Michael Lewis’ latest book, “Flash Boys,” manages to turn a pretty complex topic into a nonfiction page-turner.
Take that, New York.
Everyone loves a good diner. Here are some of the best in the D.C. area.
You won’t see Andrew Sullivan hunched over The Diner’s lunch counter anymore. The super-blogger has moved to New York. But he kind of hates it there.
Looking for a copy of Andrew Sullivan’s “The Cannabis Closet”? You’re not going to find it at Adams Morgan’s Capitol Hemp, which stopped selling books on drugs and the drug war over fears that they could be used to justify another police raid.
Veteran gossip columnist Michael Musto is in town today promoting his new book, La Dolce Musto, a collection from his columns of the same name (he’ll be at Nage Restaurant from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.). The bespectacled provocateur has spent 20 years at the Village Voice chronicling New York City’s gay life, nightlife and sex life, sometimes in terms that would make Candace Bushnell blush. Along with the tales of club kids, politics and sex…
Thanks to Wonkette for the tip that a “Stand Up for Denmark!” rally scheduled for lunchtime tomorrow outside the Danish Embassy looks to be a star-studded affair for the wacky world of D.C. political punditry. Christopher Hitchens, no doubt feeling his way for the keyboard through a thick cloud of indignant, hawkish cigarette smoke, was the first to type out the call to arms stand around outside the building in a docile manner: Please be…
The blogging world engages in more navel gazing this Tuesday courtesy of the Brookings Institution. Old media veterans will take on the young whipper snappers of the new media in a live panel discussion about the role of the press in a rapidly changing online universe. The Impact of the New Media will feature Ana Marie Cox, Andrew Sullivan, Ellen Ratner of Talk Radio News Service, Jack Shafer of Slate.com and Jodie T. Allen of…
What has Wonkette’s Ana Marie Cox been up to since she skipped town? Partying with New York media heavies, apparently. Gawker Media, the Wonkette mother ship, called our girl home for a small, A-list bloggers only shindig at the New York home of publisher Nick Denton a few days ago. (Hmm, perhaps our invitation got lost in the mail? C’mon, we’re only a train ride away…) So what’s the big occasion? Gawker reports that Ana…
Who knew that bloggers could take a sabbatical? DCist’s favorite potty mouthed political blogger Ana Marie Cox will be MIA for the entire month of February. Today marks the first day that former Gawker editor Choire Sicha takes over blogging duties at Wonkette. The site, a part of the New York based Gawker Media Empire, is apparently letting Cox loose for a month to write a book. Ah yes, another blogger turned author. You can’t…
