Jason Linkins

Thank you for having me as your guest blogger today. Sommer Mathis, in all her glory, returns next week. Please feel free to visit me here and here. And now, your Go Home Already for Friday, April 4. >> Nation's Gentrified Neighborhoods Threatened By Aristocratization: "When you have a... continue reading on DCist

Mark Athitakis' latest article in the City Paper, "Building the Great D.C. Novel," is a fine one, and it really gets the mind grapes juicing. It takes up a noble task: how to write the classic DC novel. His thesis, for which he builds a solid case, is this, "Though... continue reading on DCist

For some, "Hell is other people," but for one local blogger, hell is just one person: the maitre d' at Kramerbooks & Afterwords, who governed over last Sunday's brunchtime with a haughty manner and a tendency toward "psychological abuse." There were snippy quips over bathroom tokens, for example, and memories... continue reading on DCist

Earlier this year, newly minted Washington Times EIC John Solomon began making changes at his new place of employ. His first move was to bring an end to some of the Times' most sacred traditions: like deploying scare-quotes around the word "marriage" when preceded by the word "gay," and belittling... continue reading on DCist

My sister, after spending over a decade away from the Washington area, recently moved back to attend graduate school. As she had been away a good long time, and was only in her early teens when our family decamped for Orlando, Florida (a move we all regretted, trust me), she... continue reading on DCist