Michael Lacey has spent his entire professional life in the newspaper business. With his business partner, Jim Larkin, Lacey cofounded Phoenix New Times during the Vietnam War. The two men would go on to build Village Voice Media, a chain of weeklies…
The recent publication of a hyperbolic study that purported to show an “astronomical” level of demand for sex workers in the Hawaii was punctuated by an odd incident that prompted two law-enforcement agencies to investigate. On Friday, September 21, officers…
In light of the disappearance and increasingly apparent ghastly murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of a Saudi hit squad, will the McCain Institute for International Leadership cut its ties with Saudi Arabia and divest itself of…
The authors of a recent study of “sex trafficking” in Hawaii claim that online prostitution is rampant in the Aloha State. But critics say the study’s methodology is flawed, pointing out that the authors offer zero evidence of actual sex…
A federal judge in Phoenix, Arizona, handed defendants in the Backpage case a victory on Friday, October 12, when he denied a government motion to disqualify a prestigious contingent of First Amendment attorneys from the defense team. In a ten-page…
Attorneys for veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey, Jim Larkin, and their co-defendants in the Backpage.com case jousted with federal prosecutors in Phoenix over a government motion to disqualify a team of First Amendment lawyers from the prestigious firm of Davis Wright…
“I believed he was going to rape me”: Christine Blasey Ford testifies about alleged sexual assault by SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh “Grotesque and obvious character assassination”: SCOTUS pick Brett Kavanaugh angrily declares his innocence With epic meltdown at Kavanaugh hearing,…
Seattle-based sex worker and blogger Maggie McNeill devoted a recent post on her site The Honest Courtesan to an intriguing document: two pages purportedly culled from a report prepared for Demand Abolition, a group that aims to eradicate the commercial sex…
California professor’s #MeToo bombshell threatens to derail Brett Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS nomination “Like a toadstool”: Stormy Daniels likens Trump’s tool to Mario Kart character in new tell-all On #LSSC tonight: We check in with Mario Kart's #Toad, who has just received…
U.S. Border Patrol supervisor and confessed serial killer Juan David Ortiz stalked sex workers in and around Laredo, Texas — picking them up off the street, driving them to deserted patches of freeway, then shooting them in the head during a two-week…
