April 17, 2008
DCist Named Best D.C. Web Site by Washington City Paper Readers
Color us honored! When we thumbed through the massive, two-lb. "Best Of D.C." edition of this week's Washington City Paper, we were surprised and delighted to find that publication's readers had awarded us "Best D.C. Web Site." Best locally-focused blog, OK, but best web site? Washingtonpost.com was a runner up? Allow all of us here at DCist HQ to deliver a collective "gee golly." That was just awfully nice of you, City Paper readers.
Make sure to pick up a copy of the "Best of D.C." issue of City Paper, the first time the weekly has done such an issue in what, 20 years? We haven't yet had the approximately three weeks of time it will take to read through the entire thing, but already we can testify that the staff and the readers appear to be right on target with a number of other awards, including "Best Enforcer" for Kamal “Commy” Jahanbein at the Saloon and "Best Brunch" for Asylum.
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I like the "staff picks" -- like the city paper actually has a staff anymore. Looks like they took the advertiser listings for the past year and made up categories until everyone got one.
The City Paper has really gone down hill since the takeover...
(not that DCist doesn't rock, of course)
people actually read that whored-up snark in the city paper? I'm just in it for the bi-curious ads and the ones for porno dvds. which reminds me, the people behind the "MILF Cruiser" series have a lot of nerve. i didnt see a single stretchmark or caesarean scar. for shame! i though it was bad enough that the "talent" in "Barely Legal Sluts" were all on the wrong side of 30.
now now, let's not rip on the city paper too much here. they said nice things, so it's only fair to say nice things back (for now, at least).
I like the City Paper. It's a quick read while I'm on the toilet.
Plus, I like looking through the stalker ads a/k/a the Missed Connections. I keep hoping that someone will find me super duper hot and place an ad in there seeking to meet up with me. Hasn't happened yet. Maybe next week...
CP needs to dump most of those stupid cartoons in the back.
"DCist Named Best D.C. Web Site" well duh!
fluxgirl: what cartoons? all that's left is dirtfarm. they killed off the rest of them months ago.
this is great DCist! you are definitely one of my favorite sites. keep up the good work.
congrats to all of the authors - you deserve a pat on the back. and a few polite rounds of Guiness. oh, and why not throw in some shots of Jägermeister.
I'd read City Paper if they just brought back Refrigerator Johnny and The Angriest Dog in the World.
And if they'd stop writing like a bunch of hipper-than-thou dildos who can't tell the difference between bitchiness with rhetoric.
Asylum really has the best brunch? I didn't know they served brunch. I didn't know they served food.
Not only food, Asylum has some awesome veggie and vegan offerings.
I'm a day late on this, but:
I'd like to give a shout out to my boy, Freedom Market. I knew I lived next door to a pretty damn good corner store. It's nice to know that it's the best in the city.
I just wish they'd dust a little bit so I could at least pretend some of the things don't sit on the shelves for months at a time.
So did Washingtonian buy out City Paper? Because both their "Best of..." lists are staggering in their lameness. Best Maragarita: Lauriol Plaza? Best Soul Food: Georgia Brown's? Best Draft Beer Selection: Brickskellar? Best Councilmember: JIM F***ING GRAHAM?!?
The inmates have taken over the asylum and they're turning it into a $3k a month condo (condo fees $725). But you get free sprinkles!
The sprinkles are also cursed.
Makes me think twice about dcist being voted "Best Website." It's like being voted Tallest Midget in the World or winning the Special Olympics. Seriously, I kid. I kid 'cause I love!
The love is also cursed.
Cranky: Solely on the basis of the comments you've posted to DCist, you are hot.
"Can I go now?"
Monkey, it's far, far, worse than that. The examples you give aren't the staff's picks, they're ours. Or, rather, the City Paper's readers, of which I, like most regulars on DCist, am one. Albeit apparently one within the less lame half of the distribution.
The staff picks are actually less lame. They went with Brasserie Beck for the beer list, Oyamel for margaritas, and Hitching Post for soul food. I'm not sure I agree with all of those selections, or indeed any of them, but if someone made them in my presence I wouldn't feel obliged to point and laugh.
And I think their staff pick for best Councilmember probably would have been Jim Graham as well, but let's be honest -- as far as 99% of any discussion of the City Council goes, that august body consists of "Jim Graham," "Marion Barry," and "That Guy." And the sympathy vote for That Guy's struggle with terminal bone-itis only goes so far.