Mike DeBonis — who, as the journalist who most recently occupied the position, seems the right person to break the news — reports that the Washington City Paper has hired a new Loose Lips columnist. A hearty congratulations go to Alan Suderman, who had most recently covered D.C. and Montgomery County politics for the Washington Examiner. Suderman will be the seventh LL in City Paper’s 27-year history. Freeman Klopott will move from his crime beat…

Photo by erin_m This was a good year for the Three Stars feature. We got to talk with a lot of up and coming local musical acts who specialize in a variety of styles. We foresee great things happening for acts like Pree and Laughing Man, and we even talked to now-Grammy nominee Christylez. Here, we recount some of our favorite moments from Three Stars interviews we conducted this year. The most interesting and…

Loose Lips aren’t here to start a revolution. The Fairfax foursome channel bits and pieces of the greatest parts of pop music over the past four decades. Although the vocals (at least on the recorded material) immediately recall Interpol’s Paul Banks, their synth melodies don’t sound dark and introspective but upbeat and breezy as if injected with a dose of 1960s California pop, with a side of working class grit. But Loose Lips doesn’t…

The first installment of a two-part post previewing D.C.’s race for the newly reconfigured Board of Education. Check DCist tomorrow for the second half, including a complete rundown of the candidates. District Voter: Did you know there’s a big Presidential election on Tuesday? Yes? Good. Did you know there’s a school board election too? No? There is, and seats on the first official State Board of Education are up for grabs. For the last 8…

Since they were apparently sick of all the best scoops going to the Post, the folks at the City Paper have been nice enough to grant us a little nugget of information — Mike DeBonis, currently Senior Editor at the alt-weekly, will become the newest Loose Lips columnists. As you may recall, in late June James Jones stepped down as author of the vital local politics column, choosing to move on to a stint at…

Since 1983, Loose Lips, the City Paper’s weekly local politics column, has been the place to get quirky news and commentary on the District’s political figures. But today, James Jones, Loose Lips columnist for the last two years, bids farewell to the paper. Jones came to the City Paper after a stint at WAMU, and his first column was published on March 11, 2005. According to the folks at the City Paper, Jones has taken…

Cue sounds of cats hissing at each other. The latest issue of the Washington City Paper contains not one but two tongue lashings of Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham. The first, a lengthy cover story by Jessica Gould, nicely summarized in the subtitle: “Ward 1 Councilmember Jim Graham never met a misbehaving nightclub that blanket legislation couldn’t fix,” details Graham’s latest crusade against nightclubs — an issue we’ve certainly talked about before….

Does this mean we’re a real city now? The Washington Post reports some fantastic news today — they’re teaming up with The Onion to provide free print versions of America’s Finest News Source in news boxes and by newspaper sellers around D.C. starting in April. Washington will be The Onion’s 10th city for paper distribution. The Onion, self-described as “America’s Finest News Source,” claims a national print circulation of 599,000. It says 67 percent of…

>> Normally, Adrian Fenty hearts the press, and the feeling goes both ways. So why did he assiduously try to keep the media out of his official swearing-in Tuesday? The City Paper has the skinny on the secrecy surrounding the event, including secret entrances for councilmembers, who were told to “arrive alone.” [Loose Lips] >> Just in case there weren’t enough stereotypes of women in power, new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hosted a tea party…

Everyone else has taken their shot, so why not the City Paper? Today the weekly’s local politics column, Loose Lips, threw its support behind a number of candidates for next week’s D.C. primaries. But more surprising than the picks was the biting tone in which they were delivered — this is no Post endorsement, they seemed to remind us. Columnist James Jones sided solidly with candidates that bucked the establishment and railed against those beholden…