Posts Tagged ‘Best of D.C.’

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The Friday Limerick Review

Gay marriage: Repubs want to scratch it
Amendment: They tried to attach it
The "big fucking deal"
Rejected their zeal
Since Dems had the votes to dispatch it
I'm hearing the soundbite already
Enrollment in schools is quite steady
The first time in years
They've calmed parents' fears
(Or private school fees are too heady?)
Some places can now safely boast
That citizens like them the [...]

Petula Dvorak Plays the Mommy Card

Petula Dvorak thinks Erik Wemple's "criticism of [her] 'mommy track columnizing'" in this week's Best of D.C. issue "illuminates one of the deep cultural rifts of our time."

Morning Roundup: The ‘Gilbert Arenas Judgment Day’ Edition; Bonus: It’s Friday!

Happy Friday!
I just want to say that last night was City Paper's Best of D.C. 2010 party, at Lux Lounge, and there were drag queens serving waffles there and I didn't have one and I now regret that.
It's Judgment Day, Gilbert Arenas!
Today is the day we learn if popular professional basketball stars who bring four guns [...]

Morning Roundup: Unhappy Pranksters, Unhappy Racists, Unhappy Guinea Pigs Edition

IT'S BEST OF D.C.! Hey, pick up a paper! It weighs, like, 2 pounds this week and is filled with the usual mix of staff picks (the stuff no one cares about) and readers poll results (precisely the opposite). And in that readers poll, Best Wizards Player honors go to...Gilbert Arenas, for whom today is [...]

Morning Roundup: The ‘Boring Pot Clinic No. 1′ Edition

Well, our new Web site has been live for more than 24 hours now—plenty of time for you to have decided what you like, what you hate, and what you really, really hate. So let us know. We might even listen!
Are you excited for our Best of D.C. 2010 issue, out in print tomorrow? Pick [...]

Monkeyrotica: Bait-taker

Who among you is an expert on local sausages, French fries, delis, and fried pork chops? We've got you by your monkey balls, monkeyrotica. First, we poked you in our Content Bankruptcy filing for complaining about City Paper on sites that are not owned and operated by City Paper. Now you're all over our shit.
Don't [...]