Brendan Kiley Reports from a Toxic-Waste Site on the Shore of Puget Sound—the Setting of an Audacious, Complicated, and Controversial Real-Estate Project
"Developer Mike Cohen is betting he can transform almost 100 acres of Superfund land—slag, polluted soil relocated from yards in Ruston, and a hill covering a 25,000-cubic-yard container full of the smelter's most toxic waste, including the remains of the arsenic kitchen—into a luxury waterfront village..."

Dominic Holden and Jonah Spangenthal-Lee Talk to the Owner of the Alleged Eastlake Brothel
"Seattle Police Department officers rushed her house with guns drawn. 'One of them grabbed my neck and put a gun in my face,' she alleges. Simultaneously, police flooded the Sacred Temple's hallways, ordering men and women to lie facedown and binding their wrists behind their backs..."

Bethany Jean Clement Goes to Mary Kay Letourneau's New Club Night (Yes, Seriously) and Interviews Her in the Bathroom
"Hot for Teacher night, as the club's doormen explained, is hosted by Letourneau; her former student, her reason for imprisonment, and her current husband, Vili Fualaau, is the DJ..."

Lindy West Critiques Opening Night of the Seattle International Film Festival
"The only thing I'm genuinely still grumpy (enraged?) about is that opening Almost Live rerun short film—a grueling retread of every Seattle in-joke since Ivar Haglund made love to Chief Sealth and gave birth to Mt. St. Helens..."

Erica C. Barnett's Year of Hitler
"In the past year, I've read more than a dozen books about Hitler, the Nazis, and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. That's about 8,000 pages filled with words about genocide, atrocity, military history, man's inhumanity to man—not to mention a dozen separate, and frequently conflicting, accounts of the man who most shaped the 20th century..."

Can Seattle Finally Become a Decent Street-Food City?
"After a seven-year ban on downtown food vendors, Seattle is forming a plan to reintroduce taco, kebab, and pizza carts to their natural habitat: the streets. As part of the city's efforts to increase street life in Seattle and make the city more walkable, Mayor Greg Nickels and county health officials are working together to roll back the city's strict regulations on street food..."

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Eric Grandy profiles Olympia punk band Gun Outfit, plus a ton of other stuff in the music section; Eli Sanders on the state of online-only newspapers in Seattle; a look at the fantastical weirdness of Up by Megan Seling, plus more reviews in the film section; Savage Love on a rapist lookalike; Last Days; Drunk of the Week; Dear Science; I, Anonymous; I Love Television; the theater calendar; the visual art calendar; and all the other columns and doodads.