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- June 12, 2013
Due to a reporting error, the review originally referred to Elizabeth Catlett as a living artist. She died last year.
- May 29, 2013
Due to a reporting error, this story originally misquoted the Smithsonian's advertising slogan. It is "Seriously Amazing," not "Simply Amazing."
- April 17, 2013
Due to an editing error, this story originally had the dates of the elections in 2012 wrong. The Democratic primary was in April 2012, and the Ward 5 special election came a month after that.
- March 28, 2013
Due to a reporting error, the article originally misidentified the location of the Shrimp Boat, which is on East Capitol Street.
- February 13, 2013
Due to a reporting error, this story originally misidentified the website Lisa Gansky runs. It is meshing.it, not mesh.it.
- January 23, 2013
Due to a reporting error, this article originally stated that Leroy Thorpe had been an incumbent ANC commissioner when he lost last year. In fact, he was attempting to win back a seat he had previously held.
- January 9, 2013
The article originally contained two reporting errors. It misspelled the name of the British music duo Eurythmics. And the International Bear Brotherhood flag was selected at an event of the Chesapeake Bay Bears, not the D.C. Bear Club.
- December 12, 2012
Due to a reporting error, the article originally misidentified Jay Winter Nightwolf as James Winter Nightwolf.
- December 5, 2012
Due to a reporting error, the review originally described Dreamgirls as being 21 years old. In fact, it is 31 years old.
- October 31, 2012
Due to a reporting error, the review originally described War Horse as including Nazis. The play is set during World War I, and does not.
- November 5, 2012
Due to a reporting error, the review originally described War Horse as including Nazis. The play is set during World War I, and does not.
- October 31, 2012
Due to a reporting error, the review originally misidentified the songwriting team of My Fair Lady. It was Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, not Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.
- October 10, 2012
Due to a reporting error, this story originally incorrectly stated that Jeff Baxter had gone to St. John’s College High School.
- October 10, 2012
The article originally contained two reporting errors. It misidentified the Fleetwood Mac album Then Play On. And White grew up outside Charleston, W.Va., not Charlestown.
- September 26, 2012
This story originally contained two reporting errors. First, it originally incorrectly stated Gio Gonzalez was signed as a free agent. He was acquired in a trade. Also, it misquoted the saying about the old Senators teams; the saying did not refer to a division, but just to the American League.
- August 8, 2012
This review originally contained two reporting errors: It incorrectly stated that a character was repeatedly called a “young man” while, in fact, he is not referred to as a “young man” in the script. Also, while the piece correctly described some audience members leaving at intermission, it should not have stated that “at least 15 people” walked out. That number was an estimate, not a precise count.
- July 18, 2012
Due to a reporting error, this story originally reported that Evan Burfield was paid for his work with Startup America by the White House. In fact, Startup America is privately financed, and Burfield works on a volunteer basis.
- July 3, 2012
Due to a reporting error, this story originally misstated the year Anthony Williams ran for re-election. It was 2002, not 2004.
- June 13, 2012
Due to a reporting error, the article originally misstated the number of films showing at Silverdocs. There are 114.
- May 30, 2012
Because of reporting errors, the sections of this story that concern Michael Sindram's building originally contained several inaccuracies. The story wrongly referred to Tenacity Group as the owner of the complex. In fact, it is a condominium building, though it is managed by Cap City Management, a division of Tenacity. The building also does not have an elevator, though the original version of this story stated that the reporter had used one to visit Sindram's third floor apartment. Finally, the management company maintains an office in Takoma Park that the company believes complies with the Office of Human Rights complaint; Sindram disagrees.
- April 18, 2012
Due to a reporting error, this story misstated the affiliation of the person who accompanied Pepco representatives when they visited Chris Turner's house. He came from the Public Service Commission, not the Office of the People's Counsel. The story has been updated to reflect this correction.
- March 7, 2012
Due to a reporting error, this story originally misstated the title of JBG Companies Principal Grant Ehat.
- February 22, 2012
This story originally misspelled the name of
Graffiato General Manager Tiffiny Dunn.
- December 28, 2011
The original version of this article misidentified the director of Studio Theatre's The Walworth Farce. He is Matt Torney, not David Twomey.
- December 20, 2011
Due to a reporting error, this article originally misidentified the play that The Normal Heart will replace.
- December 7, 2011
Due to a reporting error, this story originally incorrectly identified Chip Akridge. He is the founder of Akridge, but he is not related to company president Matt Klein.
- September 28, 2011
Due to a reporting error, this article initially attributed a rap lyric to artist Waka Flocka Flame that doesn't show up in his work.
Due to a separate reporting error, it also initially stated that Olivia Fox departed from the Russ Parr Morning Show due to "discrimination." Though Fox stated that she believes pay discrepancies between male and female talent are endemic in the radio industry, and that her departure was connected to a pay discrepancy between her and Parr, she said did not believe her own situation amounted to discrimination.
