OK, before getting into this huge news docket for the weekend, let me include a gratuitous slam on President's Day Weekend. It's a waste of taxpayer money, a disgrace in these lean times, a stupid holiday right in the middle of an ugly season, and it wreaks havoc on the Washington City Paper editorial deadlines. [...]
That's Rick Rodriguez, for all you morons who don't recognize the leading lights in the world of journalism. Rick Rodriguez is a journalism professor at Arizona State University and former executive editor of the Sacramento Bee.
Such credentials have landed Rodriguez a spot on the roster of experts discussing the future–or lack thereof–for newspapers on [...]
Big story this weekend was the weather (and not the Pro Bowl)—it felt like wintertime in D.C. for the first time in weeks. January, according to reports, was colder than usual, and February started out likewise. Yet somehow and for some reason, as the temps tilted toward 60 degrees on Sunday, people didn't get the [...]
As noted in today's LL Daily, David Brooks, in his New York Times column this morning, painted Ward 3 with the typically broad brush you might know and love from such armchair sociological works Bobos in Paradise and On Paradise Drive.
A sample: "On any given Saturday, half the people in Ward Three are arranging panel [...]
Though I haven't wavered from my original opinion of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — and heard ripples of shared astonishment over the film's 13 Oscar nominations — it's sometimes reassuring to get backup on one's unpopular opinion.
Ran across this conversation between New York Times critic A.O. Scott and New Yorker's David Denby thanks [...]
A note on Kim Severson's New York Times article about D.C. dining, which DeBonis mentioned earlier:
Marvin has a "cool, P. M. Dawn feeling during the week"?
Listen, I understand that there are a lot of people who'd like to pretend that the past eight years never happened. Drawing a line between P.M. Dawn, the Bush I/Clinton-era [...]
In which Erik disses untrenchant Obama prophecies in the New York Times Magazine and scolds the Post for botching the your/you're perplex. Family Magazine, meanwhile, sports a rather gruesome cover this week.
In other news, Erik gets a frio for gluing that Family Mag cover on the fuego side.
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* Read our complete election coverage or re-live the day in photos.
* New York Times recaps Obama's morning after.
* Slate explains what happens now for the "gay couples who entered into legal marriages in California before the amendment passed."
- WaPo's Eugene Robinson tells us why we all lost it on Tuesday.
- In case you missed [...]
Frank Bruni, lead restaurant critic for the New York Times, laid himself bare in a Q&A session last week with readers. Over the course of five days, he answered some of the toughest questions that can be put to a professional eater, including those dealing with qualifications, how one selects restaurants to review, and of [...]
Erik throws a stone at his own glass house this week, pausing briefly to wag a finger at El Pregonero for some blatant above-the-fold fluff.
Kudos goes forth to Metro Weekly, the Washington Hispanic, and the Blade, while the New York Times is en fuego on general principle.
Watch closely, folks, to see the walls of Jericho [...]
