Women's Prison & The If Project: Part III : Reentering Society
On the third, and last, installment of my Women In Prison series, we explore what these women face when they leave prison. 70% of them will return within a year. Many of them are going home to children they have only seen for two hour a month, all the years they've been behind bars.
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Ring My Belle: Dealbreaker: Women With Mustaches
1. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has a new politic group that focuses on immigration reform. Does he have politics in his future? 2. An Indiana man goes to the dentist to get three teeth pulled, and when he wakes up he has ZERO TEETH LEFT! 3. A new survey says the vast majority of people will date someone outside of their religion or race, but there are still some deal breakers. IE: ladies with mustaches. 4. Scientists may have uncovered a gene that makes some people lazy.
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Women's Prison & The If Project: Part II : Keeping Kids Out of Prison
In part two of my three part series on my trip to the Washington Correction Center For Women, we explore how the If Project is helping teenagers. Inmates who have been released from prison, and reformed, go to schools and detention centers to tell their stories and connect with the kids, hoping the teens won't make the same mistakes that they did.
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Ring My Belle: Twinkies Will Be Back By Summer!
1. Former Congressman Anthony Weiner, famous for his sexy Tweets with women he's never met, is considering running for mayor of New York City. 2. There will be a prom held this weekend, to help raise money for an 8 year old Suquamish girl fighting a rare form of cancer. Oh, and one of the dudes who sings on Macklemore's Thrift Shop will be there. 3. Hostess has been purchased by the same company that owns Pabst Blue Ribbon, and they hope to have Twinkies back on the shelves by summer. 4. In Colorado, pot tourism has already begun, just in time for 420, bros.
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Women's Prison & The If Project: Part 1
Rachel visited the Washington Correction Center For Women in Gig Harbor, and this is the first part of a three part series on the stories she collected there. She focuses on The If Project, a project started by a Seattle police detective and an inmate named Renata. Inmates are asked this question: If there was something somebody could have said or done to change the path that led you here, what would it have been? And answering it helps them figure out why they led a life of crime and hopefully change themselves for the better.
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Ring My Belle: Spellers Now Must Also Know Definitions at This Year's National Spelling Bee
1. A soldier refused to hand over the American flag that was draped over a Saddam Hussein statue ten years ago, to be displayed in a military museum. He says it glorifies war. 2. Seattle has the biggest pay gap between men and women in the entire country. Ladies here only make 73 cents on the dollar. 3. The band The Yeah Yeah Yeah's announced that they don't want concert goers watching the show through their smart phones. 4. This year, participants at the Scripp's National Spelling Bee must also know the definitions, not just the spellings, of the words presented to them.
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Ring My Belle: Daydreaming Causes 5X More Accidents Than Cell Phone Use
1. A couple of teenagers go on a first date hike, and end up getting lost for five days. 2. The IRS is now using Facebook and Twitter to track down tax evaders and liars. 3. A new study says that daydreaming causes 5X more fatal accidents than cell phone use. 4. Anthony Bourdain doesn't understand why female chefs have their own category when awards are given out. A female chef says women need that recognition. We have our opinions too!
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Mariners Superfan Is Attending his 36th Home Opener Tonight
A 42 year old Kirkland man has managed to attend every single Mariners home opener since he was 6 years old. Now he takes his own kids along to the game.
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A Store That Sells Nothing But Root Beer Tucked Into the Seattle Suburbs
Rachel chats with the owner of The Root Beer Store on Lynnwood and Redmond about how he stays afloat (ahem) selling nothing but root beer. A local drive-in theater, and several historic theaters, are at risk of closing down unless they can raise enough money to go digital. Seattle's Sub Pop records turns 25 years old, and Rachel explores their past and present with the VP of A&R. Rachel Belle and Andrew Walsh are Taste Buds!
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Ring My Belle: A Judge Says Plan B Will Be Available For EVERYONE
1. A Federal judge has reversed a decision that prevents women under 17 from buying the Plan B emergency contraceptive over-the-counter. 2. Students at a Massachusetts middle school were forced to throw their uneaten school lunches in the trash because they didn't have enough money to pay for them. 3. A man, falsely imprisoned for forty decades, for a crime he didn't do, finally gets out of jail. First stop: In N Out Burger. What would you do?
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Ring My Belle: In Georgia, a High School Still Has Seperate Proms For Whites and Blacks
1. Some students at a Georgia high school are trying to integrate their prom. Students who aren't white cannot attend the white prom, and vice versa. 2. Beastie Boys' Mike D has a food truck that feeds Hirricane Sandy victims at no cost. 3. Rent-A-Mourner will send people to your funeral so the room doesn't look so empty. 4. We have out own kitten cam here in Washington! hours of wasted time, spent watching kitties, is in your future!
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Will Digital Kill the Drive-In? Local Theaters on the Verge of Extinction
Several old, historic theaters, including a 50 year old drive-in, are at risk of closing if they can't fund raise enough money to switch over to digital technology. This story focuses on four theaters in western Washington, but a nation of historic theaters are all in the same boat.
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Ring My Belle: The Wire Actor Opens Grocery Stores in New Orleans Food Deserts
1. In Delhi, India, a new statistic says two women are raped every minute. So a few college students there have comer up with underwear that would electric shock the rapist. 2. An actor from the TV Show, The Wire, is opening grocery stores in his hometown, where people can't get fresh food. 4. Twins, separated at birth and adopted to different families in different countries, find each other randomly, without looking on youtube. 4. Addictive animal webcams, like Kitten Cam, are watched like crazy, so it's being expanded to Cockroach Cam, Ant Cam, Penguin Cam, Etc Cam...
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Seattle's Sub Pop Records Turns 25!
Seattle's Sub Pop Records is responsible for signing bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Mudhoney, basically birthing the Seattle grunge scene. Today, with more than 1,000 albums under it's belt, Sub Pop is going strong.
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Ring My Belle: A Princeton Alum Tells Current Students There To Marry a Princeton Man
1. Century Ballroom, the Tractor Tavern, and it's supporters who want the "Opportunity to Dance" tax repealed, held a dance-in on the state Capitol steps today. 2. A mom, and Princeton alum, says women should be looking for a husband at Princeton now since you'll never meet a man as smart ever again. 3. A 61 year old man, angry that his girlfriend dumped him, put up a craigslist ad with her address, and sent men to her door. 4. Youtube is the new Emily Post. There are thousands of videos up focused solely on etiquette.
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