Print Edition for the week of
Mar. 9 - 15, 2011

Vol. 20, No. 27

Savage Love

Total Recall

Film/TV

Vanishing on 7th Street: This Film Makes No Fucking Sense

Battle: Los Angeles: Claptrap from Space

This Spring We Suggest

You’ll Be Dreadfully Sorry if You Miss These Upcoming Films

The Last Lions: Single Mother Lionesses Struggling for Survival in Africa

Welcome Back, Jar Jar!

Mars Needs Moms: Blame Robert Zemeckis

Concessions

Red Riding Hood: Get in the Elephant, Clod

The Feminine Wiles of Catherine Deneuve: SIFF's Disappointing Series

Precious Life Is the Best Thing in the Seattle Jewish Film Festival

Cold Weather: Double Meh

Elektra Luxx: One of the Worst Movies Lindy West Has Ever Seen

Beastly, Indeed

A Cautionary Tale About Terrible Tween Movies

I, Anonymous

Coke Adds Suck

Music

Bring a Codpiece

Travis Morrison of the Reunited Dismemberment Plan Talks About Playing Seattle and Punching People in the Groin

Sound Check

PS I Love You: The Muff Factory

Up & Coming

Lose your will to carry on every night this week!

Overwhelming Is Their Default Mode: This Is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank

It's a Hit

Music's Not for Everyone: Ian Svenonius Doesn't Give a Shit Anymore

Data Breaker

Noise for the Needy Goes Shinjuku, Big Bully Beats You Up

Kurt Vile's Smoke Ring for My Halo: No Jamming

This Spring We Suggest

Upcoming Shows You Gotta Go to (and Bands You Gotta Start)

The Lonely Forest (Almost) Hit the Mark with Arrows

My Philosophy

Poster of the Week

Underage

All-Ages Shows

The Homosexual Agenda

Brown Derby's The Shining, SAM Remix, and Trouble

With Beyond the 4th Door, Eternal Tapestry Follow Hirsute Hallucinogentlemen Before Them

Theater

Slow News Day

Hardball Drags Ass

This Spring We Suggest

Upcoming Theater You Cannot Miss or You’ll Wish You Were Dead

Free Will Astrology

For the Week of March 9

Visual Art

Dislocated Screws

Claire Cowie at James Harris

Glamorous Edges

Mitzi Pederson at Open Satellite

Unspeakable Leaking

Humaira Abid at Artxchange

This Spring We Suggest

Upcoming Visual Art You Must See or Your Eyes Will Be So Mad at You

Books

Short Cuts

Amazon's Kindle Singles Program Continues the Magazining of the iPhone

This Spring We Suggest

Upcoming Book-Related Events You’d Be a Fool to Miss

Food & Drink

Silky and Spicy

Peter, Patrick, and the Malaysian Food of Satay

Chow Bio

Donna Moodie of Marjorie

Happiest Hour

Licorous

Features

F Is the New H

People in Seattle who would never touch heroin are trying fentanyl. What they don’t know is that it’s basically the same thing, only stronger.

This Spring We Suggest

The Stranger's Only-the-Best Guide to Your Near Future in Music and the Arts

Washington State's 911 Good Samaritan Law

News

The Mayor Gets Schooled

School Board Says It Won't Hand Over Finances to City

Tunnel Supporters Get Desperate

Referendum to Put Tunnel on Ballot Raises Big Bucks

Hungry for Change

We'll Soon Get the Street Food We Deserve

Fully Baked

Every Elected City Official Now Wants to Legalize Pot

Dope Deal

Seattle Senator Compromises Pot Bill to Appease Conservatives

Public Editor

Control Tower

Erotica Classics Get a New Kink

Maakies

I Love Television

The Charlie Sheen Network

Last Days

The Week in Review

Slog

Today in Fruit

About Last Weekend's Pepper Spray Spree...

It Gets Better: David Sedaris

More on the Arrest of the Spokane Backpack Bomb Suspect

Tonight: A Talk About Acids Baths and Empowering Women

Blind Man's Guide Dog Goes Blind, Gets Own Guide Dog!

Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX): Without Tax Subsidies, Exxon-Mobil Would Go "Out of Business"

After DNA

Art News Update

Kevin Wallace: Routing Light Rail the Bellevue Way

"We're All Dead": An American Teen Narrates the Aftermath in Japan

Tomorrow's a Big Day for Saudi Arabia and Bahrain

Way to Go, Stephen King

Overheard in the Office

Who Is the Heart and Who Is the Soul...

"Long-Haired Goof Fuckers"

Nothing Happened. . . Yet

Have You Seen This Mugshot?

Senate Rejects Bill That Would Defund Planned Parenthood

Online Coffee Company, 1999-2011

How the Man in That Empty Capitol Hill Lot Died

Happy Hour RIGHT NOW: Licorous on Capitol Hill

Today is Another Day of Rage

New and Really Good

I Need to Buy Dave Segal a Pager

RE: Wisconsin

Susan Enfield's First Week in the School District ...

The Return of Idoru

Gallagher Collapses on Stage in Minnesota

Short on China

The Gallery Interior as a Tragic Site, by Robert Smithson

Re: FBI Arrests Suspect in Spokane MLK Day Bombing Attempt

Week in Review

How to Split the Check

Editorial Priorities

Today in Car Thefts, Celebrity Chefs, and Crimes of Rhyme

Most of Seattle's Legislative Delegation Thinks Pot Should Be Taken Out of the Hands of an Illegal Market

Giffords Gets Her Skull Back

Re: Everyone's a Critic... Even the Alleged Spokane Bomber!

