>> Jenna Bush has been named ‘Person of the Year’ by Reliable Source. [WaPo] >> The owner of Tunnel Fine Wines & Spirits, which recently opened at 3rd and H Streets NW, was robbed at gunpoint in the store and shot in the leg late last week. [Penn Quarter Living] >> An elderly couple died in a house fire on the 3100 block of Oliver Street NW this morning. [WTOP] >> Area charities are…
>> Runners at the Army Ten-miler are saying there wasn’t enough water on the race course. [WTOP] >> Former Mayor Anthony Williams hearts Jenna Bush’s new book. [Capital Comment] >> D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier speaks out to defend the records and reputations of the two officers involved in the killing of DeOnte Rawlings, while his father calls for their arrest. [WaPo and WJLA] >> Columbia Heights day was a bit of a bust….
Written by DCist contributor Claire Compton Friday night at Clarendon Ballroom felt like a nightmarish sorority semi-formal, when hordes of mostly twenty-something women stormed Arlington for HOT 99.5’s Lil’ Black Dress Party. Party host Perez Hilton, aka Mario Lavendeira, has captured the minds of the celebrity-obsessed with his questionable photoshop skills and invented words, such as “whoreanous.” We’re going to borrow the term just this once (forgive us) and call the scene outside of the…
>> Jenna Bush is engaged to be married to her longtime boyfriend, Henry Hager. No word on whether their wedding will be held at the White House. [AP] >> Shaw isn’t really the second bloggiest neighborhood in the country, but Washington is the fourth bloggiest city. [Free Ride] >> Donald Rumsfeld resigned as secretary of defense one day before last fall’s elections, even though President Bush did not announce the move until the day…
We’ve been looking forward to the launch of Patrick Gavin and Jeff DuFour’s new daily Beltway column, “Yeas and Nays”, for a few weeks now, largely so we could finally be sure just what sorts of topics the two would be covering under the somewhat inscrutable decscription of “people, power and politics.” C’mon guys, that could be about anything from the current brouhaha at The New Republic to what kind of toilet paper Vice President…
Though the region got itself in a tizzy over the record rains of Deluge 2006, there was plenty else that happened. We reported on the RAMMYs, saw a coup d’etat at Politics and Prose, marveled at the Washington Times’ new intern blog, and debated whether or not Pierre L’Enfant should go to Congress. We checked out The Roosevelt, discussed Freddy Adu’s defection from the District, and found out that heavy rains can cause both…
Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddie for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bids Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has some suggestions to fix that. They’re also throwing Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash. Yeah, we may have a few issues with our World Cup broadcasters here, but this guy…
The ladies of the Reliable Source break Washington’s heart this morning, revealing that Jenna Bush, who’s lived in Washington and worked as a teacher for over a year, is preparing to leave the city and the country. The Source notes that she’s moving out of her apartment and back into 1600 Penn until she’s ready to leave for a new teaching gig, somewhere in Latin America. Says the Post:The move reflects the growing seriousness of…
This week we saw more and more news on church parking, took a look inside the District’s restaurants, tried to find the region’s cheapest gas and celebrated the nation’s interstate system. We talked to Deleted Scenes and Alec Gross and the Districts, found some great roast beef, analyzed the region’s ubersexuals and took a stab at Jenna Bush’s new hairstyle. We remembered school lunches, reviewed the news in transit, and saw The Strokes at…
Houstonist reports on cross-dressing thieves and undressing educators this week. A Peeping Tom defends himself with a papaya and an outraged onlooker asks Ken Lay, “TATER TOTS OR FRIES?” Also, FEMA wants it’s money back. LAist are a bug bunch of geeks. They’re Star Trek geeks, David Duchovny geeks and Frank Gehry geeks. During their Cochella preview their readers reveal themselves to be Depeche Mode geeks. Seattlest saw their basketball team preparing to leave for…
