We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We’re not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual -Ist lightheartedness – we just wanted to take a moment and recognize those affected last week. After the Minneapolis bridge collapse, Bostonist did a little research and found that Massachusetts…
Happy Father’s Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one’s for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by…
Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to. In Austin, bands are beginning to confirm for SXSW and the rumor mill is up and running. Good thing, too, because we all know how much Austinites love live performances. Austin also found itself in the national spotlight, with Longhorn Legend…
Robert Getzschman is, well, an odd man. (Just look at the picture on his myspace page. I would have gone for pasties myself.) Running The Frozen Food Section, a record label out of his native St. Louis, he decided to move up to New York’s Lower East Side to pursue the “singer-songwriter thing.” After stints there and in Boston, Rob moved to DC. The move to DC and subsequent job at an Apple store introduced…
This just sounds too weird to ignore. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Goethe-Institut Washington will screen “East Side Story (Sozialistische Musicals)”, a German documentary about movie musicals done during the height of the Cold War that have Europeans singing and dancing about socialism. Sounds like some retro-fun! From the website:As a whole, the Iron Curtain countries were not known for their gaiety or joie de vivre, but between the cracks of stark Socialist…
Metrorail riders are very familiar with the distinctive voice of WMATA’s police chief, Polly Hanson, telling us over the intercom to ask: “Is that your bag?” when we see unattended items on the train or in stations. Polly has gotten us into the mindset of safety first, and we thank her. Click here for complete WMATA safety and security guidelines. Now we have a new guy to listen to, but you’ll be lucky if you…
Gawker media is doing its best to stir up some inside the Beltway like controversy, recently reporting on the exploits of D.C.’s version of the Hilton sisters, the Bush twins. Hey, they’re all we’ve got and we’ll follow them wherever they may be. (Oh yeah, Paris was in Georgetown this past weekend.) Last Friday, Gawker posted a brief but interesting e-mail about Jenna and Barbara’s being denied a table at Freemans, a hot spot on…
