Print Edition for the week of
Oct. 7 - 13, 2010

Vol. 20, No. 5

Savage Love

Make It Better

New Column!

Film/TV

Waiting for Superman: It’s a Polemic! Get Mad! Arrr!

It’s Kind of a Funny Story: And Only Kind of a Funny Movie

Blood, Bone, Metal, Ghosts, Rectums, Rapes

Gasper Noé Cannot Be Unwatched

Breathless Has the Most Beautiful American Actress of the 20th Century

The Freebie: Better Than Bad Rom-Coms!

Buried: It's Literally a Dude in a Box

Secretariat: Spiritual Horse Moments. Yeah.

Onion and Secretariat Made My Dad Cry

Jen Graves Interviews Her Father About the Rise and Fall of an Athlete He Loved but Never Could Interview

Concessions

Never Let Me Go

I, Anonymous

That's What She Said

Music

Mama Grrrzzly

The Carefully Negotiated Return of Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker

Ain't That Americana

The Moondoggies Are Not the Allman Brothers

Up & Coming

This Week's Noteworthy Shows and Parties

Fucking in the Streets

Reviews of Dirty Projectors and Das Racist

It's a Hit

New Singles from Friendly Fires, Azari & III, Falty DL, and More

Data Breaker

Drumsicle's Scratchy Beats, PotatoFinger's Live Video-Game Score

My Philosophy

Sportn' Life and Focused Noise's Deadly Duos

Sound Check

Steve Fisk: Inside Sounds, Fire Juggling

Underage

A (Not at All Depressing) Fall Playlist

Poster of the Week

Poster by Jon Cook

Party Crasher

Come Spill Beer with Me

The Homosexual Agenda

Beards, Lezbros, and Glitoris

Theater

"I Was a Little Bit Ashamed Every Night"

French Iconoclast Christian Rizzo on Clubbing, Non-Dance, and Basketball Shoes

Burlesque Box

Naked Boys Reading Judy Blume

Visual Art

Fascinated by Unusual Deaths

Amy Blakemore and the Diana Camera

In Art News

I Hate You, Money, and You're Driving the Arts

Books

What It Feels Like for a Teabagger

Two Pollsters Try to Legitimize an Illegitimate "Movement," with an Assist from Their Leader Glenn Beck

Constant Reader

Sci-Fi Nerds and Literary-Fiction Fans Unite, Uncomfortably

Constant Reader

A Sexy Cruise and a Divorce That Chases a Boy to the Moon (Literally)

Food & Drink

Unlike Grandma Used to Make

Cheeky Cafe's Improvements on Old-School Favorites

Bar Exam

The Local Vine, Take Two

Chow Bio

Vuong Loc of June

Happiest Hour

Faire Gallery Cafe-Bar

Features

High Court Hypocrite

The Troubling Double Standards of Justice Richard Sanders

News

Bikes Not Welcome

Truck Activists Fight to Keep Georgetown Roads Free of Cyclists and Pedestrians

Accounting Errors

Conservative BIAW Called Out on Money Mismanagement

Unfunny Money

Did DUI Attorneys Break Campaign-Finance Rules?

Booze Boom

For the First Time Since Prohibition, a Dozen Distilleries in Seattle

Slog

Europe and the Devolution of the Car

Lunchtime Quickie: Friday Is Pizza Day

Rossi Outraises Murray in the 3rd Quarter

How Did You Meet Daddy, Daddy?

DUI Lawyers Say Stranger Coverage Misses Mark

Are Gay People Already Boycotting Walmart?

Another "Best" Listzzzzzzzzz...

State Audit Criticizes Seattle School District

Scott Simon Keeps Telling Me That KUOW's Pledge Drive Ends "Just as Soon as They Reach Their Goal"

Soft Power in Brazil: Hearts, Minds, and the Drug War

It's Still Baking Week in Questionland

Homophobic Sleeping Bags

Meanwhile In Michigan

It Gets Worse

When Will We Reach The Tipping Point?

The Inhabitants of Spain

The President of Mexico Opposes California's Prop 19... Because He Likes the Drug War Just the Way It Is?

