Today in The New Republic, Gabriel Sherman takes a long look at what the subhead calls the "messy collapse of a great newspaper," the Washington Post. There are some great moments in there, like when Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli kills a spider in the car of Katharine Weymouth, the Post's publisher.
Strangely, though, Sherman's Twitter [...]
Yesterday John Catoe, the suddenly retiring general manager of Metro, sat down with 11 local bloggers, including folks from Greater Greater Washington, We Love DC, and Prince of Petworth. Some of these people have already written up their meetings.
"I'm a little dumbfounded," says We Love DC's Tom Bridge of Catoe's resignation. "We had no indication [...]
Today he's supposedly out of a job. Coincidence?
[Greater Greater Washington]
Tim Carman was on Warren Rojas' chat today, and a reader asked him about the difference between D.C. and Virginia's dining scenes. CARMAN:
But the main difference is that NoVa is stuffed with great ethnic eateries: Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and on and on. It's a matter of economics. The lower rents afforded by surburban [...]
Virginia! It's probably a 20 minute bike ride from you, yet when did you last think about D.C.'s western neighbor? Was it when you saw a group of young men exit a car on 18th Street NW wearing shorts in sub-freezing weather? Was it when you wanted some decent pho? Was it when Bob McDonnell [...]
In March 2006, about a month after I started working at City Paper, Staff Writer Huan Hsu wrote a characteristically awesome piece about the lily-whiteness of this newspaper's staff.
It’s not all that surprising that the Washingtonian is a really white magazine. It would seem a much bigger problem for the City Paper, which purports to [...]
People are what make games fun. The jokes and reactions to turns of fortune build to humorous levels that at times are more memorable than any stakes that were won or lost....A Bourre' game is tailor made for such foolishness, maybe that's why it's so popular in South Lousiana....So gather up a half-dozen or so [...]
It all started with a card game on whose rules no one can agree. In Mike Wise's landmark article in today's Washington Post, we learn that the roots of Gilbert Arenas' current woes were a not-so-friendly game of "boo-ray."
The Wizards' Javaris Crittenton, Wise writes, "already angry over a dispute over the game's rules, became irate [...]
Mike Wise's description of the incident that has led to Gilbert Arenas' Waterloo is amazing.
A brief-as-possible summary:
Hello and welcome to the last morning roundup of whatever the name of that decade we just had was (valiant attempt here)! I am in Scotland and don't know anything that's going on at home, so this may not be too informative. (Unless you want to know about Ant & Dec's Christmas show!) But if [...]
Hey, this isn't a blizzard, if I'm reading my weather-geek info properly. The specifics on different sites vary, but the conditions for the proper use of the term are very similar. A blizzard has:
High winds. The Canadian government says winds of 40km/hr (25mph) or more. Weather.com says 35mph.
Significantly reduced visibility.
Wind chill that brings the temperature [...]
Thank you for honoring the tradition of content below the headline, but all I have to say is in the title of this post.
Holy crap! Vinny Cerrato resigned!
After the jump, the morning roundup I was working on before I read that.
I cannot believe the Washington Post let her spread her incoherent writing and bizarre antecdotes all over its pages, AGAIN: I am speaking, of course, about DeNeen L. Brown, the Post staffer responsible for Beaujon's iron law about Style section pieces: Their quality is in inverse proportion to their use of italics. EXAMPLE! But today, [...]
I would not pay an extra price .25 for writing like this!
