Via Fishbowl comes a killer memo from the Washington Post, concerning the possibility of a "thin-fat" epidemic in the newsroom. For any such scribes, City Desk hereby prescribes the fantastic 8 count.
Word is the Young Women's Christian Association's (YWCA) Gallery Place Fitness and Aquatics Center, located at 624 Ninth Street NW, will be shutting its doors on May 19th. The YWCA of the District of Columbia, which has been in operation since 1905, has run into financial troubles.
According to the organization's Web site, the mission of [...]
Two Shot at NE Vocational School: Injuries to students at the post-secondary Excel Institute, near Bladensburg Road and New York Avenue NE, are not life-threatening, reports WJLA-TV. Ward 5's bad month is not getting any better.
Last week, AOL News commented on the softly blooming romance between pixieish Blockbuster Entertainment Award-nominated Natalie Portman and psych folker Devendra Banhart, calling them an "odd couple." Let's skip the factual errors (Banhart wasn't born in Venezuela) and the questionable sources (AOL gets much of its content from a Defamer joke) and skip on to [...]
I gotta admit, I agreed with folks who said George W. Bush was only pandering in his first post-9/11 address to Congress. That was the speech where he said that we were attacked only because "they hate our freedoms" and originally declared America's "war on terror."
It wasn't until yesterday's Supreme Court ruling on voter IDs [...]
These are good times for D.C. writer Matt Klam! Besides writing the cover story on Robert Downey Jr. in the most recent GQ, and being featured in the Washington City Paper (BIG DEAL!) for his involvement in a local writing center, Matt has just won a good chunk of change. In early April, the Guggenheim [...]
Capital Weather Gang's got a fascinating explainer about the tornado that hit Suffolk, Va., yesterday. And if you've always wondered why tornadoes always seem to hit mobile homes hardest, here's a page about tornado myths.
Following a full day of surgery—Earth Day, natch—a couple of D.C. cosmetic surgeons started crunching the numbers. Just how much carbon is used in the disposal of sucked-out fat?
Considering that an average of 7 pounds of fat is sucked out per surgery and that national surveys estimate Americans undergo 450,000 liposuctions and tummy tucks annually, [...]
Breaking news from Kokomo, IN: Obama's got game. But with plenty of folks calling the state a must-win for the Illinois senator, one hopes his rebound skills aren't confined to the basketball court.
Naked people on bikes! Who doesn't love that? Well, I guess anyone who doesn't like to see how the business end of a saddle reacts with riders' nether regions, but other than those freaks, EVERYONE!
Yes, it's time for the third World Naked Bike Ride DC, an event on June 7 that protests car culture [...]
Poetry month is wrapping up, and tonight offers the perfect way to celebrate it. Poetry Out Loud, a program co-created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, is a national poetry recitation contest for high school students. In spelling-bee style, students have moved up the ranks, from their classrooms to last [...]
Michael A. Brown is filing his papers today to officially enter the race for an at-large D.C. Council seat as an independent. He'll be facing longtime incumbent Carol Schwartz, as well as motivated challengers Adam Clampitt and Dee Hunter, in November for the non-Democratic slot.
Brown, son of legendary Democratic honcho Ron Brown and veteran of [...]
Prince of Petworth attempts to solve this problem from a concerned reader: "I just moved to Petworth this past weekend. I got a warm welcome from a family of raccoons last night." Yikes! Hmm. Can a blogger—even a blogger as well informed as PoP—really solve this problem?
And Now, Anacostia offers an update on development 1901-1919 [...]
The Washington Post's story about an ultimate fighting card held Saturday night in Fairfax had a fabulous quote from combatant Pete Spratt on how he disposed of opponent Jason Von Flue early in the night's feature bout:
"I caught him on the throat and stopped the blood-flow to the brain," Spratt said.
Spratt's words explain why [...]
1. Glasser To Step Down As WaPo National Boss by Erik Wemple
2. Live Music Expanded in Mount Pleasant by Amanda Hess
3. The Unsung Hero of the Washington Post by Erik Wemple
4. Alexander Has Close Encounter With Hooker Scandal by Mike DeBonis
5. Washington Alt-Weekly Retracts Little-Noticed Story by Erik Wemple
6. Best Slam of “Best Of”: DCRTV [...]
