What’s the District’s chief exec really up to today?
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2006
Event: Remarks, Lincoln Heights New Communities Design Workshop closing
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Kelly Miller Middle School, 301 49th St. NE
The Lowdown: The latest in community design: Just keep the kids chained up indoors.
It was supposed to be a coming-out party for new D.C. Public Library director Ginnie Cooper, who started work last month. Instead, the Aug. 9 meeting of the library system's Board of Trustees turned into a showdown with citizens at which—according to several observers—Cooper, board president John W. Hill, and board member Richard Levy all [...]
The Dish: sautéed Alaskan halibut
The Location: McGinty's Public House, 911 Ellsworth Drive, Silver Spring, (301) 587-1270.
The Price: $22.50
The Skinny: Not every plate we sample is so hot. So in the name of service journalism, we offer an occasional Not Plate. If a Holiday Inn took one of its boxy white-washed conference rooms and added wood [...]
This week's story about the fate of the Source Theatre space ("Arts for Arts Space,” 8/11) has some people wondering whether I thought hard enough about the questions I raised. My reasoning was flawed, one correspondent suggests, and my analysis incomplete—at least when it comes to what constitutes affordable performance space for a small theater [...]
Every Tuesday and Thursday (and sometimes Friday), we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
MPD-4D
On July 31, a 60-year-old man was sitting in his wheelchair at a bus stop when a group of hoods walked up. One put a knife to his throat, and, according to the police report, told him to [...]
What’s the District’s chief exec really up to today?
FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 2006
No public events scheduled.
The Lowdown: Linda needs all the help she can get with those Fenty background checks.
Every Thursday, we round up Pay-Whats and other cheap seats at local theaters. Just so's your weekend is a little easier.
Before we start, remember the general rules: (A) Reservations for these? Not so much. (B) They're offered on a space-available basis, so have a backup plan. (C) Click each theater name for details and contact [...]
An irregular feature detailing utterances from area stages.
Where: The newly constructed temporary stage at Rodeo Restaurant in Silver Spring, Saturday, Aug. 5.
Who: Martha Hull, original singer for the Slickee Boys and the Dynettes, now fronting Ottley, featuring Slickee guitarist Marshall Keith and ex-Hangmen/Grin/Rosslyn Mountain Boys drummer Bob Berberich. (See "The Re-Form Party," 8/4)
What: “In addition [...]
What’s the District’s chief exec really up to today?
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2006
Event: Remarks, Lincoln Heights New Communities Design Workshop kickoff
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: Kelly Miller Middle School, 301 49th St. NE
The Lowdown: Tony Williams: king of workshops
In tomorrow's City Paper, you'll find:
A profile of controversial pol Sinclair Skinner by Ryan Grim. This old frat buddy of Adrian Fenty occupies a high-level post in the mayoral candidate's campaign, but Fenty sure isn't interesting in advertising the fact. Grim explains why.
In Loose Lips: James Jones asks, Is infamous petition circulator Scott Bishop back [...]
For two years now, the D.C. Library Renaissance Project, founded in 2002 by Ralph Nader, has been trying to get the D.C. Public Library (DCPL) to host adult-literacy classes in branch-library meeting rooms, only to be foiled on the basis of “Rule 7.” The rule, which comes from a list of DCPL meeting-room regulations, states [...]
In the race for D.C. Council Chair, it seemed that one candidate, Ward 7 Councilmember Vincent Gray, had no chance of winning the enviro nod over Ward 3's Kathy Patterson. After all, Patterson authored legislation forcing CSX railway to divert toxic shipments through the heart of the city. Patterson's efforts spurred a lawsuit, a battle [...]
What’s the District’s chief exec really up to today?
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2006
Event: Remarks, weekly press briefing
Time: 11 a.m.
Location: ground-floor press-briefing room, John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
The Lowdown: To be announced: CRIME EMERGENCY EMERGENCY—time to move that curfew up to 5 p.m.
LISTEN
A caller weighs in on the “Black Guide to Georgetown” (MP3 format, 1.3 MB)
OK, so we have no way of determining whether this is real or a prank. In any case, this is one caller's reaction to last week's cover story. Highly “misappropriate,” indeed.
Every Tuesday and Thursday, we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
Brookland
The new noise pollution: scooters. On Aug. 6, Linda writes: “I hate to be the sore loser – but I have to be honest – I am constantly waking up in the middle of the night from the noise – the [...]
