Wondering about the Next Kliman After yesterday’s news that Todd Kliman was leaving the City Paper, we got to wondering about who his eventual replacement would be. Kliman — like many food writers — did not get the position from any formal “food writing” training, but from a love of writing and food. In a prior life, he was one of Howard University’s coolest professors, and it took him a year to finally land a…

You know it’s August and the news has slowed down considerably when everybody starts running their “Who’s The Hottest fillintheblank” type polls. The Hill ran their 50 Most Beautiful (which was appropriately snarked by the DCeiver, who in turn got a mention in Newsweek!); Gawker’s already done a bunch of hottie media types; and now FishbowlDC is running their own media Hot-A-Thon, featuring several members of the D.C. media elite. The categories are Hottest On-Air…