I would like to send a shout out to the winner of the 2010 Neighborliest Neighbor award: the man who spent the last two hours shoveling snow out of a snowbank and into my recently-plowed street. He says he was clearing a parking spot.
Note that the spot he just cleared is in front of a [...]
Capitol News Connection is looking for people to call in to their taped interview with VA Senator Jim Webb. Webb is taking calls on the topic of National Security and Economic Security today at 2:30 PM. What are the big issues the next President and the next Congress will face? What do you want to [...]
But it's not their fault.
Bike DC coordinator Sheba Farrin asked ANC 6A tonight for their approval of the East Capitol Street section of the tour route. The commissioners were angry at the short notice about a plan that would cut the city in half for several hours, effectively trapping some people in their homes for [...]
Heads up to new Washington residents and summer interns: you got here just in time for DC's coolest and free-est event: five consecutive Mondays of outdoor movies on the National Mall. Everyone who's anyone will be there.
Tonight’s Screen on the Green flick: Dr. No, a Bond movie that involves fire-breathing dragons and a woman named [...]
It's kind of nice to know we're worth that much, at least. But according to the AP, it's apparently a million clams less than we used to be worth.
The Environmental Protection Agency uses this figure as part of their cost-benefit analyses, trying to determine whether life-saving environmental measures are, you know, worth it.
Our lives used [...]
Question: when it’s 90 degrees outside does it really need to be below freezing in your office? What’s the logic behind Arctic indoor temperatures in the middle of July?
I blame men’s workplace fashion. If offices would stop forcing men to wear jackets and ties maybe they wouldn’t need the air conditioning up so high. Call [...]
I've still got my gay pride beads on from today's rain-soaked parade. But here's a question for the rest of the folks who lined 17th and P streets today: is it just me, or has Capitol Pride gone a little corporate?
The parade started with the Chief of Police and the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit, followed by Mayor [...]
I don't hang out at the International Monetary Fund a whole lot, but I was there recently for a meeting, and boy, was I in for a treat in their women's room: free feminine hygiene products! It's big enough news when those little machines even function, but this one gives it out without even taking [...]
Bicycling Magazine named D.C. it’s #1 Most Improved City for biking! Meaning, look how bad we used to suck and how hard we’re trying!
Their profile on D.C., coming out in their June issue, focuses on bells and whistles like the SmartBike program, sort of a Zipcar for bicycles. SmartBike is due to launch this month, [...]
Learn-a-palooza is coming! If you missed its maiden voyage last year, you can check it out Saturday, May 10. It’s a daylong Everything for Dummies workshop fair, where you can learn or teach just about anything. Here are my top five offerings this year:
1. How to Find Gay Men in the City: A Fag [...]
Today, Don Juan’s restaurant in Mount Pleasant will make its case before the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board that it deserves to have live music and dancing reinstated, just as Don Jaime’s and Haydee’s did last week.
Don Juan’s is a different animal than the other two, and so its case will be harder to make. Over [...]
I don’t need to tell you how important your Google is. What comes up in a .18 second search lists, in descending order of relevance, the items that make up your worth as a person and can be seen by anyone who is [...]
Last night, local cover band Northeast Corridor rocked it for Barack Obama, featuring special appearances by about fifty wannabe rockers. Northeast Corridor (formerly known as Lobster Hamster Hipster, and before that known as 3516: The Band) lost their lead singer, Jason Levitis, to a singing injury a couple years ago, when he broke his [...]
Cherry blossom tourists and kite-flyers had a chance to get star-struck over a total nobody last weekend. Some guy you don’t know organized an “Improv Everywhere” event in which another guy you don’t know acted like a celebrity, and some 40 other people acted like paparazzi, bodyguards, photographers, and adoring fans; and in the end, [...]
