Erica C. Barnett Outs Republican Closet Case Susan Hutchison
"Susan Hutchison is a Republican. The former KIRO-TV News anchor doesn't want you to know she's a Republican. She helped run a campaign that enables Republicans to run for office in liberal King County without disclosing that they're Republicans. And now she is using those new rules to run for King County executive without telling the voters that she's a Republican..."

Eli Sanders Looks at Seattle's Deep, Bloody Labor History and the Uncertain Future of Unions
"'Who is your leader?' the sheriff shouted, according to historical accounts. 'We are all leaders!' the Wobblies shouted back. Someone opened fire, and then everyone opened fire..."

Britney Spears Parking Lot by Lindy West
"When we first pulled into the Tacoma Dome parking lot—around 2:00 p.m. on the day of Britney's 'Circus' tour—we thought there was no one there. But then we find them—the diehards—about 50 or so parked in lawn chairs and sleeping bags in a little pen by the dome's entrance..."

Jen Graves Wonders: Can Chris Jordan Change the World and Make Great Art at the Same Time?
"Jordan, a Seattle artist, had the idea of how to make the vast and unthinkable numbers that come with global awareness visible, and even inviting, in photographs. He has been constructing, in Adobe Photoshop, large composite images of tiny photographs. On macro and micro levels, as Jordan demonstrates during his TED talk by zooming Google Earthishly in and out and overlaying a scale image of, say, the Statue of Liberty dwarfed by the piles of office paper used in a year, the photographs depict unfathomable statistics in a suddenly very fathomable way..."

Something Startling Has Happened at Smith—So Says Bethany Jean Clement
"Smith seems to have lucked out with its third chef: Eliot Guthrie, 24 years old, who's worked in the kitchens of Campagne, Lark, and Le Pichet. At last, the stars have aligned: The service is startlingly improved, and the food is actually, really good..."

Drunk of the Week Goes to Belltown
"The streets and sidewalks of Belltown, especially around Second Avenue and Bell Street, are the final remnant, the last surviving evidence, of old Seattle's past glory as a truly Wild West town..."

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Megan Seling writes about Record Store Day, Eric Grandy writes a love letter to Los Campesinos!, plus lots more in the music section; reviews of new comic books; Lindy West on Northwest Film Forum's Short Exposure program ("I turned 27 this year (which is weird, because I'm pretty sure I'm still 25), and my parents presented me with a terrifying DVD entitled 'Home Movies'..."), plus reviews of new movies and the fully searchable movie times; reviews of the plays The Rez as I Saw It and Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking; a few words about Bizarro Italian Cafe's wildly successful television appearance; a few words about some cops who are hassling gay bars for showing gay porn, Dominic Holden on new rules that keep condo buyers from moving in, plus lots of other news in the city section; Savage Love; Last Days; an announcement about the 2009 Stranger Gong Show; and all the other columns and calendars.

OH, AND: Last day to fill out the sex survey. We're not accepting any more after midnight.