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PUBLIC EDITOR
Sep 04, 2008; Steen, A Birch ... Like a small child putting on his father's shoes and tie and pretending to go to work, it can be rather endearing when The Stranger tries to dress itself up as a real newspaper. So I couldn't help but chuckle warmly when I learned that, in honor of the Democratic National Convention, ELI ...
DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS
Sep 04, 2008; Anonymous ... Due to an editing error, an article on King County Initiative 26 called a "she" a "he": Theresa Gillespie, not her husband, has donated exclusively to Republicans in previous partisan races ["Red Carpet" Aug 28]. We are sorting out our ...
YOU'RE MY SISTER, AND I HATE YOU
Sep 04, 2008; Anonymous ... It wasn't easy being raised by the parents we had, but they were affectionate, had good intentions, and tried their best. YOU on the other hand, despite doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING with your life, feel you can sit in judgment of EVERYONE. Let me tell you something: You fucking suck and I hate your ...
WHAT'S THAT WAILIN'?
Sep 04, 2008; Palin, Sarah ... NEW COLUMN! Hey! Hey, kids! What's that wailin'? Shit, is that a baby? Did one'a you brats have a gol-danged 'nother baby again? Which one'a you was it this time? Piper? Willow? Oh, hell, you know I can't stay mad for long-every baby's a miracle, after all! Pass that li'l chitlin over ...
Cops and Robbers
Sep 04, 2008; Spangenthal-Lee, Jonah ... SPD Program Trains the Next Generation of Cops Two police cars, lights flashing, race into a gravel-covered parking lot next to a rail yard in Georgetown, boxing in a small red coupe. A voice booms over the patrol car's PA system, ordering the driver out of the car. A young man ...
Poor Planning
Sep 04, 2008; Holden, Dominic ... South Lake Union Splinter Group Has Rival Plan for Neighborhood Until last week, everything appeared to be going as planned for the South Lake Union Friends and Neighbors Community Council (SLUFAN), the group that submitted a neighborhood plan to the city in June that would increase ...
IN OTHER NEWS
Sep 04, 2008; Anonymous ... by Stranger Staff INVESTIGATION The Seattle Police Department and King County Prosecutor's office are investigating a Washington State assistant attorney general for alleged fraud and identity theft related to an adult hookup site. Earlier this month, according to a ...
How the Party Parties
Sep 04, 2008; Sanders, Eli ... Behind the Scenes at the Democratic National Convention The welcome party for the 15,000 members of the media covering the Democratic National Convention in Denver was held, rather appropriately, at a giant amusement park called Elitch Gardens. Everything was free for the night and so, ...
Don't Worry, Ladies (and Gents)
Sep 04, 2008; Wagner, Annie ... Why Clinton's Strongest Supporters Aren't Going to Vote for the McCain/Palin Ticket The selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate means Republicans have decided that wooing disaffected Hillary Clinton supporters is their best chance, at retaining the White House. It ...
The Madness of STRIKETHROUGH
Sep 04, 2008; Anonymous ... What Happens Outside the Box BY BRENDAN KILEY Last week, a piece of performance art almost literally drove a woman crazy. Some performers were doing something secret in a gigantic, silvery box that filled the small stage of the Rendezvous Theater. The woman wanted in. "My ...
Grocery Shopping with Zizek
Sep 04, 2008; Mudede, Charles ... Grocery Shopping with Zizek The World's Most Popular Philosopher [hearts] Junk Slavoj Zizek is the most popular philosopher of our day. In his work, we primarily find the influence of Jacques Lacan, Karl Marx, and Georg Hegel. We also find many references to the filmmaker Alfred ...
TWO NOVELS, FAT & THIN
Sep 04, 2008; Constant, Paul ... CONSTANT READER TWO NOVELS, FAT & THIN In early 2001, David Ebershoff released a short, beautiful book called The Danish Girl. The novel, set in the 1920s and '30s, is about a painter named Einar Wegener who, with the tentative blessing of his wife, Greta, becomes the first ...
The Beauty of the Beast
Sep 04, 2008; Clement, Bethany Jean ... Getting Friendly with the Main Course My grandmother raised Angus cattle east of the mountains, outside Sunnyside. We often went over on weekends. We mended fence, and we took the cattle from pretty pastures out to prettier sagebrush and back in the ancient International Harvester truck, ...
NEW JUJU
Sep 04, 2008; Clement, Bethany Jean ... BAR EXAM NEW JUJU Long ago, Juju was located on 11th Avenue and Pine Street, where it was called the Bad Juju Lounge. Through the lens of memory, at least, the place had a legitimately dark soul, a hodgepodge seaminess that fit its name; it definitely had a large live snake that ...
Perfect Sound Forever
Sep 04, 2008; Brown, Rebecca; Grandy, Eric; Kiley, Brendan; Kirby, Jeff; Lin, Tao; Shields, David; True, Everett; Wilson, Kathleen ... Eight Writers on Built to Spill's Perfect from Now On In 1997, Built to Spill released their third album, and their first for a major label, Perfect from Now On. In 2008, the stalwart band have taken to the road to perform Perfect from Now On in its entirety. This week, eight ...
Ash Bowie of Polvo
Sep 04, 2008; Segal, Dave ... DAVE SEGAL INTERROGATES ON THE AVANT ROCKERS' DECADE-LONG HIATUS, NOT BLOWING UP, AND WONKY GUITAR SOUNDS What prompted you to re-form Polvo, besides Explosions in the Sky asking you to play All Tomorrow's Parties? It was really the ATP invitation that got us to re-form ....
SINGLES, REMIXES & MP3S
Sep 04, 2008; Matos, Michaelangelo ... "All Summer Long" by Kid Rock (Top Dog) A friend recently spent two weeks in Croatia, far from American pop culture-except, he said with concern, for Kid Rock's "All Summer Long." The song "followed [him] there." You might not expect that from a song so pronouncedly ...
Bits
Sep 04, 2008; Grandy, Eric ... OXFORD COLLAPSE Bits (Sub Pop) *** The name Oxford Collapse suggests the chaotic crumbling of well-mannered, ivy-covered edifices (it also sideways recalls Orchid's brilliant freak-out "Amherst Pandemonium"). Appropriately, Oxford Collapse's songs are smart, ...
There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere
Sep 04, 2008; Segal, Dave ... HEAD LIKE A KITE There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere (Mush) *** If nothing else, Head Like a Kite will inspire beat envy in musicians who hear There Is Loud Laughter Everywhere. The drums-many of which are supplied by Stranger freelancer Trent Moorman-on ...
Worried Well
Sep 04, 2008; Kirby, Jeff ... 31KNOTS Worried Well (Polyvinyl) *** 31Knots' early releases were all about instrumentation. Joe Haege's intricate guitar riffs, matched with constantly climbing bass lines and impeccable drumming, signaled a new incarnation of progressive rock-one more ...