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1. News

   Gang Combat

   As the city launches a new effort to head off youth violence, some question the approach.

   By Vernal Coleman

   Published: July 1, 2009

   Marker in hand, the director of Seattle's new Youth Violence Prevention Initiative, Mariko Lockhart, stood patiently at an easel at a city council "town-hall" meeting in West...

2. Dategirl

   Fuck, Buddy

   By Judy McGuire

   Published: July 1, 2009

   Dear Dategirl,I've got the typical Friends With Benefits situation happening. I met him through mutual friends about a year or so ago. After a quickie the other day, he said...

3. Music

   The 10 Best Local Albums of 2009 . . . So Far

   The Lonely H takes us back to the ’70s, Shabazz Palaces is so Digable, and Say Hi has us oohing and aahing.

   By Jonathan Cunningham

   Published: July 1, 2009

   When a copy of local singer-songwriter Andy Werth's debut LP, Burn the Maps and Bury the Compass, arrived in my office a few months ago, I ignored it at first. But after I was...

4. Food

    . . . And You Will Know Us by the Trail of German Butterballs

   What locavores, wine geeks, and indie rockers have in common.

   By Jonathan Kauffman

   Published: July 1, 2009

   Back in April 2004, Sage Van Wing, then a grass-fed-beef rancher and chicken farmer in northern California, read Gary Paul Nabhan's Coming Home to Eat, a chronicle of his...

5. Review

   PICK Public Enemies: Johnny Depp as Movie-Mad Hoodlum

   By Scott Foundas

   Published: July 1, 2009

   "They're all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody's going." So says the Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero John Dillinger upon surveying...

6. Stage Review

   Orange Flower Water: Nasty by Nature

   New Century delivers a brutal stunner about infidelity.

   By Kevin Phinney

   Published: July 1, 2009

   Everything is always about us, or so we believe.Nearly a century ago, Freud posited that most people relate to the world primarily as it impacts them, and that's why Oprah, the...

7. Arts

   The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Notable Events

   Published: July 1, 2009

   THURSDAY 7/2Cartoons: Nearly ErasedIn an industry substantially built on Hearst's The Yellow Kid and Little Orphan Annie, it's a cruel irony that struggling newspapers are...

8. The Weekly Wire

   The Rural Alberta Advantage

   Monday, July 6

   By Nicholas Hall

   Published: July 1, 2009

   Take a look at any review of The Rural Alberta Advantage's debut, Hometowns, and the ready-made witticism “what's the advantage to living in Rural Alberta?”; is sure...

9. The Weekly Wire

   Shemekia Copeland

   Tuesday, July 7 and Wednesday, July 8

   By Michael Alan Goldberg

   Published: July 1, 2009

   While it’s definitely a pleasure to listen to the recently released Never Going Back, or the handful of other discs Shemekia Copeland’s put out over the past decade,...

10. The Weekly Wire

    Cracker

    Tuesday, July 7

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkami

    Published: July 1, 2009

    In 1990, when the legendary Camper Van Beethoven broke up, it must’ve seemed inconceivable that singer/guitarist David Lowery would ever front a band as initially straight...

11. The Weekly Wire

    Independence Day

    Published: July 1, 2009

    Will Smith defends the Earth against alien invaders in this 1996 special-effects smash. And, in the process, probably became the biggest movie star on Earth. Borrowing elements...

12. The Weekly Wire

    Trimpin: The Sound of Invention

    Published: July 1, 2009

    “Not a composer, but an inventor of genius” was Arnold Schoenberg’s description of John Cage, and the phrase is even more apt for Seattle-based, German-born...

13. The Weekly Wire

    Infected Mushroom

    Friday, July 3

    By Kevin Capp

    Published: July 1, 2009

    Infected Mushroom has the kind of genre-spanning sound that finds critics deploying so many hyphens that their copy looks like a wrinkled-carpet portmanteau. (See what I mean?)...

14. The Weekly Wire

    Mantic Ritual

    Tuesday, July 7

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkami

    Published: July 1, 2009

    Let’s set the record straight: as much as famous metal musicians would have us believe otherwise, the rise of Nirvana did not precipitate the demise of thrash metal, the...

15. The Weekly Wire

    Robert Armani

    Saturday, July 4

    Published: July 1, 2009

    Frantic Chi-town DJ Robert Armani spins pulsating techno jams all night long. Sat., July 4, 9 p.m., 2009

16. The Weekly Wire

    Double Dagger

    Sunday, July 5

    By Doug Wallen

    Published: July 1, 2009

    Yet another cult commodity from Baltimore, Double Dagger has finally been doused in the national attention it deserves with the May release of More on the ever-trustworthy...

17. The Weekly Wire

    Green Day

    Friday, July 3

    By Hannah Levin

    Published: July 1, 2009

    With 2004’s American Idiot, Green Day executed a near-genius punk rock opera with balls, intellect and genuine heart. It spoke eloquently to the generation unlucky enough...

18. The Weekly Wire

    Bill Patton, Mike Dumovich

    Friday, July 3

    By Brian J. Barr

    Published: July 1, 2009

    Bill Patton claims that he is a “sad bastard singer-songwriter who lives in Seattle, as so many of them do.” True, the Emerald Shitty has produced a rather large and...

19. The Weekly Wire

    Grand Hallway

    Thursday, July 2

    By Erin Thompson

    Published: July 1, 2009

    Grand Hallway is a name that evokes eminence, a kind of timeless grandeur. Such is the quality of the octet’s sprawling orchestral pop music – it is stately without...

20. The Weekly Wire

    The Stone River Boys

    Wednesday, July 1

    By Justin F. Farrar

    Published: July 1, 2009

    The Hacienda Brothers were sweet. They could achieve these peak moments (“A Lot of Days Are Gone” is my personal fave) when cofounders Chris Gaffney and Dave Gonzalez...