Jan 13, 2017
Louisiana Man Pleads Guilty To Making Pizzagate-Inspired Threat To Comet Ping Pong Neighbor
“I’m coming there to save the kids, and then I’m going to shoot you and everyone in the place,” Yusif Lee Jones told an employee of Besta Pizza.
May 29, 2008
Politics and Prose Jumps in to Sidewalk Fray
Photo by katmere It started with the ping pong table outside Comet. Then it was the benches and patio table outside Marvelous Market. Now venerable local bookstore Politics and Prose has been dragged into the ongoing saga of ANC 3F04 Commissioner Frank Winstead’s war against there being any reason for people to congregate on the sidewalk along a stretch of upper Connecticut Ave. NW. The bookstore’s weekly email newsletter was sent out overnight, which…
May 08, 2008
Outdoor Ping-Pong at Comet is Dead
Last summer we posted this video, which was put together by ANC 3F04 Commissioner Frank Winstead in an attempt to frighten his upper Northwest neighbors into doing something about the terrible scourge of the outdoor ping-pong table at Comet Ping Pong on Connecticut Ave. Many of our commenters laughed off Winstead’s scaremongering, wondering why an ANC commissioner would want to come down hard on one of the only interesting new businesses to open in…
