Sep 24, 2007
Morning Roundup: Sad and Sadder Edition
Good morning, Washington. Have you recovered from yesterday’s local sports emotional rollercoaster yet? The Nationals bid farewell to RFK, and managed to close out their time there with a 5-3 victory over the Phillies. The Redskins, on the other hand, well … we might still not be ready to talk about that last drive. Yet despite the despondent football fans across the region this morning, we get the sense that no one is sadder than…
Jan 09, 2006
Reader, Meet Author
MONDAY We’re guessing that our readers probably have at least a passing familiarity with Ana Marie Cox and at least one of her two millennium straddling web-based glories: Suck and Wonkette. Well, Cox is leaving it all behind for content that won’t be found in your RSS feed: her debut novel, Dog Days, is out and she will be dishing and signing tonight at Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW., 7 p.m. TUESDAY You…
Oct 14, 2005
Brother, Can You Spare a Stamp?
By DCist Food and Wine Writer Michael Mugmon. Like Hall & Oates, DCist is so close, yet so far away. On Tuesday afternoon, we stopped by our local Subway sandwich shop at 20th and M Streets NW for a footlong meatball sub. When we asked for the two Sub Club stamps we thought we’d earned (one stamp for each six odd inches of grunt), the cashier brusquely informed us that the venerable Sub Club program…
Sep 20, 2005
Activists Target … The Golden Triangle?
We were’t too surprised to hear that some liberals had got together to hold a protest of Grover Norquist. After all, his Americans for Tax Reform has grown into a formidable lobby in Washington and the Wednesday morning conservative strategy meetings he hosts have become legendary in political circles. However, in a city where political protests can seem dime a dozen, a few things caught our attention about a protest planned tomorrow. First, the organizers…