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On Monday Express re-launched its web site, dubbing it anew as ExpressNightOut, which will focus exclusively on D.C. area arts and events coverage. The old Read Express url now points to the new site. The Express folks also put up a post formally announcing the end of Free Ride, the local news-focused blog that had been dying a slow, painful death since the departure of former DCist editor and Free Ride founder Mike Grass, who went to work for Observer start-up Politicker, a few months back. Many times since then saw Free Ride with only one or two posts up per day, so word that it's officially dead comes as no big surprise.
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Does anyone know about the armed robbery on 13th NW last night in Columbia Heights? The helicopters
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RIP free ride. shame it never lived long enough to reach its potential. the replacement looks like bleh.
Awww ... thanks Sommer. RIP, Free Ride. I will be toasting that blog's rollercoaster life tonight in Brooklyn if anyone cares to join me. A lot of my blood, sweat, tears (and $$$$) went into that site. Hopefully the archives have been/will be preserved. It'd be a shame to lose all those daily snapshots of D.C. history captured through all those posts over the years. At least it's comforting to see DCist still running strong and thriving. While DCist's observed birthday is in September, Goodspeed and I started drafting posts in beta on July 26, 2004, if I remember correctly. (It's hard to track down those initial posts.)