Lunchtime Quickie: The Game Face

Flickr Photo of the Day

Mike Nipper Knows Everything About Music

Reading Today: Anti-Americans, Great Americans, and Drowning Americans

Notes from the Prayer Warrior

The Innumerate Opposition to I-1098

"Extend the Tax on Bottled Water"

More Reasons Why an Income Tax Won't Reach the Middle Class

He's Not a Very Good Writer, but He's Right

The Morning News

Flickr Photo of the Day

The Morning News

Reading Tonight: Anton Chekhov and Paris Hilton, Sitting in a Tree

Mexico Round-Up: Sep 12

Here's What I Want For My Birthday

Don't Forget: Slog Happy Is Thursday at Highline

Slog Poll: How Thirsty Are You for Booze?

Reading Tonight: Alex Ross, an Author I Missed, and a Fundraiser to Document Readings

Trick or Vote: Your Only Chance as An Adult to Compete with Children for Candy and Not Feel Stupid

Why Do the Homos Have Public Sex During the Day and the Hets Have Public Sex at Night?

What's the Difference?

The Hipster Headdress and Other Tribal Fashions

Photographs That Don't Make Me Tired

The Day Ain't Over...

Heavey Hits Back (With the Most Polite "Fuck You" We've Seen All Election Season)

Why Pay Another Regressive Sales Tax?

It's Lady Sex Week in Questionland

Today Is the Big Day for Windows Phone 7

Bar Exam: The Relocated Local Vine

The Morning News

I'd Rather Kiss a (real) Wookiee

Update: The New Gap Logo

Scoreboard, Baby: A (Seattle-Based) Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity

SL Letter of the Day: Finding Dad's Porn

Hippies Should Totally Join the Tea Party

Latest Details on that Horrifying Gang Gay-Bashing in the Bronx

Reading Tonight: Flotsam, the History of Desk Lamps, and Grrrrrrrrrls

Comic Book Sales Are Way Down

This Is Why We Love the Frye

The End for the Miners

The Bunny-Man Cometh

The Mendacity of Hope: The Frothing Left Wing

Clearly I'm The Only Gay Person On Earth Who Is...

Yellow Pages Lobby Says O'Brien Is Trying to Tax Newspapers

Obama Coming Back to Seattle for Murray

Dueling Narratives: Steak Knife Edition

SL Letter of the Day: Don't Listen To Your Mother

Against Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

What Should This Dog Be for Halloween?

Tourism Matters (and Tourists Love Glass Brittle)

While We're Talking About the Income Tax Initiatve...

But Hey, We Did Try to Give the Guy Advice About His Nazi Uniform

Murray Up in New Elway Poll

Lunchtime Quickie: If You Think You're Having A Bad Day...

Bill Clinton Is Coming Next Week

It's Time to Talk About Halloween!

Fall Weather and Winter Coats.

The Morning News

Old Column! The Farewell Address of Richard B. Sanders, Third Year Law Student

Youth Violence Program Could be Gone Next Year.

Labor Leaders Accuse Heavey of "Pandering" on the Economy

Get a Book for (Almost) Free Today

Paul Allen, Greedy Asshole

Another Reason to Bike to Work

Old Column! Richard B. Sanders, Third Year Law Student, on Affirmative Action

Reading Today: Supremely Offensive, Supremely Disturbing

Cliches Of Our Lives

Glenn Beckwatch: Here's What's Wrong with Glenn Beck

Tonight: I'm From Driftwood's Fifty-State Story Tour Comes to Lobby Bar

Pick Your Favorite Liz Phair Poem...

The Silent Reading Party Is Tonight

Amazon Is Developing "Kindle Singles"

I Will KICK YOUR ASS at Air Hockey

It Gets Better: A Video and a Letter for a Sunday Morning

Ben Brantley Goes Nuts for Gatz....

Used Bookselling Sure Has Gotten Depressing

The Gold Standard: Inflation, Wealth and Economic Growth

Can You Recommend a Kid-Friendly Place in Seattle to Watch Sunday Football?

Another Benefit of Legalization in California: Arts Funding

New Olympic Sport: Jail Cell Bunk Bed High Diving!

