Tyler Green's excellent Modern Art Notes points to an interesting post at daddytypes.com, in which Greg Allen describes a recent visit to the National Gallery of Art with his three-year-old daughter. There, they collide with a docent attempting to explain Clyfford Still's painting 1951-N to a group of middle-schoolers:
"Who wonders why [...]
A couple summers ago, my friend interned for The Roula & Ryan Show in Houston. As radio hosts at a typical Clear Channel pop station, they were actually a notch above the usual. But just weeks after being named “the Ultimate radio team” by Houston Chronicle readers, they were fired, because apparently that’s what [...]
Just revealed on the D.C. Politics Hour With Kojo and Jonetta: Carol Schwartz has resigned from the D.C. Republican State Committee. The at-large councilmember has belonged to the GOP for her entire political career, though she's always gotten plenty of support from Democratic voters.
This seems to be not quite as clean a break as fellow [...]
Chefs have been slow to roll out their fall menus this year for one obvious reason—until recently, it's been too fucking warm for squashes and heavy meats. If it weren’t such an environmental no-no, I’d argue for restaurants to start cranking up the AC in late September so that we can start slurping down soups.
Still, [...]
Morale seems to be pretty high among Redskins fans after the blowout of Detroit. Quite a difference from last week.
Last Friday on WTEM-AM, for example, callers to the Sports Reporters in drive-time overwhelmingly predicted the visiting and underdog Lions would crush the home team. Hosts Andy Pollin and Steve Czaban said they were shocked [...]
Praise the Lord! WGTS and its one dozen listeners are not going anywhere. The station at 91.9 FM, owned since '46 by Seventh Day Adventists over at Columbia Union College in Takoma Park, has been up for sale for some time. The only serious bidder was American Public Media Group, the other public radio conglomerate, [...]
Last Thursday, I headed down to the free MC Hammer concert outside the Ronald Reagan Building. Along with a healthy dose of parachute pants, repping of Oakland, Calif., and that crazy sideways dance that Hammer does, I got a crash course in how to piss off a plaza full of Hammer fans.
The lesson came [...]
Local media site DCRTV is out ahead of the pack in reporting on the rumored demise of WTWP. Just yesterday, it posted an item that took for granted the experiment's imminent undoing: "Now we wonder: What will Post veteran Tony Kornheiser do after 'Monday Night Football' without a Post-branded radio outlet to come back to? [...]
In his take in the latest Atlantic, Michael Hirschorn puts the screws, ever so gently, to This American Life and its arbiter of rehashed quirk, Ira Glass. I approve. And what's more, the mag's columnist puts the CP's beloved and reviled neighborhood in a list, quirky in its own rite, of "engaged, aware" disparate places. [...]
The switch several months ago from an NPR and news-talk format to all classical music at WETA 90.9 FM was swift and abrupt. In other words, not at all like public radio, which tends to agonize big changes over (donated!) catered lunches with community focus groups and several in-house committees.
If ratings are an indication, [...]
For loyal Young & Hungry readers, my appearance on WAMU-FM's Metro Connection tomorrow might be the talk-show equivalent of eating leftovers. But, hey, a story worth telling is one worth repeating, particularly the story about the demise of Wingmaster's Grill.
Host David Furst and I will be reviewing a few of the subjects that first appeared [...]
A lot of folks were wondering what would come out of the Nationals play-by-play announcers' mouths when Barry Bonds finally hit the biggest blast of baseball's Dead Balls Era.
Charlie Slowes, the Nats' fabulous radio guy, blurts "Bang! Zoom!'" when the homeboys go yard, but doesn't normally shift into gah-gah gear for opponents' dingers. Here, however, [...]
This afternoon on All Things Considered, WAMU listeners, you're in for some rare good stuff: the latest in the Radio Diaries series led by superstar (well, at least in the land of pubradio nerds) Joe Richman. Diaries, a nonprofit radio production outfit, is taking a break from its amazing Africa stories to dig into audio [...]
You don't need a calendar to know it's summer outside—just smell your co-worker after he walks back to the office from lunch. Yep, summer in the city: a time for ripe tomatoes and ripe underarms.
But even if your nose can detect the season, perhaps your taste buds could use a little help locating summer eats. [...]
It's no secret National Public Radio is shopping around for new digs. What with all that Kroc money for new staff and expansion of online operations, alone (seriously, they are always hiring), it's no wonder old 635 Mass Ave., NPR's home since 1994, just can't cut it.
A new HQ within the nation's capital probably won't [...]
