It’s About Time
In a long-overdue Seattle Weekly cover story this week, Seattle’s elder weekly finally comes down from its snooty perch (“Seattle’s Smart Alternative”) and writes about the stuff we’ve been covering for years. They venture into the real Seattle�a city of bars and nightclubs and oppressed strip clubs�and, as we’ve been doing forever, attack Seattle’s lurch toward nanny statism. It’s a welcome editorial change.
For years, the uptight/upright Weekly has ignored these issues�hell, they’ve repeatedly attacked The Stranger for prioritizing these issues as news. But we’ve slogged on, pushing urban values and defending urban vices week after week�stripping, strap-ons, postering, drinking, getting high, mass transit, more drinking, density, free speech, getting high while postering , and all-ages shows.
As the Stranger’s news editor, I’m glad (and kind of flattered, actually) that the new owners at the Weekly are following our lead and allowing one of their writers to get a little riled about the issues we’ve been screaming about for years. The piece reads like a summary of issues that Stranger readers are all-too-familiar with, maybe even a little bored with already.
But these are not boring issues. So, better late than never. To encourage the Weekly’s new editorial direction, we’d like to help out by bringing them up to speed on issues that they’ve been a little too mature or uptight or too serious to cover. We think the Weekly’s new owners will find this quickie primer� including the story where we broke the news about the smoking ban’s idiotic 25 foot rule and the story where we brought the unconstitutional de facto ban on strip clubs to the city’s attention�super useful! Welcome to the city, Seattle Weekly. But what took you so fucking long?
Read up on strip clubs here, here, here, here, here, here, here , here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Read up on the Poster Ban here, here, here, and here.
Read up on the recent smoking ban, including our Edit Board recommendation to Vote No, here and here. Read up on team Nickels’s Anti-Club Joint Assessment Team here and here. Stuff on the Unfair Alcohol Impact Area here, here, here, here,here, and here. Read up on the Teen Dance Ordinance here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Speaking of stripper stuff, can anyone give me a recommendation on where to get stripper shoes? I tried Metro on Broadway, but I don't find their selection very impressive.