From Ward 7 Councilmember Yvette Alexander's Web site:

A federal judge in Tampa has just ruled in favor of Creative Loafing Inc. CEO Ben Eason in a bankruptcy struggle with the company's main creditor, Atalaya Capital Management. Holder of $31 million in Creative Loafing debt, Atalaya was seeking to gain control of the company. The court denied Atalaya's motions and directed the two [...]

You may notice some changes to the City Paper website today, most notably the removal of the events/restaurants/movies search widget on the right hand side of the page. We've been debating this change for a while now and looking at the usage stats, and we decided that the widget was doing more to create visual [...]

The biggest story over the weekend concerned a videotape that allegedly showed Ashley Biden, the 27-year-old daughter of VP Joe Biden, snorting cocaine and cussing.
The New York Post reported that lawyer Thomas Dunlap had come to the paper while trying to sell the tape to media outlets for as much as $2 million. Dunlap was [...]

...because Fox isn't going to help theaters pay for them.
So look for another buck or two to be added to the already-inflated price of watching movies with an extra dimension soon.

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Morning all. Man, slow news day today! That means, per Peter Nickles, that LL has to kick off with a mayoral travel item: After four-day mystery vacay, Mayor Adrian [...]

In Shaw writes on chickens in the city: "As I remember, I thought there were laws on the books that in one way or another say no to chickens. Just to make sure I checked The City Chicken, which according to it's chicken law page says, 'Washington D.C. Housing chickens here violates health laws [...]

Thousands of issues of the Catholic University of America’s student newspaper, The Tower, were stolen and thrown into recycling bins across campus on Friday evening.
Several issues of the paper were ripped up and placed in front of the newspaper office, and a comic that ran in the paper was ripped out and taped next to [...]

Neighborhood Listservs are no place to notify the neighborhood of local businesses that may serve the neighborhood. Or so says our friend Bill D over on the mostly-entertaining Second-Best Neighborhood Listserv. Uncle Bill offers this plea to his fellow angry Adams-Morganers:
Can we limit or eliminate the commercial use of the listserv?  It doesn't matter if [...]

Rob Tannenbaum must be the last person I know who believes in the power of the press—every time his Good for the Jews project comes to town, he e-mails me, hoping for a pick in City Paper. My answer has always been the same: I'll tell the calendar editor. Until recently, I couldn't write about [...]

On its first submission to the MPAA, Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno has received an NC-17 rating, according to The Wrap.
Though trailers for the film are not yet available, Cohen screened 20 minutes of his follow-up to Borat at SXSW earlier this month. Highlights included the following shenanigans from the character, a gay Austrian journalist:
–holding [...]

Another day, another update about the bankruptcy case filed by Creative Loafing, our parent company.
Apparently a judge in the bankruptcy court will announce tomorrow if Creative Loafing's current owners can continue owning us and the rest of the chain, or if Atalaya, a creditor owed oodles (and a firm that also owns Bennigans), will be [...]

The GW Hatchet has released their April Fools' issue a bit early this year, featuring fake stories about the school mascot undergoing torture, former VP Cheney taking over GW Hospital, and a fake Twitter account of their university president.
For the staffs of college newspapers, it's the one day of the year it's okay to just [...]