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1. Mark Fiore

   Updated Daily: Your Iraqi Democracy Translator!

   Published: May 18, 2005

2. News

   The Monkey Wrench Trial

   Dino Rossi's challenge of the 2004 election is on shaky legal ground. But if he prevails, watch litigation become an option in close races everywhere.

   George Howland Jr.

   Published: May 18, 2005

   The political trial of our new century begins on Monday, May 23, in Wenatchee, the seat of Chelan County, a small city of about 28,000 known for apple orchards and Republicans....

3. Dategirl

   Tough Love

   Judy McGuire

   Published: May 18, 2005

   My wife of 14 years has fallen out of love with me. I am ADD/bipolar and tend to have problems when my work is not going well. When I was in the Army, I was successful and we...

4. Sign Language

   May 18-24, 2005

   Caeriel Crestin

   Published: May 18, 2005

   Gemini (May 21–June 20) Try watching TV with the sound turned off or watching people dance without being able to hear the music. You'll start to get the idea of what you...

5. This Week's Cover

   May 18-24, 2005

   Illustration by Ron English.

   Published: May 18, 2005

6. Music

   Doing It to Death

   Give it up for funk classicists Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.

   Michaelangelo Matos

   Published: May 18, 2005

   On the back cover of the Soul Providers' (Don't Look Back) Behind the Shack, a slab of Brooklyn-spawned retro-funk released by Desco Records in 1998, you'll find the following...

7. Food

   From Sicily, con Amore

   Belltown's best Italian restaurant is Belltown's best-kept secret.

   Laura Cassidy

   Published: May 18, 2005

   You can pass by La Fontana Siciliana a hundred or so times, noting its distinguished, secluded presence on every occasion, without being possessed to actually enter. Maybe it's...

8. Film

   Back to the Future

   The last Star Wars installment succeeds—mainly by returning us to the first.

   Brian Miller

   Published: May 18, 2005

   Spoiler Plot issues resolved in Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith. By John Moe MORE Remind me again: Who are the Sith? And why are they mad at us? Should...

9. Arts

   What a Piece of Plastic Is Man!

   Tiny toy ninjas bring an odd new humanity to Hamlet.

   Richard Morin

   Published: May 18, 2005

   To be or not to be? The question has been posed a million times over, in an outrageous infinity of settings and adaptations and reimaginings, until the pertinent query becomes:...

10. News

    'Washing of the Brain'

    A new allegation surfaces in the already strange story of the New Gnostic Church.

    Philip Dawdy

    Published: May 18, 2005

    Two weeks after publication of details about a little-known Washington church, a new allegation has surfaced against Dr. Barbara Loran, the longtime mistress of church leader...

11. America, U.S.A.

    A Swarm of Drones

    Seven new albums of varying frequencies— some ancient, some new and metallic.

    Rod Smith

    Published: May 18, 2005

    Nothing changes quite like metal. True, no parametric scheme is ever quite abandoned; the relative attributes of olde and nü mingle endlessly, like fingers and fluids in...

12. Food

    Raising the Bar

    Pretty people, pretty good food at Belltown's latest watering hole.

    Heather Logue

    Published: May 18, 2005

    In a fit of inspiration, Belltown unveiled its latest enterprise to the city of Seattle in the beginning of April . . . and we discovered yet another trendy...

13. Film

    Plot Issues Resolved in Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith

    By John Moe

    Published: May 18, 2005

    • Anakin/Darth Vader presents Padmé with two Bundt pans for daughter Leia's future hairstyle. • Original Death Star plan is met with resistance by Empire...

14. Arts

    The Great Kate

    Mulgrew does Hepburn—and it isn't a drag.

    Steve Wiecking

    Published: May 18, 2005

    When Kate Mulgrew describes the "flint" of Kate Hepburn, she knows whereof she speaks—she's pretty flinty herself. Her voice, that crisp, patrician instrument she used to...

15. Mossback

    The Manhattan Project

    Greg Nickels' plan to beef up Seattle's skyline is a bomb.

    Knute Berger

    Published: May 18, 2005

    When the Dennys landed and threw Seattle's first beach blanket bingo party in 1851, they dubbed their new town "New York Alki," which translates as, "New York By and By." That...

16. CD Reviews

    Converge

    Also: Fannypack, Monika Force, Camping, Manuel Guajiro, Fabric 19, FabricLive 20, and Drop The Lime.

    Andrew Bonazelli, Rod Smith, Nate Patrin, Daphne Carr, Kristal Hawkins and Amy Phillips

    Published: May 18, 2005

    CONVERGE Petitioning the Empty Sky When Forever Comes Crashing (both Equal Vision) There are crowded shows, sold-out shows, flagrantly oversold sold-out shows, and shows where...

17. Hot Dish

    The State of Beef

    Published: May 18, 2005

    When life hands you a lemon, said a wise man, make lemonade. The American beef industry is hurting badly, largely because the United States Department of Agriculture has...

18. Film

    Bugged

    A marriage is put under the pressure of government surveillance in this rediscovered psychological thriller.

    N.P. Thompson

    Published: May 18, 2005

    Made in 1970 in the former Czechoslovakia, this Soviet-era satire from director Karel Kachyna was considered too astute a portrayal of party politics for the Commies' comfort...

19. Arts

    Offenbach-to-Back

    Hoffmann and Orpheus are simultaneous stunners.

    Gavin Borchert

    Published: May 18, 2005

    Based on the fantastical stories of echt-romantic German poet E.T.A. Hoffmann, The Tales of Hoffmann (at McCaw Hall through Saturday, May 22; 206-389-7676),Jacques Offenbach's...

20. Politics

    Right Result, Wrong Reasons

    Geov Parrish

    Published: May 18, 2005

    It's taken a long time, but at last a Bush administration appointment is considered so extreme and reckless that the nomination is in trouble in the U.S. Senate. For more than...