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Previews of Every Single Thing Happening at the Festival

Bumbershoot 2009:

An Overview

Bumbershoot 2009:

Every Single Thing Happening at Seattle's Biggest Music and Arts Festival, Plus a Customizable Schedule!

Surviving a Nuclear Winter:

The Lonely Forest's Year of Magical Singing

De La Soul for Life:

The Enduring Holy Trinity of Hiphop

Weird to Your Mother:

You Owe It to Yourself to See Gang Gang Dance and Holy Fuck

Hawthorne Heights:

The Surprising Soul of Mayer Hawthorne

What the Hell Is the Black Atom!?:

The Whore Moans Attempt to Explain Their Vaudeville Garage-Punk Soul Revue

Our Jamaican Guys:

Singing the Praises of the Prolific Sly & Robbie Is the Easiest Thing in the World

Everything Goes Just Wrong Enough:

Vivian Girls' Dreamy, Divisive Garage-Pop Racket

White Noise:

Five Theses on Stuff White People Like

Imagine There's No Judgment:

The Art Grants That Yield the Most Art Ever

Emerald Shitty:

What Makes U.S.E—the World's Happiest Band—Frown?

"Why Do You Hate Me?":

What happens when a faggot asks people who gave time and money to support anti-gay Referendum 71 the most basic question?

Yeats Motel:

Cornish College of the Arts Finally Has Dorms—in Those Creepy Old Motels in Denny Triangle

Postmortem:

How the Mayor Blew It on Youth Violence

Coke, Cops, and 23rd Avenue:

Is the City's New Initiative for Drug Dealers Working?

Tim Eyman's Latest Attempt to Fuck Over the State:

Initiative 1033 Sounds Good, but Its Consequences Would Be Disastrous

Powder Panic:

Deadly Cocaine Turning Up in Seattle

Bumbershoot 2009: Complete Coverage of the Festival

Barton Funk in the Soundgarden of Eden:

How Wheedle's Groove Revived Old-School Seattle Soul

Forget Me Not:

Singer-Songwriter Cass McCombs's Underrated Brilliance

Party Crasher:

Swing Your Partner, Not Your Beer

Data Breaker:

Dialing In's Dirty, Divine (De)compositions

Fucking in the Streets:

Modest Mouse: Objectively Great

It's a Hit:

New Singles from Ne-Yo, Vibes, Heartland, and More

My Philosophy:

Who Is Victor Shade?

Poster of the Week:

Protey Temen at the Seattle-Moscow Poster Show

The Score:

WE WANT YOU, ROBERTSON

Up & Coming:

This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties

Underage:

Best of Bumbershoot

Concessions:

EXTRA-LONG THINGS-I-RECOMMEND-AND-THINGS-I-DON'T-AND-THINGS-IN-BETWEEN EDITION!

Extract: Kinder, Gentler

Il Divo: Ill Communication

My One and Only: Look at the Cute Dresses!

Last Days:

The Week in Review

This Week's Puzzle:

Fill 'Er Up (Sept. 3)

Crossword Solution:

Fill 'Er Up (Sept. 3)

Public Editor:

The Stranger: A Critical Overview

Dear Science:

The Best Way to Clean Your Hands

I Love Television:

Good vs. Eeeeeevil

New Column!:

HUMP!ing Bumbershoot

Illustrated Comment of the Week

I, Anonymous:

DO YOU REALIZE THAT YOU HAVE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FACE?

Drunk of the Week:

All of Rob's Teeth but One

Savage Love:

Sorority Girls

The Son of N. C. Wyeth and Some Lady:

Andrew Wyeth Is, Pervertedly (Not Prettily), Just Like Us

Yeats Motel:

Cornish College of the Arts Finally Has Dorms—in Those Creepy Old Motels in Denny Triangle

Constant Reader:

Original Gangster

Foucault Versus the Teabaggers:

What a New Book of Old Lectures Says About America's Health-Care Freak-out

'Top Chef': An Interview:

Branzino's Ashley Merriman on Being Horrified, Making Mistakes, the Rumors, the Other Chefs, and Why This Season Kicks Ass

Happiest Hour:

Capitol Hill's 611 Supreme