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Print Edition for the week of
Aug. 31 - Sep. 6, 2011

Vol. 20, No. 52

Savage Love

Cheating Pieces

by Dan Savage

New Column!

Stranger Genius Word Jumble!

I, Anonymous

It's Your Fault I'm Murdering the Earth, Metro

by Anonymous

Film/TV

Mr. Nice: Knock It Off, You Arrogant Fuck!

by Grant Brissey

Amigo: John Sayles's Best Film

by Charles Mudede

Seven Days in Utopia: One Hundred Years of Clichés

by Anna Minard

I Love Television

Game ON!

by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey

Mission FUBAR

Helen Mirren Settles The Debt

by Marjorie Skinner

Scary Fairies

Guillermo del Toro Haunts Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

by Courtney Ferguson

Bellflower: Die or Get Off the Screen Already

by Grant Brissey

Music

Bucolic Evocation

Fleet Foxes' Placeless Rural Fantasies

by Charles Mudede

Up & Coming

Lose your experimental savant every night this week!

by Stranger Staff

Data Breaker

Peaches, Ononos, Kids at the Bar, D&B Tuesdays

by Dave Segal

Granted

Beats Don't Work in the Woods

by Grant Brissey

My Philosophy

Young Jeezy, Lil Wayne, and Bumbershoot

by Larry Mizell Jr.

The Homosexual Agenda

Peaches, Diesel, and the New C.C. Attle's

by Adrian Ryan

Poster of the Week

Poster by Sonnenzimmer and Michael Cina

by Aaron Huffman

Underage

All-Ages Shows

by Jason Baxter

Theater

Walden Three

Greg Lundgren Wants to Turn the Lusty Lady into a For-Profit Arts Center and Manufacture a Renaissance

by Brendan Kiley

Free Will Astrology

For the Week of August 31

by Rob Brezsny

Visual Art

Blart: The Gorgeous Inarticulateness of Susanna Bluhm

by Jen Graves

Everyday Life for Sentient Beings

Digital Photography, Dust, and an Endless Madonna Concert at the Henry

by Jen Graves

Books

Last Year's Man

Luminarium Is the Best Novel of 2002

by Paul Constant

Shut Up, Hippie

We Need a Great Environmental Writer

by Paul Constant

Food & Drink

Happiest Hour

Sabai Thai

by Marti Jonjak

Enter the Void

Four Great Places for Asian Food in the Fifth Level of Hell on the Eastside

by Katherine Long

Chow Bio

Dan Tharp, Manager at Cafe Mox

by Sarah Galvin

Features

Deeply Embarrassed White People Talk Awkwardly About Race

Please don’t not read this just because you’re not racist.

by Jen Graves

The Best DJ Youʼve Never Heard Of

Why the Music at Seattle Center’s International Fountain Is Totally Worth Listening To

by Megan Seling

News

Big Brother in Little China

International District Residents Want Surveillance Cameras to Combat Crime

by Cienna Madrid

Tomorrow's City Council Catfight, Today

What the Top Challengers and Incumbents Are Already Squabbling About

by Eli Sanders

Rob McKenna's Fuzzy Math

Our Wannabe Republican Governor Can't Add

by Goldy

Sources Say

Scuttlebutt—with a Side of Kale and a Shot of Schultz

by Roy Cohn

Last Days

The Week in Review

by David Schmader

Worn Out

Adrienne Antonson: Waste Wear

by Marti Jonjak

Sports Blotter

Athletes Allegedly Exposing Themselves, Groping Waitresses, and Punching People

by Goldy

Dear Science

Did Dangerous Amounts of Radiation from Fukushima Reach Seattle?

by Jonathan Golob

Suggests

Canon

by Bethany Jean Clement

Neal Stephenson

by Paul Constant

Ahamefule J. Oluo Farewell Show

by David Schmader

Stranger Genius Awards Party!

by Jen Graves

‘Higher Ground’

by Charles Mudede

Seattle Symphony Orchestra

by Jen Graves

Devo, Tom Tom Club, Psychedelic Furs

by Dave Segal

Hugo House Spelling Bee

by Cienna Madrid

Drunk of the Week

Hot Dogs for Breakfast

by Kelly O

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 255

by Dan Savage

Bumbershoot Guide

The Stranger's 2011 Bumbershoot Guide!

Here's What We Think of Every Damn Thing Happening at This Year's Festival (BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE!)

by Stranger Staff

How Does It Feel to Be Back?

Five Things I Deeply Love About Daryl Hall & John Oates

by Charles Mudede

Hari's Big Break

Hari Kondabolu Talks About Being a Pseudo-Celebrity, His Brother's Act Das Racist, and His Fear of Dying in an Airplane Crash

by Lindy West

Let Them Bring You Brown

Butthole Surfers' Greatest Shits

by Dave Segal

Sound Check

Broken Social Scene: Royal Conglomerate

by Trent Moorman

Have Fun, Will Travel

Red Fang Drummer John Sherman Discusses Excessive Touring, Being Asleep in the Band's Van When It Rolled, and Driving a Station Wagon into a Stack of Full Milk Jugs

by Grant Brissey

Journey to Nowhere

Is It Still Possible to Love Battlestar Galactica, Knowing That the Ending Sucks Donkey Dick?

by Paul Constant

Immediate, Forceful, and Permanent

A Love Affair with Yukimi Nagano's Voice

by Charles Mudede

"Amps Are Your Tanks and Artillery"

Pentagram Singer Bobby Liebling on Drugs and Doom

by Kevin Diers

Everything That Has Ever Happened to The Lonely Forest

In One Convenient List

by Megan Seling

Weird Science

Astronautalis on Relentless Dirtbag Touring, German Squats, and F. Scott Fitzgerald

by Grant Brissey

The Hardest-Working Man You've Never Heard Of

Dennis Coffey Has Made a Lifelong Career by Staying Out of the Limelight

by Kurt B. Reighley

He'll Be a Really Cool Old Man

John Dwyer Keeps Thee Oh Sees Pointed Toward the Good Life

by Kathy Fennessy

A Critical Overview of The Stranger's Bumbershoot Guide

by A. Birch Steen, Stranger Public Editor and OSHA Board of Governors Member (Retired)

Ladies Who Lock and Load

Stranger Genius Marya Sea Kaminski Takes on Bonnie and Her Man Clyde

by Brendan Kiley

Touch the Untouchable

Ryan Feddersen Switches Manet's Nudes and Hands Out Crayons

by Jen Graves