The Stranger Guide to Seattle: The City's Smartest, Pickiest, Most Obsessive Urban Manual [Paperback]

Paula Gilovich (Author), Traci Vogel (Author), The Stranger Staff (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2001

Attention: Smart-Ass Crossing Zone. America's most outrageous alternative weekly has a mission: to tell you what's hot and what's snot in the city of Seattle. Part guidebook, part rant, The Stranger Guide to Seattle dishes about all the good places to go and things to do for Seattle's hip set. Whether you're into the lowbrow (Coors-fueled bowling, low stakes gambling, punk rock karaoke, down and dirty thrifting) or the highbrow (chi-chi restaurants, sipping highballs, readings, film, and art galleries), this book has secrets to reveal. Also covered: 24-hour joints, sex, independent stores, skateboarding, and scads more!

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Compiled by staff members of Seattle's independently owned alternate weekly the Stranger, this fun guide to the Emerald City resembles conventional travel guides in that it has sections for restaurants, drinking establishments, shopping, diversions, accommodations, and the arts. But it offers so much more. For instance, the first section discusses "dive" bars, as opposed to the next two sections on "cool" bars and "swank" bars. Then there are the real-life street photographs scattered throughout. And in many years of reviewing travel guides, this reviewer has never read one that discusses the region's best places to have sex outdoors. Several of the newspaper's writers and editors such as Dan Savage, Matthew Stadler, and Trisha Ready have contributed essays reflecting their own thoughts about the city. The index is excellent. Alternative and entertaining, this travel book is recommended for large public libraries. Melinda Stivers Leach, Precision Editorial Svcs., Wondervu, CO
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Paula Gilovich is a contributing writer for The Stranger and works for the Northwest Bureau of The New York Times. She lives in Seattle.

Traci Vogel is the Associate Editor/Books Editor at The Stranger, where she has a very large desk covered in dusty press releases, Virgin of Guadalupe candles, and notes that remind her to call her therapist. She is also the co-author of Don't Jump! The Northwest Winter Blues Survival Guide. She lives in Seattle.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Sasquatch Books (June 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570612560
• ISBN-13: 978-1570612565
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,132,809 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars helpful, informative, honest... and HILARIOUS!!!, July 14, 2003

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This review is from: The Stranger Guide to Seattle: The City's Smartest, Pickiest, Most Obsessive Urban Manual (Paperback)

With an impending trip to Seattle on the horizon, I ordered this book and some others -- but this one is by far my favorite! Not only is it thorough, scathingly honest in its critiques, and well-organized, but it is an absolute riot to read!!! Seriously, once I picked it up, I couldn't put it down... It is always good to find a travel guide that offers up actual opinions of landmarks, restaurants, hotels, etc., rather than just what seems like a tagline from a brochure -- and this book does not hold back, whether it be to compliment or to criticize...

I HIGHLY recommend this book if you are traveling to Seattle, moving there, etc... You will be entertained from cover to cover!!!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You cannot go wrong with advice from The Stranger, April 28, 2003

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Peter "peter206" (Seattle, Washington United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Stranger Guide to Seattle: The City's Smartest, Pickiest, Most Obsessive Urban Manual (Paperback)

This book is especially great for new residents of the Seattle area. The descriptions on the hot-spots are dead on. Once in town, be sure to pick up a free copy of "The Stranger" weekly newspaper.

Advice: Be careful with some of the listings in the book as they are not around any longer. You may want to consult with citysearch (or call) before making plans.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is Awesome, July 1, 2001

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james Johnson (San Jose,Calif) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Stranger Guide to Seattle: The City's Smartest, Pickiest, Most Obsessive Urban Manual (Paperback)

After growing up in the Puget Sound Area in the pre_1960`s before the changes took place,I saw the Seattle waterfront as one of the coolest spots on the earth,comparable to the waterfront in Hong Kong.Just a seamy world of offbeat characters& some of the best seafood you could possibly imagine.Paula has disovered all those haunts& more.This is the quintessential guide to the best of the best& I recommened it to locals & non_locals to get the most for your $$& to rediscover the way Seattle as it really was.