Dominic Holden on the Four Men Most Obsessed with Stopping Gay Marriage in Washington State
"They've introduced bigoted legislation, filed referendums, held rallies, and raised money—but they've never gotten around to explaining how gay couples actually hurt their marriages. They've also allegedly done things like failed to pay taxes, raised rents on the elderly, and beaten their wives..."

Erica C. Barnett on the Murder of Dr. George Tiller and Why We Shouldn't Negotiate with Anti-Choice Terrorists
"Dr. George Tiller was a lightning rod for anti-choice forces because he performed late-term abortions—abortions after 21 weeks' gestation—for girls and women whose pregnancies had gone tragically, often life-threateningly, wrong. Some were women who wanted their pregnancies, but found out late in their terms that their baby had no brain, or that their twins were conjoined and could not survive, or that their baby was already dead. Others were rape victims as young as 10 or 11, some of them too young to even realize they had had periods..."

Jen Graves's Agenda for Public Artists
"You wouldn't think the prospect of making public art—widely considered, at least in the Northwest, some of the blandest work around—could bring artists to their anxious, quivering knees. But it has. Some of Seattle's bravest younger artists have formed a public-art support group. The first meeting of the public-art support group was last August. They haven't followed up (too scared??), so I took it upon myself to propose notes for their next meeting..."

Lindy West on Gay Romance Novels Written by Straight Women for Straight Women
"I was talking about Transgressions to a gay friend of mine, and he commented, 'Oh, it's like porn for fag hags!' But I BEG TO DIFFER, GAY FRIEND. Being more than a bit haggy myself, I am definitely not interested in the intimate details of any of my gay friends' firecocks, or 'sudden hardnesses,' or that time you wrapped 'rein-callused fingers around the youth's pink and gold member'..."

Christopher Frizzelle Watches Cassavetes's 'A Woman Under the Influence' for, Like, the Millionth Time
"It was shot in 10-minute takes by a somewhat untrained crew instructed to let the actors do whatever they were going to do and try to capture it, documentary style. Adding to the suspense, Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk were deprived of information about what the other was going to do. The result is a crackling animalism. It's like two beasts walked onto the set, devoured the actors, and took over..."

Eric Grandy Interviews the Juan MacLean
"The Juan MacLean's new album, The Future Will Come, begins with romantic dissolution and ends in domestic bliss; in between, there are robots..." Find a full transcript of the interview here.

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Michaelangelo Matos on Camera Obscura (only the latest indie-poppers to sing the praises of the public library), plus lots more in the music section; Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on the skatepark activist being sued by the city for building a skatepark; Dominic Holden on a loophole for really affordable housing; Megan Seling chows down on a bunch of Mediterranean food in Ballard and Greenwood; Bar Exam ventures to the J & M Cafe and Cardroom in Pioneer Square to watch everything inside get auctioned off ("Overhead, the dirty, beautiful pressed-tin ceiling sagged as the auctioneer joked and cajoled and sold pretty much everything under it"); Brendan Kiley reviews the plays Below the Belt, A Thousand Clowns, and My First Time; Lindy West wonders why the writers of The Hangover are still employed ("Hey, here's an idea: Maybe we don't let Jon Lucas and Scott Moore write movies anymore. Eh? EH?"); Savage Love; Last Days; Drunk of the Week; Control Tower; New Column!; and all the other columns, calendars, and miscellany.