Sunday, April 19, 2009
At Large Love For Sale
Posted by Dan Savage on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 7:54 PM
I know what this sign in the lobby of my hotel in Chicago means...
...but what about the children?
At Large Time To Get Off the Computer, Right?
Posted by Dan Savage on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:57 PM
It's a bad sign when you hear sirens—lots of sirens—and get up from your bed and go to the window and you look this way and that and don't see any fire trucks and you're just about to step away from the window and resume your nap when it occurs to you to look straight down and...
...that's when you see the ten fire trucks parked in front of your hotel and dozens of firemen carrying hoses and axes and air tanks rushing into the building, right?
Books J.G. Ballard, RIP
Posted by Eric Grandy on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:35 PM
J.G. Ballard died today at age 78. RIP.
??!! / Celeb / Money The Michael Jackson's Brain Museum, Part Deux
Posted by Lindy West on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:58 PM
You asked for more pictures! Take your medicine, people!
I forgot to mention the number of lifesize MJ replicas that MJ owns—in various states of skin tone and melting face. THE NUMBER IS LARGE. Does he talk to himselves around the house? Does he hug himselves?
Stranger Suggests Today The Stranger Suggests
Posted by The Stranger on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM
Theater
'Crime and Punishment'
Somehow, playwrights Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus managed to shorten Dostoyevsky's masterpiece (you know it's true: fuck The Brothers Karamazov) into a suspenseful 90-minute play, and the adaptation doesn't feel like anything has been omitted. It's film noir taken to its seedy extremes: Galen Joseph Osier's greasy, guilt-ridden Raskolnikov is basically a poor grad student who starts to believe he has power over life and death. Can the bumbling Detective Porfiry crack the case—and save Raskolnikov from himself—before it's too late? You'll leave the theater wishing the play had been twice as long. (Intiman Theater, 201 Mercer St, 269-1900. 2 pm, $10–$42.)
PAUL CONSTANTBooks Reading Today
Posted by Paul Constant on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Two events today.
Cristina Henríquez reads at Elliott Bay Book Company. Her novel The World in Half is about a woman going to Panama to meet her father. The New York Times Book Review said Henríquez's "prose reads as if she grew up drinking water that had been fluoridated with traces of John Updike and Ann Beattie." That is a weird statement, but also kind of compelling.
But at Town Hall, Wangari Maathai, who is the "first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize," reads from her newest book, The Challenge for Africa. Readings of the night almost always go to Nobel Peace Prize winners when they're in town, and this is no exception.
Also, there's the Friends of the Library book sale, which is going on this weekend. You can, in theory, buy enough to read for the rest of the year for less than 40 bucks, assuming you read a book a week. You can find more information about the sale here.
The full readings calendar, including the next week or so, is here.
Homo Required Reading
Posted by Dan Savage on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Frank Rich eulogizes the anti-gay marriage movement in today's NYT:
Far from terrifying anyone, “Gathering Storm” has become, unsurprisingly, an Internet camp classic. On YouTube the original video must compete with countless homemade parodies it has inspired since first turning up some 10 days ago.... Yet easy to mock as “Gathering Storm” may be, it nonetheless bookmarks a historic turning point in the demise of America’s anti-gay movement.What gives the ad its symbolic significance is not just that it’s idiotic but that its release was the only loud protest anywhere in America to the news that same-sex marriage had been legalized in Iowa and Vermont. If it advances any message, it’s mainly that homophobic activism is ever more depopulated and isolated as well as brain-dead.
Read the whole thing here.
News The Morning News
Posted by Unpaid Intern on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:14 AM
Big Brother Gets Bigger: FBI decides to expand its DNA database by including those arrested but not convicted.
Fast Friends: Hugo Chavez to restore ambassador to United States.
Still Acquaintances: US/Cuban increasing relations highlight of Organization of American States summit.
Drug War: SPD crack down on Honduran drug ring in Belltown.
Tragedy: Missing Lake Stevens woman's car found with unidentified body inside.
Keira Knightley Has Been Both: Ron Paul suggests US use bounty hunters to combat pirates.
Poor And Desperate: Father tries to sell award winning daughter to escape real life slum.
Welcome Back For The First Time: Canada claims thousands as new citizenship law goes into effect.
Seven years ago today Seattle Police discovered the body of Layne Staley in his University District apartment. He is still missed.
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