulence

The K of D (and Notes on Intermission) at Seattle Rep

Duel of the Linguist Mages Is Long on Ideas, Short on Poetry

Books

It's Electric

The Stranger's Books Editor Finally Buys an E-Reader

Food & Drink

Save Your Fork, There's Pie

Seattle Welcomes the Hot New Dessert Trend™ with Open Mouths

Features

Warm Corpse

I Got There Too Late

News

Chief Slams Police Union's Newspaper

Feds Scrutinize Seattle Cops (But Don't Expect a Lawsuit)

Council Stumbles Trying to Close Tunnel Deal

Holy Crap!

Religious Right Outmaneuvers Progressives in the Fight over "Pregnancy Centers"

Public Editor

A Critical Overview of The Stranger

Dear Science

I Love Television

Super Bowl: A Decade of Hate

Maakies

Last Days

The Week in Review

Slog

Are You a Lesbian? Part of a Couple? Been Together More Than Five Years?

The Latest in Egypt

Standoff at Broadway and Pine

For Your Valentine's Day Consideration

Lunchtime Quickie: Leavenworth, Washington. A Place For... Hip Hop And Nuts?

Good Friends Weren't Good Witnesses

The Free Market at Work

Ronald Reagan: Beyond Thunderdome

What Part of 1935 Does Gov. Gregoire Not Understand?

The Stupor Bowl XLV Half Time Show

So Many Ledes, So Little Desire to Write Any of Them

How Do You Feel About Kate Bush?

A Relationship, Arranged Alphabetically

Powell's Lays Off 31 Workers

Currently Hanging: Light in Darkness

This One's for the Sports Fans

SPU Won't Comment on Its Refusal to Recognize GLBT Student Group

Gung Hay Fat Choy!

Would You Like to See the Design Handbook for All of Nazism?

Am I the Only One Who Can't Stand Brazil Nuts?

Help Save SPD's Most Popular Unit—the Horses.

Screw as I Say, not as I Screw

New York Times Seeks New Ethicist

How Did a Rainbow Flag Wind Up On NOM's Website?

Programming Note

Currently Hanging: The Mysterious Content of Softness

You Have Only 24 Hours to Submit Your Stranger Valentine!

Washington Asparagus Growers Against the Drug War

Licata, Tenant Advocates Say Landlords Are Misrepresenting Facts About New Inspection Bill

The Tennis Team

Urinal of the Day: University of Maryland Dining Hall

One Crazy Teabag Lady Isn't Running for President

You (May) Only Think the Adderall Is Helping

Republican Lawmakers Delay Public Testimony to Attack Pregnancy Center Bill

Das Racist vs. Hari Kondabolu

UK Court "Bans" Man with Low IQ from Having Sex

"Two or more bookstores...is an indication of actual civilization."

Police Accountability Forum: Panelists Call for More Transparency; Crowd Calls for Diaz's Head on a Pike

The Morning News

This Bird Loves the Green Bay Packers

Jiggles-Gate Gets Even More Meta-er

The Literary Glass Ceiling

Teabaggers Furious Over Captain America

Bridesmaids: CONDEMN OR ALLOW?

The Abortion Wars Are Back!

Boehner Gone Wild

McBain: The Movie

SL Letter of the Day: Mr. Republican Comes Around

The White Stripes Officially Break Up

Caperin': Derek Goes to Port Townsend!

AOL Buys HuffingtonPost

Gregoire Gives Up on Columbia River Crossing

There Is No Morality Without Religion

Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father

Today in Lady Parts: "Forcible Rape" Stricken from Anti-Abortion Bill, Stinging Planned Parenthood

Too Soon, Too Fucking Stupid. Also, Fuck You.

Name This Band: Special Superhero Edition!

Conlin: The Kids Must Have Their Salmon

Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Suicide Fence Debate and Seattle's White Southern Pal

The Morning News

Brian Jacques

The Morning News

Speaking of Spiderman....

Take That, Gertrude Stein!

Glenn Beckwatch: Glenndalf the Gray

Parting Thoughts

Hari Kondabolu Gets Some "Help" from His Comedy "Friends"

Seattlepi.com: "Jiggles strip club pleads its case in Stranger ad"

Gentleman for Hire

You Have One Hour and Eighteen Minutes Left to Submit Your Valentine!

I'm With the Terrorists

Unfortunate Nerd Controversies Come Two at a Time Now

Suckle on This

Have You HEARD that There's a Police Forum Tomorrow?

Sunny Jim Site Presents "No Major Concerns" as Site of Future Homeless Encampment, Enviro Study Finds

Concerning Washington's Motion Picture Competitiveness

The Case for Legalizing, Taxing, and Regulating Pot in Washington State

Today in Digital Media: Bigger, Better, Faster, More

"Our vampires should stay in Washington State."

