Custom BNN
Your choices
Your feed
Right here
Our sister paper the Portland Mercury has a nice piece this week about the marketing of Scientology. The story is about an ex-Scientologist living in Portland who claims to be the man behind the rise of Dianetics in the 70s and to have been physically [...]
Too lazy to slog through 4,400 words of endorsements? We hear you. To simplify your decision-making in the August 19 primary election, we've put together a handy, printer-ready cheat sheet
that tells you which candidates we support.
The Stranger Election Control Board cheat sheet: Easier than thinking [...]
Mayor Greg Nickels' Office is getting in on the fight between North Seattle residents and the Seattle School District over the district's plan to remove nearly 100 trees from Ingraham High School's campus.
The dispute has been tied up for months while the district waited for permits but yesterday, residents [...]
These movies have been open for days:
Sorry, I neglected to do This Wednesday at the Movies, but here are the movies your cool friends have already seen:
Pineapple Express. Andrew Wright: "Aping the feel of '80s action-comedies, Seth Rogen and Even Goldberg's script follows an amiable [...]
I can't finish books anymore, I start a novel and even become lost in the story but stop at some point and never pick it up again. I used to be a novel completer. I'm not sure why I fail these days. Could be what they say about computers [...]
A Washington man has filed two claims against Larry Spencer of Cocolalla for the remainder of payment for a 1987 double-wide trailer Spencer bought March 1 -- and impound and disposal fees for that trailer that was left by the side of a Cheney road two weeks later. In the [...]
He's a liar! Former Presidential candidate John Edwards has admitted to lying about having an extramarital affair with a former staffer. In an interview with ABC's "Nightline" that airs tonight, Edwards admits he had a sexual affair with 44-year-old Rielle Hunter, but claims he did not love her/TMZ. ( [...]
A dispute between two Athol, Idaho, neighbors erupted into a tussle over a handgun after one reportedly bit the other. Both men were arrested Wednesday. Burnell E. Willis, 73, told Kootenai County sheriff's deputies he'd bitten Bob D. Husband, 75, during a dispute over Willis' four-wheeler about 6 p.m. Two [...]
Item: Duncan: Video could victimize people/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise
More Info: Killer Joseph Duncan, acting as his own attorney, successfully challenged a prospective juror in his death penalty sentencing trial this morning after the man said he could have trouble watching a graphic videotape of Duncan abusing a 9-year-old [...]
Today is the Accountability Now money bomb, a one-day fundraising drive led by a coalition of both left and right bloggers who are angry about the passage of the FISA legislation and the slow erosion of our civil liberties.
Over at the P.I., Marc Mazique (who is, full disclosure, an old friend of mine) has written an editorial about birthright citizenship and the close relationship between African Americans and the current battle over immigrant rights. Rather than running an excerpt of the article, I'm going to run some [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote about Ernestine Anderson's need to make a huge payment to her lender or suffer foreclosure on her family home. I have no idea if anyone reading this blog helped out. I only know that I marched down to Bank of America and wrote [...]
Well, not entirely naked (though the organizing group did supply me with a photo racy enough to require placement behind a jump). At tomorrow's Shorts vs. Shirts game, Rain City Soccer players will either be topless or bottomless, but notNEVER!both.
As Rain City says:
"Shirts vs Shorts, [...]
A trusted church member is accused of crossing the line with two young girls.
The former youth minister at Ardmore's First Baptist Church, Carl Thomas, was charged with two counts of solicitation of a minor after allegedly exchanging some racy text messages with underaged girls.
"He had been [...]
Slog tipper and superstar commenter PopTart writes:
I know the majority of Slog readers would rather bite the heads off live rats than travel to the Eastside, but just in case they are lured to the dark side for any reason this weekend, I was wondering if it would be servicey [...]
The subject of Peter Menzel's photographs is the amount and types of food consumed by people in different parts of the world and class situations:
Chad: The Aboubakar family of Breidjing Camp
Food expenditure for one week: 685 CFA Francs or $1.23
Favorite foods: soup [...]
Krugman hits the Neanderthal on the head:
…[K]now-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise — has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The party’s [...]
Jesse Burke's Shame (2007), c-print, 14 by 11 inches
It is one of my enduring regrets as a critic that I did not review Jesse Burke's show at Platform Gallery last year.
Burke's visions of New England and its menthey really should be considered as a soft, [...]
Isaac Layman's Pool Table (2007), sculptural photograph: archival inkjet print mounted to Plex, painted wood plinth; 30 by 108 by 43 inches
The man pictured above is not Isaac Layman, but in this audio, Isaac Layman is standing above this pool table photo-sculpture, talking about the ultimate [...]
Lady Jesus
Dolly Parton"It takes a lot of money to look this cheap!" chirps Dolly, forever casting herself as Daisy Duke with a gee-tar. It's a ruse—a genius one—masking this hayride hussie's stature as one of America's great singer-songwriters. Beyond the voice and eternal songbook, Parton is the [...]
The Stranger’s Dan Savage finds some not-so-hidden meaning in “G.O.P. party” candidate Dino Rossi’s “too big, too hard” ad.
So he asks The Stranger’s Kelly O for something of a “truth in advertising” make-over:
[...]Slate has a bizarre article about a newspaperthe Montgomery County Bulletin, circulation 20,000behaving like a blog. An ill-behaved blog that aggregates content without links and attribution.
Over the course of three years, stories from Rolling Stone, Slate, the Boston Globe, USA Today, the Guardian, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune were all reprintedslightly [...]
The Chinese government sprang for $6,000 in airfare to stick them on an Air China flight which landed in L.A. last night. The Chinese, anxious to repress any criticism of its oppressive religious and political policies, held them incommunicado for hours, disabled their cell phones, and sent them back to [...]
I am saddened to say that News is a Conversation 
is closing down for now, although it may return in some other form later. All blogs have a lifespan and I believe this blog has reached its end with me serving as lead poster and admin. I'll bring it [...]
Courtesy: From A Simple Mind
In our Bonner County Fair book there is a gaff. In the area on page 7 of classes they are going to have ... DECORATED WIDOWS ... "One or more old energy inefficient widows may be used - single or multiple pane, wooden or aluminum [...]
I've finished my questions for the 1:30 p.m. interview with Lt. Gov. Jim Risch. I've grouped the questions in four sets of five, not knowing if we'll get through all of them. You'll get to see all 5 questions as I begin each subset. I'm not going to compile Huckleberries [...]
JeanieSpokane: OK!!! I'm ready for HBO's book study on "The Shack." My copy arrived today. I just finished reading Neta Jackson's series of the Yada Yada Prayer Group, an excellent fictional series of a group of women and their individual walk with God whether they are a teacher, a prisoner,
