May 31, 2006
What Are Wingmen Again? It’s Been Awhile. We Forgot.
It’s no surprise that “A Bud for the Ladies” is one of the most emailed articles of the day on the Post’s website. Younger readers in particular must be sending it to each other asking why, if wingmen have been around so long, its worthy of such a lengthy feature today. Maybe it’s simply to point out that once this year’s college graduates start work and join the real world, “They may actually have…
May 17, 2006
Flatbushed
Those of you that hang around here at DCist fairly often, and I certainly encourage the behavior, may have noticed that nothing generates a huffy, neverending comment thread like a good turf battle. We see tiffs between the central municipalities and the exurbs, between Washingtonians east and west of Rock Creek, and especially between D.C. and Arlington (an epic struggle indeed). Mainly good fun for, as our own Jason Linkins pointed out recently, cities are…
May 23, 2005
Gawker: Ana Marie Cox Is Staying
There’s been a flurry of speculation and rumors spinning about in New York and D.C. over the future of Gawker’s Wonkette politics gossip blog. With Ana Marie Cox, the site’s editor off writing a novel, Gawker has propped the blog up with a series of guest editors. According to a source close to the Gawker family, it has been a forgone conclusion that Cox would be leaving Wonkette permanently after she finishes her book this…