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Morning all. Big news of this Dead Week Tuesday is that a tree fell. Indeed, early on Tuesday morning, three [...]
As much local politics as humanly possible. Send your tips, releases, stories, events, etc. to lips@washingtoncitypaper.com. And get LL Daily sent straight to your inbox every morning!
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—Famous Channel 4 sportscaster George Michael dies at 70. Also, more on the snowball fight, as City Desk reports on an effort by D.C. police [...]
What was it they said about road travel around Christmastime? Something about it being less intense than Thanksgiving, more spread out, less of an issue? That, anyhow, is the conventional wisdom, as parroted by this source, which claims that trips increase by 54 percent around T-giving and just 23 percent around Xmas/New Year's.
Washington Post editorial aide Stephen Lowman was at 14th and U on Saturday when the controversial snowball-fight-cum-police-indiscretion went down. He wasn't there on assignment–he was just taking it all in.
And take it all in he did. He eye-witnessed the snowball fest and the cop waving around a gun, not to mention all the hubbub that [...]
There'll be a lot of attention paid this week to how well the administration of Adrian M. Fenty cleans up the snowstorm. Will it get to the rezzy streets soon enough? Will it send all those Bobcats into the alleys to help people get out of their garages? Will it come up with a bunch [...]
The scene a few blocks from Logan Circle this afternoon: An enormous Cadillac is cruising down the street, barely getting by thanks to the recent work of a city snowplow.
When a record snowstorm hits the area, what do we all have in common? Views on gay marriage–no. Race–no. Feelings about fruitcake–no.
We're all shut-ins, that's what.
OK, let's play the Bad Gift Idea Guessing Game: What is the thing pictured to the right?
There's some great journalism coming in on the resignation of Vinny Cerrato as the right-hand man of Redskins Owner Daniel Snyder. Here's a piece on the difficult relationship between the VP and Coach Jim Zorn. Another piece discusses the challenges down the road. Not to mention a look-back at the Cerrato era.
Yet the still-remaining question [...]
Washington social doyenne Sally Quinn has made a career out of party etiquette. She knows what food to serve, what atmosphere to create, what to wear, precisely where to seat the married couples (not together, dammit!).
The author of a new Washington Post Style section column on entertaining as well as a book on the same [...]
A piece of advice to the holiday shopper: When contemplating a gift purchase out there in mall-land, ask yourself this question: Is this gift a solution to a problem that actually exists?
It's a question that'll do wonders in evaluating Frontgate's hilarious "Shaving Pedestal." Also known as item #1061 in the Frontgate catalog, this is [...]
OK, I've heard enough: The D.C. government, if I were King Adrian M. Fenty, would freeze all funding for nonprofit social service providers till each and every one of them could show documentation that they deserve their earmarks. That's the lesson from Washington City Paper's midsummer audits of the nonprofits that Ward 8 Councilmember Marion [...]
The Bad Gift Seeker this afternoon went to the categorical motherlode of useless stuff. Kitchen accessories, that is. My theory is that every bush-league inventor spends an inordinate amount of time in the kitchen. They see all the painstaking tasks that must be done in order to put a fine meal on the table. And [...]
Apologies for all those faithful readers who count on seeing this classic annual City Desk series hit the Web a bit earlier in the holiday season, the better to steer people away from reckless gifting decisions.
That said, let's get right into it, via ever-reliable supplier of ridiculous implements and innovations Hammacher Schlemmer. To begin [...]
The Washington Post's corrections policy takes an institutional approach to blame-taking. No one gets called out for screwing up, not even by position. Here's how the standard correction reads:
A Dec. 5 Page One article incorrectly said that Ben Edwards is the only doctor within a 45-mile radius of Post, Tex. Edwards is the only [...]
