– The American U. Eagle has a longer piece on the closing of Visions Cinema Bistro, which characterizes the cinema’s demise as “100% financial” and blames corporate competition:
Then, the opening of large chain theaters showing indie films resounded like death knells. Georgetown Loews in November 2002. AFI Silver Theatre in April 2003. Then E Street Cinema last January, bringing Landmark’s clout into the downtown pond. Suddenly it was big fish versus small fish.
– why.i.hate.dc has some choice words for thirty Virginians who showed up packing heat at a Falls Church city council meeting to protest a city policy which restricts firearms on city property by instructing police to check to see if their owners can legally posess them.
– A Maryland transportation official will resign after it was discovered more than half of the resurfacing work on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge must be replaced.
