Will Leitch is a senior writer at Sports on Earth, culture writer for Bloomberg Politics, contributing editor at New York magazine and the author of four books. Ten years ago today, he founded Deadspin. He is taking all your questions, about anything. Come ask him stuff!
An owner of a Thousand Oaks restaurant went ballistic after receiving negative reviews on Yelp and Facebook, going so far as to tell the reviewer to, “please, please, please have the common decency to kill yourself.”
It’s an election year, and so the cycle continues: Late 20/early 30-something New Yorkers, who’ve braved their last winter and dragged their last trunk of books-they-read-once up eight flights of stairs into the 300-square-foot closet they’re renting for $2,000 a month, contemplate if this, really, is all their life’s…
Gun buyback programs seem like win-wins for politicians — even the most critical and cynical can’t argue against the benefits involved in an initiative that can possibly save a life. The reality is that these programs can’t even be attributed to a drop in crime, but are more just publicity stunts, trying to convince…
Doctors call it shigella, a nasty bacterial disease that spreads from feces to hands and then to mouths and then violently exits the body as feces again.
Every Zodiac sleuth has their favorite suspect. Mike Morford’s is dead, but his brother lives a few blocks from my house.
It’s a warm July night in Malibu and city councilman Skylar Peak is running through a shopping center wielding a pair of scissors. He’s wearing only a black Speedo. He knocks over a chair, yelps, and keeps running. The security guards begin chasing him. Shortly after the pursuit, he’s sent for an involuntary…
Throughout all his investigations into hip-hop beef, one artist particularly impressed Chuck Philips, the now disgraced Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who made a name for himself chronicling the music industry in the late ‘90s and early 2000s. Tupac Shakur, Philips once wrote, “had all the makings of a true…
A few weeks ago, we reported that that Pasadena Police Department, an organization known for being rife with corruption, was demanding raises to keep officers from leaving.
America is disillusioned with its cops. Every week, it seems, we see a new report of a cop who has killed, beaten or bullied a (usually black) person under questionable circumstances. There are good cops out there, but they can be hard to find. In the first of an occasional series, Ratter will examine what it takes to…
Everything that’s been going in Baltimore last week has been going on well before Freddie Gray’s death. Of course the drama surrounding the case was the impetus for us to launch Ratter Baltimore last week, but won’t be the reason why we stay. In upcoming weeks we hope to show why the city is one of the most important…
Jay Z is going to bat for TIDAL like he’s planning to knockout both Pacquiao and Mayweather tomorrow night in Vegas. (My money’s on Blue Ivy). He can knock back 10 egg shakes and bolt up those stairs triumphantly if he wants to, but we all know something in the milk ain’t clean, he’s trippin’ upwards almost entirely…
The six officers face a range of charges from Second degree depraved heart murder to manslaughter by vehicle and false imprisonment.
There’s a machismo to being a prison guard that leaves little space for comfortable femininity. Prison is a male place, full of swagger, bravado and confrontation. This can make work difficult for me and the other female correctional officers employed at San Quentin. Women here must constantly confront the nearly…
Car chases are an essential part of basic cable news, especially in LA. Here at Ratter, we want to take you inside the car chase.
The events in Baltimore have demonstrated that what transpired in Ferguson can easily happen elsewhere. On Tuesday, we reached out to mayors across the country to see what they might do if the Baltimore riots happened in their town. Here’s part two of that series.
The events in Baltimore have demonstrated that what transpired in Ferguson can easily happen elsewhere. We reached out to mayors across the country to see what they might do if the Baltimore riots happened in their town.
After viewing the footage from the fight outside the Grisly Pear, one bartender there sheds some much needed light on the whole fracas which they blamed on enough *bunny rabbit ears* "cocaine and alcohol" *bunny rabbit ears* that this sort of thing is expected.
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