This week's question comes from Kelly Cresap of Silver Spring who wants to know:
"I got a headache recently after having a salad with fried spinach and grilled chicken at a restaurant in Silver Spring. The headache is consistent with ones I've gotten from meals prepared with non-organic oils. Do you know which restaurants use organic [...]
Speaking of libraries, I stumbled across this list today of "Facts and Statistics About DC".
One of the tidbits:
DC has 715 libraries—only 118 fewer than New York City.
Now, I like books as much as anyone else, and I love libraries.
But are there really 715? At first blush, it wouldn't seem like it. I guess you [...]
Been taking a lot of heat around the office today for my pronunciation of a certain word: salsa.
Everyone I've polled so far pronounces the word with a broad "a," as in father; I say it with a short "a," as in carrot.
For a few minutes there, I thought it was a regional thing. Here's the [...]
The trappings of office for an advisory neighborhood commissioner are few, but one nice thing is that you can get a little placard for your car announcing that you're "ON OFFICIAL BUSINESS," allowing you to park in certain places off limits to the hoi polloi.
This afternoon, official parking was scarce outside the Wilson Building, so [...]
From Bloomberg News:
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) — The New York Mets traded outfielder Lastings Milledge to the Washington Nationals for catcher Brian Schneider and outfielder Ryan Church, WFAN radio reported.
Former schoolboy hoops legend turned Where Are They Now? mainstay Tamir Goodman will return to the area to play for the Maryland Nighthawks, the Rockville-based minor league club has announced.
Goodman's basketball fortunes peaked in early 1999 when he was dominating weak and mostly faith-based competition while playing with a smile and a yarmulke for [...]
The drink: Mongolian Motherfucker
The location: The Red & The Black, 1212 H Street NE, (202) 399-3201.
The price: Whatever the bartender decides.
The buzz: My closest friends in D.C. are a sextet collectively known as the Shitheads. We adopted the nickname after our habit of behaving badly in public, the pinnacle of which occurred when one of [...]
There’s been a lot of chatter in recent years about forces arrayed against Christmas. Bill O’Reilly famously called it a war. So who’s Santa’s newest enemy? Facebook. According to a front page article in the Washington Post, the social networking site ruined Sean Lane’s Christmas when it broadcast his recent diamond ring purchase to hundreds [...]
Breaking News: Mark Gray, host of the Sports Groove on WOL, says that he'll have Leonard Shapiro of the Washington Post on his show tonight at 8:04 p.m.
Gray and guests have spent much of the week tearing into Shapiro for a column he wrote about Sean Taylor's death. The highlight of the tearing-intoage being [...]
Ok. I admit it. I like the elliptical trainer. It's easy, efficient, and doesn't hurt nearly as much as running. But last night, ovalizing myself toward nowhere, with nothing on TV and too much mopey indie rock on my iPod, I finally got bored. I started missing group sports. Unfortunately, my only real experiences have [...]
Yesterday evening, I ate Finnish fish and drank Finnish vodka in a transparent Finnish building. I sat with three Americans. One worked for the world’s largest newspaper. Another practiced architecture. A third was acquainted with my co-worker. One of the three disliked fish. Two of the three were affiliated with a club which provided them [...]
Here's my vote for bad ass amateaur video footage of the year.
Despite still being in an embryonic stage, the members of the bouncy pop sextet Ra Ra Riot have weathered their fair share of tragedy: Last spring, drummer John Pike passed away after disappearing from a house party. It’s clear that Ra Ra Riot is still grieving; not only is their debut EP titled Dying Is [...]
Check this out, from the Washington Times: "All but 12" of the D.C. public libraries "have been closed on Sundays as of Nov. 11. The closures are expected to last until the end of January."
Now, why could this be? Renovations? No. Budgetary problems? No.
Get this: Library staff have built up too much vacation leave, and [...]
