I wrote a column this week about the killing of Sal Culosi, shot three years ago last weekend by Fairfax County SWAT officer Deval Bullock. At the time of his death, Culosi was under investigation for sports betting.
Nobody was ever charged with any crimes in either the gambling investigation or the killing of Culosi, who [...]
Well, not quite yet. But PRNewswire reports that the first 3D adult film will be released this March, its technology compatible with the same glasses that will be required to enjoy the effects of the 3D commercials to be broadcast during the Super Bowl.
The name of the movie is Tommy Gunn's Cummin' at You!, and [...]
Some of the biggest names in indie cartooning are sounding alarms over various alt-weeklies shedding their comics (I recently wrote about how we were, sadly, ahead of the curve on that one). Max Cannon of "Red Meat" calls it a "comics apocalypse" and says that if the "humble $10 to $20 that I generally get [...]
In yesterday's Loose Lips Daily, LL referred icily to the anti-District voting rights stance of Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who holds firmly that the D.C. House Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. LL said the new, famously office-dwelling congressman is "playing armchair constitutional expert," seeing as the man holds no law degree and spent his professional [...]
To the students of California private parochial schools, a word of advice: be careful who you hug in the hall. Or at home, or in My Space photos.
Yesterday, the Fourth District Court of Appeal in San Bernardino, Calif. ruled that California Lutheran High School in Riverside County is allowed to expel students it believes to [...]
As loyal readers know, I have recently been given the coveted beat of covering Dionne Warwick almost full time. Warwick was to host one of the American Music Inaugural Balls–specifically the Legends Ball. The Legends Ball, along with the Urban Ball, were canceled at the last minute. This left a lot of people pissed off [...]
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As Loose Lips pointed out earlier, President Obama's jab at D.C. over school closings inspired a veritable roundup of press commentary. Our own web servers groaned under the load of a 1000-2000% increase in snow-related blog comments (compared to our seasonal average).
In the video after the jump, NBC's Pat Collins heads to the one street [...]
The Stranger's Dan Savage didn't like that Barack Obama asked Rick Warren to speak at his Inauguration, so, in the same subversive tradition that gave us Santorum, Savage commissioned readers of his column in Washington City Paper and other outlets to assign "Saddlebacking" (coined after Warren's Saddleback Church) to a sex act. Here's what Savage's [...]
If Jeff Jarvis had his way, this post would not exist. In his new book "What Would Google Do?," Jarvis lays out a number of rules to help dead tree newspaper types and corporations in general face the new online reality–including "do what you do best and link to the rest."
Just like the newspaper industry [...]
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Morning all. LL's new buddy Marion Barry is back in the [...]
In December came the execution of Sunday Source. Now Book World. At the same time, top editors are taking aim at duplication, yielding a fun little brouhaha over "Appreciations."
None of it surprises. Ever since classified sales essentially absented themselves from the Washington Post, this type of haircut/retrenchment/gutting was inevitable. I really liked Book World, [...]
Though I haven't wavered from my original opinion of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — and heard ripples of shared astonishment over the film's 13 Oscar nominations — it's sometimes reassuring to get backup on one's unpopular opinion.
Ran across this conversation between New York Times critic A.O. Scott and New Yorker's David Denby thanks [...]
The performers you see on area stages? They're professionals. They work their tails off to entertain you, to move you, to get it right night after night.
Sometimes that can be dull. Sometimes that can lead to moments like this one, in which singer Tracy Lynn Olivera — currently appearing as Fantine in the Signature [...]
