Jun 07, 2021
‘We’re Better Off This Year,’ Maryland’s Crab Workers Are Bouncing Back From The Pandemic
Industry workers say the past year and a half has been challenging because of a lack of migrant worker visas, the coronavirus pandemic, and a crab shortage.
Nov 07, 2010
The Sunday Morning Post
Photo by PlantainsandKimchi.com. Morning Washington – how’d you enjoy that extra hour? Wouldn’t everyone love a 25-hour-day every day? And if you forgot – yes turn back your clocks an hour. >> The Stevens Elementary school, on GW’s campus in Foggy Bottom, is for sale again as the neighborhood rejected the developers plan for a 100-plus unit apartment complex with a restaurant, possibly from Top Chef alum Carla Hall (bummer). The Foggy Bottom Association…
Oct 11, 2007
Popcorn & Candy: Workers’ Playtime
DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Repertory: D.C. Labor FilmFest Strictly speaking, the D.C. Labor FilmFest isn’t a repertory festival, but with over half of their programming falling into that category, plus a dedicated retrospective to the great Ken Loach, we’ll go ahead and shoehorn it into the category this week. The festival is put on by the Washington Metro Council of…
Sep 05, 2007
What We’re Missing: Authentic Mexican Food
For anyone living in Washington who grew up in the West, the dearth of authentic Mexican food in this city is likely a constant complaint. D.C. is the home to several sizable ethnic groups, Salvadorans among them, and while we applaud the ready availability of authentic, and delicious, Salvadoran cuisine, the attempts by these same lovely folks to cook Mexican food is almost uniformly terrible. They use the wrong cheeses. They don’t know how to…
Aug 14, 2007
Morning Roundup: Unseasonably Pleasant Edition
Good morning, Washington. It’s just a gorgeous day outside right now, with temperatures currently in the 70s and only predicted to reach the upper 80s later this afternoon, which is about the best we can hope for in mid-August. Please make plans to eat your lunch outside accordingly, as this surely won’t last through the week. Need a good story to gab about with your officemates as you head out into the sunshine? A…
Oct 22, 2006
Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse
Let’s take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for? Austinist was in an entertainment state of mind as they covered the dickens out of the Austin Film Festival, depicted all the Big 12 football coaches as South Park characters, and interviewed Jose Gonzalez. Chicagoist talked about the passion as they bid adieu to Bell’s Beer,…