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2009
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Jan. 15
Print Edition for the week of
Jan. 15 - 21, 2009
Vol. 18, No. 18
Savage Love
Saddlebacked
by Dan Savage
New Column!
The Stranger
Welcomes Our New Muslim Overlord!
I, Anonymous
Go Poke Someone Else with Your Pencil
by Anonymous
Film/TV
On Screen
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
: Look! The Fat Guy's Trying to Do Stuff!
by Megan Seling
On Screen
Chandni Chowk to China
: Bollywood goes Hollywood
by Brendan Kiley
On Screen
Notorious
: Big Fat Nothing
by Charles Mudede
Guerrilla in Our Midst
Che
Is Soderbergh's Masterpiece
by Charles Mudede
Concessions
Silent Movie Mondays
by Lindy West
On Screen
Hotel for Dogs
: Poop and Pee and Monchichi
by Paul Constant
Music
Album Review
Animal Collective:
Merriweather Post
by Dave Segal
Album Review
DJ Signify:
Of Cities
by Dave Segal
Party Crasher
Ricin, Schmicin
by Dan Savage
Data Breaker
Beat-Seeking Missives
by Dave Segal
Fucking in the Streets
The Sight Below, Free Blood, and Linda and Ron's Dad's Beat Tourism
by Eric Grandy
The Twilight Rambler
Six Organs of Admittance's Spiritual Folk Odysseys
by Dave Segal
It's a Hit
Singles, Remixes & MP3s
by Michaelangelo Matos
We Have a Technical
Sleepy Eyes of Death's Fuse-Blowing Scores
by Eric Grandy
My Philosophy
Hiphop Ya Don't Stop
by Larry Mizell Jr.
Poster of the Week
Mike Klay
by Aaron Huffman
The Score
Classical, Jazz & Avant
by Christopher DeLaurenti
Up & Coming
This Week's Notable Shows and Parties
by Stranger Staff
Underage
Sound Off! Contestants Schoolboy Gutbuster and the Mission Orange
by Casey Catherwood
Theater
On Stage
Review of Seattle Opera's
The Pearl Fishers
by K.C.
Theater Review Revue
A British Satire, an Italian Revival, and an Extending Acting Sequence Starring the Marquis de Sade
by Brendan Kiley, David Schmader and Lindy West
When Genius Stumbles
Linas Phillips Makes Great Movies and Middling Performance Art
by Brendan Kiley
Visual Art
In Art News
Live Wire
by Jen Graves
Books
Constant Reader
Poems for Presidents, Death Threats, and Amnesia
by Paul Constant
Back to the Future
Knute Berger Says There's Only One Way to Look at Seattle: Backward
by Erica C. Barnett
Food & Drink
Bar Exam
Ricin: The Pub Crawl
by Bethany Jean Clement
The Happiest Hour
Chez Gaudy
by Marti Jonjak
Northern Exposure
The Asian Delights of the North End
by Lindy West
Features
The Sundance Kids
This Week, Three Seattle Filmmakers—Two of Them Stranger Genius Award Winners—Are Headed to the Most Important Film Festival in the Country
by Lindy West, Brendan Kiley and Charles Mudede
News
Just Take a Stand!
Council Prioritizes Making Everybody Like Them
by Erica C. Barnett
No Confidence
Senator Adam Kline Has Power— if Only He'd Use It
by Dominic Holden
In the Hall
Bye-Bye,
P-I
by Erica C. Barnett
In Other News
by Stranger Staff
Stop the Presses
Behind the Scenes as Hearst Gave Up on Seattle's Oldest Newspaper
by Eli Sanders
Last Days
The Week in Review
by David Schmader
Suggests
'Thermostat: Video and the Pacific Northwest'
Sleepy Eyes of Death
by Megan Seling
Inauguration Day
by Eli Sanders
'Rififi'
by David Schmader
MLK Dance Party
by Brendan Kiley
'Oh! What a Lovely War'
by Lindy West
Jon Raymond
by Paul Constant
Al Kooper
by Dave Segal
I Love Television
From Zero to Sixty
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Control Tower
Getting Fucked
by Mistress Matisse
Public Editor
A Critical Overview of
The Stranger
by A. Birch Steen, Stranger Public Editor and OSHA Board of Governors Member (Retired)
Crossword Solution
Sea Kittens
by Brendan Emmett Quigley
Crossword Puzzle
This Week's Puzzle
Sea Kittens
by Brendan Emmett Quigley
Illustrated Comment of the Week
by Greg Stump