Earlier this week, we wrote about Eastern High School's Marching Band, which is scheduled to play in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival in Canton, Ohio this Saturday.
The band needed to raise $3,900 for a roundtrip bus ride. The group was relying on paychecks from students’ jobs with the Department of Employment [...]
Until this weekend, I thought the Washington City Paper had really cornered the market on news about D.C. -area young drunkies and things they do while drinking.
Now, I'm not sure.
Behold this month's Washingtonian magazine, which includes a story that—I kid you not—features these things:
A lead image of a girl (kind of chubby) giving a lap [...]
It's gone practically unmentioned that Restaurant Week's dinner price has jumped. It used to be $30.08. Now, it's 35.08. Lunch remains 20.08.
No biggie, right? Much has been written about the new economic stresses and strains on the restaurant industry. They're hurting just like everyone else. So, you know, make your reservations around noon, as opposed [...]
More summer violence in D.C. The Washington Post reports the latest round of shootings and deaths in the city, including a story about the stabbing of a 12-year-old girl in Northeast.
The Post's style section also explores the reemergence of Patti Solis Doyle. Clinton's former campaign head is now the future chief-of-staff for whomever Barack Obama [...]
Last Thursday, Eastern Senior High School's marching band paraded through the streets of Capitol Hill, west to Lincoln Park and then back on East Capitol Street. There was no actual event going on. The band was just practicing.
"Honestly, we do it a lot," says staff band leader James Perry. "A lot of the times, [...]
Yesterday, we blogged about the boundaries for the new "Shaw ShotSpotter" that actually covers parts of Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, Mt. Pleasant, U Street, Bloomingdale, Truxton Circle, and Park View. (Perhaps it graces the borders of lower Crestwood and lower Petworth, as well? D.C. has too many damn neighborhoods.)
Anyway, here's the graphic version of [...]
I honestly can't believe it's taken City Desk this long to write about Bob Novak's accident yesterday. But, since no one has jumped at this opportunity, I suppose I will.
Let's recap: yesterday Bob Novak, political columnist for more than 50 years, hit a pedestrian and continued driving. Afterward, a bicyclist, who witnessed the entire [...]
Last week, Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans sent out a press release about the installment—in Shaw—of new ShotSpotter sensors, which can pinpoint the origin of gunshots by picking up their sound.
I blogged about the news. One disbelieving commenter wrote in, with a very reasonable question: "Is it really here this time?"
Well, Capt. Michael Eldridge, who [...]
*Question trend stories, which thrive "thanks to the journalists who never let the facts get in the way when they think they've discovered some new social tendency," says Jack Shafer of Slate.com.
*The Washington Post's Courtland Milloy solicits "A Street Corner Analysis of D.C. Crime." How to stop the killings? Punish the young'uns more. Sentence killers [...]
From the folks that brought you The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Holidays, The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating and Sex, and a wide variety of other books that probably were sold at Urban Outfitters comes The Worst-Case Scenario Almanac of Politics.
The book is not strictly focused on current American politics. No Louis XVI and Jefferson [...]
I spent the weekend in Chicago, which is apparently the new frontier of American cuisine. I mean, they filmed the last season of Top Chef there. So, it must be true.
Actually, my main source on that first sentence is Alan Richman, food writer for GQ. Two years ago, he wrote a story about three of [...]
That's the actual subhead in a press release from Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans' office. Luckily, the statement redeems itself by presenting some real news (as opposed to the recent "[Kwame] BROWN BAGS IT FOR PROSTATE CANCER AWARENESS".)
Residents in Shaw have been begging for ShotSpotter since the dawn of the police listervs, or at least [...]
*Yikes. "Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs Director Linda Argo dismissed 18 of the city's 34 residential inspectors, who are responsible for ensuring that rental properties are clean, safe and well-maintained," according to the Washington Post.
*Just as President George Bush begins packing up his things, "W," Director Oliver Stone's Bush biopic, is hitting theaters. Will [...]
I love frozen yogurt. I welcome the opening of Mr. Yogato and TangySweet, both of which I have visited. But this whole yogurt "craze," as it has been dubbed, has also inadvertently upset me a tad.
No, I do not feel for the masses of lactose intolerant people in this city. Nor do I worry that [...]
The "lawns" of the National Mall are notoriously dustbowl-esque.
But for a few glorious months, several acres of grass were looking pretty swell. (They're easy to find in the photograph above. Hint: look toward the top.) This spring, people were even spotted taking off their shoes and running around.
The reason? SafeLawns.org, a Maine-based nonprofit, was [...]
