Salman Rushdie’s 2015 novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, saw the Indian-born British American author take on the role of Scheherazade by spinning numerous fabulous tales and spawning umpteen exotic characters. It was set in New York in an epoch marked by so-called strangenesses where good and evil genies battled, catastrophic disasters raged, […]
“Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) got into an eye-opening exchange this week with Chief John Chell, head of the New York Police Department. She excoriated Columbia University on X for mobilizing “the most violent” police to deal with students intimidating Jews in support of Hamas terrorists at war with Israel. Chell retorted, “Truly amazing! Columbia […]
“Short guys like us,” a friend of mine said to me recently, “should never get their pictures taken when they’re standing next to someone tall.” “Short guys like us? What’s that supposed to mean?” I said, not exactly in those words. I used a colorful Anglo-Saxon vulgarism in there, once or twice, for emphasis. My […]
The largest smartphone “dating” app for gay people believes it can boost its stock price, it seems, by optimizing even more for promiscuity and sex with strangers. Dating sites typically try to match users with other users who live in the same city. Grindr’s executives worry that this standard is growing stale, according to media […]
I am under no illusion that our allegedly right-wing elected officials can or even want to close the border, end the costly and unnecessary wars, balance the budget, protect the unborn, expand our right to bear arms meaningfully, or any of the other items promised every two, four, or six years. However, there is one […]
In today’s climate, love is seemingly hard to come by and healthy relationships are few and far between. This desperation has led many to search for companionship via the internet, rather than the traditional meet cutes we see in movies. App creators and tech moguls have jumped on the opportunity to profit off of society’s This story Ranked: Dating apps appeared first on Washington Square News.
Four zebras got loose from their trailer on the highway in North Bend,
The public is invited to attend a free celebration at WESB on Monday, May 13, 2024, beginning at 4 p.m. with an optional, limited tour of the ground floor of the four-story structure.
The Sounders need to win the battle in the air to get past D.C. United.
Restaurants in Washington state won’t be able to use those foam clamshell containers anymore. Coffee cups, plates
NORTH BEND, Wash. (AP) — It was an unusual wildlife sighting Sunday when four zebras escaped from
And Antony Blinken heads back to the Middle East.