It’s certainly been an exciting few weeks at Washington City Paper. As many of you know, Dan Snyder filed suit this month over a story, “The Cranky Redskins Guide to Dan Snyder” by long-time columnist Dave McKenna, that ran back in November. The lawsuit generated massive amounts of coverage for City Paper, nearly all of it positive. We’ve seen an [...]

Since news broke that Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder planned to file a lawsuit over Washington City Paper's "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide to Dan Snyder," we've been overwhelmed by the support we've received. Comments on our site, comments on other sites, posts on Facebook, posts on Twitter, and man-on-the-street interviews on local (and national) TV [...]

Last night, Channel 9 led its 11 p.m. local news broadcast with coverage of Dan Snyder's lawsuit over Washington City Paper's "Cranky Redskins Fan's Guide." Sports director Brett Haber then delivered a commentary on the story. Watch it here:

Dan Snyder Sues: Every day since last summer, The Needle has brought you a status report on the District's quality of life around this time of day. Unfortunately, yesterday, we weren't able to publish one—in part because our site was struggling to deal with all the traffic we were getting, and in part because we [...]

It's Super Bowl week, but instead of preparing to take on the AFC champions, Dan Snyder is taking on a newspaper article. Several months after he was the subject of a Washington City Paper cover story, the owner of the Redskins has filed suit over our coverage.
Snyder's suit was filed late Wednesday—curiously, in New York, rather than [...]

One of the claims in the letter Washington Redskins general counsel David Donovan sent to Atalaya Capital Management, the hedge fund that controls the parent company of Washington City Paper, is that the cover story on Dan Snyder that we ran in November was anti-Semitic.
"How would you react if you were vilified by an anti-Semitic [...]

In the past couple of days, we have received inquiries about a threat of litigation by Redskins owner Dan Snyder relating to a Nov. 19, 2010 article, “The Cranky Redskin Fan’s Guide to Dan Snyder,” by columnist Dave McKenna. While we did not hear directly from Snyder, Redskins General Counsel David Donovan complained about that [...]

A fabulous feud festers along the banks of the Potomac.
The residents of the Watergate are trying to muscle the National Park Service into getting rid of trees along the river because they block the view and reduce property values at the iconic condo.
The feds, for now, say the trees will stay.
"If every time someone’s view [...]

For the celebrity-obsessed print edition of Washington City Paper, I wrote this week about Dan Snyder's increasing renown in Tinseltown.
Locals here might be surprised to find out that the Washington Redskins might not be the most famous property currently under Snyder's control, at least not on the global stage.
Believe it or not, for a few years [...]

The Washington Post's sports owners digital confab came off this morning as a mostly pleasant but non-newsy affair, unless you consider it non-pleasant and newsy that Ted Leonsis occasionally crosschecked host Mary Jordan with lines denigrating her employer's current standing. (Leonsis told Jordan he no longer cares what the Post says about him or his [...]

At the end of the last school year, the Metropolitan Police Department released a new multi-media campaign to promote the District's longstanding curfew laws, which require anybody under 17 to be off the streets in the wee hours.
The MPD's money line: "Are U In?"
Videos were posted on youtube. Digital posters were made available online for [...]

The Washington Post has announced it's hosting a roundtable of area sports owners next week.
The gathering, titled “Scoring Big: The Business of Sports,” is headlined by Dan Snyder and Ted Leonsis, but the supporting cast will include Robert Tanenbaum and Marla Lerner Tanenbaum of the Nationals and D.C. United's Will Chang.
For now, this crowd should [...]

So, an older, second-to-last-place team loses to a younger last-place team, and that vindicates the losing coach's methods?
Awesome!
Funny how the winning team is being slammed in its market, while up here Coach Tanahan of the losing and now bottom-rung dwelling squad feels comfortable adopting an "I Told You So!" pose during his post-game press conference.
"People [...]

The Redskins have benched Donovan McNabb for Rex Grossman. No, really.
This means he won't break the all-time Redskins record for passing yards in a season.
Don't even try to tell me the benching and his approaching that record aren't related.
They're as related as Kyle and Coach Tanahan.

If only Mideast peace were so easy to broker.
Cheap Seats Daily has gone all "Seven On Your Side" this week. And now the Mayor of FedExField and the Redskins are lovey dovey again, after a brief separation.
Yesterday in this space, we chronicled the latest travails of The Mayor, the most notorious and diehard fan of [...]