Aug 16, 2007
The D.C. Movie Mistakes Continue (Updated)
Can’t anyone get D.C. right? Today the Post’s Reliable Source reports that Nicole Kidman’s newest thriller, The Invasion, makes a number of relatively amateur mistakes in trying to use the District as a backdrop, even though a good part of it was filmed here. Among those: – Kidman, who plays a D.C. psychiatrist, buys magazines at one of those big sidewalk newsstand kiosks — the ones all over New York but not on any corner…
Jul 23, 2007
Reader, Meet Author
MONDAY: Lisa See, author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, will be at Politics and Prose to talk about her latest book, Peony in Love. 7 p.m. We had to yell “STOP THE PRESSES!” for this one. Laura Sessions Stepp, our favorite Washington Post personality, will be at Arlington Central Library to promote her latest book Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both. For those of you unfamiliar with…
May 04, 2006
Mayor Submits Library Plan
D.C. Mayor Williams officially introduced legislation Tuesday to approve the financing of a new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. Dubbed the Library Transformation Act of 2006, the Mayor’s plan calls for a new “State-of-the-Art Central Library” to be located at the nearby site of the old convention center. The new Library would act as an anchor for a larger development plan that would include “new office, retail and housing” space around the site. The…