2014 Mayor's Arts Awards Announced: And the winners are:

Cultural Ambassador: Alan Chong Lau
City of Creativity: MOHAI & Leonard Garfield
Social Justice: Path with Art
Cultural Investment: Snoqualmie Indian Tribe
Raising the Bar: Stephen Stubbs
Future Focus: Teen Tix

Congratulations to everyone. There will be an awards ceremony to celebrate the winners at Seattle Center on August 29th at 4 pm.

"There's a reason perpetually alarmed women are called 'soccer moms'" First, what??? Second, that's but one of several dozen howlingly hilarious lines in Ann Coulter's Onion-worthy essay, "Any growing interest in soccer a sign of nation's moral decay."

"I am going to mansplain all over you" Adrianne Jeffries from The Verge attended the Mike Daisey show formerly known as #YesAllWomen. Here's what she thought.

Well, the First Phase of This Outrage Cycle Is Over: Gary Oldman apologized for his Playboy interview on Jimmy Kimmel last night.

The Death of Amazon's Drones Was Greatly Exaggerated: The FAA's feelings on drones are nowhere near settled.

What Do They Care About Numbers? They're Book People! The publishing industry made 27 billion dollars in net revenue last year. That's down from the year before. Barnes & Noble is way down from 2013.

Not a Jest: Here's a recently discovered interview with David Foster Wallace from 1996.

More Blogs Die: The New York Times is getting rid of/consolidating "almost half" of its blogs.

"AMAZING PERFORM, FULL FRONTAL ACTION" Some Stranger staffers are just now watching True Detective on DVD. We wish the DVDs came with this unbelievable bootleg cover.