Oh, Bainbridge! A prim and proper community no more, as the police broke up a Bainbridge Island brothel hosting hook--err..."ladies of the night." When strange men kept re-appearing at few neighborhood homes asking for certain laaaadies, local residents and police caught on to what was going on behind closed doors. Oh, the scandal! The turnstile brothel, which was located on the southwest part of the island, has since closed up. Juicy info like this means it's only a matter of time until our own Elliot Spitzer-esque hooker scandal breaks. Popcorn, anyone? more ›

Never know what you're gonna find when you climb down a manhole. It could be your average sewer, or... well, this guy found a huge, once-luxurious, 120-year-old Turkish bathhouse hidden under downtown Tacoma. The kicker is that the property was at times owned by famous vice lords Peter Sandberg (7th paragraph down on this page) and Vito Cuttone (11th paragraph down). How fantastic, in the traditional sense of the word! Really, who woulda thunk? It seems ripe for some sort of historical romance novel about a prostitute, her pimp, and the logger who loves them both. more ›

The feds shut down three more brothels masquerading as tanning salons, this time in Greenwood, Tukwila and Renton. They're still using that cover story? Come on, people. Now that three more "salons" have bit the dust, we're sure Seattle will move further along the journey towards restoring the shining image of tanning salons as our community's beacons of health and moral rectitude. Also, our condolences go out to the undercover investigators who risked infectious skin diseases in the name of gathering evidence for this case. more ›