The WT's "Culture, Etc." blog is featuring a brief Q&A with Ann Coulter, who closes up with the usual cocktail of snark and crazy talk:
Q: Your confrontational approach to liberalism has inspired a lot of young conservative women. Any chance you'll ever be recognized as a feminist icon?
A: No, I think that title belongs to [...]
The dish: Oyster stew
The location: Franklins Restaurant, Brewery, and General Store, 5121 Baltimore Ave. Hyattsville, (301) 927-2740.
The price: $11
The skinny: Franklins is my kind of neighborhood joint. Housed in a historic corrugated-metal building in Hyattsville that once served as the community's hardware store, Franklins maintains the spirit of the former occupant. I mean, the thing [...]
Forget the “Thrilla in Manila” and the “Rumble in the Jungle.” Both of those were legendary victories for Muhammad Ali, but when it comes to the fight most laden with meaning for the sport of boxing, you gotta talk about an Ali loss years earlier: Ali vs. Frazier I, on March 8, 1971, at Madison [...]
Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee just took the mike at today's D.C. Council school-system oversight hearing. Council Chairman Vincent Gray's preamble, of course, took Rhee & Co. to task for the school-closings plan but started a line of questioning on the DCPS budget.
What came out early: The schools are facing an approximately $100 million shortfall on [...]
D.C. Tunnel will be able to dole out drinks again following a decision by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board yesterday. Police chief Cathy Lanier suspended the club’s liquor license after a gun battle erupted between a group of men and four police officers outside the club early Saturday morning. The alcohol board decided to return [...]
A huge huddle of Redskins fans have been taking out their grief over Sean Taylor's death on Len Shapiro for his Tuesday washingtonpost.com column headlined, "Taylor's Death Is Tragic but Not Surprising." Shapiro says he's gotten hundreds of emails since the article appeared.
"This is the most I've gotten for anything since I started doing the [...]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the changing graffiti culture in the city (the gist: post 9/11 security + gentrification= a tough time for taggers). Over the summer, Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham kicked off a wall mural program, which would designate graffiti-targeted spaces in the city as places for murals. Over the summer, [...]
Doc Gridlock has a piece on the new look for D.C. bus shelters, and it's all good news. Sleek, silvery–just the thing for a city on the upswing! Call it the loft condo of bus shelters. It's also equipped with a kickass route map and maybe, eventually, perhaps, an electronic "Next Bus" function that WMATA [...]
Marc Fisher has a strong column–perhaps the best yet on Sean Taylor. The writer sees the differences and similarities between Taylor and the many who died at or around 2921 Knox Place SE. There have been 10 murders at Knox Place in recent years. Fisher spends time at Redskins Park and on Knox Place for [...]
Those of you who couldn't wait for the New York Times to hit the publish button last night—and you know who you are—have already dissected this piece like a lab specimen. But for you non-obsessives, here's critic Frank Bruni's review of Fiamma, the sort-of Italian, sort-of not restaurant that lured away former Maestro toque (and [...]
British writer Tom Hodgkinson has a recommendation for attacking stress: fuck it. More precisely, according to the chapter titles of his new book, The Freedom Manifesto, you can just opt out of it all–give up on work, say no to government, abandon the rat race, and somehow enjoy life without alienating the friends and family [...]
Hot news: Construction starts in January on the D.C. area's first Fatburger franchise. It'll be in Fairfax. As if more evidence is needed as to what is wrong with Fairfax and America in general.
Why do we eat this crap?
Hey there, what’s left of the Washington Capitals’ fan base, don’t forget to give a big warm welcome to interim head coach Bruce Boudreau, who—last week—replaced former head coach Glen “Hugs” Hanlon after he was relieved of his duties. I’m only reminding everyone because it looked like none of you made it out for Boudreau’s [...]
