The D.C. Council's right there, too!
It's busy times in the office of council budget director Eric Goulet, who has the requisite amount of paperwork in his office—tons!—to prove he's worthy of his title. It's a messy office, but an organized messy. "I'll show you my folders," he exclaims.
And indeed he does. There's the folder [...]
It's 9:30 a.m. at Whitman Walker's Max Robinson Center in Anacostia. In the HIV testing area, a woman and a man are filling out their sexual histories on a piece of paper. Some of the questions:
Have you used IV drugs in the last 12 months?
Have you had sex while intoxicated?
When having anal receptive sex (was [...]
The standard profile of a crossing guard is pedestrian–a nice, smiling face who wants to help people get from point A to B. But the woman stationed at the intersection of 19th Street and Virginia Avenue NW is breaking the mold.
This blog item was reported by Jule Banville and written by Erik Wemple
"Obama! [...]
Inspiration galore, a fountain of good will, even as we the passengers of a small seventeen-row jet from Portland, Maine, flowed into one of the outlying concourses at Dulles International and the throng there. Maine is largely white and the District thankfully is not and at this airport, a way station for the District (and [...]
On Saturday, the Washington Post published a story about how District residents had sent dozens of e-mails to city officials demanding that a teenager suspected in some 21 muggings and robberies be kept behind bars, after he had been released twice after being judged incompetent to stand trial.
"As of [Friday] night, he hadn't been" released, [...]
From the streets:
"DId you just say it sent chili down your spine?"
–girl on phone, 16th Street NW
"Don't touch my mouth!"
–one guy to another, Adams Morgan
"Fuck you like a unicorn!"
–shouted at me as I rode my bike down R Street between 9th and 10th
blond woman: "Have either of you guys been to Vegas?"
bald guy: [...]
Overheard on D.C. streets:
"You've got to respect other people's baloneys."
–One little kid to another, coming out of the swimming pool
"Will there be white men there?"
–Sorority type on cellphone at 15th and Q NW
"I've got a lot of fat on my legs. (Pause) Do you like eighties music?"
–Two guys getting to know each [...]
During a nighttime traffic stop that resulted in drunk-driving charges, Shadow Sen. Paul Strauss repeatedly brandished his U.S. Senate badge to police officers, court documents say.
The records also indicate that Strauss' blood-alcohol level was at twice the legal level of intoxication after his Oct. 1 arrest, which was first reported two weeks ago by City [...]
That's right: more from last night on U Street.
[Footage courtesy of Amanda Hess and Ted Scheinman]
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Obama may win the District of Columbia with a margin of, like, 82 to 13.
Meaning: It's no problem walking around town and finding Obama supporters. It's like air.
A stiffer challenge attaches to finding McCain types out and about. That's what we did, and here are the results, as narrated by correspondent-in-the-field Franklin Schneider:
Responses [...]
Delaney Projections Done Right:
I thought of all my friends from one end of the country to the other and how they were really all in the same vast backyard doing something so frantic and rushing about.
—Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Overheard at the laundromat on 7th Street NW:
"I need to call that bitch and get some counseling!"
- one man to another, both waiting for laundry
"With kneepads, you can face the world!"
woman to man playing Pac-Man
"He's lucky, he doesn't have to stand in line to vote. He's in a wheelchair."
attendant to customer
"I'm voting for [...]
Washington City Paper is breaking all sorts of longstanding traditions to endorse Arthur Delaney for Advisory Neighborhood Commission seat 6B08.
City Paper has never endorsed candidates as an institution, typically leaving that job to crack political reporter Loose Lips. And Loose Lips has never endorsed candidates in advisory neighborhood commission races, considering those pissant offices well [...]
"I got a good heart and a wet butt."
- one garbageman to another, 6th Street NW
"They're pretty well-behaved but sometimes I have to hit them with a mop."
-guy in a jumpsuit at Giant on 7th Street NW
"It's thrifty, but it smells good."
- on the Metro
"It's a shot of espresso over vanilla ice cream. I [...]
Anxiety about the number of teens milling around downtown spots like the Gallery Place Metro stop and Fuddruckers prompted a special meeting of the Downtown Neighborhood Association this month.
"Our increasingly popular downtown sometimes creates new and unexpected challenges that the community must meet. One is unsupervised teens who are coming downtown in increasing numbers, creating [...]
