Here's your handy guide to stories from the paper that dropped on Wed Feb 22, plus a break-down of the most-read content on The Slog from the past week.
This week's cover story, Trump Time, is from none other than The Stranger's spirit guide and advice maven, Dan Savage, who, despite being thousands of miles and nine time zones away in Austria, discovered there's no escaping the news from home. He also answered questions about Fantasy Scenarios in this week's edition of Savage Love.
Open City focused on the impending conclusion of adult mini-golf phenom, Smash Putt, while I, Anonymous expressed some Bosnian Gratitude.
Film is jam-packed this week, with reviews about A United Kingdom (about the tension between economic prosperity and interracial love in Botswana, by Charles Mudede), the easy to dislike but hard to dismissDark Night by Andrew Wright, the simple beautiful fable of Studio Ghibli's latest animated feature, The Red Turtle (by Marc Mohan), and Get Out, Jordan Peele's horror-satire about race (by Eric D. Snider)
In Music, Santi Elijah Holley waxes on Nashville musician Adia Victoria, who plays the dark and dangerous blues of yesteryear (and hits Sunset Tavern tomorrow night), Amber Cortes discusses the just-released album from local Seattle power-pop trio Dude York, Sincerely, while Kathleen Tarrant dishes on another artist she pretended to like for a boy: Dave Matthews.
Rich Smith explores the long dark shadow of lynching in 2017 via Waning, a new production that finds grim resonances in the life of a black teenage girl (showing at Annex Theatre through March 1). Rich also interviewed this week's Person of Interest, Wesley Frugé, a forward-thinking theater director who helms Forward Flux, a local production company that champions brand-new work from women and artists of color.
In books, Willie Fitzgerald looks at George Saunders's debut, Lincoln in the Bardo, the first essential novel of the Donald Trump era
Food & Drink finds Corina Zappia exploring the addictive appeal of sticky-rice desserts and snacks (and fantasizing about languishing in a giant tub of rice pudding). In Weed, Lester Black gets a tour of clean green certified grow-op Gold Leaf Farm, where you can find the closest thing to organic weed in Seattle.
Finally, get all your life questions answered as dictated by the stars in Free Will Astrology for the Week of February 22.
Most read stories on the Slog, for the week of February 20-26:
1) Governor Jay Inslee Issues Executive Order Blocking State from Participating in Federal Immigration Raids, Religious Registry.
3) Two Milo Reax Reax—One Long, One Short.
5) Trump Time (cover story)
