Good morning readers. And, while I have your attention, let me take a minute to join the long list of public officials and say: I’m very saddened by the Metro crash. Condolences all around. But, jeesh, it’s not the only thing to go down Monday night.
Petworth residents are perturbed by a possible new round of [...]
Well, it’s not the lawn, exactly, but the country’s most widely used weed killer that French scientists say also kills human cells and may cause miscarriages, abnormal fetal development and low birth weight babies.
Environmental Health News reports today that one of the inert ingredients in Roundup, the country’s most widely used herbicide, might not be [...]
It's interesting how artists many miles and decades apart can latch onto similar images and come to different conclusions.
Check out this work by Puerto Rican artist Papo Colo that's currently on display at this Mexico City art museum. It made me think of local artist Jefferson Pinder and his film "Mule" that was part of the memorable [...]
This sounds like a bad summertime horror movie. The kind that’s beyond ridiculous but you still can’t quite wipe from your mind.
Now Playing! Dohn-DA, dohn-DA, dohn-DA, dohn-DA … Attack of the Joyriding Jellyfish!
New research warns the spineless blobs are poised to take over the world’s oceans. It’s hard to deny the comic elements of this story [...]
The owners of Haydee’s Restaurant, who fought a nasty battle last year over live music and late hours at their flagship fajita joint in Mount Pleasant, are poised for a new go-round over their other location in Brightwood. The restaurateurs will be at the Advisory Neighborhood Commission’s 4B meeting next Monday night seeking support for turning the Georgia Avenue N.W. [...]
Last night, at the advanced screening of Food, Inc., the audience broke into cheers and boos to punctuate the filmmakers’ more salient points about what has gone wrong with our food system. Sure, the documentary was preaching to the converted; it was a Viva los Farmers Markets! crowd at the E Street Cinema. But some revelations [...]
Heavier rainfall, more scorching hot summer days, shorter winters, and spreading dead zones in the Chesapeake Bay – these are a few of the local impacts of global warming, according to a report released today by the Obama Administration.
The gist: Global warming is already here and only going to get worse.
Among the scarier scenarios for [...]
Don’t you just love it when you get your own anecdote to back up a news story?
Today, an unusual offer arrived in my inbox: a sales pitch for swine flu vaccine. All I’d have to do is send in my contact info. and a major credit card and the cure would arrive in the mail. [...]
Here's an interesting but not really shocking D.C. crime fact: The District is home to about 130 criminal street gangs and smaller crews, whose members are involved in a disproportionate number of the city’s homicides, according to the report “Responding to Gang, Crew and Youth Violence in the District of Columbia.”
Gang members make up more [...]
Did you know that much of the city’s trash is trucked to Fairfax County, where it is incinerated and turned into electricity? According to the Department of Public Works and the “waste-to-energy” industry, it's a "win-win" scenario; the trash disappears and the country reduces its dependence on foreign oil. What could be more patriotic, especially [...]
In the wake of Wednesday’s Holocaust Museum shooting, this story seems even creepier: The Government Accountability Project says racial slurs were scrawled on the walls of the World Bank’s Legal Affairs offices.
A controversy has been unleashed over, um, unleashed dogs.
It all started with a query about the Metropolitan Police Department's Second District arrest log, which certain elements in our fine city pour over, making sure no mugging, burglary or car theft goes unexamined. With all of those crimes unfolding daily, the questioner expressed a certain incredulity [...]
Even in these troubled economic times, some groups are thriving – take organized gangs of shoplifters, for instance.
According to the National Retail Federation’s fifth annual Organized Retail Crime survey, nine out of ten retailers say they’ve been robbed by organized gangs in the last year. And, nearly three-quarters of the stores and restaurants surveyed say [...]
Sorry to break this news: But it turns out that mixing caffeine and alcohol may not the best way to party all night and get up for work the next morning, chipper as ever.
The maker of the caffeinated schnapps Wide Eye has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its advertisements were “deceptive, unsubstantiated, and [...]
The Department of Energy has just launched a cool new website that maps service stations across the country – and here in the District – where you can fill’er up on biodiesel, ethanol and other “alternative fuels.”
The Google Maps page was created for policy wonks planning the cars of the future, so at least [...]
