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2011
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Aug. 3
Print Edition for the week of
Aug. 3 - 9, 2011
Vol. 20, No. 28
Savage Love
Had to Get Away
by Dan Savage
New Column!
Financial Crisis Follies!
I, Anonymous
Three the Hard Way
by Anonymous
Film/TV
Another Earth
: There's Another You Somewhere, and They're Just as Depressed
by Paul Constant
Art House
Fantasia
Is Fucking Racist
by Charles Mudede
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
: You Will Not Die of Boredom
by Charles Mudede
I Love Television
Animals Can Hurt!
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
The Man Who Fell to Earth
: Boring, Ballsy, Bowie
by David Schmader
The Devil's Double
: All Hail Dominic Fucking Cooper!
by Paul Constant
Concessions
THE CHANGE-UP
by Lindy West
Music
Still Alive Undead
My Life as a Slayer Discography
by Kelly O
LA, Vermont, Detroit, and Seattle
King Tuff Discusses Cities, the Doughnut Robot, and Peanut Butter
by Grant Brissey
Sound Check
Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter:
Marble Son
, Wrangled Chaos
by Trent Moorman
What Color Are Your Fingernails Right Now?
Pictureplane Discusses Trance, Aliens, and Occultism
by Jason Baxter
Break Open the Crust
Skarp Can't Keep a Good Thing Off the Burner
by Brian Cook
Up & Coming
Lose your white mold every night this week!
by Stranger Staff
My Philosophy
The Physics'
Love Is a Business
by Larry Mizell Jr.
Data Breaker
Digitalism, Dntel, Jam Jam
by Dave Segal
Underage
All-Ages Shows
by Jason Baxter
The Homosexual Agenda
An Ugly Rumor About Pony
by Adrian Ryan
Chuckletown, USA
Questions and Answers with Comedian Brett Hamil
by Lindy West
Poster of the Week
Poster by Andrew Saeger
by Aaron Huffman
Theater
African Laughter vs. European Dread
Charles Mudede Finally Attends the Opera That Has Haunted His Music Collection for as Long as He Can Remember
by Charles Mudede
Free Will Astrology
For the Week of August 3
by Rob Brezsny
Visual Art
This Gay Show
A Revolution at Tacoma Art Museum
by Jen Graves
In Art News
The Queen
Books
Suicide by Pastry
To Protest Privilege, a Privileged Girl Eats Herself to
A Sweet Death
by Josh Potter
Nightstand
My New Favorite Newspaper
by Christopher Frizzelle
Food & Drink
The Economic Theory of Sandwiches
Chelsea Deli Kicks Corporate Ass
by Paul Constant
Happiest Hour
Back Door at Roxy's
by Marti Jonjak
Features
Books Without Borders
My Life at the World's Dumbest Bookstore Chain
by Paul Constant
A Quick and Dirty Guide to Rejecting the Tunnel
You’ve read our billion-word screeds on everything that’s wrong with the proposed Seattle deep-bore tunnel. Here’s a handy boiled-down version for those with short attention spans.
by Dominic Holden
News
The Great Slackline Debate
A Controversy Over an "Emerging" Sport in Seattle Parks That Involves Attaching Rock-Climbing Gear to Trees
by Eli Sanders
Does Seattle Need to Fund Its Own Transit?
Suburban Lawmakers Crippled Regional Transportation Planning, Then Tried to Kill It for Being Inefficient
by Goldy
Sources Say
What People Are Whispering About
by Henry Kissinger
Sports Blotter
People in Sports Behaving Badly
by Goldy
Dear Science
Is the Hygiene Hypothesis True?
by Jonathan Golob
Suggests
Califone
by Dave Segal
A Proper Daiquiri
by Bethany Jean Clement
‘Porgy and Bess’
by Dominic Holden
Cocktails for a Cause
by Cienna Madrid
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
by Dave Segal
Kola Boof
by Paul Constant
Sade
by Charles Mudede
'Taxi Driver'
by David Schmader
‘Attack the Block’
by Paul Constant
Hempfest
by Dominic Holden
‘Come to Now’
by Jen Graves
'Not to Scale'
by Brendan Kiley
Seattle Tattoo Expo
by Kelly O
Master Pancake Theater's 'The Breakfast Club'
by Lindy West
Songs About Books
by Paul Constant
Mail Your Ballot
by Dominic Holden
Pig & Pipes
by Katherine Long
Public Editor
A Critical Overview of
The Stranger
by A. Birch Steen, Stranger Public Editor and OSHA Board of Governors Member (Retired)
Podcasts
Savage Love Episode 251
by Dan Savage
Last Days
This Week in Review
by David Schmader
Worn Out
Patrick Angus, Window Man
by Marti Jonjak