Previews from the upcoming book-length collection of the notorious "column noir" published in Seattle's Scroll Up, Voltage, Point No Point, and Stranger, San Diego's Reader and Revolt, and other hip weeklies in the Western US.

Artwork by Jessica Creagar and the Seattle Stranger staff.

She's not your parents' dancing queen. And doesn't mind letting it all out.

A rose is a rose is not always that kind of rose.

It's control, it's barely legal...and it's
breathtakingly erotic.

You can make jazz free...but does it return the favor?

One man's journey from cop to prostitute to redemption.

A prison wedding can take a lifetime of preparation.