As the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks approaches, we've been digging through the Sept. 7, 2001, issue of Washington City Paper, the last pre-9/11 issue. We'll be publishing some interesting things we find between now and next weekend.
Today: An ad for an Amnesty International event that, considering Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo, and [...]

The Washington Kastles lost to the Philadelphia Freedoms, the team named after an Elton John song or vice versa, in their home opener last night. The big stories were the sellout crowd that filled Empty Parking Lot Arena, or whatever the temp downtown stadium is called, and the appearance of tireless Venus Williams, who gave [...]

*The Post leads with a piece on how the Bush administration had already prepped their ghastly, torture-like tactics "long before they were granted legal approval to use such methods," ignoring the advice of an Army lieutenant colonel who pointed out that a strong-arm approach "usually decreases the reliability of the information because the person will [...]