Print Edition for the week of
Mar. 2 - 8, 2011

Vol. 20, No. 26

Savage Love

All About the Benjamins

New Column!

#1 You! by Constance McCue

Film/TV

They Shoot Lady Leaders-of-Muslim-Countries, Don't They?

A Slick, Energetic Documentary About Benazir Bhutto

Rango: The Best Movie About a Sheriff-Lizard with No Genitals You’ll See All Year

Concessions

"It's Been a Big, Brave Year for Us as Actors"

Carbon Nation: Even Greed Can’t Save Us

I, Anonymous

Music

On Beats and Sensitivity

10.4 Rog and The Good Sin's Late Identifies with the Listener

The King of Limbs: Periphery to the Epic

PJ Harvey Reinvents Herself Again

Up & Coming

Lose your week every night this week!

Sound Check

T. J. Cowgill takes Questions for Christians

Data Breaker

The Knowgooders, OC Notes, Lords of Acid, and Three Years of Dug

Chuckletown, USA

The Homosexual Agenda

Lick! and RuPaul's Drag Race

My Philosophy

Malice & Mario Sweet, Vitamin D, and Hi-Life Soundsystem

Underage

All-Ages Shows

Poster of the Week

Poster by David Gallo

Cult of Youth Sneak You out the Window

Earth's Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1

K-Holes' Self-Titled Record Is All Sax and Chaos

Party Crasher

A Fucking Bacchanalia, with Star Wars and Dominatrices

Chikita Violenta's TRE3S Is Almost as Good as You Forgot It in People

Free Will Astrology

For the Week of March 2

Theater

"That's Fucked"

Pulitzer Winner Next to Normal Comes to Seattle

Books

Building a World

Mike Mignola on Fairy Tales, the Paranormal, and Ignoring Buses and Shopping Malls

Food & Drink

Happiest Hour

Bad Albert's Tap & Grill

Cookie Bread and Tons of Butter

European Forms, Japanese Flavors, and Star-Quality Baked Goods at Fuji in the ID

Features

Could Washington Be the Next Wisconsin?

A Sneak Peek into the Anti-Labor Administration of Governor Rob McKenna

News

Federally Offensive

White House Tries to Bully the Seattle Times for Publishing Pro-Pot Editorials

Behind the Boobs

The Owner of Jiggles Strip Club Is Overturning Prudish City Rules One Lawsuit at a Time—While Making a Tidy Profit

Maakies

Dear Science

Suggests

Michael Showalter

The New Mastersounds

Quail Eggs

RView

Emerald City Comicon

'Bhutto'

Weird and Awesome with Emmett Montgomery

Public Editor

A Critical Overview of The Stranger

I Love Television

Ten MORE Reasons to Dislike Miley Cyrus

Podcasts

Savage Love Episode 229

Last Days

The Week in Review

Slog

Eagles Falling From Sky

RE: Hollywood Really Wants to Figure Out How That Goose Is Laying Those Eggs

The Bible is Bootylicious

Flickr Photo of the Day

The Bob Behind the Boobs

Free Books Promote Bookselling

The Morning News

My Week in Pictures

Today in Fashion, Faux-Fashion, and Nerd-Faux-Faux-Fashion

Boeing's Secret Weapon in Tanker Competition? Organized Labor

Because the Week Is Almost Over and Sometimes You Just Want to Watch a Drunk, Naked Idiot Fall Over

Mike Huckabee Goes After... Natalie Portman?

They Say It's Not the Dog, It's the Owner

Tonight: Frances Farmer Organ Karaoke Bribes the Audience

Today in Poorly Targeted PR Efforts

Re: Jews Not Christ-Killers

What's for Breakfast?

Because the Private Sector Always Operates More Efficiently Than Government

I Just Spent a Week In Canada...

GOP Strategy: If You Can't Woo Young Voters, Disenfranchise Them

New Stephen King Book This November

Breaking: Tunnel Opponents Exposed as Opponents of Tunnel

One Observation on this Year's Emerald City Comicon

Oh la Vache! Airbus Won't Appeal Boeing Tanker Contract

About that Ban on Advertising Pot in Newspapers and Magazines

Attention Fans of RuPaul's Drag Race

A Message From the Future

Five Times Faster, Five Times Most Furiouser!

