Just a reminder, kids: Tonight, as part of the Silverdocs Preview Party, City Paper be hitting the decks at Cue Bar on U Street.
Trailers of festival films will be screened, drink specials will be offered, Silverdocs tickets will be given away, and AFI and Discovery Channel staff will be on hand.
Drop by from 6:30–9 p.m.
After finishing her meal at Sushi Go Round & Tapas in Chinatown, sharp-eyed Jessica Seidman noticed something amiss at the bottom of her receipt. Where sales tax is typically noted, Sushi Go Round listed a pair of mystifying line items: “DC Japanese Tax” and “DC Thai Tax.”
Does Mayor Anthony A. Williams’ latest international goodwill mission [...]
Every Tuesday and Thursday, we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
ANC-6A
One thread became a real pissing contest when the issue of racism in D.C. came up. Richard Layman posted this anecdote: “Yesterday I got into an argument with a guy urinating in the alley. His response ‘It's none of your business…white [...]
When Sprint built a gi-normous new flagpole at Eugene A. Clark Elementary School for use as a cell-phone tower in March, it forgot to supersize one thing: the flag itself. Atop its new pole, which is about 3 feet in diameter at the base and 100 feet tall, Clark is still flying a puny, 3-foot-tall [...]
Every Tuesday and Thursday, we run down what's going on in local Internet discussion groups.
Brookland
A Brooklander asked the list for information about a helicopter circling her neighborhood on Thursday night. Daniel Wolkoff responded with noise rage: “When it's quiet in this neighborhood, you have to ask “What's wrong?” People die young from the sleep disturbance [...]
Pinder's "Slave Ship Quilts (Triangle Trade)"
When CORE Architecture & Design invited artist Jefferson Pinder to create an installation for its Georgetown lobby, he was surprised. “I've never been invited to do something corporate because I didn't think my work would lend itself to that,” he says. “In the back of my mind I was thinking, [...]
’Cause lookin’ cool ain’t easy.
Name: Dan Jones
Age: 28
Occupation: host at Logan Tavern
Residence: Columbia Heights
Spotted: 1:45 p.m., U Street and New Hampshire Avenue NW
Hipster Giveaway: Thick-rimmed glasses, compass tattoo on inner arm, Winston Light cigarette, slim-fit Lucky Brand Jeans that set him back “$100-plus,” he says.
Style Definition: “Casual and an attempt to look somewhat grown-up.” Jones [...]
On March 27, Mojgan Hajmohammadali was stopped by a police officer for jaywalking, after dashing across K Street NW against the light. The cop demanded her ID; she refused. They went back and forth on the issue until he reached for his handcuffs and threatened to arrest her. She relented. When he read her name [...]
The students in Matt Webb’s eighth-period English class at Roosevelt Senior High School in Petworth were having a tough time getting started on a long research paper. So Webb made them a bet that they could write a five-paragraph essay in only 30 minutes. The 12 students, all freshmen and sophomores, didn’t think it could [...]
