Another big Pulitzer Prize year for the Washington Post. D.C.’s newspaper of record took home four Pulitzers this afternoon, including an International Reporting award for Anthony Shadid for his series on the U.S. drawdown in Ira; a Feature Writing award for Gene Weingarten for his story about parents who leave their babies in the car (Weingarten also won in 2008 for his Joshua Bell in L’Enfant Plaza rouse); a Commentary award for conservative columnist…
They have a saying in Paris that describes the fast pace of life in that city: Métro, boulot, dodo, meaning that life consists only of an endless repetition of subway rides, work, and sleep. Life in Washington is harried, too, but sometimes you need to stop as you dash through the L’Enfant Plaza station at rush hour on a Friday in January. Who is playing the famous Chaconne from Bach’s D minor partita so well…
Starting today, the funnies page in the Washington Post will be looking a little different: Mary Worth, Cathy and Broom Hilda have been given the boot to make room for Agnes, Brewster Rockit: Space Guy! and Brevity. Who could have foreseen that America’s appetite for comics about stupid, nosy and/or shrew-like women would ever subside? We guess that Cathy’s audience eventually found reading the strip to be a little too self-deprecating. There’ll be a…
Ever wanted to tell the Washington Post exactly what you think of them and their local, national, and international news coverage? Better yet, have you wanted to make sure that someone will actually hear your pleas, comments and suggestions? Now’s your chance. Gene Weingarten, the Post’s humor columnist and host of a regular and fairly popular Tuesday afternoon chat, is giving readers not only the opportunity to vent about the paper, but also the privelege…
The Post’s Hank Stuever weighed in today on a major event in the world of comics. Last Saturday, Cathy, from the comic strip of the same name, the perennially single gal, got married to long time on again off again boyfriend Irving. For those of you that don’t read the comics, Cathy’s kind of like the Bridget Jones of the comics world, only less funnier and, let’s face it, Irving is no Mark Darcy. The…
D.C. residents have to put up with a lot, from security concerns to WMATA issues, but one perk of living here is that our hometown paper (the Post) has one of the best comics sections in the country. We get a full three pages, while that other paper in that other city doesn’t even have one. Imagine our surprise then, when we caught whiff of a comics controversy going down. We were on humor columnist…