With the Opening Day for D.C. pools fast approaching, the big questions are starting to be raised for Mayor Adrian Fenty: The queries don't have to do with whether residents will be charged admission to swim or if the Department of Parks and Recreation will have enough money for summer programs.
The pressing issue involves a [...]
Radio, by its very impromptu nature, tends to play loose with the facts, and Tony Kornheiser, for one, has carved out a hugely successful career by walking that thin line between brilliant commentary and utter bullshit. But this morning on his talk show on Washington Post Radio, he ventured into a subject for which his [...]
This American Life, nurtured in the belly of Chicago's WBEZ-FM for 10 years, famously picked up its toys, sold out, and moved to New York (and to TV, of course). Whatever. There is still a lot of cool radio happening in Chicago and you don't even have to live there to be a part of [...]
Coming out of the 8 o'clock station break on last night's broadcast from Atlanta, listeners to the team's flagship station were told, "You're listening to Washington Nationals Spring Training baseball...on Washington Post Radio."
Perhaps this is another reflection of Nats management's attitude that the games won't count till they get to the new stadium.
OK, everyone!
At 1 p.m. tune your radio dials to 88.5 FM. In an unusual nod toward a younger demo, Kojo Nnamdi will be interviewing semi-local/worldwide indie rock niceguy Ted Leo. Leo, along with his band the Pharmacists, recently released a shimmering new album entitled Living with the Living. Expect to hear Leo perform a cut [...]
I’ll admit it. I don’t like change. I’m the kind of person who eats the same thing for lunch everyday. I crave routine even if I fail miserably at achieving it. I’m also a bit of a Luddite. I listened to a Walkman until December 2006, and only switched to an iPod after a friend [...]
From ABC News via Dave Hughes at DCRTV, it's being reported that the XM and Sirius satellite-radio services are to announce a merger today.
It's long-expected move, but still unanswered are any questions about what will happen to XM's D.C. operations, out of a converted warehouse near the intersection to New York and Florida Avenues NE. [...]
Kurt Cobain would have turned 40 next Tuesday had he not, you know, shot himself. That this anniversary is going by mostly uncelebrated speaks to the relatively paltry market power of Generation X—those of us born between 1964 and 1978. Sure, we’ve got a cooler name than the baby boomers (who don’t even rate capitalization [...]
Everyone's rejoicing about how WETA-FM's stepped in to save classical music in D.C. That's all fine and dandy, but no one seems to mention it also means a hefty blow to locally produced radio in D.C., notably The Intersection. The show covered D.C. politics and schools, along with quirkier topics, like saving the world by [...]
Mary Cliff is the latest longstanding D.C. media figure to be dropped from the airwaves. The gentle-voiced host of the folk-music show Traditions, heard Saturday nights on WETA-FM for nearly 34 years, was let go by the station Monday. The last “Traditions” broadcast will be this Saturday, Jan. 27.
“You'd have to ask [WETA management] why,” [...]
On Tuesday, the D.C. Council finally brought its regular pre-legislative session “breakfast meetings” into the sunshine. After almost two years of harassment from some persistent city hall reporters, Council Chairman Linda Cropp invited the press in on April 4 for a look at the previously-closed get-togethers.
Probably the peskiest critic of the closed breakfasts has been [...]
What's the deal with all the antennas and dishes and stuff up on Wisconsin Avenue in Tenleytown? You know, right there by Wilson High School and Fort Reno? And what are all those towers for, anyway? One of ‘em looks like it isn't even finished.
And it never will be: On March 17, the District agreed [...]
