Oh, my: Mayor Adrian M. Fenty muzzled one of his employees against her own advice.
Check Bill Turque's D.C. Wire account for the full back story, but the short version is that Turque was working on a story about Michelle Rhee's "Plan B" on how to get rid of bad teachers in the event that contract [...]
Buried in today's Style section is a story about what the Post dug up when it filed a FOIA request on author Norman Mailer, who died last year. There's not a whole lot of shocking news in the files, which may explain why it's buried in the Style section—Feds impersonated friends to extract Mailer's whereabouts, [...]
After visiting 16 bakeries, consuming 35 pounds of sweets, and ingesting more than 11,000 calories per taster, the Washington Post finally declared a winner in its Cupcake Wars contest. Georgetown Cupcake took the top prize after sweeping the first seven spots in the Food section's list of the highest-rated cupcakes.
Food Editor Joe Yonan and his [...]
Just shy of 4:00 pm today, a message went out to staffers at Washington Post HQ at 15th and L Streets NW: Employees may now retrieve copies of the Washington Post commemorative Obama edition in the lobby.
What ensued was a bum rush.
The area around the elevators on the fifth floor newsroom were jammed. [...]
Leave it to Michael Landrum, the self-proclaimed "Improprietor" of Ray's the Steaks, Ray's the Classics, and Ray's Butcher Burgers, to post this love note to Tom Sietsema after the Washington Post critic's recent dust-up over a First Bite review of the Commissary:
The one thing that doesn't make sense to me about this whole thing is [...]
Truly a man of the people:
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*(The pencils say "Artie D.")
Update from Ward 6: Don't miss this hard-hitting tell-all, in which Arthur Delaney (a.k.a. Sir Pants-a-lot) holds forth on his incredible dark horse campaign, the resonance of his message, his umbrella woes, and the perils of picking Glick.
Don't be fooled by the blazer, folks. Arthur Delaney may look like your typical District politico, but [...]
Joe Yonan, editor of the Washington Post's Food section, contacted me earlier today to clear up the paper's position on future reviews of EatWell DC restaurants, which include The Heights, Grillfish, and the Commissary. David Winer, a partner with EatWell DC, had earlier sent a letter to his mailing list, saying that the Post had [...]
Through years of hearing that this business is on its way to extinction, I've always figured that newspapers won't go away as long as guys take dumps.
But I'm reconsidering my rosy, bowl's-half-full outlook, all because of today's Washington Post.
I hit the reading room this morning expecting to have my pick of stories and columns about [...]
This afternoon Southeast Capitol Hill resident Arthur Delaney kicked off his write-in campaign for a spot on the local advisory neighborhood commission. Delaney, who is me, is campaigning entirely on a pro-single-beers platform for 6B08.
Lately, the local political establishment is united in its insistence that corner stores not sell single cans or bottles of beer [...]
Three weeks ago, as we were preparing the latest installment of Dishing Expedition, I was all ready to offer up a one-paragraph summation of my lone visit to the Commissary in Logan Circle, but at the last minute, the item got cut due to space limitations. Given the ongoing flap over Washington Post restaurant critic [...]
Don Rockwell, founder of the online foodie board donrockwell.com, has come to Tom Sietsema's defense after the Washington Post retracted the restaurant critic's First Bite review of the Commissary in Logan Circle. Writes Rockwell:
This is a tough standard, and I stand solidly behind Tom on this one (while at the same time understanding the Post's [...]
In June, a bunch of Washington Post executives, including Publisher Katharine Weymouth, traveled to Cambridge, Mass., for a skull session at Harvard Business School. The idea was to launch a top-to-bottom rethinking of the Post's biz model–you know, the usual big-picture questions such as What do we do now? What should we do? What do [...]
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Mornin' all. Tune into Channel 13 right now to watch Michelle Rhee in one of those council hearings she likes so much.
IN LL WEEKLY—General election endorsements: Vote for Carol!
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT—"Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Counting [...]
These are grim days for the Washington Post Co. As pointed out in the Washington Business Journal, the company's outlook has been downgraded from "stable" to "negative" by Standard & Poor's. Other lowlights:
*Newspaper and magazine publishing now account for only 26 percent of its sales. The company is mainly an education concern, what with [...]
