Hate your job? Feel like everyone in the office secretly considers you a nutcase? Diana Saez did, so she quit. And now she gets paid for being a nutcase. These days, she actually likes her co-workers — probably because they appreciate her nutcaseyness. After two years of futzing around in the Washington stand-up scene, Saez and two other locals, John McBride and Jeffrey Adrian, kick-started Lucky Cat Comedy — a fresh group of entrepreneurial stand-up…
DCist really loves its readers, and if we’re not giving away stuff like Editors tickets or DVDs of Lewis Black in all his white-hot anger, we want to point you to places that will give you the free goodies themselves. You know, land of the free; freedom, use it or lose it; freedom rock, turn it up; etc. etc. Anyway, we have the dope on two free food items for you today. Everyone, say hello…
We -ists are an eclectic bunch, but there’s a couple of things we all love: famous people, social causes, and wacky local facts. Join us as we starf**k, get virtuous, and learn across the -ist network! Austinist starts us off right by filling the famous person quota by interviewing Lewis Black, covers the social cause with a non-profit car sharing company, and gives us more wacky local facts than we can handle with Austin by…
You’re pretty angry, D.C. Pissy, opinionated and infuriated. Good job. We asked you to provide your best Lewis Black-style rants about life in Washington, and you came through. We heard about sour CVS employees, transit woes and the city government — and of course there was an entry or two about us (we love you guys, too). But in the end there can be only three winners, because that’s how many Lewis Black DVDs we…
That’s what we’re left to conclude after receiving only a handful of Washington rants yesterday (which were solid, we don’t want to take away from those that have entered). That cab post we put up yesterday? Over 40 comments and counting, and none of you took the time to copy your comment into the contest thread. Here’s a rant: you guys are lazy. Big time. Lewis Black would be ashamed of you. And along those…
Perhaps it’s the steamy weather, or the too-short tease of the Memorial Day weekend but for whatever reason, folks seem to be irked this week, ready to tear into a comment section with extravagant gusto. As always, DCist is prepared to oblige. If you’re going to be generally upset, you may as well get something for your trouble. So, for the rest of this week, we’ll be running a rant contest. In the comments section…
FRIDAY: >> Get in line early tonight at the Rorschach Theatre in Columbia Heights for a special Pay-What-You-Can performance of their revival of Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day. Set in Berlin in the 1930’s, Bright Room is one of Kushner’s (Angels in America, Homebody/Kabul) earlier plays, but by no means his least accomplished. If younger District residents aren’t able to connect easily with Zillah, who is consumed by a hatred for Ronald Reagan,…
Well, D.C. It seems that we’re almost through Inaugural Week. Though thousands of out-of-towners, constituents and other party-goers will be still around today and into the weekend, the city should be getting slowly back to normal. A quick question to those out there who are experienced travelers … Considering the gargantuan number of fur coats brought in for Inauguration festivities, how do you pack a fur coat into one’s luggage? It seems that if fur…
