It’s easy to paint the protesters at Gallaudet University as young causeheads that have listened to too much Rage Against the Machine and idealistically mused on revolution. But theirs is not a battle to save the rain forest, stop sweatshops, or even impeach President George W. Bush. The continued intensity of their protest — now in its second day of sucessfully locking down the Northeast campus — is fueled by conflicts over culture, identity, and…

Today, washingtonpost.com unveiled the latest in its ever-growing line of blogs, Focus on Fairfax. Spearheaded by Steve Fehr, editor of the Fairfax Extra section of the printed Post, the blog is described as a type of “community bulletin board.” Some blogs are online diaries or journals that contain the musings of the author on any number of topics. Ours will be more like a community bulletin board that tells you what is going on in…

Today was the first day of publication of the Washington Examiner, which makes them, as their publisher James McDonald points out, “the first generally circulated daily newspaper to be created in the Washington metropolitan area in more than three decades.” The newspaper was started by Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz, an evangelical Christian and supporter of the group “Focus on the Family.” (The same group that outed SpongeBob) The Post profiled Anschuntz in detail in November….

End of the year picks, pans, and best of lists are starting to leak out and soon will be flooding that dead air between Christmas and the New Year. The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association got a head start and just released their “Best Of” list for 2004. Surprisingly, Michel Gondry’s surreal “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” claimed top honors as Best Film. Gondry also won for Best Director. The DC critics collective…