Philosophical meetup group Café Philo DC met with some metaphysical controversy earlier this month when it chose its latest topic of bi-monthly discussion: “What’s Really Wrong with Bestiality, Cannibalism and Necrophilia?” The thinky social group regularly meets at Reiter’s Books, an independent bookstore specializing in scientific, professional and technical books, located at 1900 G Street NW.
Out of nearly [...]
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli just won't let anyone get sexy, will he? First, he wanted state universities to end discrimination protections for gay people, and now he's even making Roman goddesses more modest.
The Virginian-Pilot reported Saturday that the seal on Cuccinelli's staff pins is different from the one usually used by the state. While [...]
An Annandale, Virginia, man has been found guilty in D.C. Superior Court of an incredibly sadistic series of sexual and physical assaults on a woman, including one that left her disfigured. Carlos W. Escalante, 31, will face up to sixty years in prison. According to court documents, a woman once involved with Escalante endured torture [...]
If famous D.C. hair poofer Andre Chreky, 52, was hoping to get out of his second sexual harassment trial when he filed for bankruptcy on March 22, well, so much for that quick snip.
Judge Royce Lamberth just set a date–August 9–for the start of the trial, in which Jennifer Thong, a former employee of Chreky's, will accuse the [...]
Okay, so Savage Love is – maybe, possibly – coming to TV!
Dan Savage, the syndicated sex columnist and editorial director of the Seattle alt weekly The Stranger, yesterday wrote on the paper's news and arts blog that he has been in Los Angeles all month working on a "non-airing presentation pilot" for HBO that would [...]
Good morning, City Desk readers, and welcome to an especially morose edition of Freedom Friday. The Bulletin in Philadelphia, the first real paper I wrote for, has closed. It was an odd place, what with the publisher's preference for syndicating only the brightest intellectual stars of conservatism: "Chuck Norris, Oliver North and Patrick J. Buchanan." [...]
Head on over to the Sexist, dear readers, for a delicious Five Minutes (bordering six) You'll Never Get Back, during which Amanda Hess and Yours Truly talk about gay marriage, election-inspired Craigslist hook ups, and gender bias. Also: Intern Bobby asks Democrats how they'll make peace with the lose–er, Republicans (Hint: it ain't happenin'.)
For the past five years, Ellie Sachse of Cleveland Park has been collecting Halloween candy for D.C.'s sex workers. Last year, her neighbors donated some 80 pounds of the stuff, which was then handed off from vans owned and operated by HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive).
The drive is on again this year and Sachse invites [...]
A white, law-abiding Capitol Hill resident discovers an angry black man pissing in the metro station and argues (among other things) that the "man does not deserve to walk among the rest of us law abiding citizens who only want to improve Capital Hill and make it a better place."
Head over to The Sexist for episode 2 of City Paper's new sex & politics podcast, "Five Minutes You'll Never Get Back," in which we discuss the merits of Joe the Plumber and death by Facebook.
Who am I kidding?
When I clicked through the link in the press release from Integrity Toys (the name of which reminds me of Tim and Eric's Dadaist Cinco brand) I saw that the new Katy Perry doll had sold out, and that fans of miniaturized, bi-curious pop stars will have to add their names [...]
Won't somebody think of the children??
Actually, fuck that. Won't everybody please STOP thinking of the children? For just once? At least regarding something as traumatizing as...seriously? Movie ads?
To wit, the latest outrage over Kevin Smith's upcoming film, Zack and Miri Make a Porno. First, Weinstein Co. decided to use stick figures on the posters [...]
The American workplace’s storied glass ceiling is in pretty bad shape. Female workers are on the fast track to conquering the upper echelons of all sectors of industry, including the nation’s highest office. But what about that unsung other half of our nation’s workforce: men? In 2008, what workplaces may truly call themselves manly?
In [...]
Dear Readers (and Ernest),
In an effort to bring City Paper customers more, more, more, [more quality journalism!] despite our dwindling resources (and mounting depression), Amanda Hess and Yours Truly bring you "Five Minutes You'll Never Get Back," in which the two of us (and Intern Bobby) talk politics and sex, sex, sex! Please make your [...]
This item only made it into the Washington Times' briefs. The short story had these details: Colin Hatch, a 23-year-old Capitol Heights church deacon gets sentenced to 14 years in prison for sexually assaulting a DC prostitute at gunpoint.
Pretty bad. Here's what they left out: Hatch was two weeks from taking a new job as [...]
