Over the past year, politics-oriented Web sites have attracted record amounts of Internet traffic, and the Washington Post has apparently concluded that it's not commanding enough of it. Top thinkers at the paper are currently discussing a brand-new, semi-autonomous site that would package the Post's politics reporting, multimedia offerings, and other stuff.
"We’re exploring whether [...]
Dan Snyder's piteous theme park chain, Six Flags, is imploding as we speak.
The company announced this evening that Dwight Schar, Snyder's partner in the Washington Redskins and in the investment group that took over the Six Flags board in 2005, has just dumped TWO MILLION of his Six Flags (SIX) shares.
"I very much believe in [...]
So I spent the weekend getting all worked up about the Lara Logan sex scandal. (Briefly: Newly promoted CBS national security correspondent had some romance in Iraq, with more than one man, gasp. One of the men was in the middle of a divorce, which started before their fling, but that didn't seem to matter.) [...]
Dear Landlord Dude:
I saw your ad in the Post and called you yesterday afternoon. The apartment you were offering sounded good enough: 1700 block of Corcoran, $1900, one-bedroom described either as "sunny" or "cozy" or "featuring hardwood floors."
I thought: I just can't swing that kind of rent. Not even sharing that kind of rent. No [...]
Outside the Nissan Pavilion at Saturday's Dave Matthews Band show
Dan Snyder’s can-you-spare-a-buck? theme park chain, Six Flags, is making huge strides toward its inevitable resting place in Chapter 11.
Early in Monday's trading, a share of SIX was selling for $1.14. In a season of historic lows, this is but another.
When Snyder's investment group, which included his Redskins staffers Vinny Cerrato and Karl Swanson, took [...]
By now stories of Iraq War vets and PTSD have become incredibly common. I mean USA Today was running stories on the mental anguish of returning soldiers three years ago. There is now an Iraq War PTSD clinical guide. The guide is in its 2nd Edition. This just means that a new story on the [...]
Ugh. Olsson's isn't just leaving its great Penn Quarter spot. The great local book-and-record chain will soon be filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The Post writes:
Olsson's Books, one of the oldest independent booksellers in Washington, plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, founder John Olsson said yesterday.
Pressed by creditors who have filed claims against the [...]
Yeah, you've heard about the Supreme Court ruling and its fallout. It's been blogged, re-blogged, hashed and rehashed.
So what do folks on the street think of it all? Watch the video and find out.Trouble viewing? Try the YouTube version.
A local Girl Scouts troop is speaking out against major Nationals advertiser ExxonMobil. According to a press release from The Coalition to Strike Out Exxon:
The Washington Nationals ballpark is the first stadium to be LEED Silver Certified by the U.S. Green Building Council ... Yet the Nationals continue to accept millions of advertising dollars from [...]
This morning a City Paper staffer walked into my office ridiculing this morning's WaPo Metro feature about toenails. He said it looked like a lame story, typical empty daily feature fare.
I'd read it at breakfast and liked it quite a bit. What I liked more than the story itself was the amazing photo presentation [...]
For a guy who doesn’t live in one, Mark Stein sure knows a lot about states. The D.C. resident’s book, How the States Got Their Shapes, delves into the geographic biographies of the 50 messed-up pieces of land that made the cut——with the District’s wonky diamond thrown in for good measure. The book promises to [...]
You don't have to be PoP to obsess about homes that are not yours. This is one of the city's great pastimes: walking its blocks and gawking at its homes. We are all rubberneckers for a great built-in library, interesting stained-glass, a well-manicured yard, a big, well-lit living space.
Then there are the mystery buildings–the places [...]
DCist's Photo of the Day today is an ultrasound of poster Chris Klimek's friend's triple fetuses in her double uteri. You have been warned.
Writes Klimek: "Sorry, Flickr users, today's Photo of the Day comes from a local whose achievement in the field of biological, if not photographic, excellence dusts all y'all suckers."
Hey, I'm not [...]