- September 7, 2011
Due to reporting errors, this review contained several factual inaccuracies. A character referred to as the Professor is told he's had six drinks, not 15. The Professor works in “a college town near New York,” according to the play's program, but not necessarily in upstate New York. And while the review refers to the Professor’s companion as both a “hooker” and an “exotic dancer,” she is only the latter.
- September 7, 2011
Due to an editing error, the article misidentified a documentary about graffiti visible from Metrorail's Red Line. The film is called The Red Line D.C. Project.
- August 24, 2011
Because of an editing error, this story originally wrongly attributed this quote, which came from Suzanne Wells, not Tommy Wells: "We turned in our application in July 2005. Within one week, they got back to us and said yes they would help."
- August 3, 2011
Due to a reporting error, the article incorrectly described Carleton Ingram as having booked Fort Reno from 1995-2003. He volunteered for the concert series during that entire period, but only booked it from 1996-1999.
- July 6, 2011
Due to reporting errors, this City Lights pick misidentified the name of the protagonist Andy Glickstein in Ari Roth's play Giant Shadows, and inaccurately said that a montage in the play takes place during a family dinner. It takes place during preparations for an engagement party. Also, due to an editing error, we inaccurately characterized the nature of the protagonist's films. They depict Glickstein's parents' suffering, not his own.
- June 29, 2011
This story originally misstated the types of items that Ru's family's export/import business handles. It handles promotional items. Also, it originally misidentified Daniel Neman. He is Jonathan Neman's brother.
- June 1, 2011
Due to a reporting error, last week's City Lights misidentified the year in which the film Air Force One was released. It came out in 1997, not 1996.
- May 25, 2011
Due to a reporting error, the review misidentified the actress who starred in a 1979 staging of Night and Day at the Kennedy Center. It was Maggie Smith.
- April 13, 2011
Due to a reporting error, the review misidentified the actress Azania Dungee on second reference.
- March 4, 2011
Last week's cover story, "Back on Tally's Corner," mistakenly described an Oct. 21, 1991 U.S. News & World Report story on poverty as a cover story when it was an inside feature. The U.S. News story was based on interviews conducted for, not by, University of Chicago sociologist William Julius Wilson. The City Paper story also unfairly implied that the U.S. News author was unaware of the ethnographic methods of researchers like Elliot Liebow.
- March 2, 2011
An earlier version of this column incorrectly identified Eliot Ness amber lager as Eliot Ness brown ale and has been updated.
- February 23, 2011
Due to a reporting error, this story originally stated the District had 70 bank robberies in 2008, 81 in 2009, and 79 in 2010. Those numbers actually include bank robberies in both the District and Northern Virginia.
- January 12, 2011
Due to a reporting error, the article originally misidentified Stripmall Ballads' folk opera The Perfect Pipe Bomb as The Perfect Time Bomb.
- December 29, 2010
Due to a reporting error, the article originally misidentified the Folger Theatre's production of Henry VIII as a collaboration with the Aquila Theatre Company; it was solely a Folger production. The same article suggested that Druid Theatre Company's Penelope appeared at Studio Theatre in 2010; the production is slated to open this March.
- December 22, 2010
Due to a reporting error, the article originally misstated the year of a Washington Post review by Chris Richards. It was published in 2009, not 2010.
- October 20, 2010
The last name of Brightest Young Things founder Svetlana Legetic was originally misspelled in this article.
- October 13, 2010
This story initially misstated the name of Delaware Republican senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell.
- October 6, 2010
Due to a reporting error, the review originally stated that Bell Helicopter performs the music live during Solas Nua's production. A band does, but it's not Bell Helicopter.
- September 22, 2010
Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this story misspelled the name of Michael Dola.
- September 1, 2010
Due to reporting errors in "The Smart-Growth Set," (9/3/2010) the Third Church of Christ, Scientist was misidentified. Additionally Greater Greater Washington founder David Alpert attended his first Living Liberally meeting in Manhattan, not Brooklyn, as was originally reported.
- August 4, 2010
Because of a reporting error, this story incorrectly identified the college attended by former All-Met basketball player Dominic Pressley. He went on to play for Boston College. The Web version of this story has been updated to reflect the changes.
- August 4, 2010
Because of a reporting error, last week's cover story misstated the first name of Top Chef contestant Angelo Sosa. The Web version of this story has been updated to reflect the changes.
- July 28, 2010
Due to a reporting error, last week's cover story failed to mention that the "Office of Bruce Bereano" has contributed $2,000 to D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray's mayoral campaign. Bruce Bereano, a Gray family friend and one of Maryland's top lobbyists, has not given an individual donation to Gray's campaign, according to campaign finance documents current as of the June 10 reporting deadline. The story also reported that a city contractor had built a fence at Gray's property. Though other work at the house had been done —at market rate—by a city contractor, the fence was built by a separate firm. The Web version of this story has been updated to reflect the changes.
