Jun 11, 2006
Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse
LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where do ist editors go when they hang up the ‘editorial we’? They take on MySpace, apparently. At least Ben Brown does. Austinist reminds of the just rewards of less savory careers this week and then they witness the Arctic Monkeys and We Are…
If today’s PETA protest left you wishing for more skin with your politics, then Universal Gear up for more. Whitman-Walker Clinic’s yearly gay pride festival, Capital Pride, is back for another year, and—with all the new venues and expanded events—it is bulging at the seams. While it actually kicked off last weekend with a contest for Mr. CapitalPride Leather and a panel on “Building Bridges without Destroying Identities,” the festivities and other related events run…
Jun 06, 2006
Stare DCisis: Holey Matrimony
This spring, like every spring, is sponsored by Crate & Barrel, Williams Sonoma and, depending on your friends, Tiffany’s. It’s wedding season around the country, and Federal Marriage Amendment season on the Hill. Our lawmakers have decided that this issue merits a great deal of their time, and our own, so in this spirit Stare DCisis revisits one of the most important constitutional decisions about marriage that was ever handed down by the Supreme Court….
Aug 31, 2004
Let the ‘Schrocking!’ Puns Begin
As you probably know by now, if you’ve been trolling political blogs all day like the good little unproductive employee you are, Ed Schrock, a conservative Republican congressman from Hampton Roads, Va., quit his re-election efforts after a D.C. blogger, BlogActive, alleged that Schrock was gay. As DCeiver noted this morning: “Don’t look now, but Virginia’s having its own McGreevey moment!” BlogActive, run by D.C. gay activist Mike Rogers, has been on a campaign for…