Miscellaneous: November 2009 Archives

Seattlest talked about gay marriage, performing, and the sexiness of the Pacific Northwest with Rufus Wainwright.

This time last year, the Washington Redskins were fresh off an election-eve home beatdown by the Super Bowl champs–elect, the Pittsburgh Steelers, in a game noted for the stunning prevalence of Steelers fans at FedEx Field. A little past the halfway mark of the season, that game officially kicked off the team's late-season demise, where they'd go 2-6 and labor to put up points in virtually every game. The offensive line looked slow, tired, and hurting, and so did Clinton Portis -- whom we all hoped only looked like that because he was behind that slow, tired, and hurting o-line. The defense, for the most part, manfully willed the team into games before the offensive ineptitude just became too great a burden to bear.

There's a lot of weird things in the world: Snuggies, hairless cats, Glenn Beck's Christmas book for kids, for example. And some things just defy explanation.

• If you're commuting by car to Montgomery County this evening, you might want to come up with some other plan, or wait until much later. The county's traffic lights still aren't timed right after a malfunction this morning.
• Area corporate executive denied first class seating on United Airlines because he was wearing a track suit. WTTG/FOX5 investigates!
• Jean Cryor, commissioner of the Montgomery County Planning Board, has died at the age of 70, AP reports.

• Ward 8 unemployment remains one of the highest rates in the country, clocking in at a shocking 28.3 percent in September, the Washington Business Journal reports.
• City Desk publishes emails that show there are some serious questions about the integrity of the investigation into the Georgetown Library fire.
• Local org Noah's Ark Food Bank says it was kicked out of its home after city inspectors threatened the Southeast D.C. church where its located with code violations and fines, WJLA reports.

• There was an actual fist fight in the Washington Post newsroom on Friday, between Style editor Henry Allen and feature writer Manuel Roig-Franzia, and everyone was racing to get the story today. Washingtonian, City Desk and Fishbowl DC all provide blow-by-blow coverage.
• "D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and his economic development team must provide real estate documents to Deborah Nichols, the D.C. auditor, according to an Oct. 30 ruling by D.C. Superior Court Judge Eugene Hamilton." [Washington Business Journal]
• Cate Blanchett, in town performing in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Kennedy Center, was spotted at the Columbia Heights Target over the weekend. [New Columbia Heights]

Gothamist learned that Vespa owners are resorting to illegal measures (okay, scraping off their vehicle ID numbers) to keep their scooters on the street, not that it'll help.