Today in Parts of News Stories That Deserve to Be Made into Short Films

That's My Grandma!

The Gay-Hating Capitol Hill Condo Owner Responds...

Pregnancy Center Bill Dies in House

Re-Mitted

Every Time a Story Like This Gets Published An Angel Gets Online and Downloads a Barely Legal Anal Gangbangers 3

The Moment of the Rebel

Re: iPad 2

Monogamy Rocks!

Morning News

Arizona State Legislature Provides Comfort and Aid to Future Jared Lee Loughners

Our State Song, by Sir Mix-A-Lot?

Amazon to Give Kindles Away for Free?

Man's Best Friend

Every Elected Official at City Hall Wants Pot Legalized

Who Raised These Guinea Pigs?

Was It Something We Said?

"Shame! Shame! Shame! Shame!"

Traffic Report

Gary Locke Is the New U.S. Ambassador to China

Council Member Sally Clark Gets an Election Challenge—Sort Of

A Ban on Advertising Pot in Newspapers and Magazines?

The Big Brain Drain

Governor Rob McKenna?

Today: Funding for Inventing Human Gills, Teleportation, Etc.

The Drug Czar Comes to Town and... Nothing Much Happens

Delights for Nerds of All Types

Comic Book Memoirs About Kissing Boys and Shaving Legs

I Am What A Feminist Looks Like

Walker's Budget Would Repeal Wisconsin Law Requiring Insurers to Cover Birth Control

What the State Senators Said When They Talked About Banning Medical Pot Advertising

One Angry Mother

The News Has Reached Charleston, S.C.

Who In Seattle Thinks the Sale and Trafficking of Marijuana Should Remain in the Hands of an Illegal Market?

SL Letter of the Day: Everything But

"Will Seattle voters be on the hook for [tunnel] cost overruns?"

Wisconsin Bloggers Have All the Fun

No Bonuses for BP Vampires

"One of the Most Important Ethicists in America"

Lunchtime Quickie: Ole Charlie Is Still Bi-Winning the Internet Meme Game

Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Bike Wars, Aurora Commons, and Wallingford Turtle Envy

Light Rail / Dark Rail

My goodness.

Defend Planned Parenthood, Defend Choice, Defend Women

A Firing Offense: NPR Fundraising Exec Says Tea Party is 'Scary' and 'Racist'

See Ya Later, Clown Town

Mike Nipper Thinks Dolly Parton Looks Like Milton Berle!

The Morning News

Is Amazon's Sales-Tax-Free Status in Peril?

Michael Showalter Wants to Be the Neil Young of Dave Eggerses

The Hunger Games Movie Gets Off on the Wrong, Underfed Foot

Magic Underpants, Inc.

Question of the Day

It Gets Better: Jennifer Finney Boylan

Why Seattle Should Pass on White Center

The Last Time I Saw My Grandmother

Morning News

Wisconsin "Use of Force" in Action

Iran Secretly Holding Ex-FBI Agent?

UW Basketball Player Charged with Buying Alcohol for Minors

The Morning News

Seattle, Meet Your 2011 Sound Off! Finalists

Is Utah Going Back to the Gold Standard?

Ideology Today: Superintendentgate

That's My Grandpa!

McGinn: City Offers to "Partner" with Beleaguered School District

Hope For America

Protect Seattle Now

Joni Balter, You Won't Get an Apology from Me

How Much Should You Tip for Drip?

Tonight: Collide-O-Scope at Central Cinema

The First Day of Emerald City Comicon Is Almost Over

The Morning News

HarperCollins Continues to Be Stupid: Librarians Strike Back

Too Bad that Aggressive Panhandling Bill Failed Last Year

Packed Room Waits For School Board's Decision On Superintendent

Good To Know

3D Star Wars: The Phantom Menace to Be Released Next Year

Love for Smarty Seattle

Betrayal in Maryland: Sam Arora

Hey Drunky: Need Some Help Making Your Own Beer and Wine?

