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Early Addition: Bounty Hunting Is Alive & Not-So-Well In America In 2019


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Published Jul 1, 2019

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  • Drummer Janet Weiss announced that she is leaving Sleater-Kinney.
  • A man was crushed and killed by a giant safe while attempting to move the 600-plus pound safe down a set of stairs in Lower Manhattan.
  • Bounty hunting is still alive and well in America in 2019—and a GQ writer spent months working as one and discovered it "was a mess for pretty much everyone caught up in a broken system."
  • Taylor Swift very publicly called out Scooter Braun for bullying and controlling her back catalogue, and then tons of people in the record industry and pop world took sides.
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Ben Yakas was born and raised in New York, and has worked for Gothamist for over a decade, and WNYC for four years, covering literally everything. He has hung out with Dan Smith (who will teach you guitar), but still has yet to have a guitar lesson with him.

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