Print Edition for the week of
Sep. 2 - 8, 2010

Vol. 19, No. 52

Savage Love

Ken and Ben

New Column!

I, Anonymous

Music

Pavement Is Forever

Twenty Years of Lies and Betrayals, Fruit-Covered Nails, Electricity and Lust

Up & Coming

This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties

It's a Hit

The Script's Idiotic Folk Rock Snake Oil "For the First Time"

Data Breaker

Crystal Hell Pool and Blouse (u.s.a.) Drone Alone

My Philosophy

Summer's Must-Have 206 Hiphop LP, Sweatsuit & Churchshoes

Underage

Ted Leo Is 2010's Saving Grace (So Far)

Sound Check

Ships in the Space Shower

The Homosexual Agenda

Cyndi Lauper, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, and Bacon Strip

Visual Art

Dangerously in Love

Gretchen Bennett's Big, Public Drawings of Beyoncé, Drag, and the Places Light Doesn't Reach

The Re-Performer

Books

In Search of Lost Time

William Gibson Finds the Future in a Cookie

Food & Drink

The Chef of Addis Ababa

Vast Hospitality and the World's Greatest Toast at Seattle's Best Ethiopian Restaurant

The Happiest Hour

Mama's Mexican Kitchen

Chow Bio

Thoa Nguyen of Wabi Sabi Sushi Bar & Restaurant

Features

Shut Up and Swallow

How We Ended Up with Two Flawed Liquor Initiatives and Why They're Our Only Hope

News

A Dishonor to Be Nominated

Dilapidated Housing Projects May Accidentally Be Preserved as Historic Landmarks

Police Beat

The Obscenity of Stealing Tips

Illustrated Comment of the Week

Dear Science

How Do Mosquitoes Find Us?

Public Editor

A Critical Overview of The Stranger

I Love Television

Hey, Oldie! You're OLD!

Suggests

Dr. John and the Lower 911

Wheedle's Groove

1994 Redux

William Gibson

'Cairo Time'

Shelter Lounge

Lawrimore Project 2.0

Bacon

Last Days

The Week in Review

Slog

John Cole Is Mad As Hell And He's Not Going To Take It Anymore

Hillary Clinton for President in 2012

A Sunday Paper You'd Want to Read

Polish Yer Flagons, Bitchez!

Morning News

Morning News

Now Open: Pinto, Staple & Fancy, and a Ton More New Restaurants

Where's Shelley Winters When You Need Her?

Another Police Officer Shoots Man Holding Knife

Reading Tonight: Oh, the Pain

Is It Legal for a Woman to Marry a Headline?

The Story of "Crazy in Love"

"God Hates the Koran for Being a Fag Day!"

Reading Tonight: This Is a Stickup

Come to Slog Happy TRIVIA This Thursday!

Brewer: I Misspoke. Maybe. Who Knows?

Maddow On Brewer

Biggest Threat to Mayor’s Plan for Longer Bar Hours: Increased Drunk Driving

On the Beauty of Surgical Tools

The Stupidity of Cornel West

Sunny Today

Prosector Refuses to Charge Cobane in "Mexican Piss" Case

Currently Hanging: John Grade

Morning News

Native American Leaders Deliver Demands to SPD After Shooting Death of Carver

Flickr Photo of the Day

Another Competency Evaluation for Isaiah Kalebu

What Was It Like Standing in MoMA's Doorway Naked?

Continued Hard Times at Seattle Art Museum

Help An Exhibitionist Out

Overheard in the Office

Take Your Generosity and Shove It, Buddy

Morning News: The Amish Are Perverts, Too

Should We Be Pursuing the Death Penalty for Monfort?

A Very Good Question from Questionland About Attending Readings

"Shit Storm of Love"

God Hates Decaffeinated Coffee

Man Ordered to Return Judge's Dirty Pics, Canadian Paper Manages To Track Down Non-Imbecile For Comment

Meanwhile in Burrito Unicorn News

In Case You Missed It: Hans Zeiger's Short List of Terrorist Organizations That Are Threatening America

Happy 9/02/10!

Traffic Report

Big Mo for Dino?

The Consistently Consistent Tea Party

Protest Planned for SPD Shooting

Just in Time For Your '90s Redux Weekend: Pitchfork's Top 20 Tracks of the 1990s

Bears Will Save Us From Obscurity!

Teachers Union, District Agree On Contract

Murray Deemed "In Trouble"

If You Have To Earn It...

