Off the Dewey Beach warpath, Scraps restaurant and bar welcomes all in need of eardrum rehabilitation. While the Rudder Deck creaks under hundreds of feet, only a few dozen regulars line the bar at Scraps, enjoying a beer in relative serenity.
Formerly Dewey Beach Club, a local fixture for nearly two decades, Scraps owner Kevin Cannatelli [...]
Earlier this month, the House banned the District from exchanging used needles and syringes with clean ones within 1,000 feet of "a public or private day care center, elementary school, vocational school, secondary school, college, junior college, or university, or any public swimming pool, park, playground, video arcade, or youth center, or an event sponsored [...]
A piece posted last night on washingtonpost.com sought to report how some folks were making money off the JK Wedding video.
The clip has more than 12 million plays on youtube.com, and, according to the writer, Tameka Kee of paidcontent.org, has "sparked a 20,000 percent increase in album sales on Amazon."
Kee attributed that amazing figure to [...]
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—"What the 2010 D.C. Budget Will Probably Look Like"; also see LL's courthouse wedding coverage at the Sexist
IN LL WEEKLY—Losing Control: The D.C. Council tries [...]
I wrote a column this week about one of the bizarrest happenings in local prep ball history, and a game I'd been hearing about for years: The 1970 summer league matchup between John Thompson's St. Anthony's squad and the Morgan Wootten-coached DeMatha.
They were the two best teams in the city back then, and played before [...]
Sex Day! We blogged it. Some of my faves: Cherkis' trio of prostitute posts. Darrow's Lorton pics. Riggs on the bike/porn shop. Godfrey! "I felt like Dad at the dinner table passing out money to his daughters." McKenna on one of the weirdest houses in D.C. "For people with boobs, the hook-up potential is at [...]
Going to the beach these days is like taking a dip in an open sewer, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The NRDC found the nation’s beaches are befouled by raw sewerage and floating debris that is not just seriously gross but a serious health hazard. This is the 19th year that [...]
The D.C. Council this evening finished their discussions on closing a $666 million budget hole through October 2010. It now falls to Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray to craft a plan that works, based on what he heard in the conference room over the last three days. LL was not in the room today, for [...]
A soggy June has Dewey Beach businesspeople gnashing their teeth. Newcomer businesses like Dewey Dogs are frantically diversifying, hoping to strike a chord with the lunch crowed, while established bars are digging in with tried-and-true drink specials and band lineups. Hotels light up their VACANCY neons and stoke the zeitgeist on billboards: welcome to Dewey. [...]
Our wacky company. Jesus, our wacky company. Today was the day a judge in Florida was due to decide how best to conduct an equity auction next month that'll presumably end our company's nearly yearlong journey through bankruptcy. She kind of punted.
But: Talk about burying the lede! Following the ruling, Creative Loafing CEO Ben Eason [...]
Describing the case as "one of the most challenging I've had in almost 32 years as a judge," Frederick H. Weisberg announced Wednesday his much-awaited verdict in the Banita Jacks murder trial: guilty.
The D.C. Superior Court judge convicted Jacks on 11 of the 12 counts she faced: four counts of felony murder, four of cruelty [...]
HAPPENING NOW: Judge Frederick H. Weisberg has found Banita Jacks guilty of the murder of her four daughters. The Post reports:
Weisberg convicted Jacks on four counts of felony murder in the girls' deaths. Weisberg also found Jacks guilty of first-degree premeditated murder in the deaths of the three youngest girls but acquitted her on the [...]
In a city like Washington with so many workaholics counting on fast food joints for sustenance, this story has maximum gross out potential: Despite those pervasive bathroom signs directing employees to wash up after using the loo, more than half of all fast-food industry workers don’t bother, according to a new study by the Federal Drug [...]
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—"Still Livetweeting D.C. Budget Negotiations"; "Dominican Mayor Says $11,000 Paid for Trucks That Never Came"
Morning all. The earmarks may be gone: Council Chairman Vincent C. [...]
