One evening last month, a Glover Park resident lifted the lid of her basement toilet to find a drenched rat the size of a 20 oz. Coke bottle scurrying around the bowl. She screamed, slammed the lid, stacked books on top, ran upstairs, and Googled the phrase “what to do about a rat in the [...]
After a short hiatus from driving, I returned to the mean streets of McLean, Va. last week. Once again, our teacher was Jason. Just so you know, Jason is a very determined guy. He’s so determined that when his vegetable garden failed to thrive, he simply portioned off another area of his backyard and plunged [...]
As Michael Grass reported in yesterday’s Express, there’s controversy brewing at The Library, the newly rechristened 12th Street NE watering hole. Apparently, some neighbors don’t like the beer selection at the dive bar, and others think there’s been an increase in litter since the bar reopened.
But the most interesting criticism comes from Kee Malesky, a [...]
When the words "wireless caller" appear on the caller ID at Pizza Boli's in Brookland, general manager Nadeem Ali gets suspicious. He has to. All summer long, his deliverymen have been set up by muggers who call in orders on cell phones and proceed to ambush the drivers at the delivery point.
During the most recent [...]
For the last 11 years, the Washington Project for the Arts has operated under the umbrella of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. That will no longer be the case as of the end of 2007.
The WPA and Corcoran announced their split in a press release. "The success and strength of the WPA\C today is due [...]
Two months ago, the Washington Post reported that Montgomery County had abruptly ended talks with the Birchmere about opening an outpost in Silver Spring.
According to the Post, Live Nation, “the world’s largest producer of live concerts,” was also interested in operating a venue at the Silver Spring site, which was once home to a [...]
At 1:30 p.m. yesterday, DJ Mac was rocking out. Sandwiched between two speakers on the plaza outside the D.C. Department of Health, he blasted Parliament and
A decade ago, I climbed into my father’s car and hit the road. Like generations of fathers and daughters before us, we started slowly, circling empty parking lots and driving carefully around cul-de-sacs. We drove almost every Sunday, blasting Blondie as we tooled around Northern New Jersey.
When I turned 17, I got my license [...]
In late August, Alexandria resident Alana Hurley, 22, went to see a sword-swallowing act at the Palace of Wonders. On her way home from the H Street NE bar, she tripped on “a giant fucking hammer laying in the middle of the sidewalk.” She picked it up. “I have a lot of good ideas when [...]
The Rock & Roll Hotel will host D.C.’s second John Stabb benefit show Sept. 23, according to organizer Marc Ganancias, and will feature the bands Pup Tent, L.O.J., Alive At Last, No Image, 76% Uncertain, and Government Re-Issue (including Stabb, Tom Lyle, William Knapp and Brian Baker).
Stabb, the former frontman of the D.C. punk [...]
If you think the blogosphere is insulated from the media’s trends toward consolidation, think again. Earlier this summer, Shawington, a collection of Shaw-specific blogs, burst into cyberspace.
Shaw residents Ben Welsh and Martin Moulton created Shawington to make life easier for residents overwhelmed by the proliferation of blogs offering news about their neighborhood. (In April, [...]
There was an interesting observation embedded within Monica Hesse’s article on group houses in Monday’s Post. Of the five roommates she profiled, not one is an only child. Which made me wonder: do only children stay anti-social well into their twenties?
I’m an only child, and it took me a while to pry myself from [...]
It looks like Ron Hunt, the flamboyant owner of Nexus Gold Club and the Edge/Wet strip clubs, is first in line for a coveted spot in Ward 5.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control board determined Aug. 1 that Hunt had submitted a liquor license application for 2127 Queens Chapel Road NE well before his fellow strip [...]
Matchbox mavens got a bit of a scare last week during the live discussion with Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema. The Aug. 8 exchange went like this:
Alexandria, Va.:
Have you heard of a phantom reservation-taker?
Yesterday, we called and made a reservation at Matchbox. A gentleman answered the phone number from the Web site (202-289-4441) [...]
D.C. has the Social Safeway, the Soviet Safeway, and the Secret Safeway. We almost had the Shrapnel Safeway.
According to police, the Adams Morgan supermarket closed briefly Sunday evening due to a bomb scare. Officer D.J. Jackson, a department spokesperson, says the police received a bomb threat, prompting the bomb squad to evacuate the store and [...]
