The Stranger

How to Be a Person Who Isn't a Failure

The Stranger's 2009 Back to School Guide:

The Things No One Else Will Tell You by the Only Newspaper in Seattle That Isn't Ridiculous and Irrelevant™

How to Be a Person: General Knowledge

How to Be a Person Who People Want to Sleep With

No Way Out:

A Gang Member and Murder Suspect Says He Wants a New Life

Open Bigotry Meets Open Government:

Why the State Must Fight to Release the Names of the Signers of R-71

Too Beautiful to Litigate:

KIRO killed Luke Burbank's radio show, but it will live on—online. The question: Who owns the on-air failure?

It's a Hit

Optimo DJ Makes Passionate Love to Your Ears:

JD Twitch's Vinyl Weighs a Ton and Is Worth a Mint

We Love Reunion Shows:

Ten Years Later: The Get Up Kids' Something to Write Home About and the Decline and Fallout of Emo

Data Breaker:

Junk Culture's Raw Sampledelia and Seattle-Style Techno

Party Crasher:

Party to Extinction

My Philosophy:

Sequel Summer 2

Poster of the Week:

Poster by Irene Barber

The Score:

Kafka, Knocks, Pings, and Brutal Smears

Underage:

Grand Hallway's Promenade in the Great HallUnderage

Up & Coming:

This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties

Fucking in the Streets:

Pregnant Deliver the Loud

Bright Star: Jane Campion Ruins Keats

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Greedy Fucks Deserve to Die

The Informant!: Good Ol' Soderbergh

The BQE: Sufjan Stevens's Ode to a Freeway

Jennifer's Body: No Surprises

The Burning Plain: Family Values

Concessions:

Nobody Puts Cancer in the Corner of Patrick Swayze's Pancreas

Art House:

Revanche

Dear Science:

Why Socialized Medicine Is Superior

Last Days:

The Week in Review

This Week's Puzzle:

Pinwheel (Sept. 17)

Crossword Solution:

Pinwheel (Sept. 17)

I Love Television:

What's in Your Beehive?

Public Editor:

The Stranger: A Critical Overview

I, Anonymous:

So You've Decided to Become a Lying Meth-Addict Cunt

Drunk of the Week:

Submission of the Century

Savage Love:

Porn Again

New Column!:

Caption This Disturbing Real-Estate Advertisement!

What Are You, Yellow?:

War Breaks Out at the Wing Luke Asian Museum

In Art News:

Visible Human Project

There Will Be Blood:

Stephen Elliott's Search for a Self to Discover

Because You Have To:

How to Become a Writer (Hint: It Involves Writing)

Constant Reader:

Thinking About Books Again

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill: Lady Sings the Blues (to Whitey)

Circus of Pain:

A Fantastic New Play at Balagan Theatre

Dead Man's Cell Phone: Bury the Lead

Theater News:

The Culture Candidate

Bar Exam:

Undersea Dream: Jelly Bar

This Is Not a Review of Tavern Law:

Bar? What Bar? Artifice, Ice Cubes, and End-Stage Capitalism

The Happiest Hour:

Cafe Flora

Chow Bio:

Dante Rivera