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Amy Waldeman

Mystery of the Floating Feet Solved: No Mafia, No Murderers - Not Even Much of a Mystery

In recent years, investigators around Vancouver and Northwest Washington were counting suspected crime by the foot. Nine of them - human feet belonging to seven individuals - came bobbing ashore inside their late owners' sneakers from 2007 through 2011, generating dramatic headlines. In one short st ... More >>

Gaby Rodriguez's Fake Pregnancy Project Is a National Hit

Last April, 17-year-old Gaby Rodriguez at last removed her fake baby belly and revealed to her shocked classmates at Toppenish High School that it was all a ruse, a grand social experiment designed to force her community to examine how they treat pregnant teens.

Courtney Love, Twisted Firestarter, Evicted from $27K-per-Month NYC Apartment

​In New York City $27,000 per month can get you a fancy apartment in the West Village. It can't, however, get you a free ticket to trash the place and nearly burn it down.

Robert Vietze, Drunk Dude, Arrested for Peeing All Over 11-Year-Old Girl During Flight from Portland

​Eighteen year olds cannot hold their liquor. That's just science. Case in point: Robert Vietze, the 18-year-old from South Warren Vt., who didn't quite make it to the bathroom during a flight from Portland to New York.

Gennette Cordova, Weinergate Schlong-ee, Says The New York Post "Trojan Horsed" Its Interview With Her

​Getting its "exclusive interview" with Seattle student and unwitting Weinergate dick-pic recipient Gennette Cordova was quite a coup for The New York Post. Cordova, after all, had until then denied all interviews from media outlets. So how did a reporter from the Post, a paper well known for ... More >>

Gennette Cordova, Seattle Student and Weinergate Dick Pic Recipient, Speaks Out About Becoming "Collateral Damage"

​The Weinergate debacle continues to dominate the news cycle. And while admittedly we wrote off the controversy at first as mere gossip (that was before Rep. Weiner couldn't tell if it was actually his dick in the photo or not) there has been, perhaps, a more important story to tell: That of S ... More >>

Four Loko No Longer Fuels Your Drunken Decision Making--Now It Fuels Your Car!

​In its heyday, drinking a can or two of Four Loko was like filling up your old Honda with racing fuel. You'd party hard and fast, but there was always a chance you'd either lose control and crash, or your insides would burn up from the raw power. Well, good news, auto fans! You may not be abl ... More >>

Paul Allen's New Year's Cruise

Plenty of celebs, but not as exclusive as you'd think.

Paul Allen's New Year's Celebration Not Like Yours - Unless You've Got a 400-foot Yacht

​Billionaire Paul Allen's traditional - for him - New Year's Eve is rumored to be set for chic and sunny St. Barth's in the Caribbean again, an all-night celeb-studded party aboard his $200 million battleship-sized yacht, the Octopus - which costs about $385,000 a week to operate. And the Seah ... More >>

Today in Sex: Setting Sail on a Boat Named "Tits"

​As the ongoing court case of Prince Jefri Bolkiah versus his financial advisors drags on, it's becoming clear that Countess Luann deLesseps was correct: Money can't, in fact, buy you class. The intricacies of the legal shenanigans are kind of beside the point here--the little brother of the S ... More >>

Michael Kinsley and Ex-Tacoma Publisher Donate to Pols; Sy Hersh Gave Locally Too

Kinsley​Giving money to political campaigns can be quicksand for journalists striving to be impartial or at least fair. But reporters, editors and others who work for the news media have given almost a half-million dollars to U.S. political candidates this election cycle, according to the D.C. ... More >>

Today in Sex: Til Death Do Us Part?

​In the case of Zsa Zsa Gabor and her shady husband, Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt, even death won't be able to tear these two apart, because though his beloved wife isn't even dead yet--and is reportedly in stable condition as of this morning--Prince Freddie has big plans for her corpse. Accord ... More >>

Tiger Woods and PETA: The Big Breakup

Tiger and his alleged mistresses. I'm already humming the Brady Bunch theme in my head​I have got a lot of problems with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Aside from the fact that I simply disagree with them on almost every key issue in their agenda, I think they are a bunch of ... More >>

Microsoft to Team With Rupert Murdoch in Effort to Block Google?

Collude with this man at your own risk, Microsoft.​According to a report from the Financial Times, Microsoft is in talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to pay for the exclusive rights to deliver search results for papers like the Wall Street Journal, New York Post and others. Murdoch has be ... More >>

Monday Morning News: Mall Hooch; She Is Drunk; Hipster, Can You Spare $300 MIllion?

