Yesterday, we caught wind of a Washington Post Live event featuring Post food critic Tom Sietsema and D.C.’s favorite culinary ambassador, José Andrés. Eater’s article on the conversation initially made it seem the chef accused Republicans of not properly appreciating taps. Turns out that wasn’t the case.

Today, the Washington Post unveiled a new tool which will allow readers to submit corrections to any report the newspaper releases on its website. While crowd-sourcing this job instead of just hiring a couple of extra digital copy editors is an…interesting move, we do feel obliged to pass along our deepest condolences to the poor sap who has to be the one to sift through all these comments — especially when it comes to the…

Last Sunday, during a roundtable discussion on NBC’s Meet the Press, Representative Raul Labrador (R-ID) made the mistake of attributing seven recent homicides to the District of Columbia, when in fact they had occurred in neighboring Prince George’s County. Despite the fact that all Labrador (or someone on his staff) had to do to avoid the error was simply look at this website which said the District had only experienced three homicides at the time of his comment, we were still willing to cut the guy a break. After all, we realize that it’s incredibly easy for some members of Congress to simply lump our region together into one homogenous geographical glob.

A correction published on Thursday, Dec. 3 in the Washington Post: A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a Public Enemy song declared 9/11 a joke. The song refers to 911, the emergency phone number. Brutal. The song “911 is a Joke” was of course released in 1990, on the seminal Fear of a Black Planet album, approximately 11 years before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Public Enemy…

From today’s corrections section in the Washington Post….

Via Gothamist, the New York Post reports on what looks to be a prank involving the American University alumni magazine, American Magazine, on two graduates of the D.C. school who later lived together in New York. In the spring edition of the magazine, it was apparently falsely reported that Ross Weil, 29, and Brett Royce, 28 were “life partners” who had been gay married, adding that they were leaders of a fake group called the…

Isn’t it Friday yet, Washington? Alas, we’ve still got to muddle through two hot, muggy days before what’s looking to be another gorgeous weekend finally begins. With weather like this, you might be tempted to don footwear most people would deem inappropriate for work, like say, flip-flops. Other people might then be tempted to make fun of you for your choice of shoes, and they wouldn’t be wrong — flip-flops are, as we all know,…

One beautiful thing about Washington, other than the symphony of sirens, helicopters, bus brakes, and drunk college kids shouting, is that you always have a chance to get wrapped up in some day-to-day urban drama. For this author, it happened to be an inmate’s short-lived escape attempt from a Department of Corrections transport. There’s something so “D.C.” about stepping out of your house to see the cops pinning a man to the street; it’s…

Corrections In last week’s Feed, we mentioned that the unearthing of Eric Ripert’s impending move to D.C. was courtesy of Tom Sietsema in a May 2006 TomChat. We were mistaken, however. The scoop on the story goes to the Washingtonian’s Todd Kliman, who uncovered the story in his chat first (link is unavailable, sorry, you can read his latest chat though). Apologies all around to you Mr. Kliman; you deserve full credit for your footwork….

The mildest December in recent memory looks to continue on for a little while longer, but don’t expect actually enjoyable weather between now and Christmas Day. Instead, overcast skies and drizzly rain are settling in to the metro area, just in time to make the holiday feel slightly less merry (though maybe a little more like that thing called winter we keep hearing about). You still don’t need that long underwear you asked Santa for,…