A day after local poo-bahs at DYRS opened its New Beginnings Youth Center, a New Beginnings inmate escaped.
With much fanfare, the facility replaced the infamous Oak Hill juvenile detention facility. Officials had trumpeted its very un-jail like citing; local media had repeatedly compared it to a college campus. "This is the anti-prison," Vincent N. Schiraldi, [...]
Bubbling with twice-distilled resentment that borders on the absurd, Edward Albee's 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? got the ball rolling on familial voyeurism in the decades immediately following World War II. We can thank Albee (among others) for desensitizing us to reality television, American Idol, and Yo Momma.
In my pick for today, [...]
Pixar vet Pete Docter has made you laugh with his directorial debut, Monsters, Inc. And now — well, he's going to make you laugh again with Up, a rather odd-sounding story about the friendship that develops between a 78-year-old widower named Carl (Ed Asner) and an 8-year-old boy named Russell (Jordan Nagai) when the kid [...]
Well, LL is assuming this is fake.
In any case, Twitter user "fentydc" is off to a strong start:
Storms ruining my planned evening work out. May have to limit it to running 12 miles 44 minutes ago from Power Twitter
And YES, I am driving myself home tonight about 1 hour ago from web
@FamousDC That guy is [...]
Horses, 2001
Neil O. Albert, outgoing deputy mayor for planning and economic development, is not happy with some of the D.C. Council's budget proposals. He dispatched a letter [PDF] today to councilmembers taking issue with several proposals contained in budget legislation scheduled for a second and final vote on Tuesday.
Two of the issues involve the fates of [...]
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LL will be talking with host Bruce DePuyt about Mayor Adrian Fenty's recent mea culpa streak, the move to have a gay marriage referendum, and more.
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Maybe you are sick of hearing about the DeOnte Rawlings case. The 14-year-old was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer on September 17, 2007. That's a long time ago. By now, the off-duty cops have been cleared by the U.S. Attorney's Office and the D.C. Police Department. Law enforcement contends that Rawlings had [...]
Last week, on his way out of the door for a long weekend, LL threw up a post about how D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, faced with threats from the D.C. Council to cut $27 million from her fiscal 2010 budget over an enrollment dispute, had sent letters to her principals telling them that [...]
The Washington Times is reporting the Redskins have cut longtime right tackle Jon Jansen, after he turned down a quit-or-be-cut offer from Dan Snyder.
Rokey W. Suleman II will be the new executive director of the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics, the board announced today. He's coming to the District after running elections in Fairfax County.
LL was on the Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU-FM during election season last fall when Suleman called in to talk about Fairfax's early [...]
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—"Adrian Fenty's Smart Car Got a Speeding Ticket"
Morning all. LL's gonna plug a couple of WCP must-reads here, the first being news that Mayor Adrian [...]
Or just go to the art houses and avoid that conundrum altogether. Follow the links for reviews:
Up: Can't imagine what an animated movie about an old geezer, a boy scout, and a floating house could possibly offer? It's Pixar, so plenty.
Drag Me to Hell: Sam Raimi's return to horror is at an astonishing 94 percent [...]
In which Erik gives prop to former CP reporter Jessica Gould, scolds the Examiner for "buying the tort reformers' angle," refuses to read Baltimore Gay Life, and dings the auto section of the Washington Hispanic for overstepping its advertorial bounds.
PLUS: A stirring bonus segment in which Erik lobs a BIG ONE at CP's own glass [...]