​ (November in Seattle?) Booze at the Mall - The Washington State Liquor Control Board has opened four temporary liquor stores in four different shopping malls around the sound, one in Bellingham and the rest: Pacific Place (600 Pine St., downtown Seattle) Alderwood Mall (3000 184th St. S.W., ... More >>

Monkeys Have Just as Sure a Grip When Affixed to Backs as Branches, as A-Roid Is Being Reminded

"Man I looked good--until I reverted to my usual choker form against the Phillies."​Through the first two rounds of the playoffs, things couldn't have played out any better for hated ex-Mariner and reputed steroid abuser Alex Rodriguez. So potent was A-Roid's bat against the Twins and Angels t ... More >>

DJ AM Found Dead This Afternoon

​It was only a year ago that DJ AM alongside Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker survived a horrific plane crash and managed to cheat death. They were the only two passengers who survived although all four other passengers perished. You'd think that would be enough of a wake up call to help an ind ... More >>

Lawsuit Confirms That Microsoft is Serious About This Bing Business

If the $100 million advertising campaign wasn't enough to convince you that Microsoft is serious about its new search engine--and the New York Post says Google's convinced--maybe the fact that Microsoft is suing people for click fraud will be. (Click fraud is when you get people or programs to repea ... More >>

New York Post: Bing Has Google in a Panic!

NY Post sets up a face-offIt's not often that the sensation-masters at the New York Post dive into the nerdy world of tech battles, but yesterday they weighed in on the Google/Bing battle (which has yet to be proved a battle, except in Microsoft commercials). Under the headline "FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE", ... More >>

Gossip Girl

NY Post sets up a face-offIt's not often that the sensation-masters at the New York Post dive into the nerdy world of tech battles, but yesterday they weighed in on the Google/Bing battle (which has yet to be proved a battle, except in Microsoft commercials). Under the headline "FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE", ... More >>

Nobody Reads the Seattle Times

NY Post sets up a face-offIt's not often that the sensation-masters at the New York Post dive into the nerdy world of tech battles, but yesterday they weighed in on the Google/Bing battle (which has yet to be proved a battle, except in Microsoft commercials). Under the headline "FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE", ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch in Seattle?

NY Post sets up a face-offIt's not often that the sensation-masters at the New York Post dive into the nerdy world of tech battles, but yesterday they weighed in on the Google/Bing battle (which has yet to be proved a battle, except in Microsoft commercials). Under the headline "FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE", ... More >>

ESPN Fires Harold Reynolds

NY Post sets up a face-offIt's not often that the sensation-masters at the New York Post dive into the nerdy world of tech battles, but yesterday they weighed in on the Google/Bing battle (which has yet to be proved a battle, except in Microsoft commercials). Under the headline "FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE", ... More >>

Frog March 2005!

Election messes; secret gulags; monorail meltdowns; flaming hair; Bill, Melinda, and Bono; horse sex; Deep Throat; FEMA failures: It's been a heckuva year.

In and Out

Election messes; secret gulags; monorail meltdowns; flaming hair; Bill, Melinda, and Bono; horse sex; Deep Throat; FEMA failures: It's been a heckuva year.

Media

Election messes; secret gulags; monorail meltdowns; flaming hair; Bill, Melinda, and Bono; horse sex; Deep Throat; FEMA failures: It's been a heckuva year.

This Week's Reads

Tom Groneberg, Adam Johnson, John Rember, and Ian Spiegelman.

This Week's Reads

Candace Bushnell, Jon Krakauer, and Daniel Hayes.

Grinding, and keeping your Friendsters in line(ing).

Andrew Bonazelli

Capturing the Friedmans: A Brilliantly Revealing and Wrenching Documentary

Andrew Bonazelli

Days of Our Nights

CMJ gets called out; Christina fights for Pharrell; plus news on Beck, Macy Gray, Tenacious D, and more.

Latest news on Richard Ashcroft, Jack Black, and more.

CMJ gets called out; Christina fights for Pharrell; plus news on Beck, Macy Gray, Tenacious D, and more.

Courtney settles; Strokes and Stripes split; plus more.

CMJ gets called out; Christina fights for Pharrell; plus news on Beck, Macy Gray, Tenacious D, and more.

Days of our nights

CMJ gets called out; Christina fights for Pharrell; plus news on Beck, Macy Gray, Tenacious D, and more.

Days of our nights

CMJ gets called out; Christina fights for Pharrell; plus news on Beck, Macy Gray, Tenacious D, and more.

Days of our nights

CMJ gets called out; Christina fights for Pharrell; plus news on Beck, Macy Gray, Tenacious D, and more.

Days of our nights

CMJ gets called out; Christina fights for Pharrell; plus news on Beck, Macy Gray, Tenacious D, and more.

The Culture Bunker

CMJ gets called out; Christina fights for Pharrell; plus news on Beck, Macy Gray, Tenacious D, and more.

Schell's no wuss

CMJ gets called out; Christina fights for Pharrell; plus news on Beck, Macy Gray, Tenacious D, and more.

The Culture Bunker

CMJ gets called out; Christina fights for Pharrell; plus news on Beck, Macy Gray, Tenacious D, and more.

2000: The year in review

CMJ gets called out; Christina fights for Pharrell; plus news on Beck, Macy Gray, Tenacious D, and more.

Privacy wars, cont.

CMJ gets called out; Christina fights for Pharrell; plus news on Beck, Macy Gray, Tenacious D, and more.

The semiotics of 'South Park'

This movie has warped my fragile, little mind.

Up and download

In the race to strike deals with hot artists, Internet companies blur legal and ethical lines.

Letters

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Crust and bias

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