Two former DCist editors launched new projects today that are certainly worth a visit.
The annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund begin on Friday, and the city will see a number of changes in traffic patterns and road closures this weekend as a result. Here’s what you should plan around: Streets closed to vehicles: Beginning at 8 p.m. on Friday, October 19, until 2 a.m. on Sunday, October 21 * Pennsylvania Avenue, NW between 17th Street and 20th Street, NW * 19th Street, NW…
Happy Birthday to us! We here at DCist can hardly believe it’s been three years since the official launch of this humble little web site, so we couldn’t let the occasion pass by without the slightest amount of fanfare. It was three years ago today that founding editors Rob Goodspeed and Mike Grass first launched DCist, the fifth site in the -Ist empire, which now includes fourteen cities all over the world. What started as…
Ever since we first launched in Sept. 2004, we’ve gotten plenty of questions about exactly how DCist works. What started as a volunteer staff of half a dozen writers has, over the last 2 and a half years, ballooned into a collective of over 30 dedicated bloggers who do what they can in their spare time to discuss important local issues and highlight the best cultural offerings of our fine city. At one point last…
Hoyer and Pelosi Need Your Input: Mike Panetta, D.C. Shadow Representative, informed us that voting rights activists are pushing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) to bring the voting rights legislation that was derailed last week back to the floor of the House this week. They’re afraid that if it gets pushed off until next week, it may well get lost in the usual congressional shuffle. Panetta has…
Okay Washington, so the news from this weekend isn’t so cheerful. Maybe it was the thousands of war protestors on the Mall, or the hundreds of disgruntled Sufjan fans denied tickets at the Kennedy Center Saturday morning. Or maybe it was that crazy wind last night. In any case, we’re really reaching for the good news this morning. Cause Sugar’s Not Enough: In another entry to the “Why Most of the World Thinks We’re…
It’s been a busy year in the world of D.C. media. People have come and gone, newspapers have struggled to salvage their readership, and blogs are more the rage than ever. Blogging’s the New Black Everyone’s blogging these days, and the D.C. media is no exception. The Post led the charge in 2006, throwing blogs at every issue that came its way — 29 to date. While some have received rave reviews — the D.C….
Rain, rain, rain. Our apologies, Washington. We’d love to tell you that it’s going to be a beautiful Indian summer day. Instead we find ourselves staring at weather.com, trying to divine what the subtle differences between their various rain icons could possibly mean. Well, happy Tuesday. Gallaudet Faculty Votes No Confidence In Jordan: NBC4 reports on the latest from Gallaudet. It appears that the weekend’s arrests have shaken the faculty’s faith in university president…
It was on this day two years ago that DCist came to be, product of the inspired minds of founding editors Rob Goodspeed and Mike Grass. Or, if you’re one of those creation adherents, it was sixteen days ago that some divine power willed us into existence. Either way, we’re turning two today. More than 5300 posts and 40,000 comments later, we’re getting a little slower, a little moodier, and a little more defensive about…
We can hardly believe it’s been two whole years since DCist first began. Seems like it was just yesterday that Big Media Mike Grass was tantilizing us all with the possibility of Jessica Cutler’s bare breast in honor of our official launch. Sigh. The innocence of youth — those were indeed the days. So, what have we learned in our two years of life? To begin with, we’ve finally been potty trained, and now know…
