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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

City Desk
, 4:57 pm
According to an informed source, the Washington Post will soon announce that it will close its news bureaus in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, as part of a cost-saving measure. It's unclear just when the closings will take place; however, the source says that the Post will not be laying off correspondents in those bureaus, ... Read More
City Desk
, 4:46 pm
Did his MCI/Verizon Center revitalize Chinatown? Did he coddle Wes Unseld for too long? Did he err in changing the name of the Bullets to the Wizards? Did he treat Michael Jordan too harshly? Should he have re-signed an injured Gilbert Arenas? Should he have sold the Wizards to Ted Leonsis instead of the Capitals? Did he put Landover ... Read More
Arts Desk
, 4:19 pm
City Desk
, 3:56 pm
Abe Pollin, real estate developer, philanthropist, and owner of the Washington Wizards and other sports teams, has died at 85, WRC-TV is reporting Pollin today is remembered most fondly as a sports team owner---the man who bought the Baltimore Bullets to Washington, brought NHL hockry to the city, women's pro basketball, and other sporting endeavors. He presided ... Read More

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4:23 pm on Tuesday, November 24
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4:07 pm on Tuesday, November 24

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Arts & Events Picks

Jonathan Safran Foer speaks at 6th & I Historic Synagogue

Tuesday, November 1
The first question my parents asked each other when considering the health of their unborn son was, “Should we stop smoking two packs a day?” (Morning sickness helped my mother decide.) Not so with novelist Jonathan Safron Foer, author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close....

Food & Restaurants

Young & Hungry
, Tuesday, November 24, 2009
With only three weeks of voting left in the D.C. Dish Hall of Fame, the leaderboard remains virtually unchanged from last week’s, save for a little jockeying at the bottom and 2Amys‘ suddenly move into a fourth-place tie with the falafel sandwich at Amsterdam. Remember, only the top five dishes will be part of the Hall’s ... Read More

In Print This Week

A look at D.C.'s new purveyors of authentic tacos

Movies

Reviewed: The Road and Fantastic Mr. Fox
Viggo Mortensen outwits cannibals, grimaces; Mr. Fox steals chickens, has a lot more fun.
Film review

Justice Beleaguers: Bad Lieutenant and William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe
Two films about the side effects of law and order.
Film review

Theater

Reviewed: Disco Pigs
At Solas Nua, a manic heartbreaker about a friendship gone awry.
Theater review

Reviewed: Show Boat
A chamber-size production of one of America's grandest musicals.
Theater review

Music

Arts Desk » Section » music
, Tuesday, November 24, 2009
If you were a fan of the pop music blog Idolator, it’s been a disheartening couple of weeks. On Monday, November 9, Maura Johnston—who edited and contributed to the site for more than three years—announced that she would be stepping down, effective immediately. The next morning readers were greeted by her replacements, Robbie Daw and ... Read More

Reviews

The God MC gets spiritual

One Track Mind

This Week: Olivia Mancini and the Mates' "Graphology"

Weekly Columns

Hole-y Shit!
Cecil's answer to a 1981 question on black holes sucked; he tries again.
The Straight Dope

Benefits Package
Dan says lob your balls into your gay friend's court.
Savage Love

Fifty Years After D.C.'s First Integrated Touchdown
"I've never forgotten that game."
Cheap Seats

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