On a recent visit to the National Gallery of Art, I made a pit stop at the mezzanine bathroom. Only two people stood ahead of me in line, but I still had a long wait: there were just two bathrooms and both were occupied. By the time I finished, the other bathroom was still occupied. [...]
The New York Times spends 60 hours with Spore, the new and much hyped video game from the creator of SimCity, and declares that while the product is a "scintillating, empowering toy," it is not a great game.
The Prince George's County sheriff's office has released a report showing, they say, that officers were justified in [...]
Chris Rockwell, editor of the new blog, Sansconnie: DC on Schoolnights, says his site offers the city's only unbiased nightlife agenda. "Our authors are only the truly depraved and will exploit a bar, restaurant, golf course etc. to the limits of it's decency and legality," he wrote in an email. Indeed! Rockwell himself, apparently on [...]
Everyone who chooses to become a journalist has to wonder from time to time whether they ought to have chosen a more lucrative career, or at least one with better prospects for stability. For many of us, this is one of those times. On top of that, like many journalists, I regard the rest of [...]
The UK Guardian has sent an artist to sketch his observations of the American political conventions. With the slow going in Minnesota, he's been left to contemplate the prairie, Wall Drug and the Badlands. And farmers' asses.
Photo: Steve Bell
Just Asking: Which local journo cornered Sarah Silverman in Denver and asked if she wanted a job in an Obama administration, then asked "what position" (heh, heh)? The funny lady replied with two playful "love slaps" on the reporter's cheek.
Yes, Obama delivered a great speech, direct, passionate, not at all hifalutin or snobby. But the biographical video that came first was even more amazing. It felt as earnest as the best American documentary–and it was made by "An Inconvenient Truth" director Davis Guggenheim–but at base it was artful propaganda. I could barely tell.
We're all [...]
Damien Ober, the Libertarian challenger to D.C.'s shadow senator, Paul Strauss, has turned in his petitions, hopefully with the 3,000 legit names he needs to get on the ballot. He'll find out if he made it Sept. 8. Ober says he learned a lot about the political process through the arduous work of gathering [...]
The Maryland Renaissance Festival. I've never been to one. Growing up in Oregon, I just couldn't stomach all the earnest ladies in waiting and jousting knights. But I'm gonna brave Maryland's version. Hopefully this busty Valkyrie will be back.
I was not as wise as Stephanie, who blogs about playing dress-up and getting dumped at Fashion Robot. After getting the brush off — at orientation, no less — she concludes: "I am officially becoming a lesbian or something. All dudes are too fucking girly." Well put.
Stephanie recently discovered the sub-cultural history of Doc Martens, [...]
People are lining up for free Chop't salads at the chain's new location at Metro Center. My advice: tell them to stop chopping half way through. Otherwise you end up with lettuce pudding. Yuck.
SaraH caught this pre-lunch hour shot of the line:
Borderstan, an in-between hood described here, is inching toward legitimacy here, with its own website.
Everyone is gushing about the growing popularity of scooters. They get 65+ miles per gallon and are cheap to maintain and insure. Dealerships are selling out of popular models and buyers are acting like iPhone acolytes, making goofy plays to get what they want. My mechanic at Vespa Washington told me one guy recently got [...]
From the Post, Metro might give us shorties something to hold onto.
The Christian Science Monitor reports that Cindy McCain sorta kinda made up that whole Mother Teresa story.
Meanwhile, the Christian Scientists are still suing D.C. to save their Brutalist building downtown. D.C. likes Brutal buildings.
Heads up bikers: police are ticketing errant cyclists on New Hampshire [...]
W magazine has a story out about the party-line segregation of D.C. nightlife. The commenters already have their fangs out, but I just had one quibble: since when are all liberals referred to as hipsters? The author contends that "in D.C. the term is synonymous with non-Republicans, not artsy types in tight pants and Converse [...]
