Welcome to The Stranger’s… wait, what is this issue about? *checks notes* We don’t have a theme? All year long, since enthusiastically establishing a monthly print cadence in February, we have based every issue on some kind of theme. February was the Love & Sex issue, of course, and March was our fab Spring Arts issue. We did a Transit Issue and a Food Issue and a Queer Issue and a Climate Issue, and while it was fun to dig into the city with a curated eye, we also miss the days of just putting together a really solid collection of stories about whatever it is we’re currently obsessed with.

Like getting to the bottom of grocery-store pumpkin pie. Yes, on page 57 we pretend for one glorious afternoon that the Trump administration isn’t shooting our democracy into the fucking ever-hotter su

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