People Are Getting Robbed Like Mad Downtown

Disgraced Republican A Go-Go

More on That Proposed Ban on Medical Pot Advertising, and Why It's Probably Unconstitutional

Drug Czar Kerlikowske on Marijuana Legalization (He's Opposed) and His Meeting With the Seattle Times (It's Happening Today)

White House Requests Meeting with Seattle Times to Bully Against Pro-Pot Editorials

"We Are Going to Block Streets"

TGIF! Thanks For the Weed and the Cheeseburger

The City Knows Not Its Light Rail

For Lovers of the 1980s

Good Sportsmanship

The Seattle School District: "A Hotbed of Scandal and Political Intrigue"

Two Things That Are Happening!

"Jee-SUS! Jee-SUS! Jee-SUS! Jee-SUS!"

East Coast Elites and Conservative Bloggers Mock a Distinctly American Art Form

Justin Bieber to World: I'm 17, So Now I Can Do This

The First Battle of the Long War for the Republican Candidacy Is Over...

A New Generation of Vertigo Comics

Before the Social Network

It Gets Better: Michael Cunningham

It Is Time for Liberals to Arm

East Precinct Crime Rate: Lower Than Last Year!

Have You Seen Marizela Perez?

No Signature Fraud in Washington? It's Hard to Find What You Don't Look For

Lying Sack of Judas Shit Assumes a Convoluted New Position

Have You Ever Inspired This Kind of Vitriol, Brendan?

Newt Gingrich Tentatively Announces He Might Possibly Be Thinking About Running for President One Day. Maybe.

Lunchtime Quickie: A Slow Loris With Tiny Umbrella?

Meet Dr. Susan Enfield, Seattle's Interim Superintendent

Seattle Schools Picks Interim Chief Financial Officer

Wisconsin Senate Republicans Authorize Use of Force Against Missing Dems

Hear a New Single From Beth Ditto and Simian Mobile Disco

Bobby Jindal Cares About Louisiana's Children

Sen. Tom: Not Stealing $500K from Toxics Account Would Be Like Stealing $500K from K-12 Education

Re: Re: iPad 2

Glenn Beckwatch: Plagiarizing the King of the Truthers

Somewhere Kathy Griffin Is Masturbating Furiously to This Clip

Go Read Ask an Abortion Provider—Now.

Mayor's Homeless Camp: Set Up for Failure?

A Conglomeration of Comic Book Reviews

Winning

Lowe for Carlos Estevez

Gaddafi's Female Bodyguards

Spoiler Alert: Andy Rooney Doesn't Like E-Books

In Case You Missed the Academy Awards on Sunday

SLLOTD: Anger Mismanagement Issues

New South Park Bridge: Cheaper than Expected

Is There a Media Double Standard on Roads vs. Transit ROI?

In Defense of J. Michael Bailey, Academic Freedom, and Live Sex Demonstrations

Bunnies in a Blender. And Babies

Robots Are Creeping Me Out

Today's Republican Party Is All About Jobs

We All Live in Mike Huckabee's Media Laboratory

A Perfectly Good Explanation for This?

Notes from the Prayer Warrior

"Alarming" Free Speech Violation in Attempt to Ban Pot Ads, Says UW Professor

The Removal of Mubarak Did Not Solve All of Egypt's Problems

Time Is Running Out to Cast Your Ballot in America's Stupidest (but Still Important) Election

Wisconsin Farmers to Bring "Tractorcade" to Capitol in Solidarity with State Workers

Thousands of Characters, Only Four Cars

Re: Gary Locke Is the New U.S. Ambassador to China

Dog Train!

Star College Athlete Admits Having Premarital Sex...

Prey Love Humans

Hi, Pai's

Memories of Emerald City Comicon

Too Big to Fail

Some Things

School Board Doesn't Want City Providing Financial Management

Hollywood Really Wants to Figure Out How That Goose Is Laying Those Eggs

SLLOTD: The Third Way

Dominic and Ryan, Sitting in a Tree...