Reading Tonight: An Honest-to-God Futurist

All Hail Lisa Frank: Prepubescent Overlord!

PAX, Day One: The EmPAXening

Reading Today: Reviving Stieg Larsson

Something Ain't Right with Jan Brewer

Shabazz Palaces Signs to Sub Pop

High-Fat Foods Separate Mind and Body

"Don't Piss Off Jailbait"

Morpheus Explains the Matrix to the Dude

Really Can't See Myself Voting Republican

Coping With Reading "Coping With a Birthday on 9/11..." a Few Days Ago in the New York Times

PAX, Day Two: The Empire Strikes PAX

Human Rights Commission Says It Has "Serious Concern Regarding the Fatal Shooting of John T. Williams"

Liquor Control Board Clarifies Its Funding With Booze Initiatives

Hate Registration: On Taking Charity 103, the Final Beck University Class

Man Shot By SPD Officer—After Allegedly Ignoring Officer's Orders—Was Partially Deaf

Chilean Miners in Taiwanese CGI

Maybe It's Time To Dissolve The People...

Anarchists on Broadway and Pine

Murray: Down in the Polls, Positive on TV

Candlelight Vigil Commemorates Life of John T. Williams

Mudede's Cat

Do You Want a Sketch from Stranger Genius Jim Woodring?

Chihuly Museum, KEXP, or Something Else: Recommendation Expected Next Week

What Do You Think Is the Best Foodstuff To Eat at Bumbershoot?

On Comic Books and Copyright

Today In Sarah Palin

Ryan Boudinot Is a Pen USA Finalist

To Make Your Life Better

How 9/11 Could've Been Avoided...

PAX Day Three: PAX Hard with a Vengeance

The Photo On The Left...

Child Actor Renowned for Cinema's Most Contentiously Hilarious Death Scene Dies

Drama at the Chilean Mine

The Reality of District 9

"You don't have to be lonely, thanks to FarmersOnly"

Heavey and Fitzgibbon Battle for Backing of the Dems

Council Smacks Down Mayor's Grab at MOHAI Money

Twenty Does Not Seem Like Plenty

The President Gave a Speech

Feds Reopen Fishing in the Gulf...

Chow Bio: Thoa Nguyen of Wabi Sabi Sushi Bar & Restaurant

Reasonably Intelligent Tea Bagger Debates Health Care With Rep. Grayson

Morning News: Peace, Sodomy, There Is No God.

Winning The War On The War On Drugs

Neal Stephenson's New Publishing Platform Launches Soon

Get Your Ass Off the Couch

Craigslist Blocks Ads for Adult Services

What Are They Doing At St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral?

As You May Know, Vampire Weekend Is Being Sued by the Subject of the Photograph on Their Latest Album Cover

Declare Dilapidated Housing Projects as Historic Landmarks?

Michael Killoren to Leave the City's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs

Here We Go Again? Another Oil Rig in the Gulf Is On Fire

SL Letter of the Day: Ex'd Out

"What Are Some Good Costume Ideas for Halloween?"

Bumbershoot: Bob Dylan, Wheedle's Groove, and More

Hari Kondabolu vs. Marc Maron

Mayor Insists Pot Enforcement Is the SPD's Lowest Law Enforcement Priority (and a Correction to Last Month's Article on Pot Arrests)

Union Accepts Contract That Evaluates Teachers Based on Student Test Scores, But Votes No Confidence in Superintendent

Why Wouldn't You Leave Your Pants On?

Jamie Herrera Wants to Overturn Roe v. Wade

Ex-Miss Anchorage: Victim or Abuser?

My New Gym

City Hall Organizes Against Shooting Death at Hands of SPD

Scenes From a Sleepless Night

Zach Galifianakis's Less Funny "Brother," Seth Interviews Sean Penn

The Stranger's Bumbershoot Guide Is Alive!

City Deficit Grows to $67 Million Weeks Before Mayor's Budget Proposal

Bumbershoot Sunday: Hole Buried It

Today in Charitable Jockstrap Donations

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Jack Chick (But Were Afraid to Ask)

If God's Floods Don't Kill You...

Don't Leave Your Drink Unattended

Would You Like a Cocktail?

The Mysteries of the Indiana Memorial Union

Holy Shit

re: The Photo On The Left...

"Rap Against Rape"

What’s the Deal with MOHAI?

It's Hump Day! Have You Started Your HUMP! Film Yet?

