Via Consumerist, allow us to introduce you to the next Great American Hero: Mona Shaw, 75-year-old Manassas resident and fed-up potential Comcast customer. Potomac News has the great story about Shaw, who got a little hot under the collar after trying to change her phone service from Verizon to Comcast’s Triple Play back in August. As hard as it might be to imagine, Shaw ran into some difficulty trying to get her Comcast service set…

For a struggling offensive team like the Nationals, there’s no greater place to play a few games than the Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati. And lately for the Nats, there’s no greater foil than whiny Wayne Krivsky’s Reds. For those reasons, I had quite the time watching the Nats pound the stuffing out of the Reds in last night’s 12-7 win. The club’s long-slumbering lumber has finally awoken–aided by Cincy’s teensy bandbox of a field….

Dine Out For Life On March 8 If you’ve been feeling guilty about all your meals out lately, get ready to wash that all away next week. The annual Dining Out For Life benefit will take place next Thursday, March 8. If you’re unfamiliar with the charity affair, it’s one day each year when dozens of area restaurants donate at least 25% of their profits to local charity Food and Friends. The event, which takes…

Whoooooosh! What’s that giant sucking sound? Oh yeah – it’s the sweet reverberation of another record store totally biting it and going out of business in this era of iTunes. In this case, we’ve got Tower Records bowing out of the business, a fact that, though it feels inevitable, saddens us all the same. According to an AP article that ran in the Post,On Friday, after a 29-hour auction, most of the bankrupt music retailer’s…

“People keep asking me, ‘What’s wrong?’ I’m going to have my numbers. People shouldn’t worry about Jose Guillen.” Somewhere, Gilbert Arenas is smiling. He would definitely appreciate the third-person proclamations Jose Guillen made in Monday’s Post. Especially since Guillen had previously struggled so badly – through Saturday he had two homers on the year, was batting a paltry .227, and recently was dropped from cleanup to the fifth spot in the order. But Guillen emphatically…

Sometimes we at DCist find ourselves wandering around the Dupont and Logan neighborhoods, unsatisfied after an excursion to CakeLove. We roam between the new condos and the embassies until we realize that what we really have is CakeLust. Tonight, Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale promises to satisfy our cravings. For a $10 suggested donation [hint: they’ll be happy to take more] to funds aimed at combating childhood hunger, you can spend the evening…

It’ll be a party this evening on Barracks Row, the stretch of Eighth Street SE that’ll be celebrating its Great American Main Street Award — a great honor for its revitalizing streetscaping project. The festivities kick off at the Old Siam Restaurant (406 Eighth St. SE) at 6 p.m. with appetizers and drinks. While its name may have “Old” in it, Old Siam is the newest restaurant on the strip. In the process to revitalize…

Has any stretch of real estate in D.C. turned itself around as quickly as Barracks Row? In just over six years the stretch of Eighth Street SE south of Eastern Market and north of M Street SE. has seen rapid development changing the area from one infested with drug traffic and petty crime to a vibrant thoroughfare. Sure, the space still has some bleak spots, including a Popeye’s with astonishingly bad service (even for a…

Do you toil at a dull government (or PR, or consultant) position by day while honing your artistic genius by night? Whether it’s the Great American Novel or the harmonies to the consummate hipster emo anthem, we know many DCist readers fit the bill, and you’re not alone. Poet Walt Whitman is one of the myriad of those who sojourned to Washington to work the levers of government before moving on to future fame, living…

Looking for a last minute stocking stuffer for your conservative friends, or dartboard fodder for those on the left? Online magazine Salon yesterday pointed us to a great option — the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute’s 2005 Great American Conservative Women calendar. On the heels of last year’s Babes Against Bush calendar comes this new entry into the glutted calendar market, featuring prominent conservative women like Dr. Laura, a machine-gun packing Shemane Nugent, Secretary of…