This morning, D.C.'s Child and Family Services Agency was once again the subject of a U.S. District Court hearing. The issue before Judge Thomas F. Hogan: Whether to hold the city in contempt for violating his court order and failing to meet stipulated benchmarks.
The plaintiff's, Children's Rights, a New York-based advocacy law firm which specializes [...]
$201 million in five days. That's the astonishing amount of box office Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has earned since opening Wednesday, beyond all comprehension and hope for humanity.
I started perusing reviews immediately after seeing the movie but quickly had to stop, fearing that all the good digs had already been taken and that [...]
Mark Steven, a founding moderator of the Redskins-owned message board, extremeskins.com, is now threatening to start a board to compete against Dan Snyder.
Steven, posting and moderating under the screen name Om, wielded a lot of power on extremeskins back in the day. Steven was among the group of founders who sold out the board to [...]
Bail Bondsman, Late 1980's
According to WMATA, emergency personnel are responding to the Forest Glen Metro station on the Red Line. The reason: A pedestrian has reportedly been struck by "an eight-car train headed in the direction of Shady Grove...The incident took place at 4:10 p.m."
WMATA goes on to state: "Trains are single-tracking, or taking turns sharing one track [...]
The BCS's got nothing on women's football. Look what happened to the DC Divas.
The Divas kept their season going with a 27-17 win over the Pittsburgh Passion in the first round of the IWFL playoffs on Saturday at the PG Sports and Learning Complex. The Divas went into the game as the top-ranked team in [...]
Stop holding your breath, folks: It's become clear that President Barack Obama has absolutely no intention of putting Taxation Without Representation license plates on his limousine.
ABC News reporter Yunji de Nies got Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the record at this afternoon's press briefing:
This morning in U.S. District Court, Judge Thomas F. Hogan took up the on-going legal battle over the District's Child and Family Services Agency. At issue was whether or not the agency could be held in contempt. Hogan devoted much of his consternation on the how the District went about picking Dr. Roque Gerald (pictured) [...]
I had a fabulously odd meeting with Gary Clark over the weekend. The former Washington Redskins great wanted to talk about a column I wrote about an all-day tailgate party and gala that he had announced would be held at RFK Stadium on August 29. The soiree was named, among other things, the "Ultimate Tailgate [...]
From Housing Complex Day
The fishy fire truck testimony delivered last Thursday by Peaceoholics co-founder Ronald Moten before the D.C. Council was plenty dramatic, but the drama apparently did not end with the pound of the gavel.
Since then, a classic council-executive scuffle has broken out over broadcasts of the proceeding on city cable, with allegations flying that Mayor Adrian [...]
Washington City Paper, finalists in five of the highest-circulation categories for the 2009 Association for Alternative Newsweeklies Awards, has been named the first-place winner in three of them: arts criticism, media reporting/criticism, and innovation/format buster. In addition, this blog received second-place honors and staff photographer Darrow Montgomery, who received honorable mention in the 2008 awards, was named [...]
Management of the Washington Post is impressed with how the paper handled the Metro crash and the death of King of Pop Michael Jackson. Memo, after the jump, says it's now time for the sports section to shine.
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Awesome trivia about Austin Kearns: Kearns had his first RBI since May 7 during Saturday's Nats loss to the O's. He's hitting .197. Awesomer trivia about Kearns: He makes $8 million this year.
Awesomeist trivia about Kearns: He's not hurt!
Kearns is one of the many Cincinnati Reds brought to DC by disgraced and departed GM Jim [...]