Chilean Miners Set to Be Freed Tomorrow

All That and an Environmentally Friendly Bag of Chips

The Mayor of Paris Doesn't Let Teenagers See Larry Clark's Pictures of Teenagers

U.S. 9th Circuit Upholds State's Ban on Felon Voting

The Silence of the Lambs

Those Amazing Headsculpturethings

The Prime Mover in E-Book Technology Is the Screen

Can You Make a Better Ad than This One?

Picasso: Immediate Thoughts

I Wrote this Post on my New Windows 7 Phone (While Giving Birth)

Glenn Beckwatch: Marching Orders

Stay Classy, China

Who Started the "Reichert's Brain" Rumor? Dave Reichert

"Don't Tell When Asked": How Catholic Hospices Are Denying Patients' Rights to Death With Dignity

Soda Is Not Food

Lunchtime Quickie: RATS! They're Amazing Pets!

More Depressing Environmental News: Hungary's Flood of Toxic Sludge

KC Exec Orders Inquest into Williams Shooting

Save the Date: Come See Me Talk About the Future of the Book on Wednesday

Weekend Reading: Vargas Llosa, Ted Hughes, and Bodily Fluid Slapstick

Glenn Beckwatch: Something Happened

Man Charged in Ballard, Covington Assaults

Mario Vargas Llosa

Wacky Re-Interperetation of "Come Together"

Leo Berk and Margie Livingston Each Win $25,000 for the Inaugural Chihuly Foundation Innovation Award

Toxic Sludge from Outer Space

Who Are the 20 Non-Fiction Writers Under 40?

Vote Yes on Prop 1: Stop the Bleeding

Were You Wanting to Hear Two Recordings of Englishmen Saying the Word "Yoghurt"?

“Don’t kill yourself—please? Because you might be a future significant other for me!”

Week in Review

It Gets Better: Gay Fort Worth City Councilman Joel Burns

A Match Made in Heaven: Taiwanese CGI and Marijuana

NJ/NY Tunnel Canceled Due to Ballooning Cost Overruns

I-1098 in Electionland All Week

The Liberal Quandary Over the Booze Initiatives

Happiest Hour: Faire Gallery Cafe-Bar

Would It Help To Declare a National March On One High School?

A Review of (Driving and Parking in) Downtown Bellevue

Are Fox News Reporters the New Catholic Priests?

Goodloe-Johnson Resigns from Board Amid Criticisms of Conflict of Interest

Gay Dudes Aren't Looking for Straight Dudes, Lesbians Like Drugs More than Straight Women, and Other Revelations from OkCupid

Today in the Painful Lessons of Physics

Schmader's Right, You Should Go See Joey Arias Tonight—Especially If You've Never Seen Him

Forecast for November: Best Voter Turnout in Decades

Tomorrow Night: Joey Arias at the Triple Door

Old Column! Richard B. Sanders, Third Year Law Student, Will Not Be Boycotting Grapes in Solidarity With Striking Migrant Workers

It Gets Better: Send the Marines

Woman Punched by SPD Officer Pleads Guilty to Assault

Is Anyone Else Unable to Turn Off the TV and Go to Bed Because the Recovery of the Miners in Chile?

If you're in Chicago Thursday night

Confidential to Christians Who Are Always Telling Me That You're "Not All Like That" And That "Not All Christians" Are Homophobic Bigots...

Get Your Ass Off the Couch

After Tweaks for Local Interests, City Council Set to Pass Yellow Pages Bill

Behold This Gorgeous Plate of Macaroni & Cheese

Saudi Arabia, Mariah Carey, and Photoshop

Some Things I Have Seen While Riding a Bicycle in Seattle

Seattle Schools Show Record Enrollment, Over-Crowding Problem Continues

The Liquor Initiative Debate

Someone Is Writing a Novel Right Now

The New Leadership at Cascade Bicycle Club

Hearing Examiner Rejects Claims of Neighborhood Activists

Currently Hanging: Francoise Gilot

Unfuckingbelievable

Old Column! Richard B. Sanders, Long Before He Was a State Supreme Court Justice, Writing About Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Suicide"

Northwest Noir: The Bodyguard and the Dog Trainer

Reading Tonight: More Twitter Followers than Jesus

Judge Issues Worldwide Injunction Against DADT

Ted Hughes Posthumously Acknowledges Sylvia Plath's Suicide

Who You Gonna Believe?

