Good morning, Washington. On Friday night, three people were struck by a car while taking part in an Occupy D.C. rally downtown. Hundreds of protesters blocked streets around the Convention Center during the Americans for Prosperity “dream summit,” which is affiliated with the conservative billionaire Koch brothers. The driver will not be charged, because he allegedly had a green light. We’ll have more on this soon.
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. 12 Angry Men Berlin’s annual film and media festival, The Berlinale, celebrated its 60th anniversary this year. The festival is the largest in the world, selling nearly a quarter of a million tickets to nearly 400 films, and that doesn’t even get into the film trade show that’s part of the event. To wish the festival…
Allez Cuisine! From Jack Abramoff’s Signatures to his own restaurant, Farrah Olivia, Morou Ouattara plans to step into a new venue. His eye is on Kitchen Stadium as he competes for the title of the Next Iron Chef. The first episode airs Sunday, 9 p.m. on the Food Network. Eight chefs with the help of Lufthansa Airlines (yay product placement!) will be traveling through Europe and competing against each other to join Mario Batali, Cat…
Washington chefs fell to 1-2 in Iron Chef America competitions, as Bobby Flay defeated the uni-monikered Morou in Battle Frozen Peas last night on the Food Network show — two months after Galileo’s Roberto Donna avenged his own loss to Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto. Morou — the former Signatures chef who had earned the right to take on an Iron Chef when he topped former 1789 chef Ris Lacoste and Tosca’s Cesare Lanfranconi in the…
Last year they got none. This year, four. Hot off the wires we’ve gotten word that our own Washington Post can add four more Pulitzers to its trophy case, taking the prestigious prizes for Investigative Reporting on the Jack Abramoff scandal, Explanatory Reporting on U.S. attempts to bring democracy to Yemen, Beat Reporting for breaking the story on the CIA’s secret prisons and Criticism for its sharp-witted takes on fashion and culture. We’re both excited…
Last week brought rosy predictions as to how much revenue the new Washington Nationals stadium would attract. According to a study commissioned by District CFO Natwar Gandhi, the team stood to rake in $203 million in its first year and $190 million a year thereafter, making it the third highest grossing team in baseball. In fact, the predictions were so high that even baseball officials were left to express doubts: The projections greatly exceeded the…
Closed! Did anyone along Pennsylvania Avenue hear a door slamming loudly Wednesday night? If you did and are perplexed about it, let us fill you in. Signatures, the “lobbyist hangout” next to the Navy Memorial, closed its doors. And closed them abruptly, at that. It turns out that when you’re being investigated by the Senate, the Department of Justice, and the Ft. Lauderdale Police for connections to a murder, people aren’t clamoring to frequent the…
L’Affaire Abramoff and the Culinary Scene If you’ve been following the Jack Abramoff/Tom Delay ethics scandal, you may have caught the piece in the New York Times yesterday that went into depth on the connections between the scandal and Abramoff’s (former?) downtown restaurant, Signatures. The article goes into depth on complimentary meals given to various political heavy hitters at the restaurant. The Times mentions that Abramoff is selling the restaurant, and we’ve heard that there’s…
Good morning Washington. This photo of the Dupont Circle fountain was taken by sideways and posted in DCist Photos. Before we get to the morning’s news, we should just say that some of the better reading is Congressionally related. So be sure to check out all the fun from the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and yesterday’s Jack Abramoff inquiry. Well, maybe not fun, just sort of fundamentally sad. (What we now wonder: was there funny…
