The Stranger's 2017 Back to School Issue

by Christopher Frizzelle
Welcome to Seattle, new college students!
It probably feels good to have escaped wherever you came from. Congratulations on landing in the fastest-growing city in the country, full of rock clubs, delicious food, pot smoke, pot edibles, youthful energy, assholes who don't know how to use the escalators in the light-rail stations, NFL stars, artists, straight people, gay people, trans people, nonbinary people, people who are offended at you for even asking, awnings that ar