Let's All Judge the New Gap Logo!

Even More Money from the Soda Lobby?

Why (For Fuck's Sake) Should I Care?

Another Sci-Fi Fetish I've Never Considered...

A Recent Ruling Found It Was Legal to Place a Tracking Device on a Suspect's Car Without a Warrant

Pilot Books Would Like Your Help

Republican Poll Shows Republican Dino Rossi Winning

SL Letter of the Day: Leave It Alone

Eli Sanders on the Troubling Double Standards of a State Supreme Court Justice

Chow Bio: Vuong Loc of June

MythBusters: Dino Rossi Did Not Write the 2003-2005 State Budget

Traffic Report

Reading Today: Two Classics and a Sure-to-Be-Not-Classic-in-the-Making

The Back of the Head Of The Person Sitting In Front Of Me On This Flight

Christian Rizzo: Holy Mercy!

Lunchtime Quickie: Gay Porn Star Makes Statement About Sexual Discrimination... With Juggling

Seven Different Versions of the Velvet Underground's "Femme Fatale"!!! Listen to Them All at Once!

Get a Book for (Totally) Free Today

British Rugby Hunk Ben Cohen Joins the "It Gets Better" Project!

Clearly, Catherine Keener Should Play Mommy

This Doesn't Sound Good: Insider Selling To Buying: 2,341 To 1

John T. Williams: The Buck Stops with Nobody...

Five Questionable Archie Panels

Another Small Press Heads West

The Morning News

Newsflash: Computer Proficiency Required to Become SAM's Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art

Currently Hanging: Lead Pencil Studio

Dogs and Madrid

Protect Our Communities Profits

You Could Say I'm Throwing a Little Tea Party in the Comments

The Seattle Times, Wednesday October 6

A Harmless Asteroid Makes the Papers

Our Bad. (Or: The Stranger's Ancient Endorsement of the Man Who Became this Week's High Court Hypocrite.)

Panic at the Bravo

Stupid Little Douchebags

Facebook's New Photo Viewer

Who Will Protect Us From the Roving Used Book-Buying Gangs?

Why Is Dino Rossi Advertising on Glee?

How Should You Vote on the Liquor Initiatives?

Flickr Photo of the Day

What They Named Their Restaurant

The Morning News

9/11: Well, That Settles It

Comment of the Day: Cressona

Old Column Rebuttal! Tom Chambers, Third Year Law Student, on Migrant Workers

Bring On the Lawsuit, Yellow Bellied Pages

Biden in Tacoma: Stumping, Holding Babies, and Talking and Talking and Talking

Seattle's Preferred Alternative Commute is by Public Transit

We Were Promised Jet-Books

Picasso and Chihuly and Trickle-Down Artonomics

MoveOn's Aging Hippies Rally Against Corporate Spending

Dora the Explorer: Can You Say, "Litigation"?

Woman Attacked in Seward Park

Civilization and Its New Contents

MythBusters: Dave Reichert Did Not Catch the Green River Killer

Confidential to the White House

Old Column! Richard B. Sanders, Second Year Law Student, on the 14th Amendment

Culture of Poverty

Dear Washington Post...

Currently Sleeping: The CoCA Auction Artists

Tim Ceis Faces Charges for Hit and Run

Cascade Bicycle Club's New Leadership Pedals On

War Is Good for the Environment and Other Living Things

UW Daily, May 15, 1968

Performance Art Weekend

The Morning News

Read "Bacon's Man"

This Week in Film: Never Let Me Go

The Seattle Times Dumps Dave Reichert

The Most Annoying Brit in the World

Flickr Photo of the Day

SL Letter of the Day: You Don't Love Him

Killer Rescue

Last Days

The Week in Review

I Love Television

My Multiple Wives

Control Tower

Public Editor

A Critical Overview of The Stranger