A Little Stupor Bowl Counter Programming

Lunchtime Quickie: Is Rihanna Really Into S&M?

SL Letter of the Day: A Sexual Reflects On Nearly Asexual Ex

Have You Read Mudede's Piece about His Dad's Corpse?

A Very Belated Date With the Kochtopus

The Biggest Loser, a Gigantic Hamburger, and Olympic (and Other Kinds of) Gold

Re: Jim Webb to Retire

Lunchtime Quickie: Sexy Week Continues With... Pole Dancing

Now Open: Piecycle, Dope Burger, Le Bon Ton Etc., and SO MUCH MORE

Today's Dinosaur News

"I will hit your car"

Justin Bieber's Here... You Can Die Now, Ozzy.

AA Meeting: Consolidating Your Catch-Up

A Living Legend Reads Tonight

Run, Jeb, Run!

Be-Bop Bamboozled

Justin Bieber Switches Bodies with Jon Stewart: WHO GOT THE BETTER DEAL??

"Reject the cynical tactics of the ACLU of Washington."

Hey, Dummies

Health Care Repeal Fail

It Gets Better: E.M. Forster

You Can't Be Against Dense, Urban Development and Consider Yourself an Environmentalist

Stephanie Syjuco on Counterfeiting Art

Norfolk.gov Doesn't Look Like Seattle.gov Anymore

You Can Walk, but You Can't Hide

With Health Care Repeal Vote Looming in the Senate, Mayor McGinn Weighs In

Walking Down the Side of A Wall, Burying Yourself Until You Are Lost, A Slightly Smaller-Than-Life Homemade Thrift Store

Council Votes Today on Tunnel

The Monster Who Wrote the Books

Dorn Opposes Bill That Would Turn Schools Chief Job Into Non-Elected Position

Did Everyone But Me Already Know that Eric Clapton Used to Be into Dope But Now He's into Racism?

Stupor Bowl

More Than Two Books Entered, More Than Two Books Left

Well, We Wouldn't Want That to Happen

The Arsonist Is Real

Artwalk Tonight!

On a Colorblind Spider-Man

SL Letter of the Day: Let Me Dilate That For You

Jim Webb to Retire

Speaking Of "Too High, Too Confusing"...

FCC Wants to Stop Subsidizing Rural Landlines... and Start Subsidizing Rural Broadband

This Is What Snowmaggedon Looks Like

The Cheerleader-Free Stupor Bowl XLV

Tonight: Collide-O-Scope at Central Cinema

Mayor McGinn's Charter Schools 101

Parents Worry that Federal Grant Could Make Alternative School More Mainstream

Superbowl for Nerds: A Poll

Some People Will Be Live-Slogging the Superbowl Today

Steve Harvey Paperback Book Drama!

Fake-Indie Starbucks Reverts to Regular-Starbucks Starbucks

The Harlem Globetrotters Are at Top Pot...

Today in Counterproductive Advertising

From Full Civil Equality to Anti-Gay Jim Crow In Less Than Five Years

A Note to Wannabe Cucks

An Algonquin Round Table

Most People Think Pit Bulls Are Safe in Residential Areas

State Spends $31,000 on Useless Liquor Poll

Cops Say Attack on Jogger—Allegedly by a "Broad Shouldered, Darker Skinned" Man—Never Happened

I Hope This is Gladwell's Tipping Point

One of the Bush Twins Is Totes for Gay Marriage!

Intimidation and Threats Against Mexican Journalists: Not Just for Narcos Anymore? (Or, Is Any Large Mexican Instituation Truly Free of Narco Influence?)

"I have a tie. You don't have a tie."

The Morning News

That Old Amnesia Trick

FAQ About Two Books Enter, One Book Leaves

Kiss Means Yes (Kiss Means No)

Merry Groundhog Day, Everybody!

"The American people deserve better than a demanding beauty queen who's clearly in over her head."

Health Care Reform: The Funny Book

Don't Do It, Mitt!

Pay for the App, but the Guilt Is Free

Did Norfolk.gov Crib Seattle.gov?

Meanwhile on Queen Anne

The Reagan White House Responds to AIDS

Lancing the Boil

NALTs Speak Up for Marriage Equality In Maryland

The Morning News

More Star Wars Flotsam...

Today in Mangled News Copy

A Birthright Israel Trip in a Book

McGinn: "There's been a lot of misinformation spread about this health care bill."

