The National Women’s History Museum has been celebrating the contributions of American women for 12 years. So far, Congress hasn’t been in on the party.
Since its inception in 1996, the NWHM has existed solely online, collecting Mall-friendly exhibits on “Rights for Women,” “American Women in the Olympics,” and “Women Spies” on the Web at nwhm.org. [...]
Yesterday, a Jonas brother, a Jonas brother, and a Jonas brother (L to R) dropped by the District to pose alongside their very own Madame Tussauds wax likenesses, monuments to youth which will remain frozen in time as the brothers themselves slowly succumb to the winds of Time.
Tight! "As you can imagine," writes M.T. PR, [...]
Evangelical hottie alert! Today, Chinatown's Madame Tussauds wax museum welcomes three new carved celebs: Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas, those wholesome little handsomes better known as "The Jonas Brothers." Between 1:30 and 2:30 today, the real brothers Jonas will be on hand at the museum's 1025 F Street location to hang with the wax [...]
When it comes to attractive Washingtonians, the City Paper staff doesn't exactly top the list. At least we're in good company: I'm willing to bet that the average CityDesk reader has a face for bitter, anonymous Internet commentary. But surely, there must be one hidden jewel among us who can rise up above the mass [...]
* Burning question! Why employ a "guest blogger"? Get your own blog! It's easy! Still, yesterday, Prince of Petworth debuted "The Restaurant," a new series by a guest-blogger called Julian: a writer, waiter, and master of the simile. Writes "Julian": "The staff, from what I noticed up front, was attractive and friendly, yet tightly knit–like [...]
Yesterday, Olympic officials admitted that 7-year-old "Ode to the Motherland" singer Yang Peiyi was replaced on television by a lip-syncing stand-in, 9-year-old Lin Miaoke. Since the admission, much discussion, unfortunately, has centered on the girls' relative "cuteness." Today, according to the Associated Press, officials insisted that "the decision to have one girl lip-sync another's voice [...]
A couple weeks ago, Mother Jones outed longtime gun control activist Mary McFate as undercover NRA spy Mary Lou Sapone. Read the expose here for her history of infiltrating anti-gun groups. Now, activists are spreading the word to the people in the only way they know how: alarmist street fliers. I picked this one off [...]
Recently, I was lucky enough to get a hold of a copy of Missy Chase Lapine's new cookbook,The Sneaky Chef: How to Cheat on Your Man (In The Kitchen): Hiding Healthy Foods in Hearty Meals Any Guy Will Love. The book is a guide for women to sneak yucky health foods onto their man's plate, [...]
In this week's "What's Your Problem?" I spoke with performance artist Holly Bass, who challenges media stereotypes of black women by incorporating a humongous detachable butt into her routines. In order to mock-up this bigger booty, Bass invented what she calls "booty balls," a pair of basketballs that she straps on top of her own [...]
According to a "campus alert" sent today to University of Maryland students and staff, a "possible cougar" has been sighted on the College Park campus. The possible cougar has been described as "light tan and tawny brown, about 4 feet long with a 4 foot tail, and weighing about 50 pounds."
Captain John Brandt of UMD's [...]
Gina Tibbott, the George Washington University MFA grad who staged six consecutive games of on-campus SpaghettiO-pong with classmate Kenny George last May, is again fucking with your childhood nostalgia. Tibbott's new solo show, the Tibbott Family Pet Burial Recovery, opens tonight at Project 4 Gallery.
In sharp contrast to last spring's conspicuous consumption, this exhibition finds [...]
Earlier this year, Lenny Campello of Daily Campello Art News plucked promising undergraduate works from schools along the Mid Atlantic for a show at D.C.'s Longview Gallery. According to Campello, the show, while successful, slipped pretty much under the District's radar. But when the exhibit was moved this month to Mayer Fine Arts in Norfolk, [...]
* According to The Examiner, the renovated American History Museum will include some more pop culture elements—including a Bruce Willis Die Hard tee and artifacts from the X-Files. Also new: "the new viewing room for the Star-Spangled Banner, which will have extra-low levels of oxygen in order to preserve the flag." The museum re-opens November [...]
This is possibly the strangest consumerization of Obama I've seen yet:
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I think I get the joke—until he appears to get run over by a car.
According to a study conducted by "world-renowned scent scientist Alan Hirsch, M.D.," founder of Chicago's Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, banning cigarettes from bars has resulted in people smelling things other than cigarettes in bars. The study, which investigated the odors inside one smoke-free Chicago bar, was sponsored by the folks over at [...]
