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Over a dozen people have come forward with new allegations against Tacoma Weekly’s publisher, John Weymer.

The publisher of the Tacoma Weekly was allegedly deducting healthcare premiums from employee paychecks without actually paying for the health insurance his employees thought they were buying.

63 isn’t a bad age to retire die from “basically, business realities.” Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Another one bites the dust. We are chagrined to report the Village Voice is officially dead. According to Gothamist (wait, aren’t they dead too?), publisher Peter Barbey announced to the staff Friday that the paper will no longer […]

We weren’t able to decide between fecklessc*ntghazi or fecklesscu*tgate—or even post a clip here to Blogtown—before Samantha Bee apologized for calling First Daughter Ivanka Trump a “feckless cunt” on her show last night. Here’s the context: On Full Frontal last night, Samantha Bee ripped Ivanka Trump for posting “the second most oblivious tweet we’ve seen […]

Elon Musk and girlfriend Grimes, the oddest romantic pairing since Serena Williams and the Reddit guy. Theo Wargo/Getty Elon Musk may be an expert at many things (technology, innovation, shooting cars up into space), but journalism, clearly, is not one of them. This week, Musk used his immense brain power to engage in a Twitter […]

Jodie Foster in 1977, Marky Mark in 1992, Madonna in 1990, Michael Jackson in 1982 Interview Magazine, the publication started by Andy Warhol in 1969, has published its last issue. According to a report in The Guardian today, the magazine has had a tumultuous year, “including staff being locked out as part of rent dispute, […]

Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular podcast Serial, has been granted a new trial. Syed was convicted 18 years ago on charges of first degree murder, robbery, kidnapping, and false imprisonment after the body of his ex girlfriend and classmate Hae Min Lee was found in Baltimore’s Leakin Park. Syed was sentenced to a […]