Beginning July 1, Metro will offer a $3 discount on up to 10 shared Lyft rides each week.
Following the controversy over its murals, the Shaw restaurant is ready to open tonight.
No announcements have been made, and the first home playoff game is Friday.
The traditional post-work “hour” has stretched well beyond its original confines, and we’re perfectly fine with that.
A D.C. legislator said today that the Washington Nationals don’t want to pay for late-night Metro service during the post-season over fears that it would set a bad precedent.
While fans who attended last night’s thrilling 13-inning win over the Atlanta Braves complained that they couldn’t get home on Metro, that’s not the transit agency’s fault—it’s the team’s.
WMATA’s board of directors caused quite a stir last Friday when D.C. representative Tom Downs and head of rail operations Dave Kubicek floated the possibility of rolling back closing time to 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday evenings in an effort to save money and gain precious maintenance time. Riders were angry, bars and restaurants got worried –frankly, the only people not disgusted with the prospect are taxi drivers. But this is hardly the first time such an idea has been bandied about — in fact, it appears to be something that comes up every couple of years, only to be washed away in a sea of heavy opposition.
Well, this would certainly put a crimp into several people’s weekend plans. According to dispatches from this morning’s Metro board meeting — during which random bag searches will be discussed by the board for the first time — there has been talk about ending late-night service on Friday and Saturday nights.
Twitter is absolutely freaking out right now about Conan O’Brien’s just announced “The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour,” which will indeed be stopping in Washington, D.C., on June 8 at DAR Constitution Hall. Billed as “a night of music, comedy, hugging, and the occasional awkward silence,” we’re envisioning a sort of Conan Unplugged extravaganza, with sketches, performances and surely some special celebrity guests. In other words: yes, please. Tickets to the…
As Conan O’Brien prepares to tape his final episode of The Tonight Show this evening, news broke in Lisa de Moraes’ TV Column last night that on top of getting his old show back, Jay Leno is also coming to D.C. in May to host the White House Correspondents Dinner. Leno may be the most ridiculed man in late night these days, but he’s also a much bigger name than many of the more…
