Dec 03, 2007
What’s That You Say?
You all said almost too much good stuff this past week. Here’s a wrapup of some of the best comments, as well as the semi-prized best avatar and commenter name awards. Comment of the Week goes to frequent commenter Monkeyrotica, who doesn’t like Council members complaining about closing schools: Maybe if parents weren’t fleeing their poorly-run wards, they wouldn’t be shutting their precious schools down. The Council has had DECADES and BILLIONS to fix the…
Nov 09, 2007
Overheard in D.C.: Customer Service
Washington has a ton of good things, but also a lot of problems. One we often hear about is a general lack of customer service in some local businesses — sometimes people are slow, rude, forgetful, or a combination of the three. We’ve seen it all over, from fancy joints to Mickey D’s, but it seems to be worse here than elsewhere on the East Coast. Somebody could make a lot of money by renting…
Oct 31, 2006
Building Better Band Bodies, One Joint at a Time
While we are happy to see cool bands who play D.C. offer up some of their favorite post-show food spots, as +/- did for Pitchfork this week, we’d like to suggest that there’s more to life than Ben’s Chili Bowl. In fact, much more, in terms of taste and variety. While the institution on U Street was hot long before the “new U” was a part of our vocabulary, and is full of multicultural ambience…