On Aug. 3, 1963, former Washington Post publisher Philip Graham, having struggled with severe bouts of depression for at least five years, went into the bathroom of his family farm near Marshall, Va., and committed suicide with a 28-gauge shotgun.
Four months prior, the 48-year-old Graham had delivered a famous and oft-quoted speech to Newsweek correspondents [...]

For the impossibly scrutable print platform of Washington City Paper, I wrote this week about Dan Snyder's pinching the good name of Robert F. Kennedy.
OK, just the guy's good initials. But still. Snyder named the new party deck at FedExField the "RFK Standing Stomping Club" but never asked permission from the Kennedys or RFK Stadium's [...]

On his campaign website Del. Michael Vaughn told voters he "played professional football for the Dallas Cowboys for 3 years." In reality, the incumbent Democrat from the 24th District of the Maryland House of Delegates never played a single down with the Cowboys.
But when an exclusive investigation by Cheap Seats Daily's one-man I-Team (slogan: "There [...]

Is it O.K. for Adrian Fenty to campaign for another jurisdiction's team?
The Washington Redskins now make a point of letting folks know they don't belong to Washington. The team puts "Loudoun County" as the dateline on all its press releases. That's an odd practice —datelines are usually reserved for cities, and the team's offices at [...]

I'm anxious, so Brandon Snyder's gotta be some word stronger than "anxious." Snyder was called up from the Orioles' Triple A affiliate in Norfolk a week ago to the big league club. That was his first call-up. But though he's wearing the uniform, he hasn't yet made it into a game.
I want Snyder to get [...]

For the justifiably overappreciated print version of Washington City Paper, I wrote this week about how Natalie Randolph, the new Coolidge coach and Parade cover girl, is being used to cover up serious gender inequities within the athletic programs offered by D.C. Public Schools under Michelle Rhee. Pick up a copy, read the column, gaze [...]

Clint Didier, a longtime Washington Redskins tight end during the great Gibbs I Era, was hoping to return to D.C. as a U.S. Senator, but didn't make the cut in yesterday's Washington State primary. Didier, flush with the backing of Sarah Palin and Tea Party types, finished way back in third place, with a little [...]

A few weeks ago, Washington Post and CNN media reporter Howard Kurtz launched a Twitter crusade to get Pepco to restore power to his home after the massive thunderstorms that swept the region. At first, the Pepco folks didn't seem to realize who they were dealing with. "Of course we care," Pepco's Andre Francis replied. [...]

Monday was, indeed, an exciting day to toil away in the unique salt mine that is the D.C. local media world; across the Potomac in Rosslyn, the crew at TBD got into the game after months of Twittering. Besides their new website, TBD also took over the name and iconography at NewsChannel 8, the 24-hour [...]

The local media blessed us with tons of great memories of the glory days of the Redskins franchise over the weekend, what with Russ Grimm’s induction to the Hall of Fame.
My favorite came with Mike Wise’s column on the Hogs, going over the birth of football history's most durable and successful offensive line. I was [...]

At least Dan Snyder's talking.
But some of Snyder's statements during his binge of recent interviews ring cliched and bogus.
Take, for example, this exchange between the owner and some of his PR staffers about Snyder's most recent big-bang offseason acquisition:
Q:With Donovan McNabb joining the team this year, looking back on your tenure as owner of the [...]

It may not come as a surprise that the 24-year-old District woman who allegedly stabbed 20-year-old NPR intern Annie Ropeik multiple times and for no particular reason Wednesday morning is mentally ill. Recently filed charging documents say Melodie Anne Brevard has been diagnosed as having Bipolar Type II disorder. Brevard was supposed [...]

"Why does this have to be the story of training camp?" Mike Wise asked his WJFK-FM radio audience after a commercial break this morning. "I'm sick of Albert Haynesworth," he said eight minutes later.
He talked about Albert Haynesworth in the time between.
Wise, the lead sports columnist at the Washington Post when he's off the airwaves, [...]

There goes the NFL!
Sure, the league is flying higher than ever now — TV coverage of the NFL draft drew a bigger audience than the NBA playoffs this spring. But mark down July 28, 2010 as the day everything started rolling downhill.
That's the day the reports surfaced that the NFL has brought in Dan Snyder [...]

Starting today, City Paper's political coverage has a new home on the Web—we've given Alan Suderman, our Loose Lips columnist, a blog of his very own. Fittingly enough, the first post on the new Loose Lips blog is today's edition of Loose Lips Daily. Go read it! And add it to your RSS readers, bookmarks, [...]