Martin Austermuhle
This week saw the official introduction of our newest service to make all of our social lives that much easier — Last Call. For those of you that missed the news, our tech guru Tom Lee has set up a system through which you can check Metro arrival times, movies, weather and open tables at area restaurants by simply sending us a text message with your query. We’re working to iron out any hiccups, so please let us know if you’re having any troubles with the system.
This week we saw local chef Roberto Donna avenge his defeat at the hands of Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto, reported on the growth of the local Church of Scientology, checked out Phoenix at the 9:30 Club and debated the piecemeal development of the region’s transit infrastructure. We packed onto the Metro in Caracas, Venezuela and learned some valuable lessons on transit from beyond our region, found some cheap eats for Mother’s Day, discovered how complicated managing an emergency in the District could be, differed in opinion with the City Paper over demographic shifts in the city and argued over whether Butterstick should be the District’s official mascot or not. We talked about proper phone etiquette when calling a restaurant, pondered giving buses priority at red lights, visited Fort Steven, demanded better food carts and applauded the introduction of legislation that may finally give the District a vote in the House of Representatives. We saw Senator John Kerry not answer questions at American University, criticized the new art installation at the old Convention Center site, found that the misfortunes continue for Marion Barry and reviewed the penultimate episode of “The West Wing.”
And for those of you wondering about the picture above, a group of mothers and grandmothers decided to celebrate Mother’s Day by telling President George W. Bush what their maternal instincts told them about the war in Iraq.
Photo by Sam Utne/Spectral Q
