After months serving as interim Attorney General, Peter Nickles finally gets the mayor's nomination, as expected. But he still lives in Arlington, here, so far as I can tell from Nexis:
Apparently this Rosslyn condo compound has a nice view of the fireworks. Maybe Nickles is just waiting 'till after the Fourth.
For this week's S&T, I spoke to Bill Duggan, owner of Adams Morgan anagram bar Madam's Organ. Since 2000, Duggan's been sparring with the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration over the issue of occupancy in his bar: ABRA said he was limited to 99 patrons, the number of seats on his restaurant license's certificate of occupancy; [...]
Any time you have the opportunity to use the word "imponderable," you should use it.
It's a great word. It has a great sound. (Test it out, let it roll off your tongue.) And best of all, it conjures up images of bespectacled old professors, ranting U.S. senators on the floor, and 1940s sleuths hot [...]
In August, Simon & Schuster will publish David Carr's memoir, The Night of the Gun, in which the New York Times reporter investigates his (according to the PR patter) "odyssey through addiction, recovery, cancer, and life as a single parent of twin girls." Interesting! Alas, the publisher hasn't thought to send a review copy of [...]
Clinton and Obama held their first joint appearance last night at the Mayflower hotel. I happened to walk by just after an angry woman had some freakout and took her shirt off.
Yesterday's other Supreme Court ruling: the court struck down a law that imposed stricter rules super-rich candidates who finance their own political campaigns.
Doug Jemal [...]
Dan Snyder's beggarly theme park chain, Six Flags, broke another record yesterday.
Not a good record, alas.
During Thursday's trading on Wall Street, a share of stock in Six Flags (SIX) was going for $1.42.
That's the lowest price in the stock's history.
And this after Six Flags management has thrown all sorts of tricks at potential customers and [...]
A brief perusal of Roget's suggests a galaxy of promising adjectives for describing one's reaction to a troubling Supreme Court decision.
For one, there is "troubled." "Shocked," "outraged," and "concerned" come to mind. Further options include "chagrined," "mortified," "aggrieved," "offended," "incensed," "riled up," and "scared shitless."
In their press releases, however, District politicos have [...]
Last week, we reported that D.C.'s Best Dance Night would be moving on up to Club Five this Saturday. Now, it looks like the event will by moving across the street to MCCXXIII, at 1223 Connecticut Ave. NW. Club Five had its license suspended earlier this month after a stabbing occured in the club. Five [...]
Yesterday, we reported that D.C. Superior Court has installed an urgent-care clinic for mentally-ill defendants. The new clinic is being spearheaded by both the court and the Department of Mental Health as well as the Psychiatric Institute of Washington.
According to Phyllis Jones, DMH's spokesperson, the clinic has seen five people between Monday and Wednesday. One [...]
The boy-and-his-dog tale at the heart of David Wroblewski’s debut novel, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, is deeply observed, as symbolically deep as any epic, and most surprising of all, devoid of easy sentiment. After all, the rough outlines of the novel would be perfect for a three-hanky affair: Edgar Sawtelle is a mute adolescent [...]
It's here. Former Gawker Emily Gould's book proposal. According to New York, it's "a first-person "assortment of semi-cautionary tales,"... with chapters organized around Emily's tattoos." Somehow, even if I had tattoos, I don't think I could sell a book on my crazy misadventures in alt-weeklies.
Former ANC 5B-10 commissioner Kathy Henderson tends to draw strong reactions from the people she encounters. She's a scrapper, known for throwing all her energy into filing complaints, writing letters and putting politicians on the spot. When she relinquished her seat last year to run for city council, she had her teenage daughter, India, [...]
A few months ago, I wrote a story about a man who believed the D.C. handgun ban would be determined unconstitutional once and for all by the Supreme Court.
Well, he was right!
The man, James Wiggins Jr., had long been licensed as a handgun instructor teaching security officers and others. But, he was so confident [...]
One of beer’s holy grails has arrived in D.C.
The coveted beer is Mikkeller, the brainchild of two Danish homebrewers who joined forces in 2006 and within a few short years were producing some of the best tipples in the world. On Ratebeer, the Internet’s largest beer site, all of the brewery’s current batches rank in [...]
First the out-of-town eggers, now this disturbing news from the Cleveland Park listserv:
Not only have eggings taken place since about 3 weeks ago or so, but obscenities have been chalked onto sidewalks. And another thing: I'm sorry to have to go into details on this, but sticky-backed sanitary pads have been left on sidewalks and [...]
