The Washington City Paper’s Angela Valdez provides a two-pronged update today to the monstrosity that could be the Late Night Shots reality TV show we told you about earlier this month. In a piece over at Campus Progress, she interviews Havva Eisenbaum, the producer of the pilot, who says that they’ve already had “nibbles of interest from networks” who might end up picking it up once the pilot is completed. Considering how many reality TV…
Our friends over at Campus Progress sent us an email about a contest they’re sponsoring that should be good for a few laughs. The Social Capital blog’s Free Food-a-Thon promises to pit two of the most demanding needs of any Washington intern — to save money and to eat — in a battle of epicurean proportions. Here’s the deal: Next week, Campus Progress interns will compete, two a day, where they will document their meals/snacks/crumbs…
>> Must Love Trash, DJ Adrian Loving and DJ Gavin Holland have all volunteered their services at Wonderland tonight to benefit a group putting together a Columbia Heights Day festival. The party starts at 9 p.m. upstairs. Help these guys get their web site and street festival off the ground by having a good time. For more details about Columbia Heights Day, email ColumbiaHeightsDay (at) gmail.com >> The Hej Hej DJs, DJ Yum Yum…
>> Two quality offerings from the Black Cat tonight: Japan’s uber-weird noise outfit Melt-Banana take the mainstage with Hex Machine at 8:30 p.m., $13. Plus Falls Church native and now Richmond-based newgrass singer Josh Small is in the Backstage tonight, with Tim Barry and The Wading Girl, for a paltry $8 at 8 p.m. >> Campus Progress is calling all summer interns and other young folks to head over to Science Club tonight for…
Campus Progress is determined to keep you busy. Last week they hosted an early peek at an episode of The Wire. Tomorrow they’ll be continuing their advance screening M.O., offering an opportunity to watch an episode of the civil rights documentary Eyes On The Prize prior to its return to PBS later this fall. A screening of a twenty year-old documentary may not sound like a big deal, but in this case it is. Despite…
You’re probably sick of hearing it by now. We’re sorry about that. But we’re only thinking of your well-being when we say it: you really ought to be watching The Wire. The stunningly complex and believable series about Baltimore’s drug trade and pervasive institutional decay is only a couple of weeks into its fourth season on HBO, but the plaudits are already here in force. A 98 out of 100 on metacritic should provide some…
Pity the poor interns. It’s about this time every year that one begins reading articles that warn about the coming summer crop by comparing them to a descending swarm of locusts. It’s grossly unfair. Okay, sure — it’s true that they’ll soon be here, covering every available outdoor surface, their mandibles clicking unpleasantly in the still night air. And yes, there’ll be a certain “swarming” quality to the proceedings, as they form a furious and…
This post is from DCist intern Maureen Miller. If conservative interns get a dorm and fitness room to enjoy at the Hertiage Foundation while they’re cranking out reports on privatization, what sort of extra-curricular perks do interns for lefty groups get? While they might not live adjacent their offices, a project of the new Center for American Progress has been working hard to plan a smattering of events for interns for left-leaning groups. This week,…
When 25-year-old filmmaker Steven Greenstreet heard director Michael Moore had been invited to speak at Utah Valley State College during the heat of last fall’s election, he knew things might get interesting. He was right, and his documentary of the events, which he dropped out of nearby Brigham Young University to create, is also generating some attention. The film is called This Divided State and has been picked up by the liberal Center For American…
