News Clips— Princes/Knaves
Published 7:00 am Monday, October 9, 2006
| PRINCES | KNAVES |
|---|---|
| Seattle radio listeners rejoice! Howard Stern, the New York shock jock who launched a thousand drive-time imitators, is now on KISW’s morning schedule. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard a game of Naked Twister over the radio. | Sadly, the XFL has folded, proving that packaging pro football like pro wrestling isn’t such a great idea. On the bright side, team collectibles will soon be netting thousands on eBay. |
| Congrats to our own Bastyr University for snagging federal grant money to study healing through mental telepathy. Next up: a Sound Transit-funded study on using levitation for transportation purposes. | Internet porn pioneer Seth Warshavsky unwisely skipped a debtor’s hearing on a $180,000 judgment against his company: The judge not only didn’t jail him, she obligingly closed the hearing to the media. Can we see it on pay-per-view? |
| The good news: City Attorney Mark Sidran successfully challenged the Pike Place Market Historical Commission and can now run his mayoral campaign from his own building. The bad news: This just proves how easy the city is to beat in court. | Qwest Communications has raised the price of pay phone calls to 50 cents. Says a high-ranking Qwest official: “If The Seattle Times is worth a quarter, a call’s got to be worth at least four bits.” |
