weekly weekly roundup : tabular format edition
With all of the recent springing forward, we don’t know how we missed it. Apparently, it’s Spring Fashion Week here in Seattle. Both Weeklies dedicate much of their issue to the topic of selling clothes or making fun of selling clothes. A sampling of what you’ll find in your favorite stack of inky weekly reading tomorrow morning, without the trouble of dirtying your fingers.
The Stranger |
Seattle Weekly |
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| cover | O.K., we have nothing against Leslie Hall’s gem sweaters but they were in Vice something like two years ago [#]. Isn’t it a little late to cash in on them? I guess it’s an “improvement” over last week’s uncomfortably prophetic death related artwork. |
Has the world gone mad? Seattle Weekly features hot scantily clad young people on the cover while The Stranger features dowdy kitchy sweaters? |
| feature | Street fashion pullout. [#] Almost everyone is wearing at least one item from a thrift store (to justify the fantastic prices on designer denim) and an item or two from out of state. Obviously a reaction to the cataloglike pullout in the Weekly. |
Store fashion pullout. (Naked Ambition [#]) An inky listing of places to buy stuff with the occasional article. Once again, we wonder if people really want this kind of thing from an a weekly paper when there are so many glossy magazines that are way prettier. It must bring in decent ad revenue . . . |
| The Stranger wins the pullout feature war. Their reactionary section fuses earnestness and sarcasm throughout – for instance, a description of wardrobe items descend into theses on origins and social politics of fabric — . |
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| news | A follow-up to last week’s Micah Painter Assault, with the verdict; Masked mauraders terrorize Ballard; advice for Democrats; and another reminder that there might actually be a monorail built in Seattle |
A warning to so-called vulnerable incumbents (Cantwell and Reichert), a local angle on the DeLay “ethics” extravaganza (Preston Gates Ellis), and media consolidation chitchat at the Paramount. |
| With all of the news dominated by the story an octogenarian dying of natural causes last week, we assumed that some important items might have been missed. Apparently nothing else happened. |
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| hot picks | Not a single event was recommended by both papers in their central highlight sections. How will we ever decide what to do with our week? |
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| don’t miss | The “new column” [#] accompanying “Last Days” proposes a Streetbeat [flickr] and Fankick dance battle between the opposing 80s street performers. This is the best idea since the monorail! |
This Modern World; also the return on the “Jukebox Jury.” This time, the guys from Maktub sit down with the Weekly for a musical trip down memory lane [#] in which Reggie Watts unintentionally reveals that he’s been involved too many projects to keep track of. |
| etc. | Even though we fancy ourselves Vice President of the A. Birch Steen Unofficial Fan club, he uses this week’s ombudsman post to write about Seattlest. Although it’s in a sort-of curmudgeonly manner, we’re more than a little heartbroken. |
Despite consistently featuring longer articles, this week’s Weekly feels remarkably thin, partially because their pullout section is longer in page count and lighter in content than the Stranger. |
