Love Snyder, and the footage looks pretty cool. (More important, this adaptation of the allegedly unadaptable graphic novel seems to have significantly less cheese potential than Wolverine.)
Now whether Watchmen will ever come out is another story. Its scheduled release is March 6, but a legal kerfuffle between 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. over development [...]
Over the objections of President-elect Barack Obama and the Democratic leadership in Congress, embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has chosen Plaxico Burress to replace Obama in the United States Senate.
The selection of Burress, the New York Giants’ star wide receiver who faces criminal charges after accidentally shooting himself in the leg last month, took lawmakers [...]
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty today named a bunch of new executive honchos to new jobs. He's tapped Gabe Klein to head up DDOT; Lee A. Smith III to take over the Department of Small and Local Business Development; Bridget Davis to take over his policy and lobbying shop; and Tracy Sandler to replace Davis at [...]
Nora Greer, a 55-year-old woman who lives in Barnaby Woods, posted a message to the Cleveland Park Listserv in the hope of finding a kidney donor. It reads:
SOS. Next year I'll need a transplant as I slip closer to acute renal failure. I haven't been able to find a compatible match from family or friends. [...]
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IN LL WEEKLY—LL's Midterm Examination: Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, two years on.
Morning all. Starting tomorrow, LL will be taking a little tropical vacay, so LLD will be in the [...]
Taking a cue from Borat's interactive Web promotion, the site from upcoming horror flick The Unborn compels you to give your pals a taste of Captain Howdy: Upload a photo and the program mashes it into a Blair Witch-style video of a chick who's already on her way to spinning heads and projectile vomit.
Hey, [...]
Jonesin' for a good local artist to check out?
Here's what City Paper said about Jason Snyder's newest show at Art Whino: "Painted on slabs of wood, sans bodies, settings, or ideological cues, the pieces in Jason Snyder’s show at Art Whino are refreshingly apolitical—a big statement in a D.C. underground-art market that’s currently bingeing on [...]
City Paper Contributor Arthur Delaney did some fine work on this week's cover story, "In Loco Parentis," which investigates how one 19-year-old who's about to "age-out" got stuck in D.C.'s foster system. She's the second in three generations of Child and Family Services: Her mother and her daughters are all part of the cycle.
Shawntaye Debrew [...]
Read Scott Martin says he never left his bike—a silver Specialized Rockhopper he bought used– untended or unlocked until, one afternoon, he did. Stopping off at a friend's Capitol Hill office building for a quick chat, Martin left his bike outside, behind a wrought iron gate and leaned into the storefront's doorway. The bike was [...]
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—"No Apple Store for D.C. Anytime Soon"
Morning all. LL's feeling pretty good after Georgetown's 74-63 road dismantling of UConn in Hartford last night.
PAGING COLBY KING—WaPo's [...]
Worst. Movie. Ever.
To those who wasted their time and money on this ludicrous bore, I'm sorry I couldn't warn you sooner.
And to those who still think the latest from Frank Miller might be worth a peek, trust me: Unless you happen to be tripping your brains out, the visuals can't save the tedium.
Scarlett [...]
Attention Bill Clinton lookalikes! You could be in a low-budget movie that hasn't yet been picked up. But it totally could be!
Washington Biz Journal just floated a little gem about a Clinton casting happening at the Ritz-Carlton Pentagon City (you know, where Lewinsky was grilled... and then allowed to shop) the weekend before the inauguration. [...]
Attention local urban sophisticates! You will not be able to visit an Apple Store in the District of Columbia anytime soon!
That scoop comes courtesy of the underappreciated, under-Webbed Current newspapers, which explained in last week's editions [PDF, see pp. 1 and 19] that plans for the District's first Apple Store are held up in a [...]
Last September, Tropical Storm Hannah blew out a breach about 125 feet long and about 50 feet deep in the wall of the C&O Canal in Maryland. It's an impressive hole, and will likely stay that way for some time.
According to Bill Justice, chief of interpretation for C&O Canal Park, repairing the "Hannah Hole" is [...]
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Morning all. On Saturday, education expert and electoral bugaboo Bill Ayers shared his thoughts on Michelle Rhee vis-a-vis Barack Obama's SecEd selection. He calls the DCPS chancellor one of [...]
