The controlled chaos (and exclusion of the insufferable Adam Goldberg) of 2 Days in New York makes the movie an improvement on its predecessor, 2 Days in Paris.
D.C. has one, Chris Rock joked about them and there are entire books about them: streets named for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Yesterday CNN posted an article about streets named for the civil rights leader, saying there are at least 777 in the country. The article says that Rock’s joke and the stereotype about King streets, that they’re poor and dangerous, may not be true. It quotes Matthew Mitchelson, a University of Georgia…
The Examiner reports today that D.C. Lottery’s DC-4 game has been a pretty rich bet this fiscal year, paying out well over the average take for most of the fiscal year. The game normally pays out an average of 50 cents for each dollar bet on the game, but in six of the past nine months, the average payout has reached 70 cents per buck, and in May an astonishing 87 cents was paid out…
This Sunday, celebrity fashion will be mocked, pools of nominees will be pored over, and Chris Rock will be unleashed to lambaste an unsuspecting Hollywood. It’s time for the Oscars — that four-plus-hours long glitz fest that transfixes the entertainment world once a year. While it may seem half a world away from Washington, D.C., at least one local company, State of the Art, Inc., will be among the contenders vying for Academy recognition. State…
