I am biased against the Safeway on Columbia Road NW. I respectfully disagree with my former colleague Jule Banville, who wrote a stirring defense of this store; I have never forgiven the store for only de-grubbing itself once Harris Teeter moved in nearby. Because the Safeway near me, in Alexandria? It's delightful! But the one [...]

Rome had Vandals. The Palins had Levi. And American democracy is now on the brink, thanks to a pair of fauxialites! If you have ever harbored any doubt that this is the greatest country in the world, let us recap some of the events of what may be its last week!

Welcome to what stands to be the least-read City Desk post of all time! Above, please find a photo of my brother-in-law. As you can see, the lessons on how to dress himself are going well! More important, that man can fry a turkey. By the time you read this, I will be at his [...]

There's almost no time left to board the BANDWAGON...on Sunday, the Skins' one-game winning streak will run smack into a bunch of Cowboys players pissed that they got spanked by Green Bay. The Washington team is an 11 point unfavorite in this matchup, no one thinks their coach or quarterback will return next year, and [...]

I must differ from my great former colleague Angela Valdez, who wrote one of City Paper's most popular blog items of all time about her difficulties buying a ticket for the Bolt Bus.
HOWEVER! I, with 40-some other Washingtonians in stodgy coats often made of polar fleece, rode this bus to New York City yesterday afternoon, [...]

Lou Dobbs has left CNN! Absent the stain of his nativist zealotry, the cable network can get back to journalism. It's too bad Dobbs' immigration obsession overshadows what was often an eloquent, and lonely, concern about America's middle class. I am a member of this group and now have no money, probably because of all [...]

Thanks to reader Wendell Wolff for pointing out that I ran the wrong solution in last week's Ink Well crossword puzzle. The solution should have been for issue 44's "Starting Something," not issue 43's "Action!" Sorry about that, and here's the correct solution under the jump.

Don your plus-fours and button up your waistcoat! Dandies and Quaintrelles, a mysterious group of District fops, is planning the first-ever D.C. Tweed Ride, during which people who dress like this (though that cycling machine would never pass muster) will circumnavigate notre petite ville, tittering at bon mots and, one hopes, moving quickly enough to [...]

Real Talk With Andrew Beaujon™: What is weighing on you most heavily this morning: The death of Claude Lévi-Strauss...or the impending release of DROID?
If you picked DROID, keep reading!

"I love how it's young but at the same time intellectual," he says. "You can walk down the street and you meet 10 different people and everyone has their own cause and purpose." —Mike Manning of The Real World: D.C., quoted in Dan Zak's piece on the show's house.
Isn't it amazing how someone can [...]

Every day I think, I can no longer bear to read another story eviscerating Redskins ownership. Then something as marvelous as Mike Wise's profile of John Kent Cooke arises, and I think, I will happily read about this team for the rest of my life!
Ladies and gentlemen, the Kent Cookes! The landed gentry of Middleburg, [...]

(1700 block of S. Eads Street, Arlington, Oct. 17)

With little more than two weeks to go, Virginia's gubernatorial race is the talk of the nation. Actually, it's really not since no one thinks Creigh Deeds can win, but here are some good reasons to pay it no mind anyway:

Yellow Line in the direction of Huntington, Oct. 13, 11 p.m.-ish. (Click to enlarge.)

Some marvelous corporation has dropped a gigantic cube into the heart of Adams Morgan. Sadly, it has not landed on and crushed anyone I dislike. But perhaps it indicates great entertainment to come for people who pay to watch TV. In America, there is always hope.
Hey! It's Thursday! Pick up our paper. It has [...]