Let's play: What's in My Inbox? It's a fun game. It gives you a blog item when you're a touch hungover from the Old 97's show and blogging kind of sounds like how your stomach felt when you got home. Anyway: Today's tasty box nugget is an invitation to join the Bigfoot Sketch Project. Pete@thepaintedcave.com [...]
It's gone practically unmentioned that Restaurant Week's dinner price has jumped. It used to be $30.08. Now, it's 35.08. Lunch remains 20.08.
No biggie, right? Much has been written about the new economic stresses and strains on the restaurant industry. They're hurting just like everyone else. So, you know, make your reservations around noon, as opposed [...]
According to a study conducted by "world-renowned scent scientist Alan Hirsch, M.D.," founder of Chicago's Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, banning cigarettes from bars has resulted in people smelling things other than cigarettes in bars. The study, which investigated the odors inside one smoke-free Chicago bar, was sponsored by the folks over at [...]
Chief Librarian Ginnie Cooper sent this e-mail to staffers last week explaining in detail the planned cutbacks in hours and services at the D.C. Public Library:
Date: July 24, 2008
To: All Staff
From: Ginnie Cooper, Chief Librarian
RE: Potential Impact of Adopted FY'09 Budget
NOTE: The attached memo will also be available on the DCPL Intranet
In keeping with [...]
More summer violence in D.C. The Washington Post reports the latest round of shootings and deaths in the city, including a story about the stabbing of a 12-year-old girl in Northeast.
The Post's style section also explores the reemergence of Patti Solis Doyle. Clinton's former campaign head is now the future chief-of-staff for whomever Barack Obama [...]
I know we've been warned, but I am an impossible klutz. I was wearing flip-flops (I know, I know) last night when I clipped the edge of a step on the Rosslyn escalator with my big toe. I went home and self-medicated with peroxide and Spaced. My doctor told me today I needed stitches, but [...]
The on-going battle over vending operations around Nationals Park took a step toward a resolution this afternoon. A D.C. Superior Court judge ruled against three vendors seeking to halt the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs' current practice of assigning vendors to sites outside the stadium via a lottery.
Judge Brook Hedge denied the vendors' motion [...]
This might be my final installment into the saga that is the life of Captain Melvin Gresham—a D.C. Police Department official who appears to always be in the center of intrigue and controversy. According to his civil-suit complaint filed in June, Gresham is a hero/whistle blower/all-around standup cop. To cop sources, he's a supervisor who [...]
OK, I give up. What's with the bike fixed to the fence at Euclid and Champlain Streets NW? Is it a protest against Christian Science? A demonstration of the little-heralded cantilevering abilities of U-locks? A prank played on a drunk friend? Telllllll meeeeeeeeee.
Photo of Mount Pleasant by miamabanta.
Much has been written on this blog—and others—as to whether victims of muggings/thefts/assault should try to fight back against their assailants. This craigslist missed connection, for one, gives a pretty awesome account of fighting back:
to the perv who groped me on my way home – w4m – 30 (Mt. [...]
Photo by Darrow Montgomery
Last week, I wrote my Show & Tell column about two goth nights, Spellbound and Midnight, held within blocks of each other on Saturday nights in Farragut North. A few of the comments on the piece accused me of kicking up some controversy within the goth scene with my side-by-side comparison of [...]
Well, actually, no. But somebody got the bright idea to create a writing contest based on spam subject lines, which have become oddly "newsy" of late. ("McCain to handle national security with his bare fists" is my current fave.) Weird Tales magazine is asking folks to write a story of 500 words or less based [...]
The recent terrifying muggings of a journalist and a punk rocker would normally mean nothing more than a shrug from long-time residents. Oh muggings? Not exactly news. But for some reason, both got me pretty angry. Both took place in high density areas of Adams Morgan. Both were brutal in execution.
At least in the case [...]
Last night on my evening stroll I walked by MPD cars parked at every intersection of Garfield Street in Woodley Park from Cleveland to Wisconsin and at most intersections of Macomb Street from Wisconsin down to Connecticut Ave. At one point, cops (including one in a truancy van) flipped on their lights and blocked traffic [...]
George Michael and Larry Craig in the same town for one night only!
WTOP is reporting "anxious" atmosphere in area men's rooms.*
*WTOP isn't really reporting this. But George really is at the Verizon Center tonight, and the U.S. Senate really is in session.
