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Apr. 19
Print Edition for the week of
Apr. 19 - 26, 2017
Vol. 26, No. 34
The Pavilion at Riverfront Park in Spokane, photo by skodonnell/Getty Images
Savage Love
Dick Monsters
by Dan Savage
Film/TV
The Loss of the Motion Picture Competitiveness Program Threatens the Entire State of Washington, Not Just Spokane
by Charles Mudede
HyperNormalisation
and the Origins of Trumpism
by Marc Mohan
Blood, Laughs, and Ben Wheatley's
Free Fire
by Erik Henriksen
Wanderlust and Wonderlands in
The Lost City of Z
by Ned Lannamann
The Promise
: Love in the Time of Genocide
by Elinor Jones
In the Ruins of Socialism: Toxic Father and Brutalist Architecture in
Graduation
by Kathy Fennessy
I, Anonymous
I, Anonymous: File Under: If I Were Single
by Anonymous
Music
Four Snapshots of Spokane's Booming Record-Store Economy
by Sean Nelson
Free Will Astrology
For the Week of April 19
by Rob Brezsny
Books
A Tour of Spokane's Remarkable Literary Landmarks
by Rich Smith
John Scalzi Ventures into
The Collapsing Empire
Politics! Intrigue! Sex! In Space!
by Erik Henriksen
Food & Drink
We Ate Almost Everything at Durkin's Liquor Bar, and Here's What We Thought
by Stranger Staff
The Ginger-Molasses Cookie at Madeleine's That I Ate vs. the Ginger-Molasses Chocolate Chip Cookie at Atticus That I Didn't Eat
by Rich Smith
Features
The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black
by Ijeoma Oluo
Is Spokane the Next Big Thing? Maybe.
by Stranger Staff
News
Meet the Man Who Could Turn Eastern Washington Blue
Rural Americans Like That Donald Trump "Says It Like It Is." Can a Plainspoken Spokane Democrat Win Them Over?
by Heidi Groover
Person of Interest
Persons of Interest: Luke Baumgarten and Ginger Ewing
A Spokane Power Couple Builds an Art Scene
by Amber Cortes
Weed
The Weed Queen of Spokane
A City Council Member Puts Down Roots in the Marijuana Biz
by Amber Cortes
Open City
Letter to the Editor: Please Don't Come to Spokane
by redacted
What It's Like to Tinder in Spokane (More Guns)
by Tricia Romano
Green Guide Spring 2017
The Booming World of $100,000 Bongs
Who makes them? Who buys them? A look inside the high-end functional glass market.
by Lester Black
Blunt Language: A Crossword Puzzle (Answers)
by Brendan Emmett Quigley
The Credit Unions and Small Banks That Solved the Cannabis Cash Crisis
by Lester Black
No Other State with Legal Weed Has This Dumb Rule About Packaging
Washington Is the Only Place in the World Where You Can't Smell Weed—and Properly Evaluate It—Before You Buy It
by Lester Black
More THC, Please: Self-Medicating with Weed in the Age of Trump
by Amber Cortes
Walking into a Weed Store with a Bunch of Senior Citizens
Cannabis Use Is Way Up Among People 65 and Older
by Amber Cortes
Blunt Language: A Crossword Puzzle
by Brendan Emmett Quigley