If you've ever honked in Dupont Circle because you think Scientology is a cult, well then grab your Guy Fawkes mask. May 24 is your chance to act on the familiar weekend chant (Free Katie Holmes! Free Katie Holmes!). The bobbed wonder, fresh from All My Sons (which Entertainment Weekly hilariously and mistakenly refers to [...]
Today's B1 news: "We think it will be positive for everyone involved in the organization that we now have a plan to address the cloud of debt that we've been walking around with for years," Kenneth S. Slaughter, chairman of the Boys and Girls Clubs' board, told WaPo regarding the decision to close four area [...]
For three months of the year—tax season—Don and his wife, Linda, move into an office above a jumbo slice shop in Adams Morgan. In the third-floor space, there's a futon where they sleep at night. By day, it's set up as a spot for clients to talk with Linda, who does the initial work on [...]
This just published on D.C.'s best Listserv is too good not to post:
I am a little horrified that the moaning and groaning from the neighbors is a deterent for doing business in Cleveland Park, I'd just assumed that rent was prohibitively high. Now I'm annoyed. People should keep in mind that there are a lot [...]
Cleveland Park isn't a neighborhood smacking of huge displays of sports fandom. But Libby Kavoulakis, 45, is a lifelong, season-ticket-holding Steelers fan. And besides, she says, "we're world champions." So she put up two banners, one on her garage and another, larger one across the second story of her house on Reno Road at Warren [...]
In case you missed it: Jason Cherkis' cover story this week goes beyond Fenty's funeral platitudes about domestic abuse. Cherkis' reporting shows holes in the timeline that begins with a 911 call made by a child later found dead—a call no one's talking about because the incident was "very fatal." It ends with the fire [...]
Neighborhood Listservs are no place to notify the neighborhood of local businesses that may serve the neighborhood. Or so says our friend Bill D over on the mostly-entertaining Second-Best Neighborhood Listserv. Uncle Bill offers this plea to his fellow angry Adams-Morganers:
Can we limit or eliminate the commercial use of the listserv? It doesn't matter if [...]
Who among you is an expert on local sausages, French fries, delis, and fried pork chops? We've got you by your monkey balls, monkeyrotica. First, we poked you in our Content Bankruptcy filing for complaining about City Paper on sites that are not owned and operated by City Paper. Now you're all over our shit.
Don't [...]
Today, if there is anything out there that is holy, City Paper's long, blurb-filled journey ends. Our second Best Of D.C. issue since 1987 hits with a thud (it's heavy, people, so plan accordingly). And, because we can, we celebrate not just the best, but the second-bests throughout our land. We've always had a soft [...]
For a pilot about the FBI that may or may not get picked up for a show that stars someone who recently wrapped a miniseries shoot with Treat Williams, CBS Paramount plans to explode a boat in D.C.
Karyn LeBlanc, director of communications for the D.C. Dept. of Transpo, says the explosion will happen on the [...]
* Morning, all. You've heard by now the sad fact: Natasha Richardson, versatile actress, mother of two boys, wife and daughter of famous people, died at 45 in a rather freakish accident on a bunny slope. Several of us in the office have bonded over loving Love Actually, in which Liam Neeson plays an alarmingly [...]
Maryland State Del. Bill Frick (D-Montgomery County) sent a letter Monday to the superintendent of Rock Creek Park as an appeal to close Beach Drive to car traffic for an extended period. Currently, the park road popular with cyclists, Rollerbladers, runners, etc., opens at 7 p.m. That's all well and good when it's winter, but [...]
Some time ago, a member of the Burleith Listserv posted a scathing item about her neighbor, Georgetown University. The venerable college, she claimed, was slaying cats left behind by irresponsible coed renters. At the least, she wrote, officials were trapping them and delivering them to kill shelters.
"Renee202" also worried the college was sealing kitties in [...]
Morning, all. Fresh, local content out today. In case you missed it: Our cover story looks at the lonely life of the D.C. bike helmet. Amazing what you all will risk for good hair. Also: Housing Complex's Ruth Samuelson takes a drive over to fantasyland, aka Brightwood; The Sexist's Amanda Hess explores your conscience; Young [...]
D.C. police today cordoned off the 1700 block of Corcoran Street NW thinking they had a bead on the burglar(s) terrorizing via roof and skylights the residents of Dupont Circle and adjacent neighborhoods. But he got away. According to longtime local activist Rob Halligan, who's been keeping careful track of the M.O. and organized a [...]