Sex Can Sell Anything

Maybe He Was Suffocating And There Was Oxygen In The Other Guy's Balls

Reading Tonight: Wine Will Kill You

The French Intern

Morning News

Rat of the Day

Big News About the Universe

The Moral Experts: American Goody Two Shoes

Who Will the 34th Dems Endorse Tonight: Heavey or Fitzgibbon?

Here's How The GOP Picks Up Gay Voters

Crazy Guy Takes Hostage at Discovery Channel, Says Save The Squirrels

Doda: a Case Study

Bob Dylan at Bumbershoot, as Reviewed By Three Random Facebook Users

Shine Your Shoes and Get a Haircut

Make Sure You're Hungover For PAX Tomorrrow

Meet The Bubbleator

Suspected Shitter Apologizes for Property Damage

Calling Deborah Willis, the Awesome Invisible Scholar!

I'm Performing "Comedy" at Bumbershoot Today

Previews of Every Single Thing Happening at Bumbershoot on One Really Long Page

Did You Lose Your Keys?

Friday in Iran

Get Your Ass Off the Couch!

Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Home Invaders, Viaduct Concerns, and a Zeppelin!

Lunchtime Quickie: The Corpse of Jerry Lewis Wants to Give Lindsey Lohan a Spanking

Morning News

This Woman Is Ridiculous

Countdown to Pieing

SL Letter of the Day: You're Tired Of Porn Fights?

Paste Eats It

So...

Sharpie + Cat = Shovel Beatdown

The Oldest Living Tortoise Is 175 Years Old...

There's a Whole Lotta Nerds, Hot Chicks, and People With Traffic Cones on Their Heads...

Anonymous Potiquette

Lunchtime Quickie: Peeping Tom, Captured!

Vampire Weekend Reschedules

As the World Turns

Mother Knows Sex: A Story Concerning the Mating Success of Male Bonobos

The Iraq War Is Over

Got a Long Weekend Hangover?

Overheard in the Office

Reading Today: Killer Road Trips

SL Letter of the Day: Evidence of Absence

Senator Dino Rossi

De-Messing the Mercer Mess

The Cosmic Pigeon

The Lightning Field: The Field, The Lightning, Part I

Americans Warming to Obamacare

Chinese Women: Still Leading the World in Animal and Robot Mimicry

"Radical feminists, lesbians, and cookie peddlers..."

County Prosecutor Seeks Death Penalty for Monfort

As Much as It Pains Me to Say This, Eric Grandy Is Right

Headline of the Day

The Legal Art of Illegal Artists

Rate Your Bumbershoot 2010 Experience!

You Were Missed In Bloomington Last Night, Mr. Constant

Trent Moorman Found Alive on Mainland United States

The Betty Bowen Finalist List Is Out

The Vigil for Williams

$67,000,000 (Canadian)

You Can Make a Model's Dream Come True

Overheard on the Internet

Youth Pastor Watch

This Is Our Tooth

Want Your Kid To Eat Carrots?

Liquor Board Defends Its Liquor Selection

Costco Does Not Condone Mistreatment of Baby Cows

SL Letter of the Day: The Last Word on Porn

Pavement at the Paramount Last Night: Banter!

Mayor McGinn Responds to Growing Concerns Over SPD Killing

Bumbershoot Guide

The Stranger's Bumbershoot Guide

A Critical Overview

The Bob Dylan Torture Test

Four people born in the 1990s who'd never listened to Bob Dylan before listen to nothing but Bob Dylan—specifically, his career-spanning, three-disc Biograph—for 72 hours straight. Here’s what it was like for them.

Countdown to Courtney

Hole Is Playing Bumbershoot 2010—God Only Knows What That Means

What the Hell Happened to Weezer?

The Baffling Decline of Alt Rock's Most Lovable Nerds

Papa's Brand-New Bag's Still Got Some Goodies in It

How Bumbershoot Funked Up and Souled Out

God Save the Queen

Mary J. Blige Is Still the Woman

On My Mind

Georgia Anne Muldrow's Spirituality and the Cult of Dilla

En Fuego

Bomba Estéreo's Cumbia-Fueled Blow Up

Return to Rock

Vancouver, BC's Post-Nothing Duo Japandroids, Post-Breakout

Out of the Mire

Baroness Rise Beyond the Realm of Swamp Metal

What Makes Tony Millionaire Tick?

Vivisecting a Maakies Strip to See How It Works

The Legal Art of Illegal Artists

What Happens When Graffiti Writers Make Public Art

Previews of Every Single Thing Happening at Bumbershoot On One Really Long Page!