In addition to my Sexist duties, I'll be covering the stars & bars on this long inauguration weekend. I'll be busy chasing after the Ritz's finest and Cafe Milano's worst starting tomorrow—party reports concerning cast members of MTV's The Hills are absolutely guaranteed—but I need your help! Catch Oprah re-living Obama and Fenty's Chili Bowl [...]
For this week's special inauguration issue, I profiled three locals whose hopes and dreams were nearly shattered even as audacious hope enthusiast Barack Obama prepared to assume the presidency. Read all about it—The housing bubble that would not burst fast enough! The Irish Obama novelty song the bridge closers didn't want you to hear! The [...]
Perhaps I spoke too soon on the Baltimore Washington Black McDonald's Operators Association Inaugural Ball. On Monday, I posted the invitation (the only ball invite I received on this historic occasion), marking the event's $200 price tag with a snarky "Hamburgler" reference. Today, I received a follow-up e-mail from the association with a "sneak-peek" at [...]
* This 49-year-old local man would "love to have the pleasure of your company over weekend, Monday or Tuesday," ladies. Rest assured that this blond-haired, blue-eyed man about town "knows the dining and club/bar scene, museums, galleries, monuments, etc. pretty well." His "full-disclosure," however, requires bullet points:
- I do not have tickets to the inauguration [...]
Where will an extra two hours of boozing take you?
Archie Battles, 24, was just getting started on the 18th Street strip at 2:30 a.m., well after Adams Morgan bars had dried up. "I get off late, and I like to go out at a fashionable time," says Battles. With last call called, he and two [...]
Your inauguration hook-up will never be as sexy as this artist's rendering.
In this batch of inaugural-obsessed Craigslisters, we find strange terminology and catty put-downs employed in the pursuit of the historic hook-up. Let's try to decipher today's postings, shall we?
* This 56-year-old, who is "in town for the most incredible event of my lifetime," is [...]
23/6 has compiled a list comparing Barack Obama's inauguration to the 25th annual Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend festivities, which will occur the same week. Spoiler alert: Riffing on "balls" ahead!
Photo via the Centaur Motorcycle Club.
Rants scrawled on garage doors will not be considered.
Want to get into an inaugural ball, but not interested in this guy? Or this guy? How about these guys? No? That special lady looking to feast on inaugural spoils without playing arm candy to male unknowns can instead use her thinky parts to pen an essay [...]
As the inauguration nears, Craigslist has been a-flutter with the romantic overtures of dudes looking for inauguration ball arm-candy and other dudes looking for inauguration week couch-surfing-with-benefits. Your best bets:
* This man-seeking-man inauguration ticket offerer has a range of interests, including "hiking, backpacking, mountain biking, snowboarding, reading, writing, cooking, dining out, watching movies, dancing, exploring [...]
G. Keith Harris, the Centreville, Va., man I profiled earlier this month, is getting closer to finding a woman worthy of his extra inauguration ticket. To recap: Harris, CEO of his own government consulting firm, scored two tickets to the inauguration and the official balls, and is looking for a lovely lady with whom to [...]
