From Crimetown to S-Town (with two conflicts of interest in between), the shows we chose for our private radios.
Heidi Groover
Posted inTheater & Performance
Top 20 Podcasts of 2017
Quaintly named for a once-revolutionary audio device that most people now no longer own nor remember, the podcast has slowly but addictively wormed its way into the hearts and ears of… it must surely be at least a couple hundred thousand people, right? Is it millions? Is it hundreds? Depends on which network is doing […]
Posted inTech
A San Francisco Animal Shelter Used a Robot to Get Rid of Homeless People
The robot is equipped with four cameras.
Posted inlabor
Reminder: It’s Not Just Actresses Being Sexually Harassed at Work
Low-wage industries see high rates of sexual assault claims.
Posted inlabor
WalMart Is Buying Your Favorite Online Retailers and That’s Terrible News for Workers
Also, a glimpse at Amazon health plans.
Posted inSex
State Supreme Court Ruling Means Washington Teens Who Sext Could End Up Felons
Three justices say the decision “will produce absurd results.”
Posted inHorrors
Alex Jones Comes to Seattle, Rants on Street Corner, Gets Doused with Coffee by “Vicious Leftists”
Editor’s note: This story is from our sister paper the Stranger in Seattle. Alex, hello, welcome to Seattle. infowars Attention-thirsty conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is in Seattle for some reason*. For the second day in a row, he has been standing on street corners downtown ranting about the global elite’s effort to crash the economy, […]
Posted inMedia
It’s Been a Year Since Gawker Died, Long Live Gawker
Hulk Hogan and Peter Thiel killed Gawker a year ago today. pool/getty Today marks one year since the end of Gawker, an online media company undone by a rich guy with a grudge. As Sydney wrote last year, Gawker was on the receiving end of plenty of hate (some of it deserved) during its time, […]
Posted inHousing
The Last Time So Many Americans Rented Their Homes, Lyndon Johnson Was President
Rental rates are increasing—and not just among broke young people. Justin Sullivan/getty More American households are now renting their homes than at any point since at least 1965, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of census data. According to Pew, the number of U.S. households grew by 7.6 million over the latest decade. […]
Posted inNews
Seattle Police Release Audio of Fatal Shooting of Charleena Lyles
Note: This story was originally posted by our Seattle sister-paper the Stranger. Outside the Sand Point apartment complex where police fatally shot Charleena Lyles. Steven Hsieh The Seattle Police Department this morning released audio from a confrontation yesterday in which two Seattle police officers fatally shot Charleena Lyles after Lyles called them to report a […]
Posted inPortland
Seattle Issues Permit to Organizers of “March Against Sharia” Originally Planned for Portland
Note: This article was first published by our Seattle-based sister paper the Stranger. The scene in Portland on Sunday. dirk vanderhart Organizers of a right-wing “March Against Sharia” have received a permit to gather on Saturday in front of Seattle City Hall. The rally was originally planned for Portland, but organizers moved it to our […]