An IHOP opened in Congress Heights three days ago. Normally, this would not qualify as big news. The International House of Pancakes isn't exactly a place of culinary wonder; its slogans are either corny ("An American Icon") or sad ("This is My IHOP"). The sorriest thing in the world isn't John McCain's new ad featuring [...]
From an anonymous tipster, not a wire report:
Guy leaves the Washington Post building, carrying a printout with the unmistakable header of something from the Post CMS. He starts editing it, using a nearby Express box as a writing surface.
Pedestrian squeezes past apparent staffer and pulls out an Express.
Postie: [Deadpan] You know, I strongly encourage [...]
According to a "campus alert" sent today to University of Maryland students and staff, a "possible cougar" has been sighted on the College Park campus. The possible cougar has been described as "light tan and tawny brown, about 4 feet long with a 4 foot tail, and weighing about 50 pounds."
Captain John Brandt of UMD's [...]
Gina Tibbott, the George Washington University MFA grad who staged six consecutive games of on-campus SpaghettiO-pong with classmate Kenny George last May, is again fucking with your childhood nostalgia. Tibbott's new solo show, the Tibbott Family Pet Burial Recovery, opens tonight at Project 4 Gallery.
In sharp contrast to last spring's conspicuous consumption, this exhibition finds [...]
Watch out, drug-sniffing dogs: You've got some competition.
According to an MSNBC.com article posted this morning, a turtle fitted with a GPS device meandered into a remote area of Rock Creek Park and led a National Park Service employee to a marijuana-growing operation.
A National Park Service employee was tracking a turtle with the gadget for research [...]
Until this weekend, I thought the Washington City Paper had really cornered the market on news about D.C. -area young drunkies and things they do while drinking.
Now, I'm not sure.
Behold this month's Washingtonian magazine, which includes a story that—I kid you not—features these things:
A lead image of a girl (kind of chubby) giving a lap [...]
Radar on the etymology of douchebag as a slang insult: might have started with Henry Miller, but also, it's really fun to say. And like S.O.B., it's a insult for men that "gets its sting" by referring to women.
Earlier this year, Lenny Campello of Daily Campello Art News plucked promising undergraduate works from schools along the Mid Atlantic for a show at D.C.'s Longview Gallery. According to Campello, the show, while successful, slipped pretty much under the District's radar. But when the exhibit was moved this month to Mayer Fine Arts in Norfolk, [...]
I am about 10 years late here, but I think I'm not alone. In July, the BBC released a DVD collection of a genius show called Spaced, which started in 1999, and concerns the weirdo adventures of two mid-twenties friends on the dole in London. The show stars Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot [...]
Dan Snyder's spooky theme park chain, Six Flags, suffered some big setbacks yesterday in its fight to keep from going all Bennigan's and Steak and Ale on us.
The haunted house at Snyder's Largo outpost pretty much burned to the ground last night. No cause for the blaze has yet been disclosed.
The Frighttorium™, as Snyder's [...]
* According to The Examiner, the renovated American History Museum will include some more pop culture elements—including a Bruce Willis Die Hard tee and artifacts from the X-Files. Also new: "the new viewing room for the Star-Spangled Banner, which will have extra-low levels of oxygen in order to preserve the flag." The museum re-opens November [...]
The most famous homer ever hit in Washington has gotten a lot of press lately. It was hit by a New York Yankee more than 50 years ago.
Mickey Mantle crushed a pitch from Senators hurler Chuck Stobbs over the left centerfield bleachers at Griffith Stadium in April 1953.
The ball completely left the stadium, and was [...]
As you can see by this sticker, which is attached to its side, the refrigerator in the employee lounge (the good one, not the one for editorial) is important to this company. If for some reason you see this refrigerator anywhere besides the employee lounge, please let us know.
It shouldn't be hard to spot—it has [...]
A week or two ago, I spent serious time commuting to and from Henson Ridge for a story on the struggling Hope VI community. As far as appearances go, the neighborhood is well-made, well-designed, and has some nifty new playgrounds. On closer inspection, teenagers still gravitate toward the decrepit rec center and crummy basketball courts, [...]
This is possibly the strangest consumerization of Obama I've seen yet:
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I think I get the joke—until he appears to get run over by a car.