'Everybody Is Raced in Some Way': The History of White People Author

A Letter to the Editor that Came in Over the Weekend

This Week in the Music Section

In Which I Finally Get an E-Reader

It's the First Wednesday of the Month—That Means the Reading Party Is Tonight

What Arianna Huffington Is Telling HuffPo Bloggers About AOL Merger

Sasquatch Lineup Announced

Depressing Fact o' the Day

Things I Learned From Watching Charlie Rose...

FBI Investigating Scientology

A Book of a Show, a Show of a Book

Police Accountability Forum, In Photos

Iceland Will Digitize Their Books

Seattle Times Should Stick to Serious Business

When In Canada

Kemper Freeman: "I'm Taking My Bellevue and Going Home!"

Polyamorist? Or Slut?

The Prime Minister's Empty Apology

The Drug War: Not Just Screwing Up Lives—Screwing Up Ladies' Golf!

The Latest in Egypt

SL Letter of the Day: Soft Focus

The Morning News

Where Should I Go Watch The Super Bowl This Sunday?

Stop the State From Raiding Student Aid

Ban Poor Marriage

Cantwell Gave a Glowing Reference for the "Bully" Boss of the Luxembourg Embassy

Today in Crazy Internet Brilliance

Burgess: "Something is clearly wrong."

Places I Have Been in Google Art Project, Part 1 (of 2)

The Children's Film Festival Is Still Going On

A Good Year for Gary Locke

Surface/Transit Is Still the Best Alternative for Replacing the Viaduct

Now This Is What "Smaller Government" Looks Like

Hey, There's an Unofficial Slog Happy This Week!

Today in Slightly Unfortunate Headlines and Pink Dollars

Mayor's Office Insists Tunnel Contract Can Go to Ballot

Why Do So Many Groups Oppose the AG's Gang Bill?

The Piecycle Will Bring You Fresh Pie in the Middle of the Night

A Sit-In at the State Capitol?

And FYI... $31,000 Isn't So Much to Pay For a Poll

Star Trek: The Next Generation Porn

The Latest in Egypt

Not Everybody, Golliver

Here Is a Video of Two Corgis Playing Tetherball

Urinals of the Day: Detroit, Michigan

University District Twice Sold Tales to Go Online-Only

County: People Threatened Violence if Buses Ran Ads Critical of Israel

Valentine's Day Is One Week Away—Are You Celebrating With a Divorce?

Because Teabagger Monthly Was Already Taken

Pregnancy Center Bill: After Talking It Over with God, I'm Siding with the Heathen Sluts

Blacks Hit Hardest By HIV/AIDS in King County

Stupor Bowl XLV

Today in the Most Illegal Wrestling Move, Like, Ever

Lynn Shelton, Megan Griffiths, and Lindy West File Book Reports about What They Were Reading at the Reading Party Last Night

The Demolition of Boeing Plant 2, In Pictures

An Egyptian Gets Internet Back: 'Our heart is broken'

The Morning News

"Empty the Clip"

Get Your Ass Off The Couch: Bingo, Birds, and Taxes

Lunchtime Quickie: Grandma! Look Where You're Going!!

The Seattle Times Wouldn't Know "Smaller Government" If It Bit Them In The Face

Flickr Photo of the Day

May I Ruin Your Lunch?

A List of Every RKCNDY Show Ever

The Game's Oldest Rookie Settles In

Lunchtime Quickie: The Creepiest Monkey Waiter In The Whole Wide World

Stupor Bowl II

A Good News Story from SPD!

Live on the InterTube: Tonight's SPD Forum

At SPU, It Gets Worse

Remember the Mysterious Graffiti Installation in Sodo?

Elway Poll: Stranger Staff Totally Out of Touch With Public On Liquor Stores (Except for Me)

Does This Family Look Like a Threat to Marriage?

AA Meeting: Horn-Tooters and Maternal Hellcats

Short Review of The Daily

Do You Guys Like My New Poster?

SL Letter of the Day: Another Satisfied Customer

Do We Have a Lawyer in the House?

Prosecuting Attorney Files New Charges Against Green River Killer

An Open Letter-Threat to Paul Bobby Constant

What Are These Friggin' Annoying Things Doing Outside My House Even Though I Opted Out Like 6 Months Ago?

Personal Responsibility

Slog Super Bowl Primer (for Slog)

Report: Seattle Heiress and Obama Contributor Turned into a "Bully" as Luxembourg Ambassador

Secure Yer Facebook

WARNING: Dude in Utilikilt Has Been Playing Video Gun Game for Two Hours

"Lindsay Lohan Quizzed About Missing Necklace"

Name That Ism

Podcasts

Savage Love Episode 225

Suggests

'Aliens'

Police Accountability Forum

Motörhead

'The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour'

The Tony Williams Tribute Band

'Ming Wong: Life of Imitation'

'Fela!'

Two Books Enter, One Book Leaves

Underworld