Harry,
Interesting column today about Kwame Brown—thin, but interesting. But one thing: the deputy mayor for planning and economic development is Neil O. Albert, not "Neal Albert."
Oh, and belated praise for your column from a few weeks back about how local Republicans are giving council challenger Patrick Mara a hard time. But again, the executive [...]
Sports! We all watch them. And what a weekend it was for Washington's teams. The Caps, holding onto their postseason life, and the Wiz showing again that they're not in the same league with the Cavs. Even though they are.
*Wizznuttz–whaddaya say about this series? C'mon, it's playoff time, yet you fellows can't give me [...]
Whereas last week we tackled the vicissitudes of male pregnancy, this week everybody's en fuego. Watch as Erik and Ruth dole out generous felicitations to El Pregonero, The Examiner, and the Post.
Got a story you’d like to see discussed on the next Fuego/Frío? Let us know in the comments.
Our look-back at the weekend starts with the Washington Post's look-back at the MLK Jr. riots of 1968. A perfectly fine story, but one that the Post has done so many times, not just on riot anniversaries, but every time a city-in-transition story comes about. I'm sure I've read it at least 20 times–always a [...]
It's not every week that Washington, D.C., gets a new baseball stadium. I realize that. But please, local publications, get this baseball-crazy bug out of your system as soon as possible. I'm tired of seeing some new iteration of the same story, over and over again. Here we go, prime example: stories about the stadium [...]
It's chilly today, folks. The Post, el Pregonero, and the Examiner are all under the weather. Black Lips? I'm sure the band's feeling healthy enough after Saturday's show at the BLACK CAT.
Got a story you'd like to see discussed on the next Fuego/Frío? Wondering if you're the only one who didn't know breakfast was [...]
As we all know, Ruth Samuelson and Erik Wemple have been taking the local media’s temperature on Fuego/Frío for two decades now. But the following episode, in this viewer's humble opinion, is the all-time best.
Who’s hot? The Post, el Comercio, the Washington Times, and Express, who took home this week's award for Outstanding Selection of [...]
Pretty uneventful weekend on the news front. Highlights include winds and a dashing former AFC quarterback getting his second promotion of his offseason. On that latter front, let's just take you "around the Zorn":
*Wilbon says an important Redskins moment without fanfare, without great expectations, is a good thing.
*Wise writes that...well, actually what DOES Wise say? [...]
The Washington Examiner doesn't like the crime-fighting gimmicks of D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier. Today the almost-daily free paper fronts this big headline: "'All Hands' effort fails to curb violent crime." The story, by Examiner staff writer Scott McCabe, does a nice job of nailing the issue—namely, that Lanier's attempts to depress crime by dispatching [...]
For years, residents of D.C.’s tonier neighborhoods have traded tips on how to get the Washington Examiner to stop throwing its free papers on their front yards—often with spotty results. Now an upper Northwest man is actually inviting the paper into his environs—again, with spotty results.
Shepherd Park resident Ralph Blessing wants the Examiner to put [...]
A while back, the Post's Neely Tucker wrote an in-depth Style piece about the legal troubles of famed Washington stylist Andre Chreky. The story essentially replayed the sexual harassment allegations of former Chreky colleagues and generally tried to add a bit of gel and highlights to an old story. Shortly after the story hit, Chreky [...]
From Page 4 of today's Examiner:
"District intends to build new bridge at S. Capital Street"
Good on the Washington Examiner for going (relatively) in depth about the pension benefits for employees of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). The two-parter reveals that calculations for transit workers' pension benefits include overtime earnings, a practice that the paper notes is not common among transit agencies in other cities. It also takes [...]
Tracking the City Paper softball team’s pursuit of a perfect season
Current Record: 0-6 (.000)
The bad news arrived even before the first pitch, when RF Matt Hollis suffered a blow to his right cheek after stepping on a field rake. (I was busy during warm-ups, so I didn’t see it happen, but I gather it went [...]
So our man Jones is presently over in Tenleytown guest-hosting the D.C. Politics Hour With Kojo and Jonetta (Kojo's sick) and pretty quickly James and Ms. Rose-Barras directed their attention to an editorial cartoon (pictured) that ran in the Washington Examiner earlier this week.
The cartoon, by Nate Beeler, was a riff on a missive recently [...]
