Mike Rhode's excellent ComicsDC blog includes a tidbit that makes the town of Falls Church at least 25 percent more interesting: It's the town where Columbus, Ohio, native and very funny writer James Thurber was nearly blinded in one eye as a child, thanks to a moment of unstructured play with his brother that went [...]
Note to so-called sanitation engineers the region over: You've got nothing on the City of Alexandria's Department of Transportation & Environmental Services, Solid Waste Division. Every Thursday morning I watch these monsters of refuse collection fly up my street, leaving it cleaner than Mel Gibson's urine.
The only guys faster than my garbagemen are the [...]
This morning DCBlogs notes that Amazon has announced its list of the "20 Most Romantic Cities in America," based on sales of books about sex and relationships, as well as sales of romance novels. Alexandria is on top, while Arlington comes in at number nine; D.C. is number 11.
Maybe it makes sense that Salt [...]
I personally have never been to a Wegmans grocery store, but next time I pass one, I might just pull over to check it out. My curiousity was piqued this morning. While scanning through a garden varietyof press releases, I noticed this stunner from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids:
"The Wegmans supermarket chain has [...]
This Week: How To Lose a Beloved Pet and Almost Get Stabbed By Not Having Enough Cash To Tip the Pizza Guy
Tiki the cat is an indoor cat, or was before Tiki's owners in Alexandria let in the pizzaman on Sunday night. Realizing too late they did not have enough cash to tip him, Tiki's [...]
Now, I am all in favor of lawns and art and lawn art. And these little statuettes from home-furnishing cataloguer Frontgate might just make a fine gift. But boy putting and girl putting will run you $2,500. Each.
Sadie Dingfelder and I took to the roads again yesterday, this time with news reporter Ruth Samuelson as our fearless leader. Braving the wilds of Bethesda was challenging. We had to slalom between giant piles of leaves and brake for a soccer ball at one point.
We’re making progress, though, and Ruth had some important [...]
Hot news: Construction starts in January on the D.C. area's first Fatburger franchise. It'll be in Fairfax. As if more evidence is needed as to what is wrong with Fairfax and America in general.
Why do we eat this crap?
D.C.'s car cell-phone ban is very wise, I discovered during my driving lesson this weekend. But I'd take it a step further: Don't let people talk in cars at all.
That's because conversation saps precious mental resources from such tasks as noticing stop signs. While silent, I drove like a pro, cruising at speeds upward of [...]
Incumbent Jeannemarie Devolites Davis got hammered hard at the polls by some guy named Chap! yesterday. So hard, in fact, that it'd be silly to pin her loss on any one flaw or failing. So, just to be silly, let's assert that the only reason Chap! displaced the longtime lawmaker in the Virginia senate was [...]
Here's a contender for campaign commercial of the year, though it's not from this year. It's a decade-old spot for Virginia lawmaker Jeannemarie Devolites, now known as Jeannemarie Devolites Davis. She's currently running for reelection to the state senate against some guy named Chap! in what has to be the angriest race in the area.
Chap! [...]
Fairfax County's apparent coddling of a killer has become an election issue.
Patrick McDade, running as a Republican in the race for Robert Horan's commonwealth's attorney seat, has demanded Democratic opponent Raymond Morrogh, Horan's chief deputy since 1988, come clean about the prosecutorial decisions made by county officials in the Steve Cornejo killing.
"If you're going to [...]
