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Jun. 1
Print Edition for the week of
Jun. 1 - 7, 2011
Vol. 20, No. 39
Savage Love
Nonstarter
by Dan Savage
New Column!
Current Events Anagram Matchup!
I, Anonymous
Poly Poseurs
by Anonymous
Film/TV
Midnight in Paris
: Holy Crap, Woody Allen Made Something Good Again
by Ned Lannamann
Mia and the Migoo
: Less Plot, More Cute Giants!!!
by Megan Seling
X-Men: First Class
: How Magneto Got His Hat
by Paul Hughes
Concessions
An Interview With Matt Walsh
by Lindy West
Art House
Hurricane Kalatozov
Is the Best Thing at SIFF This Week
by Charles Mudede
Music
I Was There When Acid House Hit London and This Is How It Felt
Remembering the era of Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Armando, yuppies in Italian sports cars, squatters reading Burroughs, vampires in train stations, and stupid smiley-face stickers on every surface.
by Charles Mudede
Beatitude Happening
Seapony Inherit the Earth
by Jason Baxter
Up & Coming
Lose your powdery dirt every night this week!
by Stranger Staff
Granted
Sasquatch! Highlights
by Grant Brissey
God Only Knows
In Which God Answers Your Music-Related Questions
by God
Sound Check
Fences: The Old Man and Chris Mansfield's Synapses
by Trent Moorman
Data Breaker
DUG and Moe Bar Mondays—Three Years and Rising
by Dave Segal
My Philosophy
Kreayshawn, Spaceghostpurrp, and Ricky Pharoe
by Larry Mizell Jr.
Chuckletown, USA
Rob Delaney, Jimmy Pardo, and Chris Hardwick
by Lindy West
Poster of the Week
Poster by Ivan Minsloff
by Aaron Huffman
The Homosexual Agenda
Gay Pride and the Pork Princess
by Adrian Ryan
Underage
Ghost Animal, Phil Elverum, and Walter TV
by Jason Baxter
Theater
Slow-Moving Target
Why I've Never Taken Butoh as Seriously as It Takes Itself
by Brendan Kiley
Free Will Astrology
For the Week of June 1
by Rob Brezsny
Visual Art
Pretendgineering
A Slightly Woozy Tour Through the New Mediums That Might Change the Message
by Jen Graves
Books
Republican Science-Fiction Land
The Undocumented Worker in the Oval Office and Other Supposed Nonfictions
by Paul Constant
Nightstand
What's Spanish for "Stultifying?"
by Christopher Frizzelle
Food & Drink
Nine Things About Nook
...Which Is a New Place on the Ave That You Will Really Like
by Bethany Jean Clement
Happiest Hour
Gameworks
by Marti Jonjak
Chow Bio
Jason Tate, Manager of the White Rabbit
by Sarah Galvin
Features
Mike McGinn's Shocking Weight Loss!
A City Responds to Its Disappearing Mayor
News
Screwing the Pooch (and We're the Pooch)
How Democrats Wounded Their Progressive Base
by Goldy
The Eyman Backlash
Liberals Vow Lawsuits and an Initiative to Overturn Tim Eyman's Tax Policy
by Eli Sanders
Bike Justice
Family of Killed Cyclist Awarded $1.5 Million Settlement
by Eli Sanders
Even Democrats Don't Want Kucinich
A New Poll Finds the Ohio Congressman Can't Win Here
by Eli Sanders
How Richard Conlin "Went Too Far"
And Why the City Council President Is Now Facing a Recall Effort
by Dominic Holden
A Better Shot
Costco Says It Has a Silver-Bullet Strategy to Shut Down State Liquor Stores
by Cienna Madrid
Last Days
The Week in Review
by David Schmader
Underworld
by Kaz
Maakies
by Tony Millionaire
Suggests
Kiki
by Grant Brissey
'Elektra'
by Brendan Kiley
'71: Into the Fire'
by David Schmader
My Disco
by Dave Segal
'Fun House'
by Jen Graves
Charles Leo Gebhardt IV
by Grant Brissey
'Qarantina'
by Charles Mudede
'High Road'
by Lindy West
Public Editor
A Critical Overview of
The Stranger
by A. Birch Steen, Stranger Public Editor and OSHA Board of Governors Member (Retired)
Control Tower
Someone Has to Run the Fuck
by Mistress Matisse
I Love Television
Scone Wolf
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Podcasts
Savage Love Episode 242
by Dan Savage
Sports Blotter
A Speeding, a Shooting, a Warning, and a Smacked Downs
by Goldy