- April 21, 2010
In an earlier version of this article, the "panicked best friend" in Public Enemy was misidentified as David Paglin. In fact, the part was played by Daniel Kenner.
- February 24, 2010
Due to an error by film critic Tricia Olszewski, an earlier version of this article stated that Terribly Happy had been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. The movie was Denmark's official submission to the Academy, but it was not nominated.
- February 17, 2010
Due to an error by columnist Mike DeBonis, this column originally referred to Candi Peterson as a "special-ed aide." Peterson is a social worker, not an aide.
- November 18, 2009
Due to an error by reporter Mike DeBonis, this column misreported that Intralot won the city lottery contract by a single point. In fact, Intralot won by 11 points; had the competing GTECH group received full small-business certification from the city, worth 12 points, it would have won by one point.
- October 7, 2009
Reporter Mike DeBonis mistakenly reported that Yellow Cab is owned by Andy Schaeffer. In fact, Vaughn G. Williams owns Yellow; Schaffer owns an insurance company used by most of its drivers.
- September 23, 2009
Columnist Mike DeBonis incorrectly referred to "six additional Bushies" now working at the Office of State Superintendent of Education. As noted elsewhere in the text, two of the six former U.S. Department of Education workers—Cathie Carothers and Patrick Rooney—served as career federal employees, not as Bush administration political appointees.
- September 16, 2009
In this column, John Stokes, spokesperson for the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation, told staff writer Dave McKenna that the wood fiber used at Pierce Park and Kalorama Park came from Zeager Bros. Inc. of Middletown, Pa. Zeager Bros. officials protested that assertion to the city. Stokes now says the wood fiber at the Pierce and Kalorama playgrounds was manufactured by Eastern Shore Wood Forest Products in Salisbury, Md.
- July 8, 2009
An earlier version of this piece referred to Wilco as a septet. The band is a sextet.
- January 28, 2009
Due to an error by columnist Mike DeBonis, this column originally reported that Alex Padro was the Shaw advisory neighborhood commission's longest-serving member. In fact, fellow member Doris Brooks had served for at least a decade prior to Padro's 2000 election.
- December 3, 2008
Due to an error by the author, this article originally indicated that Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham had chaired the economic development committee during council term 16. In fact, he had chaired the Committee on Consumer and Regulatory Affairs.
- November 12, 2008
This article, due to an error by the author, originally reported that Keith Ricca was the only one of his brothers to have married. In fact, Kevin Ricca is the only brother who has married, and the final quote should have been attributed to him.
- July 30, 2008
Due to an error by Rachel Kaufman, last week's Young & Hungry column mentioned a free sandwich received by Clarence Webb "66 years ago," when Webb was a rookie in the Alexandria Police Department. Webb, as reported, is 74 and was not 8 years old when he joined the police department; the sandwich in question was received 52 years ago.
- July 23, 2008
Due to an error by columnist Mike DeBonis, this article originally misstated the election slate that D.C. Democratic State Committee chair Anita Bonds will appear on. She is on the "Obama for Change" slate, not the "Obama for D.C." slate.
- July 16, 2008
Columnist Mike DeBonis misreported comments by mayoral spokesperson Dena Iverson that the council submitted no formal request for Deputy Mayor for Education Victor Reinoso's presence at a July 11 hearing. In fact, council staff had sent formal requests, and Iverson's comments as reported were an initial response to DeBonis' inquiry; Iverson shortly afterward revised her statement to say that the "standard practice is to send those who are responsible for the hearing subject matter on a day to day basis." Due to notetaking errors, DeBonis mistakenly reported the initial response.
- June 11, 2008
Due to an error by columnist Dave McKenna, the original article mistakenly referred to the Emmy Awards as a "debacle." The "debacle" was actually this year's Golden Globe Awards, also owned by Dan Snyder.
- May 14, 2008
Due to a reporting error by columnist Mike DeBonis, this article originally attributed the quote, “In this town, if you don’t support gay marriage, you don’t deserve to be on the council,” to Rick Rosendall. It was actually said by Bob Summersgill.
- January 9, 2008
Due to an error by columnist Mike DeBonis, this article misstated the residency of mayoral chief of staff Tene Dolphin. She lives in Ward 5, not Ward 8.
- November 14, 2007
Due to an error by reporter Mike DeBonis, the article originally gave the incorrect name for a nonprofit organization. The group is called the 21st Century School Fund, not the 21st Century Schools Project.
- November 14, 2007
The article originally gave an incorrect name for the outfit that contracted to study the Office of Tax and Revenue's operations. It is called the Wendell Group, not the Window Group.
- October 17, 2007
This article originally stated the wrong date for an upcoming meeting of the Board for the Condemnation of Insanitary Properties. The meeting will take place on Oct. 24, not the 26th.
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