Can we keep you, Eliot Swainson?
The guy, after all, has a knack for being in the right place at the right time in this town, Superman-style. First off, the Houston transit cop, on loan to the Metro transit police for the inauguration, saved a 68-year-old woman who fell onto the tracks by rolling her under [...]

Editors have agreed: Dionne Warwick is my new beat. The fallout from the closing of the American Music Inaugural Balls is heating up! One very unsatisfied ticket holder is planning a lawsuit. He called in to WCP headquarters this afternoon. I was able to get the scoop.
Tony Reddick says he bought tickets to both balls [...]

As faithful readers know, we have been chronicling the mess that was the American Music Inaugural Balls.The hotel where the balls were to be hosted also felt the fallout from the sudden ball cancellations. Perhaps even ball host Dionne Warwick shed a few tears.
On a website associated with the awesome Ms. Warwick, they wrote about [...]

City Desk files its updated News Analysis™ on the legitimacy of the Barack Obama presidency at 7:18 p.m. last night.
Seventeen minutes later, according to press reports, Justice John Roberts rushes over to the White House and he and Obama do a do-over of the oath of office.
Coincidence?
We'll let history decide...or a Larry Klayman lawsuit!
Geezus Chrysler, [...]

City Desk's AS-IT-HAPPENS news analysis of Chief Justice John Roberts' swearing-in flub is gaining credibility.
The Times of London is one news organization among many now raising questions about the legitimacy of Barack Obama's presidency as a result of Roberts rolling his own on the oath language, and Obama repeating Roberts' version rather than the prescribed [...]

Is it possible to be too close to the most momentous event in American political history?
LL points this out not to complain about his fab seat at yesterday's swearing-in—fourth row, about 20 feet below the speaker's podium—but to contemplate bearing witness to that event.
In the section LL was seated in—Section 1, natch, green ticket—he was [...]

Yesterday, we noted that organizers behind the two American Music Inaugural Balls had cancelled their two events—the Legends Ball and the Urban Ball—at the last minute. Dionne Warwick was supposed to host the Legends Ball while Ludacris was supposed to MC the Urban Ball. The press release noted that the organizers' ball juggling was historic: [...]

Spike Lee in his awesome coat.
Some of us are still feeling the effects of our long walk home from the Mall (my feet are still killing me; I am old). Some of us are still recovering from the Hawaii State Society ball. And some of us just made it into the office.
There was tons to [...]

There was the promise of making bank off the masses who wanted to be a part of history. And then there was the reality: Everyone knows someone who lives in D.C., or close enough, and a lot of them had no qualms about asking to mooch. No, my fellow D.C.ers, we didn't make money. But [...]

I wore my $14 suit to an inaugural ball tonight.
When Joe Biden came by, he gave a shout-out from the stage to the governor of Pennsylvania, and the guy standing beside me started waving his arms and yelling nice things at the new Vice President.
I was next to Ed Rendell!
Rendell's my favorite governor, even though [...]

The following item is part of a series in which we corner people at the 2009 Hawaii State Society Inaugural Ball and ask them, "So, what's your connection with the president?"
It's now past 11 pm on Inauguration Night, at which point this series dramatically lowers its requirements for profile subjects.
First person to come in [...]