Maria Goodloe-Johnson Says She's Sorry

Gawker Traffic Way Down Since the Redesign

Good News for Everyone Except Battered Women

Tickle Your Pickle!

"The Other White Meat" No More

Super Trailer: "SHUT UP, CRIME!"

We Live in a Universe that Contains an Opera About Anna Nicole Smith

Evan Emory Is Not a Child Pornographer

Silas Potter Says He's a Scapegoat in Schools Scandal, But is OK With Serving Time

Lunchtime Quickie: Today in "Mom, Quit Making Me Do These Jesus Videos"

Japanese Kittens in Bowls

Jobs Numbers Up, Prospects for American Workers Still Down

Seattle: One Taco Closer to Becoming a Real City

Watch Our Senators Verbally Beat Down Those Who Think Pap Smears Cause Joblessness

Memoirs of a Creepy Middle-Aged Man

Cupcake Rage

Confidential to Jon Stewart

Celebrity Hair on the Cheap

What's Love Got To Do With It?

It's Amazing...

Now You Know the Tiger Has Got It Like That

Even Fox Thinks Beck Is Nuts

Headline of the Morning

The Morning News

Get Your Oatmeal Signed at University Book Store Tonight

The Adjustment Bureau: King of the Island of Misfit Movies

A Few Brief Notes on Costumes and Nerd-Ladies

Reading Is Fundamental Dead Due to Budget Cuts

Here Is a Thing That Exists: People Are Scared and Scary Edition

SLLOTD: Not My Best Work

Have You Read Trent Moorman's Interview with T.J. Cowgill Using Questions the Stryper Wouldn't Answer?

Destroy Sam Arora

Born This Way Blog

"I want you to free me, America. I want you to love me."

Kids Read the Darndest Things

Tim Burgess Comes Out to Legalize Pot

Curious If You're Fertile, Guys?

The Human Earthquake?

So Compassionate, You Could Throw Up

Urban League Defends Alleged Involvement in School District Scandal, Says "It Did Nothing Wrong"

Joseph Bernstein Does Not Own a Fucksaw

The 4Culture Bill Passed the House

Week in Review

SLLOTD: Here's to You Some Advice for You, Mrs. Robinson

How to Scrub the Internet of at Least One Spoiled Wife-Beater

School Board Terminates Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson From School District, Appoints Susan Enfield As Interim Superintendent

Goodnight Dune

So Much for the Will of the Voters

This Week in Pastors Getting Sexy

Medical Marijuana Activists May Try to Kill Their Own Bill

Re: Re: Re: iPad 2

Remember This Post in 25 Years, When We're All Speaking Hong Konganese

Meanwhile in Mississippi

He Will Love You Violently

An Anonymous Resident Goes to Bat for SPD

Internet Comments Minus Anonymity Aren't Very Interesting

Colonel Qaddafi, A Life in Fashion

A Message From the Past

Seattle Times Live Pot Chat

Notes from the Prayer Warrior

Kirby Wilbur Goes Fishin'

A Theory About the Disparity Between the US Response to the Iranian Uprising(s) and the US Response the Libyan Uprising

Seattle Times Editorial Board Will Livestream Interview With School Officials

Have You Read Charles Mudede's Article on 10.4 Rog and The Good Sin?

Saif Gaddafi Is A Painter

Rick Santorum on Being Reaganesque

Seattle Channel Does Our Very Own Jen Graves

Warner Bros. Fires Charlie Sheen From Two and a Half Men

Random Brooklyn Graffiti

Lunchtime Quickie: Tacoma 6th Grade Fight Club!

Sundquist Tells Times Editorial Board that School Board is Considering Firing Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson

The Cream of the Republican Crop Will Kick Off the Campaign Tonight

You Are Going to Be Glad You Watched This

Hillary Clinton Loves Al Jazeera

Cienna Madrid on Dead Cats and ABBA!

Lunchtime Quickie: Question: What Do Snakes Think of Breast Implants?

City Hall Stinks of Weed, Again

Weather Report

It's Happy Hour Right Now!

Underworld