Someone Is Sleeping Under the Desk

There Are Two Very Special Birthdays Happening Today!!!

Joke's On You If You're One of Those People

Tipping the Maid

Nothing Happened!

Seattle Shakespeare Company Loses Its Managing and Artistic Directors

Attention, Cats!

Are You Missing Your Specimen Bag With Biohazard Warning?

Lunchtime Quickie: Boobs on FOX News

That Giant Sucking Sound...?

7.9 8.8 Earthquake Hits Japan

Brendan Kiley on the New Popularity of Recreational Fentanyl—AKA "F" or "Shug"

Lunchtime Quickie: Tacoma Man Saves Dog With CPR

Currently Hanging: Humaira Abid's Red

Mayor McGinn Insists on Fixing Public Schools (Whether They Like It or Not), Gives Money to Tunnel Referendum

Brief Chat With a Friend in Nagoya, Japan

Last Night I Spent Some Time in the Interior Illusions Lounge...

The Scariest Thing I've Seen in Art in a While

The Seattle City Council Thinks We’re Moving TOO FAST on Transit

The Morning News

Judge Grants City's Request to Shut Down Jiggles

The Official 2011 Stranger Juggalo Poetry Writing Contest...

Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Obama

Dept of Corrections

Saturday: Let Your Representives Know What Seattle Stands For

Superheroes, The Post-Apocalyptic Northwest, and Adam Carolla

Today in Great Ideas

Zach Galifianakis SNL Promos are Better than SNL

SLLOTD: The Birthday Party

Chimerica Today

Ponies! (Okay, fine... Mini Horses!)

Council Shelves SODO Homeless Camp Until Summer or Later

Art Imitates Life Imitates Art

Wonder What Mardi Gras in Pioneer Square Looked Like Last Night?

Eva Braun in Blackface

You Know What Country Has a Ban on Plastic Shopping Bags?

City Attorney Smacks Down Council for Stonewalling Homeless Camp

SLLOTD: Baby Daddy Drama

Everyone's a Critic... Even the Alleged Spokane Bomber!

Lying Republicans

Furthering the Lie that Abortion Leads to Breast Cancer

Gingrich: "I Only Regret That I Have but Three Wives to Lose for My Country"

Run, Michele, Run!

Tsunami Watch Issued for Washington and Oregon Coasts

How Not to Report on the Alleged Gang Rape of a Child

The Art Walk Show I Missed and Want to Get to Stat

FBI Arrests Suspect in Spokane MLK Day Bombing Attempt

Nuclear Emergency in Japan

How the World Will End

Pope Ratzi Embraces E-Books

No-Fly Zone or No No-Fly Zone?

Horror in Arkansas

Meet a Genius, Draw a Poorly Designed Cat

A Class That Teaches Old Teabaggers How to Troll Amazon

A Very Good Reason Not to Enroll at the University of Lincoln

The Truth About the War in Wisconsin

Porkspiration!

Today in New Offerings/Worthy-Welcome Additions to Various Scenes

This Explains So Much

Oh, the Irony

Sarah Palin HBO Movie

New Important Leaders in Art, Waiting to Be Appointed

You Can't Pray Away the Gay...

The Invasions Begin: Nick Cave Interviewed, and on the Streets of Seattle

You May Need to Decide Whether to Watch This Movie This Weekend: Cold Weather

Sometimes the Entire Meaning of Something Is on the Surface

Tomorrow in Washington D.C.

This Week on RuPaul's Drag Race...

"I Think I Just Smurfed in My Mouth"

What He Said

Rally in Westlake to Show Solidarity with Wisconsin

RE: Someone Is Sleeping...

It Gets Better: Meshell Ndegeocello

"Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, in the Most Critically Acclaimed Role of His Career...."

The Shakes

Today in Sexy & Bald & Jewish Lawyers

Urinal of the Day: Washington, D.C.

Tonight is Capitol Hill's Art Walk: Be A Red-Light District John (or a Jane)

Wait, There Are Even More "Not Average Grassroots Citizens" Against the Tunnel?

One World Is Enough

E-Book News: Fear the Tablet Bubble, and Love the New Logo

In the Twilight of Neoliberalism

Quit Braggin'

Currently Hanging: Mitzi Pederson's the still night air

Gossip About the Recent Departure of the Artistic and Managing Directors of Seattle Shakespeare

Two of My Favorite Things, Together at Last

And I'm as Bad as Hitler

I Know This Is Wonky, But It's Vital

McGinn Gets Schooled

Another Proposal for Saving Metro

Forecast: Rain

Campaign Rumors Suggest Palin Might Possibly Be Out of Touch

Wisconsin GOP Using Parliamentary Procedure to Push Through Anti-Union Bill

You Are Expected to Use Your Phone During the Movie

This Is A Very Understandable Misunderstanding That We Will Clear Up Right Now: Nick Cave Is Not Nick Cave

Re: Ponies! (Okay, fine... Mini Horses!)

Traffic Report

The Koch Brothers Exposed

WWALD?

The Morning News

More Trouble with Glenn Beck's Favorite Musical

Tsunami in Japan: Cars Floating Like Empty Bottles

Madison Firefighters Union President Calls for General Strike

Currently Hanging: Claire Cowie's Dead Reckoning

Lindy West Is Full of Lies! The Prophet Says So!

God Shields Washington from Tsunami's Worst

Podcasts

What Nick Cave Wants

Savage Love Episode 230

Suggests

Devo

SAM Remix

James Gleick

Jiggles Gentlemen's Club

Iris DeMent

'Dogtooth'

'Rango'

'The Human Resources Manager'

Underworld